Buffalo Wild Wings - Brookings SD

Answered the call of the Wild today. Maybe should have let it go to voicemail.

Snagged a $3 tall draft beer near the end of Happy Hour, which got things off to a promising start, but it went downhill from there.

Ordered a small batch of what BWW calls traditional wings, Buffalo Medium.

Where do I begin?

They took over 30 minutes to arrive at my table.

Which would have been ok if they were busy cooking them fresh for me.

I don't think so.

These babies were pre-cooked.

The telltale sign, besides the lack of taste and texture, is that they were not tossed in sauce.

Rather, they were dabbed with it.

Poor coverage, with sauce that had not joyfully mated with sizzling hot wings, the way nature intended. Instead, it was painted onto the surface of lukewarm wings, after the fact. And there the sauce stayed. And wobbled.

How was the sauce? Thick, extremely salty, with a sheen and hue not to be found in the Buffalo sauce recipe book. For shame.

Wings were a little on the large side, exhibiting the associated drawbacks in tenderness and quality. Remember, when it comes to wings, smaller is better.

1 1/2 Drummies

(Hey, at least the blue cheese sauce wasn't terrible.)

Footnote: Buffalo Wild Wings has a lengthy and varied wing menu. I saw several plates of outlandish-looking wings, dressed up in outrageous- looking sauces, being delivered to tables.

To me, that makes them the Weird Al Yankovic of the Buffalo Wing business, serving up wing parodies and wing send-ups.

But unless they can do them right, they should leave true Buffalo Wings to the serious craftsmen.

No offence, Weird Al.