Saturday, August 9, 2008

Buffalo Wild Wings - Ypsilanti, Michigan

I much prefer this location to the ones in Canton or Westland. We come here a lot because they offer Buzztime trivia and my husband loves him some wings and trivia. The wings soothe him over the fact I am currently the top trivia score at this location ;). At http://www.restaurant.com/ they have great coupons for the Dearborn location but we have never been there personally, we really like it here.

Ok, I know what you are thinking, fried, fried and more fried. Yes but they also have something called Naked Tenders, grilled chicken breast strips, which are just as excellent with the many wing sauces. The salads here are good too. The Honey BBQ Ranch Salad has good cilantro and pico, I love the garlicky Blackened Chicken Salad and the Grilled Chicken Salad can be happy with the right sauce. They have a Naked Tenders Wrap that is satisfying and happy with your choice of sauce or be a bit bad and get the grilled Southwest Chicken Queso Wrap or Chicken Caesar Wrap, yummy. The grilled Jerk Chicken sandwich is tasty as well.

There are surprises elsewhere too. The pulled pork is excellent any way you get it as are the ribs. They have a burger topped with pulled pork and onion rings that is out of this world. The roasted garlic fried mushrooms are a delight and the onion rings are a real treat. Not healthy but hey at least lower in carbs than the fry options.

The stars of the show here though are clearly the wings. My husband is partial to the boneless variety while my dad sticks to the originals. Sauces here are great. My faves (in somewhat of an order) are the Asian Zing, the Hot, Caribbean Jerk, Honey BBQ, Spicy Garlic and Medium. As hot as I want to go with a whole order of tenders is the Mango Habanero which is nice but the Blazin may well take the average diner's head off, I like it but not for a whole meal.

The prices here aren't dirt cheap normally but we like the entertainment value of playing trivia for free. After ten there are really great drink specials, every day for lunch they have great special meals and on Tuesdays wings are 40¢ apiece and on Thursdays they have boneless wings for 50¢ apiece.

Just don't beat my score in trivia and there will be no hassles.

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