Restaurant Review: Buffalo Wild Wings in Lawton, OK

Our city has found itself with a new chain restaurant, Buffalo Wild Wings. On a recent Thursday night I decided it was too hot to cook and I took my family to this new restaurant to find out what all the buzz was about.

Upon entering the building I would not have known I was in a restaurant if it hadn't been for the large menu on the wall and the take out counter. It really had the décor of a sports bar, which is fine with me as long as the food is good.

We were a party of six, which was where we encountered our first problem. The restaurant had a very limited amount of seating for parties larger than four people. We waited fifteen to twenty minutes for a table to come open. We were seated and our waitress took our drink orders.

Since this was our first time dining there we took a bit longer to peruse the menu. Our waitress delivered our drinks and checked with us to see if we were ready to order and offered to give us a few more minutes to look at the menu and she would be back.

I am not sure when she meant she would be back, but we actually thought she might have gone on break and left us to starve. We were ready to order, waiting, and were getting pretty hungry. Just about the time we started conspiring to steal the food of the people at the next table the waitress finally returned to take our orders. It was at this point I realized that there were no fries, onion rings or other sides included with the sandwiches. Huh?

We placed our orders for two chicken sandwiches, two burgers and two kids meals- one chicken strips and one grilled cheese. The kid's meals at least came with potato smiles or something like that.

The chicken sandwiches were not bad, but my husband and father both reported that the burgers were overdone to the point of actually being a bit burnt. I tasted my daughter's chicken strips and they were pretty good.

The bottom line is that this is more a restaurant of atmosphere than one of quality dining. I suppose the point of not having sides with the sandwiches or burgers is to get you to order them a la carte and spend more money, but honestly I would have rather paid an extra dollar or so for a meal as opposed to just a sandwich.

This might be an okay spot for drinks with friends and appetizers, but as a place to go for a meal, it is not worth the overblown prices they charge for burnt burgers and poor service.