What to Order at Buffalo Wild Wings: Every Item, Judged

$12.79 avg · 430 plain cal

The whole reason the chain exists, and still the thing it does best. Plain they're 430 calories of actual wing; a sauce adds 100–170, a dry rub almost nothing, and either way a 6-count gets two flavors free. Get one sauce and one dry rub so you're not committed to a single lane halfway through.

$11.69 avg · 360 plain cal

The oldest trick on the menu. Boneless 'wings' are breaded white-meat nuggets priced a dollar-ten under the real bone-in wing — a tender cut down to nugget size, charged like the genuine article. If you want no bones, the Classic Chicken Sandwich gives you more chicken and a side of fries for two dollars more.

$15.99 avg

Somehow the most expensive wing on the board is the one with no chicken in it. Reviews are brutal — one poll had a third of respondents naming these the single worst thing B-Dubs makes. The sauce is fine because the sauce is always fine; the breaded, quickly-sogging cauliflower under it is not worth sixteen dollars.

$13.79 avg

The whole menu's best-value plate, and nobody comes here for it. A crispy filet with pickles and mayo, and fries come with it — which almost nothing else here can say without another $5.99. You can also get the filet tossed in any wing sauce, so a Lemon Pepper or Asian Zing sandwich is on the table for free.

$14.79 avg · 860 cal

Buffalo chicken, ranch, cheese, and lettuce in a tortilla, plus fries on the side. It eats fine and the fries make it a real meal, but 860 calories and nearly fifteen dollars for a wrap is bar math, not value. Order it when you want buffalo flavor without gnawing bones, not when you're trying to spend well.

$12.49 avg · 900 cal

The appetizer people actually rave about — one regular called them the best fried pickles of any restaurant, and that tracks. The catch is the price and the 900-calorie tab, most of it the batter. Get them for the table, dunk in the ranch, and don't order them as a solo course unless dinner is fried pickles.

$8.29 avg · 530 cal

The one shareable that isn't a shakedown. At $8.29 the battered Wisconsin curds cost four dollars less than the mozzarella sticks and pull apart with a better stretch. Southwestern ranch is the move for dipping. Cheapest good idea in the appetizer section, full stop.

$12.49 avg · 650 cal

Perfectly good mozzarella sticks at a price that dares you to notice. Twelve-fifty for five breaded cheese logs and a cup of marinara is a lot, and the curds two lines up do the fried-cheese job for four dollars less. Fine if the table wants them; the curds are the smarter cheese.

$14.29 avg

The classic nacho betrayal: a wide plate, a photogenic top layer, and a barren stack of dry chips underneath. Reviewers keep flagging the toppings-to-chips ratio, and at $14.29 you feel every naked chip. Add pulled chicken and it climbs past a full wing order for less food that matters.

$15.99 avg · 820 cal

Two smashed patties, American cheese, fries in the box — a competent bar burger that has nothing to do with why you drove to a wing place. It's better than it needs to be and priced like it knows that. Order it if someone in the group doesn't want wings, otherwise you're at Buffalo Wild Wings ignoring the wings.

$5.99 avg

The house natural-cut fries are the most-complained-about thing on the menu that isn't the cauliflower — regulars are blunt that both these and the tots underdeliver. Six dollars for a side that arrives half-warm and unseasoned is easy to skip, especially since the sandwiches and wraps already include an order. Get the curds instead.