{"id":702,"date":"2009-08-03T17:41:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T00:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2009-08-03T17:41:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T00:41:45","slug":"portland-buffalo-wild-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Portland &#8211; Buffalo Wild Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tough to get me into a Wings place.\u00a0\u00a0 Chicken wings are kinda like potato skins,\u00a0 those things they used to throw away, IMHO, until the Anchor Bar in Buffalo New York changed all that (at least for wings).\u00a0 Add to the horror that most wing places (BWW was no exception) have 86 TVs with ESPN on them, and you can be sure it&#8217;s not my kind of place.\u00a0 Why aren&#8217;t there bars that only run A&amp;E, the History Channel, and Discovery?\u00a0\u00a0 Like a crab shack that runs that crab catching show?\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah, that&#8217;s the ticket.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll eat tenders, but not wings.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What brought me here today was someone asked if I had tried their burgers, and I hadn&#8217;t, so in I went.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The &#8220;Black and Blue Burger&#8221;\u00a0 (original name, eh?)\u00a0 was approximately a third pound burger with &#8220;cajun&#8221; spices and blue cheese sauce.\u00a0 (A dribble of salad dressing, see pic).\u00a0\u00a0 I added a side of rings for 99 cents additional, and they were nothing to write home about (or here) either.<\/p>\n<p>So about $12 including a soda.\u00a0 Good enough, but not good enough!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wild-png.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-703\" title=\"wild png\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wild-png.png\" alt=\"wild png\" width=\"419\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wing-burger.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-704\" title=\"wing burger\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wing-burger.png\" alt=\"wing burger\" width=\"410\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/24\/778296\/restaurant\/Downtown\/Buffalo-Wild-Wings-Portland\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Buffalo Wild Wings on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/778296\/biglink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:200px;height:146px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tough to get me into a Wings place.\u00a0\u00a0 Chicken wings are kinda like potato skins,\u00a0 those things they used to throw away, IMHO, until the Anchor Bar in Buffalo New York changed all that (at least for wings).\u00a0 Add to the horror that most wing places (BWW was no exception) have 86 TVs with ESPN&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=702\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Portland &#8211; Buffalo Wild Wings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[679,739],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}