Angry Buffalo at The Rose Garden

This place is on the way home form work so it is definitely frequented by my coworkers and myself on Fridays. The service can sometimes be hit or miss but lately has been spot on. The beer selection is fair, 8 taps or so of a mixture of local and non local craft beers as well as stalwarts like PBR and Warsteiner. The food is above and beyond what you would expect. Everything is good. When people come from out of town and want wings I bring them here for two reasons, 1) we don’t have to wait 45 minutes for our wings and or beers and 2) their wings are good. They’ve also put a new patio in that is kinda cool, haven’t been out there a whole bunch. I’d rate it higher but the service in the aost was hit or miss but overall this place is definitely worth checking out.

Excellent place, servers are great, friendly and awesome sense of humor, fast service!

the place is a horrible clip joint. please watch your credit cards in there.

What I want to know is, why is the Buffalo angry at the Rose Garden? What did the Rose Garden ever do to the Buffalo? Can’t they make amends? Surely peace is the way forward in this situation? Idk.
I have been here about 10 times after soccer games at my fave soccer center, Epic. One of the bartenders is really friendly, one is not. But regardless of who the bartender is, I always get charged unfortunate amounts for my Coke. Which is funny because most places realize that I am the designated driver of my drinking buddies, etc… and give it to me free or for $ 1 or something. Or at least provide refills… also the coke isn’t great.
But then is it ever?
They have a lot of live music here and plenty of cute people come in here too, usually an older crowd and a soccer crowd. I recommend it to anyone, but it also doesn’t blow me away. I’ve never tried the food.

Came to see a friend play. My second Jameson and coke was a jack and coke. They have frozen seasoned fries covered in MSG that taste like cheap Chinese food. I ordered a BLT that had a disgusting amount of mayo and made me sick for a day. I gave it a chance after reopening. They had maybe 30 people eating and were taking plates out one at a time.

I love this place. We’ve been here several times this summer when we’re in the mood for casual outdoor dining that’s a god cut above typical bar food. All the sandwiches & salads are made fresh and with care, and there’s a good selection of craft beers. Everything we’ve had here is delicious The best part for me, though, is that the outdoor patio is a great place to bring our dog. Highly recommended.

Summary: Great burger and service, but overall missed the mark.
An acoustic duo was playing here that I’ve been wanting to catch and i heard it was family friendly so I thought i’d be able to finally bring the kids and hear them play. Unfortunately, the door was closed between the dining space and the bar due to the noise and music, which turned out to be ironic as one of the parties was a group of well over 10 that took up the back wall and made enough noise that you would have though there was a frat party in the dining room (I could still hear that woman’s drunken cackle resonating in my head as i tried to fall asleep that night).
I ordered the tequila burger and loved it. Thick, juicy and jalapenos that actually should have more zip, but was still flavorful. Other party member ordered the fish fry and fish tacos. All their meals were fine. If anything you could sense the effort — sides of cole slaw and pasta salad appeared to be home made, which was a pleasant surprise… and far exceeded my expectations, especially in light of the other negative review. I say missed the mark because in spite of the effort, i thought both tasted bland, as if someone followed the recipe when preparing them but didn’t actually taste them before serving. We also tried the «handmade» onion rings, which could have been great if there had been a sauce or some type of dip to accompany them. Same for the fish taco — it was essentially a generous portion of fish fry with the aforementioned cole slaw in a shell. It was fine, but a more flavorful slaw or some type of cilantro/​lime sauce could have lifted it from acceptable to memorable.
Also, our waiter was young guy who was exceptionally pleasant. Bar was very busy at 7 pm on a Friday, but did have a dark, gloomy vibe as the first reviewer described.
In a nutshell — I live in the city and didn’t have anything that was memorable enough to get me to drive 20 minutes to ½ an hour past numerous restaurants i love, but if i were a Clarence resident, this would probably be my fish fry and burger destination. And regardless, I felt compelled to write a review as for this place to have only one review with one star seemed an injustice to me… it might not be the talk the town, but one star means avoid at all costs and that didn’t match my experience at all. Especially if you happen to be on Transit Rd with some clown suggesting one of the dozens of mediocre chains that litter route 78. Trump them get them over here for a burger instead.

I don’t like giving bad reviews BUT I wish I had known before I went here.
Only 3 tables of customers (seniors, not that there’s anything wrong with that, and that’s almost me anyway) for Friday lunchtime? It’s dark and dank. Lousy radio station for background noise. The bathrooms are 50’s vintage poor. Enough of the décor, now the food.
The food was mediocre to poor (sorry). The seafood bisque was OK. My fish sandwich was good but had a few bones. If you still go here don’t get the ‘homemade’ chips (Oily and rubbery), try the fries, maybe they’re better. The ‘flat-​bread’ sandwiches aren’t what you might expect. Not the traditional flat, thin, flat bread style of middle east origin. It was flat white bread slices more similar to panini style. The bread was so wet and gooey it couldn’t be picked up without a mess. It was better eaten with a knife and fork.
Again, sorry guys, but I won’t go here again. Hope you can get it together and stay open.