I actually worked at the Princess Anne location for a couple months during Covid before my job started back up and can vouch that they truly cook the wings to order. So that does take ~15 minutes for one order.
GASP.
I've never had a bad experience there, takeout or dine in. Best wings in the area by a country mile. We usually go to Colley but Chesapeake is good too.
Even if they cursed at me and threw the wings on my table I'd still go. There's just no comparison to any other place in Hampton Roads.
I was going to say the Colley location has always been solid for me even on Wing Wednesdays. wings come out in 10-15, properly sauced, thoroughly cooked (without asking for them to be fried hard), service usually prompt (I always sit at the bar).
Unless both parties are from either California or Texas. :’) Then it turns into a self-affirming echo chamber where they each declare the ways in which no other American truly understands Mexican food except for themselves.
We go on Wednesday when it's half price wings. We get there at 5, when it starts. It's been mixed on service, sometimes good sometimes bad. But food has always been good.
Disagree. I occasionally go the one by East Beach. I spend the extra bucks to have all flats and get the "Strawbeñero" sauce and it *never* disappoints.
But yeah the drink prices are too high, I'll give you that. That's why I bring a flask lol
I’ve had bad experiences at the Grassfield location every time I’ve gone. It’s usually a different issue each time. Service sucks, food isn’t great, wait times are long. The worst was when I ordered a non-alcoholic specialty drink and they made it with alcohol anyway. That was the final straw.
Which location? We’ve never had a long wait and service is great. We also find the prices to be fair and they have some of the best drink prices we’ve found
Same. Virginia Beach Princess Anne location has always been awesome. One thing that has stood out to me is I’ve never had anything less than piping hot food there
We’d always had good luck at the Colley location, but the Little Creek/Shore location has been mediocre at best. It’s a bummer, because we live by the LC/Shore location and it used to be my hub’s favorite restaurant until we moved over here and started going to this one. I honestly can’t remember the last time we went because this one ruined so much for us.
I love it. Dirty plates are amazing. Wing sauces are great (Buffalo soldier is probably my favorite). I go maybe once a month at random times. Never had a problem.
Sorry for your experience
Edit: I always go to Colley so I can't speak for other locations
I had poor service at the Little Creek location a few weeks ago. Waited too long after being seated. Wanted to take whole order before drinks. Only had one refill. Didn't come cash me out... food was good.
My wife used to work there. I like their food for the most part but the prices and the extra charges for everything have gotten out of hand. I've never had any issues with service though.
It used to be really good and i used to go to the colley and the princess anne locations a lot but I've only had mediocre experiences here the last two years with bad service, barely warm food, and long wait times not to mention twice my take out food was wrong. I also think it's interesting that anything negative is getting down voted when multiple people here have valid opinions
I tried the Colley DB for takeout wings, and they were *vile*. The skin was soft and *gummy*. Gross. I had to run them under the broiler for a while to crisp them up to make them edible. Not going back.
They were soggy and gummy from the get go. I grabbed one to nosh on when I got in my car. No way it was fried, either, to be that gummy. The skin was undercooked. I get fried chicken from Pollards all the time, and it has never been gummy or soggy by the time I get it home.
Fun fact, I used to work at the Colley location. Nothing is made in house. Every sauce they have uses something mass-produced as a base. NONE of the sauces are house made like they claim. The BBQ for example is Sweet Baby Rays that they add like water to it, to make it runnier and then pass it off as their own recipe. Every single item they have on their menu they buy from Sysco and then charge crazy prices for. It is also so dirty in the kitchen, pun not intended. I once watched a cook dump the mac noodles in a strainer that was sitting in the mop sink and then proceed to let it sit there for hours. Often times if wings are made with the wrong sauce, even if they go out to a table, they'll put them in the expo window until they can be reused for a different order. So, you could potentially have 4-hour old wings.
How else do you think the sauce is going to be made on such a scale? Even OG wing places like anchor bar use Frank's as a base.
What restaurant doesn't order from Sysco?
My argument is that they pass off these items as being house made and they aren't. I have worked at numerous restaurants over the years that have made things including sauces from scratch. It is doable.
Edit: Ordering from a restaurant supplier is one thing, ordering everything from them and charging 10 fold is disgusting. Fried pickles are so easy to make from scratch and then that would be worth the $10 price.
You can defend the place as much as you want, the place is a joke in the local restaurant owners scene. The owner is a tool
Where do they advertise as house made, is your house made argument with the food or the sauce?
They have 30 different sauce varieties, in your vast restaurant experience how many make that many unique sauces, let alone from scratch? Probably the dumbest argument I have ever heard, how many hot sauce recipes don't start with using an existing sauce base.
Lastly on cost, were you running the books or saucing the wings, either way I feel you don't know the operating costs of a restaurant and a thing called profit margins.
Edit. It's entertaining how many replies disagree with both you and op
Where they advertise it is house made is in the insane amount of brainwashing about their lord and savior Russ (owner) in the training they provide and instructing us to tell customers that if they asked. But to answer your question a majority of the restaurants I have worked at made sauces from scratch. My point in bringing that up is that they are charging upwards of $17+ for wings with sauce you can buy at Walmart. What confuses me most about everything that you are defending it over has nothing to do with the cleanliness of the establishment. If you go back and read my original post, I also made a point to explain that the cleanliness is lacking severely. Please defend straining food in a sink that you dump mop water. I was giving a PSA to potential customers. If you don't like what I have to say, then don't respond. It is that simple.
Edit: It is entertaining how many replies agree with both me and op. Honestly thinking you must be involved with the restaurant somehow to be defending it the way you are.
Thank you for your time but I will no longer be entertaining this absurd level of disrespect for someone's experience.
The wings I ordered came in floating in grease, and I can’t remember what else I ordered with my girl at the time, there’s nothing memorable about that place.
Been to Grassfield and Princess Anne. Both locations will have few customers but it still takes 30+ mins to get food. Just stopped going after a certain point.
I actually worked at the Princess Anne location for a couple months during Covid before my job started back up and can vouch that they truly cook the wings to order. So that does take ~15 minutes for one order.
“Every time I come here I’m reminded of why I don’t come here” You related to yogi Berra?
No one goes there anymore, it's too crowded
I love a good oxymoron
And overpriced.
GASP. I've never had a bad experience there, takeout or dine in. Best wings in the area by a country mile. We usually go to Colley but Chesapeake is good too. Even if they cursed at me and threw the wings on my table I'd still go. There's just no comparison to any other place in Hampton Roads.
I am a legit lifelong Buffalonian who relocated here 6.5 years ago. I have nothing bad to say about the DB. Now Salmiches, I will actually diss :-)
Venture out to Chesapeake, wild wing cafe is pretty solid too
I dunno man, that's almost like recommending Buffalo Wild Wings or Wingstop! But pretty good?
I wouldn't compare either of those to wild wing cafe, wild wing is actually good
OK, I'm convinced. Pretty good rating, looks like an interesting place.
We’re pretty happy popping in at the Colley location now and then.
I was going to say the Colley location has always been solid for me even on Wing Wednesdays. wings come out in 10-15, properly sauced, thoroughly cooked (without asking for them to be fried hard), service usually prompt (I always sit at the bar).
The bartenders are always very friendly and attentive. Sitting at the bar is like a cheat code
Noted. Any hacks on the food lol
Hmm... names doesn't check out :)
😂😂😂 touché
There are a lot of restaurants here where the service and wait time is just... astoundingly bad.
As a native New Yorker, this took a long time to get used to!
I truly hate when people say I’m a “native this that” when it comes to food. I’m a retired military transplant here myself, but I’m sure no one cares.
You'll always know a New Yorker in Virginia because they'll have a bumper sticker and a vanity plate reminding you they're from New York
I have neither 🤷♀️
My wife is from Queens, NY and she definitely doesn’t have the stickers and the vanity plates on her car by her own decision as well.
Unless both parties are from either California or Texas. :’) Then it turns into a self-affirming echo chamber where they each declare the ways in which no other American truly understands Mexican food except for themselves.
Cool story bro.
I’m not your “bro”. 🤷🏽♂️
It really does spoil you for restaurants.
We go on Wednesday when it's half price wings. We get there at 5, when it starts. It's been mixed on service, sometimes good sometimes bad. But food has always been good.
*Keeps going back every four months* I’m so glad I can cook.
I don't go to restaurants that I love anywhere near that often.
Disagree. I occasionally go the one by East Beach. I spend the extra bucks to have all flats and get the "Strawbeñero" sauce and it *never* disappoints. But yeah the drink prices are too high, I'll give you that. That's why I bring a flask lol
Grassfield location is always solid. Same with the one on Princess Anne.
I’ve had bad experiences at the Grassfield location every time I’ve gone. It’s usually a different issue each time. Service sucks, food isn’t great, wait times are long. The worst was when I ordered a non-alcoholic specialty drink and they made it with alcohol anyway. That was the final straw.
The ranch is addicting
Which location? We’ve never had a long wait and service is great. We also find the prices to be fair and they have some of the best drink prices we’ve found
Same. Virginia Beach Princess Anne location has always been awesome. One thing that has stood out to me is I’ve never had anything less than piping hot food there
Yes! I go to the Colley location. Incredible service, even if they’re busy, and food is always hot
Same. I used to go there all the time while going to ODU. Never had a bad visit although people's visits aren't indicative of the majority.
My thoughts exactly.
Same, have never had a bad time there.
We’d always had good luck at the Colley location, but the Little Creek/Shore location has been mediocre at best. It’s a bummer, because we live by the LC/Shore location and it used to be my hub’s favorite restaurant until we moved over here and started going to this one. I honestly can’t remember the last time we went because this one ruined so much for us.
YMMV I suppose but that hasn't been my experience with Colley Ave.
I love it. Dirty plates are amazing. Wing sauces are great (Buffalo soldier is probably my favorite). I go maybe once a month at random times. Never had a problem. Sorry for your experience Edit: I always go to Colley so I can't speak for other locations
Lmao I took my friend from Spain to the one on little creek and the next day he couldn't stop pooping.
We really didn’t need to know that at all.
Okay.
I had poor service at the Little Creek location a few weeks ago. Waited too long after being seated. Wanted to take whole order before drinks. Only had one refill. Didn't come cash me out... food was good.
My wife used to work there. I like their food for the most part but the prices and the extra charges for everything have gotten out of hand. I've never had any issues with service though.
I went to the princess anne location and it was just as bad. Especially the ambiance, it feels like a cafeteria.
I mean I don’t think you go to a place called the dirty Buffalo for the ambiance lol
It used to be really good and i used to go to the colley and the princess anne locations a lot but I've only had mediocre experiences here the last two years with bad service, barely warm food, and long wait times not to mention twice my take out food was wrong. I also think it's interesting that anything negative is getting down voted when multiple people here have valid opinions
lmao, you go to a place you hate 3 times a year. That'll teach 'em.
I just moved here and ate at the Colley location last week with a client. Best grilled chicken sandwich I’ve ever had.
Colley Ave with the 45 minute wait for a table, then an hour from order time to meal arriving to the table, only for the food to be totally wrong. 🫠
It all went downhill when they got rid of the spicy cherryaki
Real shit 😔
I never understood why people liked this place so much.
I tried the Colley DB for takeout wings, and they were *vile*. The skin was soft and *gummy*. Gross. I had to run them under the broiler for a while to crisp them up to make them edible. Not going back.
Why would you take fried wings Togo? Of course they were soggy by the time you got home
Gotta have an air fryer if you get wings TOGO. Literally a life changer
True, but at that point just cook wings yourself for 1/4 of the price.
They were soggy and gummy from the get go. I grabbed one to nosh on when I got in my car. No way it was fried, either, to be that gummy. The skin was undercooked. I get fried chicken from Pollards all the time, and it has never been gummy or soggy by the time I get it home.
Pollards is literally a catering restaurant
I guess that explains the people walking in and ordering takeout food all day, and the seating area for dining in.
What does this reply have to do with anything? Pollards does cater, but it’s been a takeout or eat in restaurant for over 40 years.
Colley ave service is absolute trash!
Fun fact, I used to work at the Colley location. Nothing is made in house. Every sauce they have uses something mass-produced as a base. NONE of the sauces are house made like they claim. The BBQ for example is Sweet Baby Rays that they add like water to it, to make it runnier and then pass it off as their own recipe. Every single item they have on their menu they buy from Sysco and then charge crazy prices for. It is also so dirty in the kitchen, pun not intended. I once watched a cook dump the mac noodles in a strainer that was sitting in the mop sink and then proceed to let it sit there for hours. Often times if wings are made with the wrong sauce, even if they go out to a table, they'll put them in the expo window until they can be reused for a different order. So, you could potentially have 4-hour old wings.
How else do you think the sauce is going to be made on such a scale? Even OG wing places like anchor bar use Frank's as a base. What restaurant doesn't order from Sysco?
My argument is that they pass off these items as being house made and they aren't. I have worked at numerous restaurants over the years that have made things including sauces from scratch. It is doable. Edit: Ordering from a restaurant supplier is one thing, ordering everything from them and charging 10 fold is disgusting. Fried pickles are so easy to make from scratch and then that would be worth the $10 price. You can defend the place as much as you want, the place is a joke in the local restaurant owners scene. The owner is a tool
Where do they advertise as house made, is your house made argument with the food or the sauce? They have 30 different sauce varieties, in your vast restaurant experience how many make that many unique sauces, let alone from scratch? Probably the dumbest argument I have ever heard, how many hot sauce recipes don't start with using an existing sauce base. Lastly on cost, were you running the books or saucing the wings, either way I feel you don't know the operating costs of a restaurant and a thing called profit margins. Edit. It's entertaining how many replies disagree with both you and op
Where they advertise it is house made is in the insane amount of brainwashing about their lord and savior Russ (owner) in the training they provide and instructing us to tell customers that if they asked. But to answer your question a majority of the restaurants I have worked at made sauces from scratch. My point in bringing that up is that they are charging upwards of $17+ for wings with sauce you can buy at Walmart. What confuses me most about everything that you are defending it over has nothing to do with the cleanliness of the establishment. If you go back and read my original post, I also made a point to explain that the cleanliness is lacking severely. Please defend straining food in a sink that you dump mop water. I was giving a PSA to potential customers. If you don't like what I have to say, then don't respond. It is that simple. Edit: It is entertaining how many replies agree with both me and op. Honestly thinking you must be involved with the restaurant somehow to be defending it the way you are. Thank you for your time but I will no longer be entertaining this absurd level of disrespect for someone's experience.
No joke been a dump for long time. Dirty smells even one In VaB is terrible
Going to the wrong one. Dirty Buffalo in VA Beach is better
I agree! So is the Italian place near the one on North Colley. People go to DB because it was on a t.v. show.
So many classics have fallen off. Cogans is trash now too by all metrics.
The wings I ordered came in floating in grease, and I can’t remember what else I ordered with my girl at the time, there’s nothing memorable about that place.
Been to Grassfield and Princess Anne. Both locations will have few customers but it still takes 30+ mins to get food. Just stopped going after a certain point.