Anchor Bar Reviews

Funky decor and good vibes. Definitely go with the wings, they are crispy and flavorful no matter the flavor (there s only 4 flavors). My friend got a Diet Coke and ended up with flat RC cola but we didn t complain because the water was good and there s no point in worrying about a soda. The service was awesome (Alyssa) and the food came out crazy fast. Solid wing joint would definitely go back

For the place that claims to have created the chicken wings, I found them to be subpar. Are they tasty? Maybe...Are they the best? Not even close.

The whole experience was a drag. My family and I ordered 20 wings and entrees. The wings came with all the entrees, the food was luke warm at best. The buffalo burger I ordered was mediocre at best, so if you want a burger go to the Wendy's across the street. (At least they care about service).The wings, though crispy, were lacking that 'original' flavor they clam so famously.

The service was by far the worst part of the experience. I'm not sure if they were understaffed, but the waitress came by the table twice. Once to take our order and then again to deliver the food. They need to organize and train their servers much better.

Overall it was a bad experience. Would I recommend it to anyone else? Not unless you're looking for a tacky restaurant with poor wings and a terrible service. I think I could get better wings from a gasoline station in than this place.

Really great wings! I haven't tried anything else so I can't say anything about the rest of the menu. The only downside is the really long wait for walk ins! Call to reserve.

Wings are good as usual. And we found the side dish of the fries amazingly good!!

A cool place, but it may be a bit overhyped. The wings were good, but just pretty average. Didn't have that much sauce on them. I think this place is more about saying you've had buffalo wings at the restaurant they originated in, rather than saying you've had the best buffalo wings.

Completely fine buffalo wings. The "hot" was described as about like Frank's Red Hot, which it was. Unfortunately, the homemade sauce pretty much tasted like Franks, which is a decent sauce, but the inventor of the wing should be able to easily outperform a bottled sauce from McCormick. If the sauce had been great I could have forgiven the lack of variety of other sauces compared to, say, Buffalo Wild Wings. The traditional wings were the best, the boneless could have used a bit less breading, though the potato wedges that came with the latter were the best part of the food. Kitchen seemed to send everything up in big batches, so it took quite a while even though the restaurant didn't seem full. Breadth of tasty local beers on tap, including one with a cinnamon-sugar rim for fall, yum. A number of locals and regulars, including a restauranteur couple, but also a bunch of tourists like myself buying t-shirts. Decor is fun and they seem to have a complete set of public safety uniform patches. All the locals I spoke to afterwards recommended Duff's, which unfortunately does not have a location in Buffalo proper.

Its a nostalgic place for tourist to go, friendly staff, but personally the wings are overrated. In my opinion.

As advertised. They were the first and the original.

The original wings still hold up. We ordered and ordered again. They are delicious and borderline addictive.
Even with the large crowd things move along quickly. Our drinks were cold and the food came out hot, while working through the numerous other orders and amounts of customer there with us.
We also got to chat with a couple current New York Jets that we re enjoying themselves there before the game.

Truly amazing wings from the original wing bar, service was excellent. Slightly weird atmosphere as there was no music playing and was quiet when we went but it was kind of early!!

I liked it. We were at Niagra falls for the day, and drove here for dinner just to say we've been there. We only had to wait 10-15 mins, and it was early, 5-6 pm, on a saturday night.

I ordered 20 wings hot and fries. My GF ordered something akin to boneless chick wings/nuggets? medium. For some reason my wings took a long time to come out. Waitress didn't know why. Ate my fries. Since my GF's plate was just HUGE, full of these chicken bites (i don't remember what they actually called them, but there were a lot) I had some of hers. Realized then that the medium would have been the right amount of heat for me. Too late, wings finally showed up. I could handle the hot, they weren't too bad. I only ate 12 and took the rest back to the hotel. For me, medium is flavor with a tingle on the lips. Hot was a burn, but not unbearable. Got the shirt, met the owner, had a good time.

Always good. You want Buffalo wings? Get the original.

Had to go to the home of the buffalo wing. They were great! Reminds me of a coyote ugly with no bras hanging.

Really cool decorations on the walls and you can tell that the restaurant has some history. We went there to try the wings since legend has it that this is the place where the eponymous buffalo wing was invented. Let's just say there are better wings at other locations. Still worth a visit though if you are in town.

Inde aid of Buffalo Wings is not just a special taste. If you have time in American interior, you can see band performances. I close to the Niagara Falls gyeomsa I stop by gyeomsa be good for.

An "Okay" Buffalo Institution; not as good as the Transit Road location for food quality and selection....

I can't decide what I liked better - the delicious wings and sauce or the friendly bartenders .

Made a trip down to the home of chicken wings. There is alot of history and memorabilia all around the restaurant which is cool and makes for a good atmosphere. The wings are simple - no breading - straight wings and sauce after. Can go to a number of other restaurants and pubs and get better wings. If you love wings it nice for the novelty of the history - you're not going to have the best wings there.

The wings are very addictive but don't miss out on ordering the unique style of pizza that Buffalo is known for!

maybe a little overrated, wings are good but I ve had better.. a lot! At least it s off the bucket list now.

World famous original chicken wings. Yes it s original and not breaded frozen ones out there. The sauces and rub are awesome. Habenero rub is my favourite. Love their chicken soup and buffalo chicken sandwich. For vegan strawberry pecan salad should try. Friendly staff and great service. We have visited from Michigan and great to see they have recently opened one in Michigan as well.

A one star rating was as low as I can go, I stopped in the Buffalo area grabbed some wings to go, because they smelled absolutely great. However, when I received my order, it was oily, and didn't have any sauce on it. Since I was in flight, I couldn't return the order and request a new one. Beware of Buffalo Anchor Bar inside, Buffalo International airport and do a wing check.

Came in starving left even hungrier. Ordered 10 wings and an order Boneless Wings and Fries. 10 wings came out quickly, Boneless never came out. Bartenders was great and awesome, manager was ineffective. First and probably last trip was memorable for the wrong reasons. Ivano would not be happy!!

Ordered a "Bucket" of wings with some friends, which was 50 bone in wings. Delicious. I had half, and could have kept going.

Delicious and cheap, Buffalo chicken wings are delicious

The wings were delicious. I did not enjoy the cockroach that I had to kill there. The place is not very clean at all. I think that they need a management change to clean up the place.

Decent food and wings. Service was good,.. price was just right. I'd go back, but not order a burger.

They've got wings. The band was a lot to deal with.

Great historic place to eat! There is lots to look at while you wait. We had lunch, which was tasty, and the waitress was friendly and fast. Our food came back very quickly, and it was a great lunch.

Never been to a ancher bar and I have to say the fish fry and onions rings we're great.

Best place if you get there early. Had lunch with my Sister Jackie.

Love the atmosphere of the iconic anchor bar! Wings are awesome and the beer is too (according to my husband, I'm not much of a beer drinker). One of the our favourite bars in the area!

Very interesting fried chicken wings, if you like spicy, you can have a big spicy, medium spicy does not feel much!
But I still prefer Korean fried chicken!

Nothing special just edible pasta n meatballs.didnt try the wings but witnessed many customers who had to have there to go orders corrected before they left.it seemed the kitchen had issues my eat in order took two attempts to correct and was pasta and meatballs.if I ever go back it would be to try the wings and only if they are not busy.the kitchen clearly has issues when they are busy.almost every to go order that left when I was there had issues and finally left with the statement. "once again sorry about that"

I was very disappointed with our visit. Definitely over rated. Our food lacked seasoning and was pretty low quality.

If you are on Niagara Falls this should a must stop for lunch

The place where buffalo wings were invented, literally. And it lives up to the hype too!!! So good!

classic dive bar atmosphere with great service . parking is limited be prepared to circle the block a couple time on busy days .

It is a good place with Buffalo chicken wings. But they brought spicy, so if you do not like spicy, you need to tell about it.

Very good buffalo wings, the sauce is one in a kind, but it closes early so hurry up

It is my place of eating since 1993....The wings are still top of my list. I don't drink beer any more so I gave it a 5...Amazing place

Its a relaxing atmosphere with polite staff. Yummy food, but Mickey Ds style fries if your into that kinda fry.

Fun place - history in the creation of the Buffalo Wing, if you ever had a wing anywhere you need to stop and pay tribute to the origin of one of the best bar foods ever. Have to stop at the original location. The decor is fun. Bartenders are friendly.

Great atmosphere of what a working town bar should be like.

Excellent wings
Being the first really does make you one of the best.

Our to go place for the original Buffalo wings. It was our son's bday and went around 9pm on a Sunday. Web site reads open until 10 pm. Being a party of 5, they want to seat at the bar because they were 'already cleaning up the place'.. had to beg to get a table. Ended up having a good time.

Really good wings, and a good selection of micro brew beers.

I had to wait 7 minutes before i had to grab the menu myself the service was horrible which sucks because it was my 5 year anniversary ...... would not go back... I have always gone there for my anniversary ...

The food was outstanding but the service was a little slow. However that does not take away the kind and very friendly staff.

Wings, hands down the best ever. Nice lady working the gift shop. Bar and bartenders could've been better. They didn't have the ingredients to make 2 of the very basic drinks I asked for and the bartender seemed to be annoyed by me asking for something other than beer.

The original and the best wings. We were there waiting in line at opening time, seated promptly and our waitress was helpful in helping us decide our order. The large wings arrived hot, juicy and saucy. The jalapeno poppers were ok, hard on the crunch but flavour of the jalepeno was soso. Small quality selection of local brews.

Great stop on our trip through New York state. Anchor Bar was a great choice for dinner.We were a little concerned about the place being kid friendly but that was soon as non issue once we arrived. If your in the area you would be happy with this stop. We had 10 wings, spinach and cheese ravioli and a few salads. My oldest daughter had spaghetti. All of it was delicious.

Came on a Saturday night. Sat right at a bar table which is mostly self service but the bartenders were helpful. Wings were solid, I had expected crappy tourist trap wings but was surprised to actually enjoy them, not undercooked with good crunch and flavor.

This is not worth the visit or your time. Bathrooms are gross and falling apart. Wait staff acts like they don't care. Food sucks. Historic or not there is no reason to visit this establishment for any reason.

Grew up in the area but had never been here before. Incredible wings!! Now I know what others have been trying to imitate!

The original. It's a must visit when you're in Buffalo. The wings are good, not the best buy out the original home of the buffalo wing.