Sidelines Sports Bar and Grill — Restaurant in Buffalo

I was a first time visitor in Buffalo, NY from PA and was brought to this establishment by locals who have lived here for a long time. My boyfriend and I were very excited to try out the wings and came to the bar around 11pm on a Saturday night after a hockey game. The rest of my group was let in without barely a glance at their IDs whilst I was held back and was asked a random question of "whats the capital of Pennsylvania?" Completely thrown off I asked the bouncer why he would even ask me that question. He proceeded to say that my ID was clearly fake and so he wanted me to give him an answer in order to be allowed entry. I was completely confused because being 23 years old and being told that my state id drivers license was fake by someone who refused to even scan it was ridiculous. This bouncer proceeded to ask me my birthday, which I told him, and then asked me when I graduated high school. Knowing these answers doesnt mean an individual is over 21. Severely questioning individuals who have an out of state id that he clearly doesn't recognize shouldnt be an issue for service. Next time I will be contacting the authorities to verify my id since clearly this establishment cannot hire someone to properly do so without accusing potential customers. I was told the food was stellar but unfortunately the staff is shitty. Good luck to anyone who isnt an immediate local to the buffalo area you might be subject to telling a grown man 4th grade geography questions that he...

I visited this place on September 18, 2016. I have been super busy so I was unable to write this review. We were having a family reunion and my mother was coming from Florida. My boyfriend and I were coming from Canada and someone recommended that we go there. Well we went the first night we arrived, and the nachos were so disgusting. We ordered them with chili, and I'm almost certain they put cinnamon in the chili which was beyond disgusting! The hotel, embassy suites, that we were staying at offered free nachos that tasted amazing compared to the nachos we ate at sidelines. The drinks we ordered were okay, but they didn't really have a cocktail menu. The potato skins weren't only burnt, but they were cold by the time they got to the table. Then to top everything off, my boyfriend, who was the one who mainly ate the nachos, had gotten food poisoning. He was sick our entire trip!! I will never go back to that place. 5 more mins around the corner we could have gone to TGIF and had a fantastic meal for less the price we paid at sidelines. This is the worst restaurant I have ever been to, and I've been to some pretty bad ones. I will not recommend this place. This was the worst 100 bucks I have ever spent. I'd rather...

This is literally one of the worst bars i've ever been in. My wife and I were staying a the lovely Embassy Suites across the street. I had hoped to have a late dinner at a renowned dive bar a few neighborhoods over, but our arrival had been delayed and my wife was tired so I put plan B into action and headed to this dump just before the kitchen closed.

They had already closed the kitchen, of course, so I headed toward the far end of the bar to get some beer for dinner. I had to wade through a tightly packed group of people to get back there, despite the place not being crowded. When I sat down, I realized this was due to the fact that 90% of the patrons were in a 'crowd' of 17 white guys and literally 1 African-American, all identically dressed in faded polos of various colors and brands, and similarly disparate identical khaki shorts and ugly trainers, and all standing directly in the middle of the room. Two drunken broads made up the rest of the festive crowd of macro brew aficionados. They were almost as ugly as the decor!

This place serves its purpose of providing beer and spirits for consumption, but none of the ancillary services many of us have come to expect from our public houses are well...