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Buzzards Restaurant & Bar
Categories: Restaurants Steakhouses Restaurants Canadian (Traditional) Steakhouses, Canadian (Traditional) [Edit]
140 10 Ave SWCalgary, AB T2R 0A3
(403) 264-6959
- Hours:
Mon-Fri 11 am - 11 pm
Sat 5 pm - 11 pm
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Good For:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
9 reviews for Buzzards Restaurant & Bar
9 reviews in English
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Review from Marc K.
2/24/2012 3 Check-ins Here
The Buzzards is a pub with an impressive beer collection. They carry beers from all over the world and all price ranges. The menu lists 250 beers alone.
We were here on a Friday night before a concert and were lucky to get a table without reservation. Our table was outside on the patio which is covered and heated in the winter but I was more sweating than shivering ;)
That night we ordered some Dry Ribs as appetizer and I had the Fish & Chips but they also have some more exquisite stuff. The food was good and the price reasonable.
In the past we were here with guests from out of town for dinner as well as for lunch. We would recommend this place without hesitation, the value for the money is good.
Tip: Make sure to have a reservation if you want to dine here on a hockey night! -
Review from Natasha K.
Calgary, AB
2/8/2012 1 Check-in Here
Yummy!
We went here for a quick dinner with friends on NYE.
Although they screwed up our reservation (had it, then didn't have it, then had it again) we still ended up getting a table to fit all of us.
We had a super friendly server who was really making sure we had a good meal. My beer was always full :)
We started with the Pot Stickers to start and they were good. They weren't anything special but they really hit the spot. I had the Prawn Risotto for a main that I couldn't stop eating. My date had a steak sandwich that was unfortunately overcooked. It was supposed to be medium rare, but looked medium/medium well. The servers apologized and the manager made an appearance to apologize as well. His meal was prepared again and perfectly, and it was taken care of by the manager. We really appreciated this because they understood the frustration and wanted to make things right. We will definitely go back! -
Review from Phillip C.
Calgary, AB
The best #glutenfree beer list in #yyc IMO. The menu is good for celiacs and I've had several celiac servers there. There is no separate #gfree menu. My only menu complaint is there are no GF appetizers. The upside though is GF flourless chocolate cake (and it is great)! Recommended!
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Review from Heather C.
7/8/2011 4 photos
The atmosphere was very noisy, but perhaps because they were in full Stampede swing. They had live music, which was nice, despite the crowd noise. However, when the music wasn't playing, live or otherwise, we had to practically yell at each other to have a conversation. We weren't the only ones, either. Everyone was yelling their conversations!
The food was okay for Calgary. I am a bit biased, however. In Oklahoma, we do nachos & barbecue quite differently! The nachos here had a miniscule amount of cheese on them. Once you peeled off the top layer of chips, the cheese was gone. The presentation was nice & they are quite large in size. Three of us worked on them & half was left!
They offered a barbecue buffet which consisted of barbecue beef, pasta salad, lettuce salad, rolls, & baked beans. The flavor of everything was quite good. It was how the food was prepared & served that seemed odd to me.
The Meat & sauce: Nearly every BBQ joint in Oklahoma serves the meat soaked in BBQ sauce. The few places that do not serve it wet do so because 1) the meat is smoked & slow cooked & delectable on its own & 2) they offer no less than 3 kinds of BBQ sauce, each a different degree of heat (1 inevitably sweet). Buzzard's meat was soaking in water...??? The flavor was surprisingly good, despite this grave error in BBQ cooking. They make their sauce in-house. It is extremely tasty! It would have been great slow cooked on chicken! Alas, no chicken was offered, only this brisket-style beef.
The Beans: Buzzard's baked beans (more like cowboy or camp beans - there is a difference) we really good. They were a medley of pinto, garbanzo (chick peas), kidney, & red beans & corn. Wait!?! Back this gravy train up! Did I really just say "baked beans" had garbanzo beans & corn??? Good as it was, again, this was NOT what we Oklahomans would call baked beans. Baked beans....the melt in your mouth kind.....the musical fruit kind....are slow-cooked, as well. They have a slight hint of hickory flavor. Some are cooked with molasses & are sweet. While others are cooked with the juices of the BBQ meat & leave your mouth watering for more.
The Pasta Salad: Well, that was just a miss altogether!
The deserts were good but odd in comparison to the menu entrees & appetizers. The Irish Chocolate Biscuit & Guiness ice cream were our faves. The Mayan Ice Cream & cookies were good but just strange. The ice cream had a spice with a slow burn. The cookies were VERY hard & difficult to stick even a fork through!
Buzzard's seems to be a cool place to hang have drinks for Happy Hour. However, when it comes to serving food, they should really try to decide what kind of cuisine on which they want to focus. It ranged from American, to Asian, to Irish, to Mexican, to just odd.
Not bad, but just not great. -
Review from Tze T.
10/15/2010
My partner and I went to Buzzards for two reasons. One because the menu looked pretty good online and two, it was recommended by John Gilchrist in one of his books. Unfortunately we will not be going back anytime soon.
I had the Bison Carpaccio to start and thought it was really good. My main was the Surf and Turf with the Madagascar Peppercorn sauce. I ordered my steak medium rare and it was served almost well done, very chewy and dry. The prawns were nice and fresh and I thought the garlic mash was really tasty but the doneness of the steak ruined it for me.
My partner ordered the 16 oz Rib Chop medium rare as well, and his came a little undercooked but he enjoyed his meal. He had his steak with the Truffle and Red Wine Jus which I thought was really good. The Rib Chop comes with the bone in so keep in mind that it's not a full 16 oz steak.
The restaurant was pretty quiet when we arrived on the Friday night. Granted it was Thanksgiving weekend so that could explain the lack of customers. The hostess took awhile to even realize we were there waiting to be seated. Service from the waitress was excellent.
All in all, I wouldn't go back unless someone else was insistent on it. -
Review from Sarah B.
8/11/2010
Visit the washroom before you leave home. Actually, don't. You should visit the washroom here just so you can truly see how your flexibility is doing as you contort yourself in strange positions in order to drain your bladder without soaking your pants. Simply put: the washroom is comically small.
AND, I like it here. Buzzards is a recurring visit in my life. Probably because I work so close, but it has great service, friendly staff and will often give you samples of unique items on their menu after you have been seated for a few minutes.
All in all, you can't really go wrong with Buzzards, providing you don't urinate on your clothing in the washroom stall.
They don't have debit, but there is a generic cash machine in Bottlescrew Bills if you need it.
Try the Atlantic Salmon Salad. -
Review from Rego S.
9/15/2008
They feature meat from local ranches, inluding bison and buffalo dishes, and the cowboy decor is over-the-top (I mean that as a good thing). Also, the international selection of beer is very unique- they've gone out of their way to have a large number of countries represented (I have yet to find Turkey's Efes Dark served at any other bar in North America).
My friend's buffalo burger was really good, my rice had a unique seasoning I really liked, but I'd had a much better chicken sandwich w/ bacon at Houlihan's in the MSP airport. It was also topped with some shredded parmesan (unmentioned in the menu), which my body has issues with. Surprise appearences of parmesan that I have to pick out of my meal do little to enhance the experience. Overall, I'm still on the fence. -
Review from Adam B.
Calgary, AB
6/21/2010
I have lived right near here for years, and had never been...partly because it looked so tacky and secondly I thought it would be a typical pub with emphasis on the booze and not so concerned about the food.
Was I wrong? Sort of. Make no mistake this place has its fair share of cowboys and cowgirls who are there for some serious partying ( did I mention thier beers around the world club?); however the dish up some pretty fine grub.
I was there for a business lunch and had a veggie burger. It was delicious and tasty. The service was friendly and accommodating, and the restaurant side of Buzzards was surprisingly sedate. The cost was very reasonable $11 for the burger and sweet potato fries. During stampede this is definitely one of the hot-spots in the city, but give this place a try for a nice lunch or dinner. If you haven't been before, you are likely to be as pleased as I was. -
Review from dinah g.
Calgary, AB
2/19/2010 4 photos
What a fantastic solo lunch I had today, I thought I had entered some saloon in Dawson city. This place is so garish you can spot it blocks away because it sits on the corner of 1st and 10 Avenue SW and it has a 10 foot wooden Royal Mounted Police statue guarding its entrance. There is the appropriate picnic tables set up on its patio and if you feel like getting your shoe shined there is an enclosed building just for that which I assume functions in the summer time.
The menu is awesome, check out the Raspberry Berry Bison sandwich or Triple AAA Steak Sirloin Sandwich with onion rings garnish. The Buzzard BBQ ribs are braised in beer and they even have more exotic menu items like Coconut Curry Chicken, Seared Yellow Fin Tuna Steak, and Butter Chicken Masala. I dove into the Saskatoon Berry Burger with a delicious chutney sauce and Swiss cheese.
My waitress was on the ball, serving over 8 tables and always one step ahead of me.
The interior could be considered tacky but upon closer look-see I saw what they were trying to do, wagon wheel chandeliers, a sandy desert motif on walls with bull skulls on walls, oil lanterns, and horse shoe coat hangers. The entrance of the adjacent bar had hand towels over the door with different beer labels, and an assortment of beer pulling tabs.
The service was excellent and so was my food, definitely a hot lunch spot downtown for those of you who work in the area.
