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Duff's Famous Wings
Category: Restaurants Chicken Wings Chicken Wings [Edit]
558 College StToronto, ON M6G 1B1
Neighbourhood: Palmerston
(416) 963-4446
- Hours:
Mon, Wed 11:30 am - 11 pm
Tue, Thu 11:30 am - 12 am
Fri 11:30 am - 1 am
Sat 12 pm - 1 am
Sun 12 pm - 11 pm
- Attire:
- Casual
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Price Range:
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$$
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Good For:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Noise Level:
- Loud
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
39 reviews for Duff's Famous Wings
Review Highlights
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"My girl likes Honey Garlic which is also very good." In 11 reviews -
"The menu warns that medium is hot and hot is suicide." In 5 reviews -
"and the potato wedges with the dill pickle sauce was my ALL..." In 4 reviews
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39 reviews in English
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Review from Justin T.
Toronto, ON
2/9/2012
Favourite wing place bar none. Their fries are only ok, but then again you don't go to Duff's for fries, you go for crispy, juicy, saucy wings!
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Review from Char C.
Toronto, ON
2/14/2012 1 Check-in Here
It's not bad, its a nice environment but honestly the wings don't compare to Crown and Dragon....but it's not bad....
I bought some armagedon for my friends and...they're HOT...I have to say those wings were good for people who like it HOT.....the other wings were alright. I do have the say the service is GREAT, the waitresses there were fantastic....
Go on a game night, hang out with some friends it's not too pricey... -
Review from JC S.
North York, ON
12/11/2011
It was my first time trying out Duff's Wings after reading a review on BlogTO... It was Saturday night and the place wasn't too crowded.
I ordered small fries ($3.25) and 2lbs wings ($19.95) which came with celery. Celery came in a clear cheap looking plastic bowl.
Wings - I tried Hot Honey Garlic and Hot BBQ but I couldn't really tell the difference between the two flavours. They were both spicy and sweet.....that's for sure.
Fries - !??@#K@@# why did I get this? .... I'm really going to start to appreciate St.Louis' fries. Their fries tasted like it came from a bag of frozen fries bought at a supermarket.
Oh, the service and atmosphere was decent. -
Review from jocelyn l.
12/6/2011
Tuesday nites @ Duff's- evidently the place to be.
I'm not sure that the Tues nite deal is Really such an amazing deal...since the normal price is $10.95 for 10 wings...and it's $7.25 on Tues when you buy a drink (around $2.25 for a loganberry drink); i mean...it's slightly cheaper, but if you have to stand in line for 30 mins...then maybe not such a great deal
but whatever.
let's review the wings
Medium Hot:
Not very hot. I mean, it's normal spicy for hot wings.
But juicy, tasty and yea, prob my fave wings amongst the 4 we got
Hot Honey Garlic:
Sweet and spicy; a good blend, but some wings were a tad too sweet
Bold BBQ:
Smokey mesquite.
way too much BBQ sauce. it wasn't really necessary to drench it in SO much BBQ sauce. made it too salty
Honey Garlic:
a little too sweet
Sweet Potato Fries:
my fave thing there
So overall, i thought it was pretty good...but i wouldn't crave it.
WIng Stop in SoCal, US is WAY more addictive...and cheaper -
Review from Patrick M.
Toronto, ON
7/28/2011
Well, I'm seriously underwhelmed.
It's not that the wings were bad -- it's just that the hype of "the best in the city" means they have a lot to live up to. Couple that with their own hype machine of "our medium is VERY HOT", the running competition of who can eat the most, etc, and really, I expect something better than a standard mass-market-pub chicken wing.
What I got is a standard mass-market-pub chicken wing. Juicy meat, sure, but way too much sauce* left the wings soggy. I want some crispness to my wings. Were they tasty? Sure. Are they worth over a buck a wing? I'm not so sure. Factor in their overpriced crap-domestic beer and mediocre fries and I'm left with little reason to go out of my way to visit the place. Anyway, on to specifics:
I call a huuuuuge BS on their heat claims. If I had known how run of the mill their "Hot" was, I would have instead ordered "Superhot" or "Death". As a consumer, I find that misleading and disappointing.
I've been a hot aficionado since I was ten years old. I feel more pain biting into a jalapeno (3500-8000 Scoville) than I did eating ten of their "hot"... a jalapeno is practically a fruit! I didn't even have to blow my nose or clear my throat, nor did I touch my beer until after the meal.
Listen, I get it, marketing is king... but c'mon. At least try to back it up!
I'm a bit sad to do it, but Duff's clocks in at an underachieving 2 stars. Not only have I experienced better, I've also experienced hotter.
* I am surely wrong, but I'd swear their "hot" sauce is Frank's Extra Hot mixed with butter. It was that generic. -
Review from Randy G.
Toronto, ON
10/20/2011 2 Check-ins Here
After being introduced to true Buffalo-style wings on the Great International Chicken Wing Crawl of 2009 by sarah l., my tastes have shifted more than somewhat. The barbecue-style wings that permeate restaurants far and wide just don't do it for me now that I've had the Real Deal.
Duff's, though, I love. Pretty close to that Anchor Bar goodness without the hassle of driving or crossing the border. Duff's is awesome.
They boast that medium is hot, hot is very hot, etc., though I find the medium to be, well, medium. Very tasty and with a noticeable but not excessive amount of heat. I tried a bit of the Armageddon sauce on a fry, and it most definitely was hot, but nearly devoid of any other flavour. The wings are meaty, so a buck a wing doesn't feel like a ripoff.
Other than that... beer selection was OK (nothing amazing), service was good, and I have a higher opinion of the fries than some others here. -
Review from Chris G.
Whitby, ON
10/13/2011
Meh. Ok spot. Server was indifferent (walking up and down the centre aisle by the front, never a smile on her face), atmosphere was lacking (Leaf game was on but they kept the sounds of some very average music playing), beer was domestic and the wings were good enough. Was no better than any other place for wings and beer, that's for sure.
Probably won't go back, especially with so many choices in the neibourhood. -
Review from Mike S.
Toronto, ON
2/4/2011 12 Check-ins Here
The wings here are excellent. I usually get the "premium" pitcher and 20 wings deal and I pay the extra $1 (or is it $1.50?) for onion rings instead of their mediocre fries. Without any additional beer I usually end up spending about $22 or $23 per person.
With that deal you can split flavours. I like hot but superhot is good without being over the top. In my younger days I've been brave enough to try the Death and Armageddon but those days have long past.
The beer selection leaves a bit to be desired but it's not a huge deal. I get Creemore but they also have Mill Street Organic and some other brands that I choose to forget.
The women that work here are generally quite attractive and amiable. One of the best waitresses I've had (anywhere) served my party on January 28, 2011. I have no idea what her name is but I'm pretty sure it started with an H- perhaps Heather, but it also could be Carlie or Yolanda.
I find that there aren't any issues getting a table if you show up between 19:00 and 19:30. The same can't be said about arriving between 20:00 and 20:30.
I haven't been to this location on a Tuesday but I know that it has been a zoo when I've gone to the Bayview location. Don't bother, unless you're super cheap. Although, I've heard it's not quite as cheap as it used to be.
Ted's is a fun place to go to after. -
Review from Teena D.
6/18/2011
We stopped in for lunch today and got a table on the patio.
We sat there for at least 10 minutes waiting for service. Alas, we were ignored.
Yes, it was during the Taste of Little Italy but there were three servers on the patio. And yes, they were busy but none of them even acknowledged us. We tried to get their attention to no avail.
We eventually left and went somewhere else. -
Review from Ken P.
6/27/2011 1 Check-in Here
Their sauce isn't anywhere near as hot as they claim it to be. On the other hand, said sauce is mad tasty, with a great tang that finds you (me) running your (my) finger around the bowl after the last wing has been eaten. The wings themselves were still crisp on the outside but nice and moist on the inside.
They also have a great range of cold beer, and a decent poutine for outside of Montreal. -
Review from Liora I.
Toronto, ON
2/6/2011
I remember driving to Buffalo, NY to eat at Duff's -- I don't remember if it was the purpose of the trip, but I do remember it being a highlight. For my friends Duff's was a legend, "The best wings ever" they used to drool -- and then slowly they began to appear in the GTA and somewhere along the line this anomaly just became part of the everyday Toronto landscape.
Now, I still do like the wings -- the sauce is not especially special, but it IS classic and after a number of disappointing experiences with weird flavours elsewhere I'll stick with classic any day.
The quality and freshness is right up there and I was surprised to read in The Toronto Star's occasional column "The Dish" that 10 wings from Duff's only accounts for 539 calories (versus 10 wings from Kelsey's which pack a whopping 1,110 calories) That almost seems reasonable doesn't it?
The restaurant is almost a palace compared to the original Buffalo, NY location -- though the atmosphere has a very pedestrian sports bar feel that kind of makes me wish I was sitting in the original grubby dive... At least that place had some street cred. -
Review from Melinda M.
Toronto, ON
1/9/2011
We got medium hot and it was hot. They've got these signs everywhere and the waitresses wear t-shirts explaining the system. Frankly, I found it annoying. Why not just call it like it is instead of wasting space explaining? Medium hot = hot? Just freaking call it hot and then you don't need to explain it. Oh well. Guess they're stuck with it now that they've printed everything.
Still, the wings were good, the explanation was accurate, and I found a smokiness to the heat that made them unique to other wings. Also, they had a good beer list including Mill Street, Beau's and Creemore. Better than St Louis which seems to exclusively sell crappy Molson products.
We sat at the bar and the bartenders were VERY NICE, checked in with us a lot and never made us wait. Good times.
Popular place, if you go at a prime time on a weekend expect that you may have to wait for seats, the turnover is fast though.
They get props for showing NFL playoffs on a Saturday night in Canada. A lot of places would show hockey just because we're in Canada and not give other sports a chance. -
Review from KL M.
Toronto, ON
11/2/2010
Was a little underwhelmed by what is supposed to be one of the best wings places in the city. Don't get me wrong, the wings weren't bad by any means, but they definitely weren't spectacular either. Of course, it is very much based on personal preference, and I prefer dry rub Louisiana-style wings to the saucy kind on offer here.
The prices, around $10 per dozen, are in line with other joints and there were some reasonable meal deals as well.
Curiously enough, Hooters continues to lead my tastebuds in my Toronto wing quest. -
Review from Angela H.
5/17/2009
My friend, who as long as I've known her, has been vegetarian...until about a month ago. Since breaking her veggie habits and indulging in the tastiness of meat, she said she's eaten wings probably 6 times. 6 already!! So, of course it was her choice that we try out Duff's.
First off, it's totally a sporty jock hangout. It's also got that vibe of a Jack Astor's or Kelsey's or something. Meh... Also, I'm pretty sure that our waitress was the devil. Not by her attitude or the way she acted, but how her beady black eyes looked. She was terrifying!!
We got one of the combo deals to share, which is 20 wings + a basket of fries + celery sticks + a pitcher of beer. That is A LOT of food. Enough to share amongst 3, surely. The wings were actually pretty good. Not the best, but good. We had them mild, with Duff's signature sauce. Apparently the medium alone is very hot, so we stayed away.
Overall, this place is okay. However, for Duff's claiming to have some of the best wings in the world, they've got nothing on Sneaky Dee's (http://www.yelp.ca/biz...). They are still my favorite wings from anywhere! -
Review from susan c.
7/22/2009
I like wings every once in a while but the S.O. is the real aficionado. If I subject him to dainty lady food, that means I sometimes have to concede to his lust for greasy carnage. We heard about half-price Tuesdays at Duff's (thanks Yelp!) and decided to give it a try.
First, the wings aren't half price any more. They're 10 for $6.75 (reg. $9.75). No bigs, still a bargain. Everyone else seemed to think so as the line was out the door on a rainy Tuesday night.
I chose mild medium because the signs on the wall say that "Medium is HOT." Mild medium wasn't hot at all and I was kind of wishing that I got medium. The S.O. got medium hot and when I tried one, it wasn't that much hotter but it was way tangier--in a Tabasco-ey kind of way. The wings were plump and made to order instead of pre-cooked and then sauced like I've seen at other places. (*cough, cough Gabby's*.)
What I really loved was the celery at Duff's. Now I know what you're thinking; Who the hell goes to a wings joint and reviews the celery? Well, I happen to like celery. A lot. The stalks were so fresh and crunchy at Duff's instead of dry and limp like I usually see them. I'm referring to the celery here. FOCUS!
I know blue cheese is the classic accompaniment but the creamy dill dip at Duff's tastes much better. Especially with that glorious celery. (All right, all right. I'll shut up about the celery now.)
Overall, OK but I probably wouldn't go back there on a Tuesday night because it's too crowded and noisy, and it's hard to get the server's attention. The Jay's game was on, so the place had a sports bar feel to it. And after eating only 8 out of my 10 wings, like Richard S. said, "my digestive track is none to pleased with my behavior." -
Review from Richard S.
Vancouver, BC
7/2/2009 ROTD 8/17/2009
Firstly, I should make a point of saying that I don't eat as much greasy food as I did in the past, and after going to Duffs my digestive track is none to pleased with my behavior.
Duff wings are very saucy, and that sauce often contains quite a bit of oil. But hot damn they is some tasty wings. I like medium. It's hot enough to have some bite to it (to make your nose run a bit), but not hot enough to blind you if you scratch your eye by accident.
My girl likes Honey Garlic which is also very good. And unlike some other restaurants (St. Louis' for example) you'll have a tonne of extra sauce left when you are done you wings. If you love the sauce you get to drink it like left over milk from a cereal bowl.
Duffs' status as professional wing suppliers is shown by the fact they bring you a stack of napkins, and small bucket for all the bones and used napkins. Only the pros would be confident enough to put a garbage bin on the table with your food.
Tuesdays are half price, but not on doggy bags or take out.
Each order of wings comes with some celery sticks and your choice of dill or blue cheese dipping sauce. I recommend eating the celery to help counter-act the unhealthiness of your meal.
Enjoy! -
Review from Alex K.
Toronto, ON
6/4/2011
Wings are good. Mad good? Not so sure... Ultimately it comes down to whether you like your wings big or small. These are small-style wings, which means a little meat and a lot of flavour. Great spectrum of sauces and the hot is HOT. Fries are good and crispy and the ambience is fine. Service was regular and beer was a bit more expensive than it ought to be (especially with Toby's just down the street) but it's definitely the only place in town with such a wide spectrum of hot sauces. I like my wings hot, and at Duff's they can deliver. Also, they actually do deliver.
Listed in: Drinking IS fun!, Chik'n WAAAANGS
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Review from Jing K.
Toronto, ON
2/15/2010
You know you are boring new parents when sending the baby to the MIL, ordering wings and renting a movie makes for a fabulous Valentines day. Unfortunately our night was only marred by the choice of wings. Shoulda gone to our old standby of Bistro on Ave (a St Louis joint).
We got take out so I can't comment on anything other than the food. The wings themselves are suspiciously large, like how big was that chicken? That may appeal to some but I'm a fan of the non-drumstick and like to work a bit for the wing meat. Got the honey garlic which was a waste of time but luckily the side of hot honey garlic sauce I ordered saved the day. The medium is really Tabasco-y if you are into that.
The fries were mundane and the large order was excessive for two. (The dogs got a great breakfast the next day).
But now I can say I've had Duff's wings. Not really my thing.
BTW the movie was District 9. Now THAT was good.Listed in: Fool me once, shame on me.
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Review from Alejandro A.
Toronto, ON
12/5/2008
I know people who swear by Duff's wings, and they're not wrong. Duff wings are some of the best wings I've had in the city. Not the best priced wings, mind you, but I always find myself deliciously satisfied as I throw that last bone into the white buckets.
They've got your usual variety of flavours, as well as a series of super hot sauces. Whenever someone orders one of the hottest two flavours (they have names like Volcano and Hell, or something equally fitting) an alarm goes off. I'm not sure if destroying my gastrointestinal tract is worth the satisfying sound of a siren, but hey, whatever floats yer boat.
Sure, Duff's sells other things. They've got BLTs and other standard pubbish fare, but if you're coming into Duff's it's for one of two reasons. 1) You really want wings. 2) You're being dragged in by someone who really wants wings. -
Review from Melissa J.
Toronto, ON
11/3/2008
Duff's is good. Not great, but good. Once in a while I get a Duff's craving (Yes, I get different wing cravings regularly), and then I fill it, and then I can go back to my enormous wings from Sneak's and my occasional trip to All Star's and then, life is great.
Duff's essentially has two different kinds of wings -- honey garlic and the "hot" ones, which you can get in different levels of hotness. I do love how saucy they are, and all the fixin's -- particularly the yummy blue cheese dip for the celery and carrots that try to make you feel less guilty about eating several chickens in one sitting.
The problem I have with their wing sauce is that it's probably about 85% vinegar. After about 10 wings (and trust me, I usually go far beyond 10), your mouth starts to burn. By the end of the meal, it's as though you've had 5 bags of sour keys and then gargled with lemon juice. Ow.
And the fries are just eh. Haven't tried the potato wedges but the fries are nothing to brag about, and their beer selection is the same. The biggest problem with this location of Duff's is that I could easily go down the street to Sneaky Dee's and have their wings instead (and on Mondays they are cheap with beer!) and save all the skin in my mouth. But sometimes you need a change, and Duff's is a good choice if you need to stray. The College St. location is more modern looking but the Bayview one reminds me of the good parts of high school, so they both have redeeming qualities.
So, once in a while, Duff's rules. And make sure that "once in a while" is far away from peak hours -- at any sort of normal dinner time, on any given day, this location is usually filled with frat boys and awkward first dates. -
Review from Erin H.
Toronto, ON
9/5/2008
For a recovering wingophiliac like me, this place is the worst discovery EVER!
What can I say, the wings are far and away the best I have had and what is more they have potato wedges (thick potato pieces, breaded, spiced, deep fried, and served with sour cream) - a rare treat - on the menu.
Back to the wings...They come in a variety of flavours: barbecue, honey-garlic, plain, mild, medium, hot, and then five alarm wings. If someone dares to go for these wings the whole staff brings them to the table and rings a variety of firebells, it's pretty hilarious. And no I've never tried them. Medium is good enough for me and I am a spice lover. -
Review from Justin H.
8/27/2010
I was meeting up with a couple of friends who lived in Toronto and we needed some place to go eat so we decided on this particular spot. We stopped by a Tuesday afternoon, so the wait was practically nothing to get a table. The first thing I noticed when I entered was that there some flies buzzing around the place so that didn't exactly leave the greatest impression.
We were seated and then ordered food. The prices for food here is very reasonable. I didn't want to try the hot wings so I instead opted for the more neutral wings, the Hot Honey Garlic and the Spicy BBQ. The wings were pretty good, and very saucy, but this was a week after I tried Buffalo Wild Wings and I couldn't help but feel as if these wings couldn't compare. The fries were forgettable and the beer wasn't anything special, and I'm coming from America where the beer is supposedly watered down.
Overall, I thought the food was good, prices reasonable for wings, but not exactly something I'd come back to in the future. -
Review from andrew a.
5/15/2011 1 Check-in Here
wings be mad good.
since the hipsters that run this website pointed out that my review was short, I will expand:
the beer was cold, they have a bunch of tv's, i would definitely bang 3/5 of the waitresses that work here. Fries were on point and so were the onion rings, the dips were mad good too, and dey was chilled just at the right temperature, perfect for dipping wings into which really contrasts the steaming hot and sometimes very spicy wing (am i seriously writing a review about this? ) .
Duff's has been the go-to spot for wings in Toronto forever and is known as the gold standard of wings in this city, do not be confused by the other wing places (st louis, other places), there is a real reason why duff's has a lineup at each of their 2 locations each and every location for easily the last 20 years. -
Review from WaYnE c.
Maple, ON
5/19/2010
I got HIT through the Nasal Passages by VINEGAR just walking into this place and my spidey senses started to tingle. The weird part was that the patio and door was fully opened to let the TOXIC fumes escape.
Nice Classy place with HDTV showing games and wait staff were doing a decent job. Good initial explanation to me about how things work around here and what we should do as Duff ROOKIES.
Honey Garlic, Mild Medium, and BBQ were our flavours in counts of 10 wings each. I definitely see the BUFFALO method being used here but even at the first bite it was Tough, Dry & Chewy.
As you read this maybe a year later, I can still feel my stomach hate me as it tries to DIGEST cardboard. OMG, I know it's not going to come out NICE, if you know what I mean.
The sauces are your normal Buttered Tabasco sauce which seems normal for Buffalo HOT Wings and I don't have much to complain about this end of things as it didn't give me indigestion.
While eating I even had daydreams of Pizza Pizza's Wings. I guess I won't be dreaming of Duff's Famous Wings anytime soon.Listed in: Wingin' It
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Review from Cindy C.
Toronto, ON
7/17/2010
Voted Best Wing Place by Cinnia
This place started up in New York and all I have to say is, Welcome to Canada! I was so stoked when I saw those 4 letters stringed together D-U-F-F. Go for it, try the suicide sauce.
- Reasonable prices for huge wings!
- Awesome array of sauces to choose from
- Normal selection of beer, but good thing it comes in tubs!
- Offers other things on the menu, but come on, why would you bother?
Hot Tips:
- The Hot Scale... pretty true to scale, I also find it gets more vinegar-y as you up the hot scale. We were wavering between Superhot and Death, and I think we would have been able to handle death...
- Suicide, let's talk about this, it will make your eyeballs sweat. I'm not kidding, I tried it once in Philadelphia, the sauce hit my tongue and it went numb for 15 minutes... 'duff said. -
Review from Jennifer L.
Toronto, ON
11/3/2009
These wings..they sure must be famous if I heard from one other person in this town how good the wings are. But mostly because on Tuesdays, it's half price for wings. What's up with Tuesdays being half price for things? Is it to remind us to keep on drinking and the weekend ain't really over or hey it's just coming up so you better get ready? Friday junior is right around the corner.
The celery sticks are ginormous!Listed in: I Love Meat
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Review from Abby R.
Toronto, ON
8/7/2008
I'm a vegetarian now, but back in my hey day we used to do the Tuesday night special at the Bayview shop. Best wings in the city by far, they are the saucy kind (as opposed to the dry st. louis type).
If you are into wings, this is the place to go. -
Review from Bijan V.
2/26/2009 1 Check-in Here
Warning: Beginning of Rant --
Seriously? This is why I had to wait for 30 minutes on Tuesday? Their wings are honestly not that good... especially if you've ever had All-Star Wings (http://www.yelp.ca/biz...), pretty overpriced and that stupid bell and alarm have got to go!! Great someone has enough soft mushy balls to have a few spicy wings, I don't need to know every 30 seconds that someone has ordered them!
The only reason they get the second star is for the service which was pretty good and quick.
But overall it's overpriced, small wings with the same old flavours, and long wait times!
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Review from Rick Y.
Toronto, ON
1/15/2010
Duff's is... well Duff's... not much you can say about a chicken and wings joint. Their wings are a good size. Their beer selection adequate. The wing sauces are generally tasty although the Armageddon sauce gives up flavor to try to burn your face off.
I like hot.. I love really hot that has flavor. Unfortunately armageddon isn't it. Mix the Armageddon with honey-garlic and we're in business (and that's what I frequently do :) They also have a hot honey-garlic that is pretty nice.
Their fries are kinda meh. I prefer a larger crispier fry (like those from Toby's), but some like soggy straw-sized fries. Just not me. -
Review from RJ S.
Mississauga, ON
9/27/2009 1 Check-in Here
Summer wing tradition.
My friends and I have made this place our yearly go to place during the summer. When summer comes around we have to go to duffs, I don't know how it started it just happened.
They have many different flavours from the traditional mild, medium, hot, and bbq. But the flavours that I consistently get is the honey garlic, and the spicy honey garlic. Normally I am not a honey garlic wing fan b/c theres either too much sauce or its just too sweet. But these wings were very well done the sauce was just right. The spicy honey garlic sauce is even better b/c its got a little kick to them.
Now I have a couple of downfalls to this place.
The first being that I only like the wings and nothing else. The fries reminded me of fries that you cook at home, onion rings weren't that much better and I have had a few other things on the menu and they weren't that good.
The second had to do with the size of the wings. The size of the wings were small, so small that the first batch that me and my friends ordered was 100 wings. You would think that 100 wings would satisfy 6 people, thats basically almost 16 wings a person. NO, it didn't, so we ordered another 50 wings just to be satisfied. And it's not like me and my friends are fat, well with the exception of one, haha, but it was pretty sad that we had to order that many wings to be satisfied.
I may dislike this place b/c of the size of the wings and that the other ites aren't the greatest buts its that honey garlic sauce that will keep me coming back every summer.
Items to definetly get
- honey garlic wings
- spicy honey garlic wings -
Review from Randy C.
Brampton, ON
8/3/2010
Hot Honey Garlic, Medium Hot.
Best wings on earth, end of story. -
Review from John C.
Mississauga, ON
5/13/2009 1 photo
Yes these wings are good I still like the Anor Bar better .But that's a long drive.
So Duff's are great And they got some Nice cold Beer Yummy! -
Review from Verona R.
9/13/2008
You know your in Toronto when they have to put honey-garlic wings on the menu to cater to the bland tounged locals. The mothership on Sheridan Ave. has no other wing type than the one of its fair city. If you are going to attempt to copy the real Duffs, you might want to keep it authentic. The buffalo wings are decent here; however, putting boneless wings on the menu is simply a travesty!
Additionally, at least put some Genesee on the beer selection!! -
Review from Evan J.
1/10/2009
The BEST hot wings in the world. Bar none. OK, maybe the Duff's in Buffalo is an acceptable alternative, but still... I'm based out of Los Angeles these days and I miss these wings! I still rock my Duff's t-shirt though.
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Review from Mike S.
Toronto, ON
9/19/2008
I have heard about Duff's Wings from at least four different sources not the least of which being http://Yelp.ca. I love wings and the fact that I hadn't tried Duff's variations on a theme meant that I had to go. I went on a Sunday afternoon, arguably the slowest time of day for the wing/bar industry, but the dining room was far from empty, it was also far from full, a healthy middle if you will. I really like my heat in food, but I also like to taste what I'm getting. The menu warns that medium is hot and hot is suicide. I was with a group of people who's heat level varied so we went for the medium so that nobody would get hurt. The wings were good they were big and meaty. Although the medium was distinctly medium and not hot in the least the sauce was still rich and tasty. I can't agree that these are the best wings I've ever tasted. They are certainly better than the wings you'd get at your local pub, but they can't be the best wings in the city because they are not that amazing. For those of you who love eating the appendages of flightless birds than Duff's is a good place to go. They have a nice atmosphere and the wings are very good, but don't go expecting wing nirvana (like I did) because you will leave disappointed.
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Review from Tina N.
Toronto, ON
10/20/2009
though this place is famous for it's wings i wasn't too fond of it because my experience was of the chicken wings being over marinated with TOO MUCH sauce! their home-made sauce had such a sour taste to it. the BBQ flavour wings tasted like ketchup wings, the mild wings tasted really citrusy, the honey garlic wings were REALLY saucy and the armageddon..... DO NOT GET THIS IF YOU CAN NOT HANDLE THE HEAT. let's just say it was soooooo spicy that the smell of this could burn your nose! my cousin was only able to eat 2 wings and it literally burned his lips and gave him indigestion!
other than that i found the salad to be delicious and refreshing. the celery sticks were superb! so fresh and crunchy! and the potato wedges with the dill pickle sauce was my ALL TIME FAVOURITE!
mediocore experience but for the future i think i'm gonna stick to Louis Wings for my chicken wings. -
Review from kris r.
12/31/2009
I've been here once and it was apparently half price night. This resulted in sub-par service and sitting cheek to cheek with strangers. Wings were small, nothing special. Very jocky atmosphere with dim lighting and various games playing on flatscreens all over the room. You can do better.
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Review from Vanessa V.
8/6/2008
best wings in the city, probably. cool atmosphere and they will serve boneless tenders in buffalo sauce, my favourite. potato wedges are decent-- not great, but a good accompaniment.
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Review from jonathan f.
Brampton, ON
7/13/2009
these wings aren't better than the ones from buffalo but they're the best in the city of toronto. the long waits are definitely worth it. this is a great place to go after a jays game.
