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Buffalo Wild Wings in Tyler Texas

July 2nd, 2010

Buffalo Wild Wings in Tyler TX

Being married to a dedicated sports fan, having young toddlers, and being a dedicated fan of pretty much any popular reality show, the arguing of what show to watch gets pretty ridiculous, and the DVR quickly fills up with shows you forget to delete.

But in my journey for answers for our issue, I came to realize that I am not the only person with this problem. Men are always forced to watch our movies and television shows. Women are annoyed at their husbands yelling at the television set and trying to chest bump the kids.

Why not send your husband somewhere that he can watch the game with other chest bumping crazed men?

At Buffalo Wild Wings the restaurant is covered wall to wall with giant television screens. I felt sorry for the company when Tyler started the smoking ban. The restaurant had a great idea for the issues of second hand smoke, two separate rooms.

People that smoke don’t have their rights taken away and people that do not smoke do not have to breathe it. But I will digress from declaring my personal opinions of human rights.

They have a great bar in the separated room. The two rooms are separated by a glass wall. The bar is great to hang out with your friends and they even have a couple arcade games.

But besides the drinks and full bar, video games, and large televisions, Buffalo Wild Wings has pretty good food. It definitely is not the best buffalo wings in town (if you are looking for the best wings in town, in my opinion, Wing Stop tops them all); but no matter they still are very satisfying and there is a great selection of sauces and meats. Have your own choice of boneless, or mild or honey barbeque.

If you are planning to go to Buffalo Wild Wings on a day that there is a big game, I recommend that you get there early because that small building gets full really fast. Also sit by the door because if you are trying to leave during the game you may have to climb over people, or at least feel like you are climbing over people.

I never have had an issue or a compliment about the service at the Tyler Buffalo Wild Wings, but I have had the worse service that I have ever had at any restaurant in my life, at the restaurant in Longview, about a year ago. Since my family and I had to endure that horrible service we are yet to return to the Longview restaurant.

I really recommend Buffalo Wild Wings in Tyler to meet up with friends and get a drink. But do not expect the best wings in the world there, but expect to make memories with your friends, and have a great time.

Buffalo Wild Wings in Tyler Texas

Pea Picker Books in Tyler

January 8th, 2010

Located at 2803 University Blvd, Pea Picker Books is one of the largest bookstores in Tyler, second only to Barnes and Noble. If you’re looking for relatively current or even recent dime back fiction this is the place for you. Paperbacks run wall to wall (and everywhere in between). Again, for the person looking for good beach reading, or an easy traveling companion for a summer road trip, this could be the place. They have a decent selection of most genres. The highlight of a trip to Pea Picker’s would have to be the biography section. There are more hardcover books here than any where else in the store. Presidents, generals and politicians are all present and accounted for. The western section is also huge, and contains an abundance of both hardcover and paperback fiction.

The classics section is unfortunately small considering the overall size of the Tyler book store; however I’m sure that given its proximity to UT Tyler, it does provide the local students with the cliff’s notes they require to barely pass their lit classes. Their selection of Cliff’s and Spark notes is quite large. All sarcasm aside however, I understand the law of supply and demand, and I realize a store only sells to a market. My biggest criticism of Pea Picker is the huge over abundance of romance novels. In fact there are so many that they are divided into sub groups.

One of the most interesting things about the store is the art on the walls. There is everything from western and military art, to promotional posters for certain novels or genres, to signed photos of authors and other cultural icons. There are also portraits of every president from Washington to Nixon.

My guess is, literary snobs, and book collectors (and I include myself in both of those obnoxious categories), will probably not be crazy about this store. The selection is huge, and if you are searching for a common title you will probably find it there. But Pea Picker is not the sort of book store to shop for those rare finds bibliophiles live for. On a scale of one to five, I’d give it a three. But don’t take my word for it, stop by and judge for yourself. An afternoon spent in a bookstore is never an afternoon wasted.