| Overall
Average User Rating |
| Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
Good
|
Good
|
Good
|
Good
|
Good
|
|
|
Review Page:
[
1
]
[
2
]
[
ALL
]
|
Individual User Reviews |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
Awesome!
|
Great
|
Great
|
Awesome!
|
Great
|
|
Went in on Easter, surprised to see how crowded it was. Lively place with TV,s going and everyone having a great time. I had a sampler and really enjoyed the Alimony Ale (IPA) to bad the other brews weren't as flavorful. I also had the cream of Broccoli soup and a Jalapeno, bacon pizza interesting flavors. Standard beer and pub fare. Give it a try.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
Leo,
Redlands, CA
(03/25/2008) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
Great
|
Great
|
N/A
|
Great
|
Great
|
|
We were in the neighborhood, just thought we'd drop in, killing some time before flying out of SFO. We just had a couple beers, but it was very good. The service was great. We'd definitely try this place again.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
Eric Christensen,
North Branch, MN
(12/30/2007) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
Good
|
So So
|
Great
|
Awesome!
|
Great
|
|
I visited Buffalo Bills with my wife, another couple, and three small children. This brewery is an excellent place for small children, facilitated especially by our server who was truly outstanding.
I was a bit disappointed in the overall beer selection. I was looking forward to trying the original Buffalo Beer, which had been replaced on tap by the Pumpkin Ale. Strangely enough they had also replaced the Orange Blossom Cream Ale (available by bottle) with a Blueberry Oatmeal Stout. I say this is strange because two of the five beers available were Oatmeal Stouts. Great if you are a fan of stouts but unfortunate if you appreciate a wider selection.
I really enjoyed the Pumpkin Ale. It is widely available in bottles, but it was great from the tap. The best of their regular brews would have to be the Tazmanian Devil. The Ricochet Red was alright, but a little bitter for my taste, but the Alimony Ale (a IPA)was better balanced than most IPAs. The Hayward Hefe and the standard oatmeal stout were unexceptional. The Blueberry Oatmeal stout was an improvemnet over the regualr oatmeal stout.
We tried the Jalapeno Poppers, which I gave extra points to for the novelty of their size, but were pretty plain tasting. The wings were just so-so, small and ordinary. Overall the pizzas we tried were great, with my favorite being the Wrangler. We also tried three of the deserts: the cheesecake, the creme brulee, and the chocolate cake. Of the three the chocolate cake was far and away our group's favorite.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
Even Holmboe,
Pleasanton, CA
(12/10/2007) |
|
|
|
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
Great
|
Great
|
Great
|
Great
|
Great
|
|
This is a wonderful little brewery. The staff is wonderful and I've yet to have a bad experience. I'm a big, and picky, fan of dark beers and the stout is fantastic. The food is good with it's own unique twist. The wings are especially good as long as the cook doesn't get carried away with the cilantro. Great place to just hang out, have a pint, and relax.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
San Mateo, CA
(08/10/2007) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
Compared to drinking stump-water where you come from, anything would taste better. Get Real and go home. We don't need you here.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
hayward, CA
(04/09/2007) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
Not to be rude to this guy but the most expensive food item there is like $12 so they each ate nearly 3 main choices - un, yea, okay ... it's not like Ruth Chris where a steak costs $75 bucks ... so I think they spent about $150 on food MAX and the rest on beer - hey, i know what me & my buds are like after $250 bucks worth of and yea, we probably should be cut off. It's better than dying of alcohol poisoning - you should be gald you got cut off so you could go home and post this review. Basically, you liked it enough to drink $250 worth of beers and eat $150 worth of food - pretty good if you ask me.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
joe belkin,
SD, CA
(03/28/2007) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
Great
|
Great
|
Great
|
Great
|
Great
|
|
It's funny how when I see Buffalo Bill's Pumpkin Ale, it just starts to feel like autumn and when I crack it open, it immediately makes it autumn and takes me back to my college days. I hope my wife doesn't read this review but you know how something just evokes a thousand memories - of crossing the San Mateo bridge in my old top down Jeep to see my girlfriend at CSU Hayward (oh, sorry - CSU East Bay now). I can taste the salt air from the marshes and then picking up at her place behind the school, nestled in woods like it's Truckee or something. While Hayward was all 1960's strip mall falling apart, there was that one cozy place - Buffalo Bill's - great fresh beer of every kind - stout, pale ale but pumpkin was always worth waiting for. It was like if we could down a few more, we could hold off winter - and then of course, we moved on - she got a great job offer back East and then Germany - she still emails me asking if I still go to Buffalo Bill's - I do but don't hate me, I never take the wife, I just go with my buddies and pumpkin ale takes me back - they got a great clean tasting and unique flavor down - I've tried others but it's no pumpkin ale from Buffalo Bill's.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
joe belkin,
SD, CA
(03/28/2007) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
Great
|
Great
|
Great
|
Awesome!
|
Great
|
|
Love this place, and the people are great. It's not my hangout, but I visit every couple weeks or so. I always get greeted at the door with a smile, and the energy is amazing. I could do without the 90 minute wait for dinner on Friday, but before you know it, you are apart of the atmosphere. It's a great place to share time with friends and family. Cheers.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
Hayward, CA
(11/19/2006) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
Great
|
Great
|
Great
|
Good
|
Great
|
|
Despite the previous bad reviews, I thought this place was pretty good. Apparently a lot of other people thought so too because the place was hopping. The bartenders could barely keep enough glasses on the shelf. They had eight beers on tap. I went through a pint each of the B Street Amber, Ricochet Red and the Tasmanian Devil, a strong ale. All were unfiltered and all tasted pretty darn good to me. The menu is pretty standard pub food. Wanted to try a pizza but the bartender said the wait could be lenghty because of the crowd. Had a really good Teriyaki Chicken sandwich instead. I'd like to go back again to give their beers another try but not on a Friday night.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
J. King,
Campbell, CA
(01/21/2006) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
Good
|
So So
|
So So
|
Lousy
|
So So
|
|
Problem is that they don't seem concerned that they are a brewery and don't really care about the beer. It was nearly impossible to get service, and I sat down right at the bar, even though it was not busy.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
Glenn,
Bakersfield, CA
(09/18/2005) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
So So
|
So So
|
Great
|
So So
|
So So
|
|
I have been there a few times now. Beer is ok, nothin that jumped out at me. We were there for the nacho's. Thoes rawk. Better beer just down the block at the Bistro.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
Peter Munoz,
manteca, CA
(04/24/2005) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
So So
|
Good
|
Good
|
Good
|
Good
|
|
The beer selection isnt great and the beer is average but the place is worth trying. Pizza was good. If your looking for the best IPA around, drive 10 miles to pleasanton to the hopyard brewery for the hoptown ipa.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
carson city, NV
(04/08/2005) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
Lousy
|
Lousy
|
Lousy
|
Lousy
|
Lousy
|
|
I must warn anyone who might be considering going to to Buffalo Bill's Brewery in Hayward. This Saturday I had planned an event for 20 of my friends and I to go to this quiet suburb for some good food, tasty microbrews and conversation. We got there at about 2:30pm. We satdown outside and proceeded to eat drink and be merry. 2 hours later we are told that we have to drink water as we had been there for a while and they were concerened for our well-being. I asked why that was since we all had no more than 3 beers over the course of 4 hours. We had also eaten over $400 worth of food so any alcohol we consumed would be absorbed. I then took my complaint to the manager. There I explained the amount of food we had eaten, the small amount of beers over the time spent and the fact that we all were riding BART. To my comments all he could say is that we were a danger to ourselves and would not listen to what i had to say other than "sorry for the inconvenience". He kept implying that we might still hurt ourselves, walking around Hayward after 3 beers and overstuffed bellies. To which I walked away telling him I would never go there again. I made sure I announced it to the attendants of the pub crawl as well. I do not want a single dime spent at that pub. How dare they take our money and then turn around and imply we were out of control when we were always welbehaved and polite to all servers. Please do not spend any money at this brewpub as their food, beer and lack of hospitality sucked. If you want a good brewpub in the East Bay go to Triple Rock in Berkeley.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
Mitchell Lopez,
San Francisco, CA
(08/22/2004) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
So So
|
So So
|
So So
|
Lousy
|
So So
|
|
Not my favorite place by any means... but come fall... i'll come back every day for the pumpkin ale.... oddly, it's not made by BBB... but in Portland!!!
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
Lena Golmitz,
Hayward, CA
(08/18/2004) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
So So
|
So So
|
So So
|
Lousy
|
Lousy
|
|
The atmospehere was alright, but the waitress and the manager got attitudes when we asked them to put on the A's game!! It smacked of racism, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Plus the food is overpriced. $8.95 for pepperoni pizza plus $2.50 to add sasuage?!? Horrible service and okay food makes for a bad business.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
San Leandro, CA
(06/03/2004) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
Lousy
|
Good
|
Good
|
Good
|
Good
|
|
I've been going to BBB since it first opened. It used to be a fly infested little dive when Bill Owens owned it. He never did know how to make a good beer. The place is much improved with the newer owners. The food and service is good. The gumbo and pizza are really good. They still haven't figured out how to make good beer though. But at least they have some good guest beers on tap.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
Dana Rose,
San Leandro, CA
(02/07/2004) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
Awesome!
|
Great
|
Great
|
Awesome!
|
Great
|
|
After reading the Pubcrawler reviews, I almost didn't go. Although my buddy from Hayward forced me to go. I was pleasantly surprised to see the "overpriced" beer was a 21 ounce imperial pint not the cheater 16 oz pint found at most pubs. The beers were all excellent, and the Red was just a few IBU's short of Celebration Ale. The staff was very friendly, and knew a lot about the menu. No wonder it won best brewpub in the bay area for 2003, by KPIX Channel 5 and Don Bleu. Sounds like too many beer snobs are used to drinking cheap homebrew.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
Steve Coswel,
Walnut Creek, CA
(12/30/2003) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
Great
|
Good
|
N/A
|
So So
|
N/A
|
|
Went there when Bill Owens used to own it. Beer was ok, people were great,place was a dive (I like it that way), owner sucked (Didn't care what patrons suggestions.). Went back last year for some Taz (This I really like, has a nice kick to it.). Talked to the new people. They appeared to have listened to the customers and,expanded. However, in doing so they turned it into a "fern bar". Does anyone know if Ted McAlear ever got HIS flags back? He had this huge RN jack mounted on the wall.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
San Leandro, CA
(12/05/2003) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
So So
|
Good
|
So So
|
Good
|
So So
|
|
Buffalo Bill's was the Bay Area's first brewpub. I would think that their longevity would have given them time to perfect the ales to a world-class level. I wasn't impressed at all by this place. There ales all seamed like they have been designed for tourist, with their catch names and gimmicks. There was almost no complexity to their ales with any impressive tastes. You might be better off dinking a Bud Light. I really look at a brewery’s Pale Ale to show off their abilities to craft an ale. The pale ale was okay but nothing impressive. The food was also okay. I don't think I would every be back. I actually returned to Snowshoe to confirm my suspicions about Buffalo Bill's. But go ahead and stop by an see what you think. Here is a click from their sight.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
Tim Hulen,
Turlock, CA
(11/23/2003) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
Great
|
Good
|
Good
|
Awesome!
|
Great
|
|
I've been going for many yrs, place is (unfortuantely) not getting any better. Doesn't look like the old brew pub, more of a yuppie hangout ($$$). The tasmanian devil is by far the best (& strongest) beer there. Pale Ale is also excellent. Others are OK. Gourmet food tastes pretty good and I agree, overpriced for what you get. Staff is always great and very nice & friendly. Original owner Bill (friend's uncle) should have never sold this place back in the day!
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
D$,
Livermore, CA
(08/26/2003) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
Good
|
Good
|
Great
|
Good
|
So So
|
|
The beers here arew ho-hum. But they are very proud of them. They are 50 cents to a $1 higher a pint than most brewpubs. However their pizza is really good, and the help was doing a good job for as busy as they were.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
Ratman,
Arvada, CO
(07/27/2003) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
Good
|
So So
|
Good
|
Good
|
Good
|
|
Tazmanian Devil is quite good. Alimony Ale (late January - February) is good. The stout is decent. The other beers are subpar for reason of blandness. The red isn’t red and doesn’t taste vaguely like a red should. Seasonal pumpkin ale is foul. Foodwise, I rahter like a couple of the pizzas & the BBQ chicken wrap but I wouldn't stray beyond that. Finally expanded at the end of 2002. More a restaurant feel than there used to be but still nicely cozy & the bathrooms are no longer gross. The only thing I really miss from the old days is the dart boards but now there is a shuffleboard table.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
Sean Lemar,
Elk Grove, CA
(06/29/2003) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
Great
|
Great
|
N/A
|
Awesome!
|
Great
|
|
Got the sampler (6 beers) in great sampler glasses BONUS POINTS...some of the wait staff seemed a little inexperienced but they were very friendly and genuinely sincere
Beers: HefeWeizen****(lemony/crisp/yeasty), Pale***(hoppiness only at the end of this beer, a great lazy summer afternoon drink), B-Street**(good clean beer with little-to-no complexity), Ricochet***(this is a beer that you can dring for quite some time), Tazmanian****(good for drinking and dog-bites...it has to be great), Oatmeal Stout****(smaels of chocolate with a great long lasting flavor).
A definate hit, and I would go back.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
Fred Allen,
Columbia, SC
(06/29/2003) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Good
|
Awesome!
|
Good
|
|
The place is Nifty looking and has a fun spirit about it. The food isn't to shabby and I love the service. The prices are a bit high but I think it's worth it once in a while.
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
Hayward, CA
(06/21/2003) |
|
|
Beer Quality |
Beer Selection |
Food |
Service |
Overall |
|
Awesome!
|
Awesome!
|
Awesome!
|
Awesome!
|
Awesome!
|
|
Whoo Hoo for BBB!!!! I love it!
|
|
Write Your Review
| Reply
to this Review |
Report Review |
Moose Goose,
Castro Valley, CA
(11/08/2002) |
|
