The Wildcat

Stop for pizza and wings. Food was good but they shorted us on wings. Told a server and he said sorry and walked away. Will be a while before we go back.

This is a tough review to rate with stars… We have eaten at Wildcat many times and it has fairly consistent food. Pizza is as good as you can find in CNY and the wings are also good.
The reason that we decided on a 2 star rating is that we generally order take out. They routinely get the delivery order wrong. Our order was incorrect on 4 occasions prior to speaking to an employee (new restaurant and we don’t like to complain). I explained the situation and was treated very fairly. I explained that I wanted to support the local business but they were making it difficult. Based on the sincere apology and good customer service we gave it another try… Totally messed up order, wrong pizza and wrong wings. I requested to speak with a manager again received adequate customer service and they fixed the order and offered a $ 10 credit. We gave it another try a few weeks later, got it wrong again! Incorrect wings, so I decided not to call again and I can not try and support this restaurant any longer.
Dining in have all been good experiences.

Enjoyed my visit here. Liked the atmosphere. Food was much better than I anticipated. Pizza and wings are very good. Service was also good. I would return.

Ordered takeout for the second time. The first time was okay, good enough to give a second shot. This time was not good. Pizza was bland, dry and very cardboard like. Not much sauce or cheese on it. We also got mushrooms and sausage, while those toppings were plentiful they still didn’t do enough to negate the lack of flavor. Wings, while expensive, were nothing special. Ordered mild, nothing notable about the sauce. We’re not «jumbo» as the menu stated, just average sized, average tasting wings at a couple dollars more than most pizza joints.
Don’t plan on trying it again.

Yummy! We love their pizza — delivery is always quick too!

Tonight we had the stromboli and the Cordon Bleu wrap. Both were good size and delicious. The cooks tonite were Matt and Shane. We took half of both home for another meal!

Well we went for pizza tonight… we will NOT be back… ordered a mushroom pizza and an order of boneless wings… also ordered a draft Blue Light… the beer was warm. I told the barmaid so she gave me a Bud Light draft… completely flat… no fizz no head… so I took it back (she never should have even served it) got a bottle of Miller Lite,
Then the pizza and wings arrived… wings we cold and dry… you could tell they had been out awhile… the pizza was hot but pretty flat tasting… after spending over 30.00 and waiting on ourselves… no waitress EVER stopped back or asked if we needed a box etc…
We left knowing we would never be bac

First time here but so far, I’m just not feelin’ it. 1) Live music is so loud we can’t even hear ourselves talk. 2) I ordered a beer at 6:5 6pm and the bartender wouldn’t honor the $ 3 happy hour special because she rang me up at 7:02. 3) we ordered a plate of the loaded nachos and received them with cold cheese. We flagged someone down and she got them replaced but the replacement wasn’t any better — the cheese is just plain nasty (even for fake cheese). Sorry, but thumbs down. Gave it two stars because maybe another, less busy night some things might be improved.

Well they have consistency, over a week later I picked-​up my second pizza and it was just as delicious as the first one I had. This is the best pizza in the Camillus area.

I had done a little reading about this restaurant before its grand opening earlier this year. It’s a bar/​restaurant with, from what I understand, pretty inconsistent hours. They close at 10 PM on weeknights which is a respectful decision on their part to keep neighborhood noise and nuisances to a minimum. I have also read, though, that they will sometimes close earlier than that. It’s that last part that gets me a little bit. If I decide that I want to head out for a drink at 9 o’clock, I don’t want to call my local watering hole to see if they’re open. It’s easier to just know that there is a consistent structure in an establishment’s business hours.
So those were my opinions before actually going to The Wildcat. I went at around 10:30 PM on Friday night after the fair. It’s a bar/​restaurant with a tandem volleyball court (or courts… I didn’t go outside). The restaurant interior is fairly unremarkable. It’s a large wide open room with a number of high tables, a couple of arcade games, one or two dart boards, and a long bar. Beyond the bar area is a wide open kitchen where I’m guessing one would go to order or pick up food. The kitchen was closing when I arrived, so I didn’t get to see how that whole thing worked.
What I can say is that the layout of the kitchen is pretty uninviting. As much as I appreciate the transparency of what goes on in the kitchen, I really don’t need to see the bins, boxes, and other industrial kitchen equipment/​appliances. When a sports bar has three walls of televisions and then one wide open space with institutional fluorescent kitchen lighting, I feel like I’m sitting in an unfinished restaurant or worse, a school cafeteria with beer and some tv’s. This gap should really be bridged better. At the very least I would put a dividing wall from the ceiling over the food ordering station. Not so much that it blocks off the kitchen entirely, but one big enough to draw attention away from the unsightly kitchen ceiling. Hang some TV’s on that wall and in my opinion it automatically feels more like a sports bar.
What this place does have going for it is that there really isn’t much else in town for competition aside from Azteca across the street if you’re just looking for a place to have a beer. At the same time, they have similar hours to Azteca (or at least one can hope, given their variable hours) which gives them no true leg up.
The crowd was fairly sizable which says good things. It was definitely a 10:1 ratio of middle aged men to middle aged women. So if you’re a woman with a spontaneous desire to have your pick of thirty to forty guys between the ages of forty to fifty, then you need to get your ass down there when it’s open. You’ll be accommodated.
In all seriousness, given the size of the crowd, the bar tending staff was pretty prompt. They made the effort between orders to be personable and inviting. There was an awful lot of general clean-​up/​closing activity which made me feel like I should be getting out of people’s way, but I’m guessing that the experience would have been slightly more welcoming had I arrived an hour or two earlier.