Native Grill & Wings

Today I had the worst customer service at this Native location. I work literally walking distance from Native so I order here over 3 times a week sometimes even twice a day. After today, I will never go back. Luckily there are other restaurants close by that I can go to. If I could give 0 stars I would so they are lucky to get the minimum 1 star from my visit today. Thank you!

Came to watch the NBA finals and they definitely delivered on that aspect. Ordered the burger and it was a regular bar burger nothing special to talk about. Ice tea was not good. Our server Jenny was nice! Pretty loud but that would be expected.

The food was pretty good. Our server, Brianna, was wonderful. She was VERY attentive.

The wings were just okay… a little fatty and the bone-​in had a slight breaded coating to them. Would not recommend the buffalo dip either. However, service was great and they have awesome happy hour drinks!

Great vibe service ! Megan the bartender was great !!! Good place to just chill have some drinks friendly staff.

Great food, great service, great happy hour prices! Plenty of TV’s to watch your favorite sports teams. Trivia night Wednesday nights AND karaōke Saturday nights!!! Now they have an app where you can earn points/​rewards/​discounts just for coming in to eat! What more could anyone ask for? 5 stars all the way!

Everytime I go to Native it’s an awesome experience from the time you walk in to the time you leave. It’s an awesome atmosphere and they really do cater to the customer.

We really like the when it was Native New yorker and was on Bell/​Freeway.
Service here was AWEFUL. We saw our waiter when we first came trying to rush our order. We said we werent’ ready. we had questions on the menu when he dropped off our drinks (basic soda water etc.) he answered them but then disappeared for a good 10 minutes before he came back. Then the manager who seemed to be more of a waiter making sure all was ok delivered our food. No waiter for another 15 minutes (asked for napkins that never came.) He seemed not to care about who he was taking care of.
Won’t be going back to this location. If you want a great location go to the one by the Cardinal/​Coyotes stadiums. they have awesome food and service

Great wings, drink specials and service by Brianna!

It good. So it gets a passing grade.
Wings are done well and are large. Lots of good flavors for a group who might not agree. They also don’t care if u get 100 of the same flavor of 20 wings all different. Unlike BWW.
I really like the pork queso and the fact they serve tater tots.
It’s a good spot for a game night and with food and booze.

So we came here for my friends daughters birthday… We originally tried to go to hooters, the servers were rude and gave a time limit on eating food so we said f that and came here. Jordan… best server EVER!!! He checked in on our table consistently, he brought our food out in a timely manner and he even announced it was angel’s birthday to the entire staff and brought her ice cream to go because we were running on a time crunch. He also gave her a to-​go cup for her Shirley temple. SOMEONE GET THIS GUY A RAISE!
Very approachable, was cracking jokes with us, and i really enjoyed our food!
Will be coming back and requesting to sit in his section.

My first time here, and being a wing lover i was expecting a lot from this place…
We ordered the Loaded Fries which werent really loaded. But the fries were good regardless.
I treaded on to order the wings with medium sauce. The wings were not bad but def not first on my list, or second. They had a really weird coating on them almost tasted sugary? Im not sure what it was but almost everything fried had a sugary taste to it. Maybe its the oil they use?
The waitress was really awkward almost as if she didnt want to serve us or we were a bother to her. She forgot boxes and drink orders a lot, when she was only serving another table and us.
I did expect the place to be crowded but it was a ghost town.
I dont really know how i feel about this place other than its really different and not my thing.
I usually dont try out places that are under 3 stars, and this is why.

Awful, food and service, place dirty, food sample platter not chicken tenders, they were like plastic.

It’s been a while since my last visit to a Native store and tonight gave me reason to assure its another long while before I’ll be coming back.
I’ve been craving wings all week so when I passed this place, it was perfect timing and meant to be. My choice of seating was at the bar, since I was alone. The bar tender, George, while polite, reminded me of a recently released inmate with his teardrop tattoo and over use of the phrase «Boss-​Man» to each patron.
My food was delivered by a runner, who repeated my order out loud to assure it was correct while placing it in front of me. I should have taken a picture of the plate as it appeared the chef was saving the Honey Haberñero sauce for someone else’s order. These wings were Sahara Desert dry. Not only dry but extremely over cooked. The celery appeared as if it had been used by an angry sous chef as there was not one piece which did not look like bad split ends on over processed hair.
Thank goodness for the luck of a random stranger at the bar to talk to and a nice glass of tea to wash it all down.
The bar tender reappeared at my end to deliver the check which was quickly paid for an expedited departure. Never once was I checked on to assure that my order was correct or tasted OK. I’m never one to send food back and reorder as an insult to the chef will not always work out in a positive way
Bottom line? There are hundreds of places out there I will go to first before ever setting foot here again.

RUN!!! RUN!!! RUN!!!
DO NOT EAT at this location!!!
NASTY!!!
I did love the wings from Native but after what I got tonight I will never eat here again. This is the first time I have gotten from this location and I am so grossed out I almost puked. The wings were like they were cooked days before with no sauce, placed under a heat lamp, then finally (5 days later) had sauce spooned over them and served. 50.00 dollars worth of chicken is now sitting in my trash can instead of my family’s bellies.

Gosh this place has gone down hill, and I mean WAAAAAAAAY down!!!
Now i use to live next to the one off Gilbert and went there 2 – 3 times a week. The staff knew us and it was still a dive-​y establishment, before corporate made everyone remodel and redo the menu, so all locations were the same cookie cutter crap wth no uniqueness to any location. Stupid decision and to re-​do the menu was an even more stupid decision!!!
An before all thus change; they still had NATIVE NACHOS, not these B.S. Buffalo Chicken Nachos. How can you get rid of the one thing that I loved the most and especially an item that was considered a Native speciality since It did have «NATIVE» in the title and a lil chicken speciality sign by it!!. I want the heaping Native Nachos, not these tiny lame nachos!
Now I’m a nacho connoisseur and those were by far my top choice nachos. Then they disappeared and I cried for 3 weeks straight. That whole location changed «effing corporate» leave your franchises alone. Got all bright and non dive like. Who wants that? Not me I love my dark, dive-​y, home feeling, comfortable go to restaurant.
So off track…
But back to the location I’m reviewing today, the one off the 17.
First visit: I asked if they could still make the native nachos since I assume they still have all the ingredients, I mean it’s pretty simple. The waitress stared blankly at me like I was asking for something foreign. I asked long she worked there and she responded a few months. But i would still imagine she would know about previous items on the menu since I’m sure I’m not the only one asking for them
She said we don’t have that and can’t make it! You would think at least someone knew what I was asking for that had worked there for a few years, but she didn’t ask anyone just recommended shit buffalo nachos, and I was no not the same i tried that junk already.
I have had the Native Nachos almost every time I came to Native for 5 years when I lived 2 blocks away.
Beer selection at this location blows, what a joke. No craft beer… so coors it was. Only 4 or five watery cheap beers on draft. Ugh! The Gilbert and the 60 one had a squared bar in the middle with mostly craft beer (and some junk that snuck in). I think they had around 16 on tap at least.
Only thing good the 1^st time was the drunk lady that bought me a shot because i was the only one listening to her problems. Free shot I’ll take it! Waitress not so good.
Second time, pretty late, maybe an hour and a half before they closed.
Waiter was ok. Got a Coors… sigh
Then I asked if I can get different sauces on my wings and he said just 2?!
Well you use to be able to get as many sauces on your wings that you wanted, they came out on individual little pizza like trays and you’d just have them all over your table, and it wasn’t a one day thing it was whatever you wanted whenever. Now I get 2 choices of flavors? LAME. He said he could bring out the sauce separate for you to try, and then I was thinking if I can have the sauce, why not just put it on 2 of my 6 wings???
Well anyways use to be my favorite restaurant (mostly the gilbert and 60) location. Good times, just drinking, enjoying the good wings and NACHOS. Tradition to go after thanksgiving and on Christmas or christmas eve and just get wasted with my brother and husband. Good times.
Now I have really no reason to go back to any location. Probably won’t unless someone else wants to go there, and I’ll sit in disappointment.
Native you are a disappointment in my life, corporate well I could say so many colorful things about you but I won’t.

Despite the number of Unilocalers stating this place has slow/​bad service, I decided to try it for myself. Silly me!
The bartender spent more time looking at liquor bottles and restocking than the seven people sitting at the bar. She did spend time talking to wait staff and some of her friends over at the service area. Couldn’t even get her attention to place a food order.
On the bright side, there was plenty of open parking space and the Coca-​Cola was cold.

I love their happy hour because I feel as though it’s one of the few times I’m not overcharged for wings. At 49 cents each on some days, you can easily enjoy a dozen or so for super cheap. Other happy hours include chicken strips, which is even better, because like I’ve said in previous reviews, I freaking hate bones.
Asian Garlic is the best. If you don’t at least get some of your wings in this flavor, you are doing it wrong and I feel bad for you.
You are also doing it wrong if you order anything other than wings. There’s really no such thing as bad pizza, but I don’t think anyone ever chooses this place specifically when they’re in the mood for it.
Also beware of expensive, flat beers. They draw you in with the cheap chicken, then bam! $ 6.50 for a 20 (22?) ounce Kiltlifter that looks and tastes like it was poured an hour ago. The beers aren’t on happy hour, but the weak cocktails are. The Long Island tastes just like they make at T.G.I.Chilibee’s, but is smaller and a bit more than other happy hours. I will still order drinks when I go (you’re actually required to for the discounted meal), but they didn’t have anything I could enjoy.
Oh heavens, this was a really long-​winded way to just say «This franchise is great for gouging yourself with 1,500 calories of cheap wings and washing it down with a Coors Light»

Man. this place used to be so good. Not just this location, but any Native New Yorker. It is a fact that when a restaurant starts adding pictures to the menu, it’s downhill.
Service was mediocre. But that’s not even the reason I was prompted to write this review.
I usually stick with beer, but this time I decided to go for the Blackberry Mojito. I should have known something was amiss when I asked the server if they muddled the mint or not and she looked at me like a deer in headlights.
It got worse.
She came back and dropped it off at the table and immediately I knew something was off. A taste… and then another… and then, «what in the *** is that?»
BASIL!!!
Yeah… turns out, the bartender was out of mint and decided I wouldn’t notice if he used basil instead.
Fool me once…

I like Native in general, and had never been to this location before. It’s huge, but even during the lunch rush service was prompt and the food was out quickly. Food quality was similar to all their other locations, very good.
Love the «suicide» wings here.