Justin B.
Yelp
It's now been a week since my visit to Wolf & Company, and I'm still struggling to find a landing place for my rating.
On the one hand, the burger was pretty good. Although I was initially confused by my choices for order--three single, slider-style burgers, two patties on one burger, or one burger with three patties???--we landed on the two-patty system (not unlike the two-party system) and split that burger between the two of us. Tasty, a bit too salty, but a handsome choice for most sensible burger-loving adults. (I've been to this restaurant's sibling outlets--Gretel and Little Bad Wolf--but don't remember those other burgers well enough to compare the three.)
On the other hand, the Bucktown Pizza was a bit overloaded; its aim was spicy, but I'm not sure it ever really got there. There were too many toppings on this pie, so it didn't do a great job of bearing its own weight. We took half of it home, and when we did this pizza on the reheat, it didn't hold up very well, which sometimes happens with the thinner pizzas I try the second time around.
The cocktails were fine. The fries with that burger were tasty, but they were stumpy fellows, so those bent on eating "full-size" fries might feel the same level of disappointment I did when faced with the large pile of well-seasoned potatoes. The table we got was tucked into the back off the restaurant and killed off the vibe of, you know, eating with other people, since we could only see one table from our vantage at the restaurant as well as the din of traffic flowing south on Western Avenue through the window. I'm honestly shocked that this table was even an option for a group at the restaurant; there was nothing, and no one, to see from our table.
I could see myself returning to Wolf & Co. if it was close to home. As a destination, it's not something I could really recommend, but I have a feeling a couple friends who live close will invite me to join them for future meals. Now that I've been, I'll be able to manage expectations just a bit.