So I live near Cave Creek but have never been to the Buffalo Chip, but have been to many other Cave Creek restaurants. We have friends visit from Chandler, and they wanted to go to the Buffalo Chip, so we agreed.
First the place looks great. I was never there before the fire, but I imagine it looks better now. But the tables are just folding tables and the chairs folding chairs. Not the most comfortable. They need to invest in more permanent digs.
Now on to the food. Between all in the group we ordered many dishes. I ordered the Iceburg Wedge with Blue Cheese and a Fish Taco. The Wedge was $6 and the Fish Taco was $4. Honestly neither was all that good. The taco was quite small and just had a few pieces of fried fish cut into small pieces. The salad had some blue cheese, but it seemed like ranch dressing, and store bought certainly. Definitely not worth $6 in my opinion.
My wife had the pulled pork sandwich for $9. Was a normal sized store-bought hamburger bun (unheated) with pulled pork, along with a SMALL amount of baked beans. The baked beans were cold, and the container the beans came in was one of these small containers they usually use for sauce. Tiny.
One other had the catfish, which looked good, but the others weren't happy with their choices. Small portions and average at best. Prices were OK but portions small. We saw several people at other tables that had to order more food because the portions just didn't fill them.
All in all I wouldn't go back because there are many much better paces in Cave Creek.