Jim's Steakout – Elmwood Village

Jim's Steakout is where a lot of Buffalo nights end, and the chicken finger sub is the order. The one to know is the Jim's Bleu: chicken fingers with the house sub cheese and blue cheese, plus lettuce, tomato and onion, on a toasted Italian roll. Visit Buffalo's Brian Hayden describes the fingers coated in hot sauce, on a Costanzo's roll.

The quirk is the rivalry. Jim's says it started making chicken finger subs in the early 1980s, the same stretch John's Pizza & Subs in Tonawanda claims, and Buffalo Spree's chicken finger roundup sends readers here for the late-night version.

This Elmwood Avenue store is the one Jim's own site marks as its original location. It lists Thursday to Saturday, 10:30 am to 4 am, and Sunday to Wednesday, 10:30 am to 2 am. Walk-ins are taken until closing and phone orders until 15 minutes before; the Jim's Bleu is an in-store or phone order only, not online.

Sources: jimssteakout.com (Jim's Bleu description, in-store and phone only, social links) and its locations page ("Elmwood Village (Original Location)", address, phone, hours, ordering cut-offs), checked 2026-11-04; Visit Buffalo Niagara, Jim's Steakout – Elmwood (938 Elmwood Avenue, phone, website; checked 2026-11-04); Brian Hayden, "Did Buffalo Invent the Chicken Finger Sub?", Visit Buffalo Niagara, 2020-06-21, updated 2023-11-03 (Jim's claim, hot sauce, Costanzo's roll); Buffalo Spree, "WNY Chicken Fingers We Can't Stop Thinking About", 2023-01-13 (late-night chicken finger sub). Map pin from the US Census geocoder.