Arby's Buffalo Chicken Slider

About the Buffalo Chicken Slider

Arby's Buffalo Chicken Slider costs $2.99 on our Austin, TX price list and carries 240 cal, making it the only slider with real heat on the Value Menu. One crispy chicken tender gets dipped in spicy buffalo sauce, topped with ranch and tucked into a slider bun. Arby's pitches it as the way to step things up a little, and that is exactly the size of the experience: three or four bites of heat, cooled down by a stripe of ranch.

The flavor follows the classic wing formula. Buffalo sauce brings vinegar tang and cayenne warmth, the breaded tender adds crunch that softens slightly as it soaks up the sauce, and the ranch smooths the edges so the heat never builds past a pleasant tingle. The bun stays plain and soft, which lets the sauce do all the talking.

The Buffalo Chicken Slider price matches the other sliders on the Arby's Value Menu, so you can mix and match without doing math. Buffalo Chicken Slider calories run a little higher than the ham or roast beef sliders because of the fried tender and the creamy ranch. The slider carries 10 grams of protein, so it works better as a sidekick than as a full lunch on its own.

That sidekick role is where it shines. Add one to a roast beef sandwich order and you get a hit of spice between bites of beef. Two of them with a small fry make a cheap lunch for someone who wants chicken with attitude. Office snackers and late night drive thru visitors both get plenty out of a single slider when a whole sandwich feels like too much.

Compared with the full Buffalo Chicken Sandwich, the slider is a sampler. Try it first, and if the sauce wins you over, the Buffalo Chicken Sandwich gives you the same flavor in a bigger format. Note that the $7.99 Meat & 3 Box lists Buffalo Chicken among its sandwich choices, which pairs the buffalo flavor with fries, mozzarella sticks, a cobbler roll and a drink.

For a pairing, the cool sweetness of a Vanilla Shake calms the buffalo heat, and a side of Mozzarella Sticks turns two sliders into a proper snack spread.