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| - My partner and I have dined at Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company a couple of times in the last year. First to clarify, we are not really drinkers, so our interest was really more in their food selections than their beer. Our interest was piqued after seeing a great TV piece on this place on the local show, Check Please! Arizona. First thoughts on AWBC, the place is obviously popular, but the parking lot is the size of a postage stamp!! It is difficult to get a parking space for the capacity of this restaurant. For both visits we had to wait a long time to be seated for food, 30 and 45 minutes. I think AWBC has a very weird set up... it has predominately exterior/outside tables and high top seating, their bar area and indoor seating arrangement is only about 1/3 what the outside seating is, so chances are you will be sitting outside. Now that may not be an issue November-March, but any other time that may just be an issue with the AZ heat....the first time there we were seated outside at a pub top in the direct sun and the misters were not on even though it was very hot... for our second visit we were seated at a wet table--yes, a wet table... wet from the misters.... we reluctantly sat down because that was all they said they had available after a long wait, so we had to sit at a wet table...not a little damp but frigging wet...we almost got up and left, but in the nick of time they turned off the misters and the table dried fairly quickly because of the heat thankfully. NOTE to management: Don't seat people at obviously wet tables, it's just gross and weird. I felt the music playing was a huge distraction, it was very loud and it is some type of Alt Metal-ish type music...very hard to hear your dinner companion over music and brimming full restaurant. Now for the food - my partner adores their Peanut Butter and Jalapeno Jelly Burger, he reports that it is super flavorful with a strange unexpected good twist from the peanut butter and jelly part, he got that burger at both visits and highly recommends it. I tried both their Apple and Brie Burger and the Mushroom and Beer Cheese Burger. I feel the overall in both cases the burgers could use a bit more seasoning, both of mine were very plainly seasoned burgers with not much flavor to the meat itself. On my mushroom and beer cheese burger, the beer cheese was just liquid pooled in the bottom of the basket, none on the burger-weird. The burgers are very messy you so will need lots of napkins. The highlight of our last visit was we both very much enjoyed their tasty onion rings, the ORs are battered very generously in a delicious slightly sweet waffle batter and the onions are super tender and good, not stringy, very good highly recommend. One suggestion is they could bring a slightly larger serving of their dipping sauce as the serving was very skimpy in comparison to the number of onion rings provided, only brought us a teeny tiny plastic cup of the Sriracha ketchup, which I thought had a weird medicinal aftertaste, but my partner really liked it. The ORs were very good with ranch dressing, which we had to ask for about halfway through them when the ketchup ran out. The chips they serve with the burgers are horrible, flavorless, overcooked, dry and burned, they do not taste good- avoid them at all costs. Overall, I give AWBC a low B- for their food, again cannot comment on the beer, but lots of people were drinking and not necessarily ordering the food. We saw lots of apps being served. There were a lot of people also quickly coming in and then leaving with 32 oz-ers Beer Bottles, so I assume either they didn't want to wait to get seated or they were just there to pick up the beer and go.... Either way good luck, unfortunately not sure we will be back.
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