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A group of my foodie friends and I met up here in order to sort out the deets of our upcoming podcast. The dude who made our reservation made it for four instead of five, so it took us a little while to get a table. Not that big of a deal to me, especially since said dude bought a bottle of wine for the group to share.
At long last we were taken to our table. Our group nestled in to our cozy booth and perused the menu. I already knew there wasn't much for me to eat there, as I had checked their menu online. My cohorts ordered some appetizers: tater tots and deviled eggs. Both dishes looked good, and everyone seemed pleased.
The service began to get a little shotty at this point. It took a while to get waters to the table and there weren't any napkins or silverware at the table until we asked for some (after the appetizers were delivered). Two of my friends ordered appetizer salads/soups which didn't come until the entrees came. Salad friend ordered with no walnuts, he is allergic, but it came full o' nuts. Soup friend was presented soup and no spoon. Soup friend also ordered several items and was told that they were out (which I can understand, given that there was a Suns game that night), when plates were dropped at the table servers were VERY quick to disappear, leaving us to literally have to yell after them for the missing stuff/refills.
As for my meal, I ordered the Citrus Marinated Olives and the Chicory Salad. I let the server know of my vegan/gluten-freeness and he was helpful and accommodating. The others seemed divided on their meals. Lots of meat, that's all I can remember of what they had haha. Eventually, the manager came to the table to apologize for all of the little mishaps and said a round of drinks was on the house. Fine by me, I thoroughly enjoyed my Tito's gimlet, thank you! Then the executive Chef came out to apologize as well. It was a nice touch.
All in all, I might give them a second try, but with all of the great places out there, Blue Hound might want to step up their game.
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