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| - Here ye here ye, this was my very first Arizona Restaurant Week experience, you can see my restaurant flower has been 'taken', or whatever other virgin-analogy you want to come up with. I was convinced I was going to miss the whole thing (due to some excessive partying in Vegas) but upon arriving on Memorial Day, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that it ended that day, and quickly called to make a reservation.
Upon arriving at P&P I finally got why the lady on the phone was so chill about me picking a time and moving it later: the place was completely empty. I mean, it was us and the cooks, not a soul in the room. Since the Yelp reviews about this place were so fantastic, I decided to stick to my guns and ask for the Restaurant Week Menu and a bottle of Pinot Noir from Oregon which was pretty tasty. Here is what I ate:
BONE MARROW - 5 stars
I've never had bone marrow so maybe I'm biased by raving about it so much. The texture was strange but super flavorful and I loved the options to pair it with picked onions, stewed cranberries or a sweet relish. Load all the flavors on toast and you got yourself a really interesting, tasty, full-bodied and complex appetizer. A great great start to a 3 course meal.
GNOCCI SALAD - 5 Star
I couldn't really identify all the individual components in this dish but they all meshed into one fantastic plate of food. The mushrooms were well cooked, the sauce at the bottom was creamy, sweet and salty, the gnocci and onions were tender and packed with flavor and the leafy greens at the top off-set the flavor in the sauce for a full balanced thing. It could've worked as a salad dish (instead of an appetizer) or even as a small main entree. Not super easy to share but why would you? Its too good to give up.
CESAR SALAD- 1 stars
The salad category of this 3 course menu was definitely lacking. I wish I would've tried the soup instead. The Cesar Salad was covered with crumbs instead of croutons, the lettuce was soggy and drowning in the dressing AND the dressing itself (the only thing that requires work in this salad) was like a blast of anchovies. Too many anchovies. That's all I could taste, it felt like apple-bobbing in an ocean. Yuk. We tried a bite each and set it aside. It is now rotting in a box in my fridge.
DUMPTRUCK SALAD- 2 stars
Really lame and inventive, the salad was essentially lettuce and slaw with carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes and 1 small piece of (what I think of) was beet hidden in the corner. The salad seemed wet enough to hit the presence of a dressing, but it had no flavor whatsoever. I took it home (didn't want to fill up on something not tasty) and struggled to eat it later. Womp Womp Womp
ROASTED DUCK- 5 stars
One of the best duck dishes I have ever had, not that I eat duck very often. It was strange how I couldn't pick out a single item/ingredient on the plate (except the duck, I think I noticed that one) but they all worked together in a weird yet tasty combo. It seems the roasted duck was sitting on a bed of YAM (yes Yam) risotto-ish with a blueberry compote. It was sweet and salty and had lots of other flavors I couldn't describe. The duck was incredibly tender and fell off the bone. Despite being incredibly full, I licked (not literally, I have some table manners) clean, it was amazing.
PORK PORCHETTE- 3 stars
The pork itself was 50% fat but the nonfat parks were tender and nicely cooked. The pork itself didn't have any seasoning or added flavor, so it was kinda mediocre. The medallion was sitting in a ginormous mount of (what I then discovered to be) potato salad. It was mostly potatoes, green onions and some coleslaw (I think). The whole thing was wrapped up in a sauce composed of horse radish and spicy mayo, two things I really really dislike. Unfortunately the menu wasn't super descriptive on this so I found myself eating the pork and not being able to take more than one bite of this nasty potato salad. That also went to waste. Boo.
Besides the food, our server was really awesome. Granted she had no other tables to serve, but she was still super nice to us and really easy to chat with. The place itself has upper-level food but the ambiance is very low-key, casual and cool to hang out in. If I were to come back, I'd be more careful with my menu picks, as it seems that a lot of its food (especially salads!) are hit or miss (or just miss). I'm glad I got to try it and would return only for the duck and maybe the gnocci salad.. everything else needs a revamp.
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