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| - Went to Pepin's last night. The waitress was really nice. We saw the bad reviews on Yelp so just ordered a bunch of appetizers: snails, black bean croquettes, clams, garlic shrimp, and lamb (cold appetizer). They were all good, except the lamb was nothing special. However, the portions were extremely small and the prices not so much. 5 appetizers between two people, and I was still pretty hungry.
The bread was good and good for dipping in the sauces of the appetizers. The wine was pretty awful for a $30 bottle of Spanish wine.
The Flamenco is entertaining, though I've also been to another Spanish tapas place in Scottsdale called Papas Fritas, and their live Flamenco was much much better.
Pepin is an interesting place. I was pretty surprised at the state of the estasblishment, I guess I expected more at least based on the location. The inside is pretty basic and could use a little renovation, and the women's bathroom is a joke. You'd think you were in a total dive bar. There's only one working toilet, and the stall door has no lock and barely even closes.
But anyway, my conclusion:
Appetizers - good but too small
Price - too high (based on the portions)
Service - great
Flamenco - cool but a little ghetto
State of the establishment - a little ghetto
PS: Don't be fooled by the Living Social shennanigans. The voucher does not say you have to buy entrees. Our waitress started to say we had to order entrees, but when I told her it's not written that way and showed it to her, she said we could order what we wanted.
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