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| - We got here on a Saturday night at around 4:45pm and the restaurant was already packed, but we were able to be seated in about 5 minutes (party of 7, split into 2 adjacent tables). The interior definitely has a modern semi-club feel to it, and the restaurant itself is really cavernous and spread out.
The food was just okay, with some pretty good items on the menu, along with other things that aren't worthy of being ordered. The brisket (chadol) was fatty but not overly greasy and probably the best thing on the menu. The spicy baby octopus, pork jowl, and the vegetables round out the top four. All of the other beef items sort of tasted the same (beef tongue, rib meat, beef belly, hangar steak, etc.). They also have the real dipping/accompaniment sauces that are not given out but that you have to ask for, including garlic/pepper slices that you can add to the grill.
The biggest issue with the system was the quantity of food that is brought with each order. They allow 4 items total with each order per table (meat, side, soup, whatever), with each item entailing a pretty small amount of food. If we had known how long it would take to flag down a server to put in another order of food, receive said food, and then reorder more food, we would have just immediately ordered 4 new plates as soon as the previous order arrived (which is what we ended up doing once we realized how to speed things up). Two hours can go by pretty quick when you're spending a lot of time just waiting for food to arrive or to request more plates.
Another issue was the charging of adult prices to 7 year-old boys just because both of their heights barely exceeded the 50-inch mark of the ruler at the hostess station - in their eyes, once you reach the arbitrary height of 4 feet and 2 inches, your appetite is equivalent to that of a full-grown adult. So all you families with young kids who are preparing to eat here, get ready to pay adult prices if your children are taller than 4'2".
The meat quality is what you would expect from an AYCE restaurant, which means that it's borderline passable. So even though the food was subpar and the service kind of slow, we had fun while were there, and I'm just glad that more of these types of restaurants are finding their way to the Phoenix area.
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