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| - They have a big sign in front of the location near the Tempe commuter center advertising their great breakfast. They took my interest with that so I gave it a try. I had the impression that I was the first person to ever come in for breakfast! The bartender didn't know about breakfast and asked me to talk to the gentleman at the coffee bar. He fumbled around for a while looking for the breakfast menu, and first showed me a lunch menu which was a sloppy hand-written page covered in grease and grime. Then he finally found the breakfast menu, also a nasty little printed sheet with a lot of kitchen grime on it. I looked at the "menu" for as long as I could stand it, and ordered a skillet with coffee. The coffee arrived fairly quickly, and tasted like Maxwell House. The skillet arrived eventually, and by itself would be a two star item. The dining room is comfortable enough with really neat tables chairs and booths, but the atmosphere is ruined by the music which is a free Pandora stream playing good music punctuated by annoying, blaring commercials. Hey, restaurant owner: you can't afford to subscribe to a streaming radio station? This restaurant is in a location that enjoys foot traffic from downtown business and municipal employees, university students, and tourists. It looks like a good concept and should be executed much better. Revo Pizzabar is not seizing the opportunity and is not quite delivering what their signs promise. Overall, two stars for the food, zero for the coffee, and one star for the review. My recommendation is to pass, and the search continues for a downtown Tempe breakfast stop.
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