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| - Our family came to have dinner and visit with relatives during their layover at Chelsea's in Terminal 4 at Sky Harbor. It looked like a nice place to relax & visit without using up limited time driving to a restaurant.
The meals were EXCELLENT, especially for airport, and even worth the price! Taste, portions, temperature, presentation & variety, all fantastic!
Service was pretty good, except we were there toward the end of the evening, which felt like we were slightly secondary to the staff getting their closing activities done.
Little things like getting condiments out to the table right away or bussing glasses still being used... I get it, but when sweeping involves pushing chairs into yours then wet mopping the room STARTS in the walkway behind your chairs, it got a little ridiculous!
Somehow the overpowering smell of floor cleaner just negated what had been a wonderful culinary experience! Perfectly seared ahi, melt in your mouth burgers, layered pastrami, nice wine, craft beer... now a big cloud of Mr. Clean to run us out of there!
We had happily closed out our bill when asked and told we were welcome to stay and visit as long as we liked by our server. I had even called earlier for closing hours and was told they stay open until last flights.
Here's what could have happened BEFORE dragging chairs around to sweep or slopping wet mops around the ONLY table with a family visiting at it: Just say kindly that the staff doesn't want to interrupt your group, but we're going to begin cleaning floors at the other end and you may be more comfortable moving to other seating in the airport terminal.
How nice would that have been?!!
There are many aspects to a dining experience, and the meal was so good that we had already planned to dine at the restaurant sometime soon. Just have to wait to get the taste of Mr. Clean out of my mouth!
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