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| - My husband works downtown so we decided to meet here for an impromptu date night. First off, I love that downtown Phoenix is become a bit more urban and developed as far as the night life and culinary scene goes. We were there on a Thursday around 7ish and were told the wait for the patio was about 30 minutes. I liked that they took our cell phone # and would text us instead of carrying around a beeper from the 80's. We found a single seat around the crowded yet pleasant outdoor bar. The crowd was very diverse ranging from the plentiful down town ASU students to {on the younger more good looking} middle aged couples such as ourselves to a handful of good looking, distinguished business men.
My first impression however was to be completely and almost ridiculously ignored by a young {blonde} female bartender whom I can only assume was at the tail end of a very long, very bad day. She walked by us scowling several times with a sideways glance and perceptibly spiteful, served three different groups of people who had arrived there after us. After about 15 minutes (it wasn't that busy) a very nice young man took our order. He took the time to ask me a few questions about my taste preferences in wine and quickly poured me a sample of chardonnay which I loved. He poured a beer for my husband and even asked me to "say when" as he poured my wine.
We were seated at a small patio table under strung lights on a faux grass lawn. Our server, another very pleasant and well informed young man immediately greeted us and ran over the fairly unimpressive menu. He "highly recommended the house made guacamole" and so we ordered it. It was good, but nothing to write home about and extremely over salted, and I love salt.
I ordered the salmon which I am always apprehensive to do because most venues overcook it to death and my husband ordered some sort of burger. Our waiter was more than pleasant when I asked to substitute the also highly recommended soba noodles with seasonal grilled veggies.
Our order came out in a near fashionable time while we enjoyed quizzing each other with the Trivial Pursuit deck of cards that were set on the table. Our drinks were refilled in perfect timing. My salmon was cooked almost perfectly, no complaints except it was just a tad overcooked and lacking any flavor other than a hint of lemon and a bit too much oil. The grilled veggies, the same, good but too oily and no flavor. My husband said the burger was "good".
Over all, nice atmosphere, decent food at a decent price. Good place for happy hour if you don't get the cranky blonde bartender and might be more fun with a small group of friends if your not crunched for time. Will optimistically try this place again.
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