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| - My bestie treated me to Second Story for my birthday. We both agreed that we want more experiences as gifts. She found out about Second Story through Eater.com's 'Top 11 new places to try in Phoenix', (March 2016).
So out of a couple choices, I selected this place. We made reservations for 6:15 pm on Saturday. Good that we did, as there was a hostess outside. More for the later crowds and the unreserved. You climb a darkened, narrow staircase and turn to the right. A surprisingly cozy, lil speakeasy, whiskey bar and restaurant.
Waitresses are in lacy black tops and cute cocktail aprons with floral motif and pearls. Bar folk in button-down vests, ties, and nice slacks. Classy.
Our waitress was Jessica. She made great suggestions for appetizers to go with our drinks. It was National Bourbon month. We could try a flight of whiskeys. We opted for the handmade cocktails and sparkling water to sip and cleanse the palate. Gina had the French Revo. I had the Corpse Reviver. Our appetizers were the delicious beer bread made with porter stout and fresh butter with smoked salt. OMG! I could make French Toast with this stuff. Ladies at the next table saw how much we were enjoying the bread and the delectable crab cakes. They ordered a round for themselves.These were not crab cakes but more like crab hush puppy balls. Whatever the pastry was on the outside, it's French type the waitress said, it Melted.In. Your.Mouth. And left you to savor the fresh crab and such. It was served with a butter lettuce with roasted lemon foam dressing. It was like lemony sea foam. Again, we ate it with gusto.
On to our second set of cocktails and feeling great, the restaurant started to fill up quickly. Noise level wasn't too bad and we were enjoying the music in the background. My friend Gina had the salmon with vegetables. I think there was an avocado crema on her dish. The fish was delicious and fell apart with your fork. Another great recommendation by our waitress, I had the pan-seared duck (yummy) with forbidden dirty rice, parsnip puree, chive oil, glazed carrots. I had never had parsnips before. It was sooooo good. I loved the duck. We also ordered another round of that beer bread.
I think our total came to about $70 per person ( 2 apps, 2 meals, 2 breads, 4 cocktails) before tax and gratuity. It was a great birthday present!!! We rolled out of there, fat and happy. We also walked down the street to the Old Town Scottsdale shops, to walk off the buzz for a couple of hours.
Definitely coming back here again!
It's just north of Indian School on Scottsdale road, sw corner above G-Spot.
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