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| - Put your feet up and enjoy a movie. That was the initial appeal for me to want to try this place out. The convenience of being able to combine having dinner there and watch a movie was even better. Especially since many times my husband and I don't have a lot of time to hit up dinner and then a movie because of a sitter or just the fact that we go to bed early these days.
After reading some reviews on Yelp and talking to a friend who went to iPic, we decided to try it out for our anniversary night out. First thing you need to do is sign up for a free membership to get a few dollar discount on the booking. If you go to the movies at the last minute, this may not be for you. I booked two gold tickets and movie time at noon on a Monday and about 30% of the seats were already reserved. You get to pick your seats, which is nice, though once we got there, it seemed most any seat was a good seat. Lots of space. I'm not sure why someone would buy a standard seat without the waiter service. For a non-member, it is $17.50. For a member, it is $14. If you get the gold service, you get a server, free popcorn, a blanket, pillow and reclining, soft chair for $17.50 if you are a member and $25 for a non-member. Bascially, you get a nice big chair, a server and comforts of home for an extra $7 over a regular movie seat at a regular movie theater. Oh, you also get free valet if you do gold service too.
OK, so we booked two gold seats and printed up the sheet and drove to Scottsdale Quarter. As we walked up the stairs to the theaters, we noticed there was a bar called "Salt" and a restaurant lounge area called "Tanzy." in between were the doors to the theaters. We didn't know exactly what to do first, as we arrived about 40 minutes prior to the movie. The gal at the hostess stand gave us a basic rundown of what we could do. Eat, drink, or walk around until about 15 mins prior to movie. We decided to have an appetizer at Tanzy. We sat at the bar and chit chatted with the bartender. I wanted to have a fruity, non-alcoholic drink and she came up with a fantastic one called the "El Corozon." It was created by their master bartender and had a mix of blood orange, pomegranate, other juices and she made it into a press with soda water. SUPER DELISH. Loved it. There is also a tequilla version of this in a martini glass with a salt rim. Not as good.
We ordered the fresh mozzarella and it was good.
After we ate, we went to find our seats at the theater. There wasn't much direction on where to go or how to get to our seats. When we approached the guy who takes your tickets, we handed him our printout from home. He told us we had to print up our tickets so we went to a kiosk and got the "real" tickets. As we returned to the ticket taker, no one was at the stand. We stood there and a busser walked past and asked if we needed help. We said we needed to go to our seats. He just said, "ok, you're down there." We started to walk in the direction he pointed at and the ticket taker reappeared. He asked to see our tickets and torn off part of them and told us to go to theater 6. As we walked into the theater, one of the servers was there to direct us to our seats. But, the ticket taker had torn off one of our tickets so the guy thought we had one seat, not two. We told him that the other side was torn off by the ticket taker. He said "Ok" and let us up to our seats.
As we made ourselves comfortable, our server came up and introduced himself and explained the concept. They only had one menu for each group/couple to share. I guess they were low on menus? Later, he came back and took our order. We got a chinese spring roll, angus bacon and cheese sliders and oreo cookie ice cream bars for dessert. My husband had a beer. Popcorn was passed out by someone else. No blanket or pillow yet. It was cool in there. As the movie started, our food came. It was a nice serving of food and on white glass plates. The spring roll was delish, but no sauce. I had to wait a while for our server to come back to ask for sauce to dip it in. The sliders were tasty. It was a bit strange to be eating in a semi-reclined position. I dripped food on my blouse a few times. The desserts were yummy. By the end of the movie, I was completely stuffed.
All in all, it was a fun first experience. Though, I was disappointed in the confusion for first timers. Also, no pillow or blanket. I wanted to really snuggle up and watch the movie. If I was going to see a movie that really needed my attention, not a fluffy piece like "No Strings Attached" I wouldn't choose a dine-in theater. Its also not cheap to go there, but I get the convenience and comfort aspect.
We will return again...maybe not order as much food and just lay back and enjoy our movie...
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