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| - Saturday night, no reservation, my choice was to wait 45 minutes for a table or take a table in the bar. I opted for the bar. I should have waited or went somewhere else.
I had eaten at Roy's in Philadelphia, which was an awesome experience. I expected that same in Scottsdale. Didn't happen.
I started out with my favorite drink, an Original Hawaiian Martini. They are not cheap with the alcohol in the drink, it's very potent. For dinner, I opted for choices on the Prix Fix menu. My starter was a Hawaiian Crunch Winter roll. It was great, made with shrimp tempura and avocado. For my entree, I selected the Panang-style tiger shrimp with vegetable coconut curry and jasmine rice. Very good combination of flavors, but could have been served a little warmer. Dessert was the always awesome "Roy's Melting Hot Chocolate Souffle". This dessert is always to die for. It's the best dessert I have ever had anywhere!!
Other than the slightly cold entree, the thing that amazed me about this restaurant was the fact that the staff didn't intercede when a nearby customer managed to annoy me all evening long. This guy was in the restaurant bar, supposedly waiting for his brother. Well, I was there for over an hour and the brother never showed up. Go figure. But, in the meantime, this guy managed to annoy me, tell me strange stories, sit at my table (until I asked him to leave), go back to this table, remove papers from his bag, bring them back to my table and spread them out, (until I asked him to leave again), used my cell phone to call his brother, mother, sister, god knows who else. But at least while he was on my cell phone, he wasn't bothering me. He even begged me for a ride and helped himself to some of my food. You get the picture. I can not believe that the staff allowed this to happen. It's outrageous. Other customers noticed, I guess I should have demanded to speak to a manager to have situation resolved, but I didn't want to make a scene. I couldn't believe it was happening or that is was allowed to happen!!! I even had to sneak out a side door when this nut wasn't looking, so he wouldn't follow me. Completely nuts. I think a restaurant of this caliber has an obligation to protect it's customers.
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