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| - About us: My husband (hubster) and I live in Scottsdale and go out to breakfast once every weekend. I try to pick a different place each time because I'm adventurous and we haven't yet found a place to become a regular favorite.
This review is for the: Morning Squeeze, Scottsdale Road location
Summary: Atmosphere lacking for me, but food good. A little spendy for what it is, but comparable prices for Old Town, so that's perfectly okay (total bill for 2 was $30and change, +tip = $37; a little much for standard breakfast fare for 2, but not bad for Old Scottsdale). Service was decent, too. Love the dog friendly patios. Cute to see a waitress carrying a tray with water glasses on one hand, and a dog-bowl with water in it in the other hand. :-)
The atmosphere: This is a little place on a corner on the North edge of Old Scottsdale. It's a sit-down breakfast/lunch restaurant. It is VERY noisy, with the exception of the North patio, which has doors to mitigate the sound of the restaurant but only has about 5 or 6 small (2 person) tables in it. It was full, so we couldn't sit there, but we were able to get a table outside on the West side, right along Scottsdale Road; better, but not ideal because the West side of the restaurant is open-air with a bar and seating flowing onto the patio - no walls to shut out the noise of the inside (and music a bit much, too).
On seating outside: While it's a cute, upbeat, trendy environment with nice looking booths inside, it was also way too NOISY. Seriously - like a night club - not how I like to start off my Sunday morning. I want to relax and enjoy my breakfast and Sunday morning, not jump into it screaming like a cold shower. Even outside, hubster and I had to shout across our little bar topper table to talk with one another. There's no way I would have made it through the meal indoors. Fortunately, it's now the end of October, so the weather is finally allowing outdoor seating to be possible.
Service: They have lots of nice, pretty, young waitresses whose service is just fine. Ours checked in with us two or three times during the meal and came to the table promptly to get us started with drinks (which was quick) and then take our order. The only wait was maybe 5ish minutes to get the bill when we were done. No problem. That's 4-5 touches on our table, which is perfectly fine for breakfast considering we never even finished our coffees. Speaking of which...
Food: Oy, terrible coffee. Bitter, super hot, and way, way too strong. So much that, for me, three sugars and the whole little cup of creamer and some ice cubes barely made a dent in taming it. But, if you like super strong, hot, bitter coffee, you're going to love it! Hubster and I never even drank enough of it to get refills, though.
I had an orange ricotta pancake (delish - although there's no ricotta on it so it must be in it) and biscuits and gravy. The gravy tastes like the canned variety, but I happen to like that flavor and thought it was good; husband was more "meh" on it. Hubster had bacon, eggs, gravy, chick fried steak; standard breakfast things. He said it was fine - pretty neutral on it. I loved that they garnished his plate with fresh fruit, which he doesn't like, but I do - works for me 'cuz I ate it! Overall, I'd say the food was okay. Also, the morning alcoholic beverage menu looked really good. If I had any inclination to drink booze in the morning, this would be an excellent choice.
End result: We probably won't go back unless we're in the area and see that there's seating open on the North side.
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