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| - Was excited to try this place since I saw from their website that it had tons of sports memorobilia, and that the owner was from Chicago (where we are from). And, it was within walking distance too.
Walked over there for dinner - it was, of course, ridiculously crowded. Problem #1 - the hostess was completely clueless and overwhelmed. We asked how long the wait would be, she said she was unsure. We asked if we could put our name in, she again said she didn't know. In the meantime, they're calling other parties names for seating, so we ask again. The hostess gets a confused look on her face and ignores us. So.... we just sat ourselves in the bar dining area.
Fifteen minutes later, a server decides to come over and ask us if we'd been helped. She takes our drink order. Two other servers come by and ask if we would like to order drinks, and we tell them we'd already had our drink order taken. Throughout the course of our meal, I think four servers served us. No clue who our actual server was.
I think this was in part because there was an ASU sports group (head coach?) in the restaurant sitting a few tables over. It was amusing to watch the cheeseball of an owner spend the whole evening name-dropping and schmoozing with them. Too bad it was at the expense of the other customers.
The food we ordered was actually good. Kind of surprised that the burgers didn't come with fries, especially for over $10. After we were done eating, it literally took almost a half hour for us to get our bill. One of our four servers actually caught on and brought a bill and apologized for the sketchy service, but assumed we understood since the table behind us was "more important. It is the new ASU head coach, you know."
We admired the memorobila collection as we walked out, listened to the owner do some more name-dropping about how he knew Bud Selig in the lobby, and left. Despite the good food and impressive sports collection, we probably won't be back. Too bad - was hoping for better.
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