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| - Perhaps it's because I've gotten better at cooking my own food. Perhaps it's because I've been to the Gordon Biersch in Tempe, and I had fond memories of it. Either way, I really didn't like the food I just had there.
SERVICE
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Attentive & prompt. Not maƮtre d' service, but not slophouse, either. Just good, old fashioned, "let me keep your glass full and make sure you don't want anything else" service.
BEER
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Reasonable, but if this place is a brewery they really should have more involvement with the beer. Pair beers to food. Have more than one beer that constantly gets put into recipes. (They really keep bangin on that 'marzen' beer in recipes -- why not be a little creative?). Hell -- maybe even have free mini beer tasters. But I digress.
FOOD
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I hope you didn't come here for the food, because it's pretty bland. -1 star for the food, big time. I ordered the crab & lobster cakes, and it was a mistake. Bland cakes, tiny dish of tartar sauce and large mound of (plain!) white rice on the plate? WTF! I ordered the triple chocolcate brownie for dessert, thinking that it was hard to screw that up, but (freeze dried?) brownie just doesn't cut it, folks. -1 star again (and a pile of disappointment) for screwing up the brownie.
PRICE
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Where this place is truly in a universe of its own is price. Those blandcakes I had? $25! $15 for meatloaf? Really!?? -1 star for snooty Scottsdale prices without the snooty Scottsdale food.
All in all, a sub-par experience at a champagne price. Skip it. You're not missing much.
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