Luckily, I found out about this place in a recent Food & Wine magazine because I would've missed out on some great food.
I have no idea why the reviews for this place weren't that great because I really enjoyed the food. I shared 4 of the miniburgers, sweet potato fries with garlic aioli, & a green tea to wash it down.
The mini burgers were absolutely AMAZING! The trio of sauteed mushrooms & carmelized onions in the beef miniburger helped make the burger explode with flavor. The turkey miniburger was topped with a pineapple & while I belong to a group that feels that pineapple should not be a topping for burgers, a bite of this helped change my way of thinking. The guacamole made the miniburger a little hard to consume because everything would slip out of the buns when I tried to take a bite, but who cares when it tasted that good!
The Moroccan lamb mini burger was to d-i-e for! I think Mary would be pleased to know that the death of her little lamb brings happiness to the taste buds of many that visit Stax. I ended my mini burger experience with the unsually delicious Buffalo miniburger. There was a little skepticism on my end because while flipping through channels one day, I stumbled upon the scene in Dances With Wolves when Kevin Costner takes a bite out of a chunk of Buffalo meat & I just couldn't get that image out of my head. I decided to shut my eyes &, like Nike, "just do it"! SO glad I did because I had a flavor explosion in my mouth. At this point I was pretty full but knowing that I wouldn't be in AZ for quite some time, I decided to embrace gluttony & keep eating.