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| - Quick Summary: RUN! RUN FAR, FAR AWAY! Worst restaurant in Ahwatukee. This place is SO BAD that they have table talkers bribing customers with a free dessert or $1 beer in exchange for a good Yelp review!
Chef Irvine, Chef Ramsey, please salvage the good name of Ahwatukee! I haven't had a burger THIS bad since my childhood when my father would gleefully ignite the kettle grill with half a bottle of starter fluid & produce burgers that looked exactly like the charcoal briquets upon which they were cooked! I ordered a "medium" bleu cheese & bacon burger that was a quarter inch thick, had a sad, anemic tomato slice and cold fries. The single star is for the cheerful service. I feel sorry for the wait staff who has to serve this crap. I would not have gone to this bar, which is all it is, if not for the fact that my favorite Meetup group was gathering there for Happy Hour. Thank heavens for all the good company. We did not go unannounced, either. And we didn't all order our food at the same time. The menu touts the burger meat grind as something truly special: Special if you like preformed frozen thin patties that are cooked within an inch of their lives! To their credit, there actually was some bleu cheese, the bacon was crisp, the sautéed onions properly cooked and the bun was soft, fresh & nicely toasted. So, after removing the burger patty, the tomato & the limp, insipid pickles & lettuce I was left with bruschetta. Complained politely to the the waitress who seemed genuinely surprised stating that they are "known" for their burgers. But no offer of another menu item or a refund. I could have had a better burger at the nearby Carl's Jr., and I am not a fast food fan! And I'm NOT kidding when I say that they actually have cards on the tables that say if you give them a good Yelp review, you'll get a free dessert or $1 alcoholic drink! REALLY????? I was at the very least expecting basic bar food, I would have had better from the freezer & the microwave. My dinner companion tried the nachos; equally disgusting! Vile canned nacho cheese sauce & ground beef that was so overcooked that it looked like black nuggets of grease! Thank heavens there's an Urgent Care less than a quarter of a mile away! Ironically, the BEST restaurant in Ahwatukee is directly across the street!
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