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| - A restaurant with a massive identity crisis. Nimbus has no idea if it wants to be a micro brew or just a casual restaurant in a fairly high class shopping center. The space is too big and very under utilized. It doesn't feel like a microbrewery. Nearly every trace of the old tenant (Taberna) remains. There's just a new coat of paint on the wall, some oddly placed monkey posters and statues, and several undersized flat screen tv monitors spaced too far apart. There isn't much of bar scene, so I don't why I would come here to watch a game. While I'm on the decor, I also need to ask what's up with the wine cooler in the dining room? I must have spent half my meal steering in its direction wondering why it was there. They could have put another booth is that corner, doesn't that make more sense?
The patio is big and looked like a nice place to enjoy a meal or drink on a cool night. However, it's in the front of the restaurant and you have to walk through it to get to the hostess stand. It actually felt a little awkward trying to find my way in and out of Nimbus.
The food isn't bad, but it's also not very memorable. I had the monkey melt. A pretty standard patty melt on marbled rye with grilled onions and american cheese. Nothing I would ever dream about ordering again. What I would dream about eating again is the sweet fries I ordered on the side. Those may have been the best sweet potato fries I've ever had, but an awesome side dish is not going to bring me back to a restaurant. My fiancé had the chicken pesto sandwich. It was the definition of lackluster. Not bland, just not very tasty. It was also very soggy thanks to a lack of toasting the ciabatta roll it is served on.
The service was also not bad, but not great. Another feature of Nimbus's identity crisis is the way the servers are dressed. They're nearly unidentifiable. They were wearing ASU or UofA t-shirts and jeans or shorts. I don't have a problem with this (especially at an establishment that may be trying to sell itself as a sports bar), but until our waiter came to our table to ask for our drink order, we would have had no idea he was an employee. Perhaps he should have worn an apron or a name-tag or something. He also went pretty long stretches without checking up on us considering the restaurant was fairly empty.
So what is good? The beer. It's fairly good. I've had some of Nimbus's brews that other bars and restaurants in Arizona. If you're a pseudo-beer snob, and enjoy supporting local breweries (even if they're from out of Tucson) I recommend giving them a try.
Another big plus; Nimbus is on local dines (https://www.localdines.com/phoenix?ref=19485) with a $25 for $12.50 gift certificate which is applicable toward alcohol!
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