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| - Living in Sunridge at MacDonald Ranch is pretty sweet, but with the addition of the Craft Kitchen at Eastern and Sunrdige Heights, the experience just got even better. What an amazing little slice of culinary heaven tucked away in the best kept secret in Henderson. We just finished our second visit after a nice mid-morning walk...gotta justify the bottomless mimosas (traditional, pomegranate and blood orange) somehow! The menu is truly amazing, with flavorful customization to traditional dishes, like the pulled turkey benny or completely unique dishes like their short rib hash, which left me licking the plate, the cutlery and anything the plate and cutlery touched...almost got me tossed, but I think they had seen the reaction before!
The restaurant its self is very charming, you will immediately forget that this funky-fresh, country-cool eatery is situated in a strip mall...they created this fun little outdoor eating area where seating is at a premium, that is separated from the rest of the world by a sort of make shift herb garden created from customizing old pallets...
The food is great and well it should be as the owners are very accomplished chefs on the Strip and this little venture, from what I understand is where they get free reign to express all their creativity, and wow does it show!
The staff for the most part is wonderful, especially a young go-getter named Caleb, who is definitely destined for great things! Jeffrey, who has helped us twice is also extremely helpful and accommodating, we sat inside today after our walk and my wife was a bit chilled, so asked to be moved outside. Jeffrey and Caleb made sure we were moved to warmer climes and well situated outside, but unfortunately, this seemed to rub the person in charge of the great outdoors the wrong way. I believe her name was Katy, hard to know, as she was determined to either ignore us completely or to get us to leave as quickly as possible...which is the only reason I am unable to give the Craft Kitchen a 5 star review at this time. I wasn't sure if she was upset because she had interlopers in her area whose tip would be going to another server, or if she was angry because one of her tables would be taken up by us for a few minutes...we were nearly done with our meal, Caleb moved our dishes to the outside when we reseated and reminded Katy that we needed a couple more mimosas. Maybe she didn't like being reminded of this from a younger member of the staff, but for whatever reason, she conveniently forgot and we were left waiting for about 10 minutes before I went back inside to see if I could just bring the drink order out myself and was told that it would be brought to me. Katy (again, I hope I'm getting her name correct) finally delivered our drinks and asked, "who was your server"? I mentioned that Jeffrey was helping us and she left. Half way through the second glass of our "bottomless mimosas" Jeffrey showed up and gave us our bill. Apparently Katy told him we were ready to leave...again, she couldn't wait to get us out of her station. Normally I get a bit prickly about something like that, but we still had to walk home and while one more mimosa would have made the mile home a bit more enjoyable, I might have wandered into traffic or stumbled into a random wall, so I guess I should thank her for making sure we go out of there before we could do too much damage to ourselves or the oncoming traffic!
Still it would have been a much nicer experience for us if she had recognized the fact that had she gotten us the drinks quickly, we would have finished more quickly instead of waiting for our drinks. Also, had she just "taken one for the team" and provided the exemplary service we received from the other members of the staff there might have been an effort put forth on our part to ensure she received a separate tip for herself. Instead, she made it quite clear that she really didn't have the comfort level of the guests at Craft Kitchen as her top priority; just those that she was sure would enrich her tip jar at the end of the day.
At any rate, the Craft Kitchen is easily one of the best places for breakfast/brunch/lunch in 89052, and is well worth the drive from any other zip code for that matter!
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