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| - It is a little-known fact that The Mustache was once a famous pilot, before he began his illustrious career of late-night reviewing of exotic locales on Yelp. It is a much more widely known fact that The Mustache completely made that story up to try and impress a lady once, and the tall tale held. Oh well.
Famous pilot or not, I really, really like this place. It is an actual fact that I love a good greasy spoon, and this counts. It's a mom-and-pop type of restaurant situated on airport property, the kind of restaurants that used to dot every town back when general aviation airfields were all over the place. They've been dying off quite a bit over the past thirty years, and though there's no sign that this could happen to the Chandler Airport anytime soon, I'd still urge you to get out and enjoy this place before some bureaucrat decides to take your fun away.
The restaurant itself is fairly small, a smattering of a dozen or so tables indoors, with a nice covered patio containing five or so tables outside. The patio is the place to be if you enjoy aviation, as you'll get a bird's eye view of operations on both runways. It can be thrilling to watch a plane drop out of the sky and land in front of you, then taxi on over to the restaurant and shut down so the pilot can hop out and sit at the table next to you. It almost feels like a relic of an earlier, simpler time.
The restaurant operates for breakfast and lunch only, and both will please you. The breakfast burritos are outrageously good, no matter which type you choose. Their hash brown mean business, and are unlike any other hash browns I've tried. I don't know how to quantify this, you are going to have to try them yourself and tell me what they do to make them so darned delicious. Lunches are the standard fare, including sandwiches of cold and hot variety, burgers (which default to a more well-done style than I prefer, so be sure you specify if you like medium-rare), fries, and salads. Their chicken caesar comes with chicken marinated in what I thought may have been lime (delicious!), with only a smattering of the dressing. If you're ordering the salad, you don't want the fattening dressing anyway, so this is probably a good thing, though I'd have enjoyed juuuust a bit more of the sauce.
The staff is lovely here. They're used to being bombarded by children and are very patient with the youngsters who "just want to see planes." It is not unusual to see a waitress greet a regular with a friendly hug, or for one to give a child a high-five as they depart. It's a very down-home feel here, comfy even for first-timers. If you're really nice to them (or if you just ask), they'll direct you to the second-floor observation deck after you've paid your bill. That's a nice place to watch some aircraft for a while if you're so inclined, and very few people seem to know it is up there.
One thing worth bearing in mind is the obvious...this is an airport, and a fairly busy one at that. There are lines painted on the ground in various places that indicate you're not to cross them on foot, and there are very valid reasons (i.e. spinning propellers) for that. Being mindful of that will get you far.
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