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| - My wife and I, along with two other couples, went to Roy's this evening. To say it was a disappointment would be an understatement. My wife ordered Roy's Trio. She substituted out the butterfish for a double portion of the ahi since she cannot eat soy products. I ordered the tasting menu.
Starting with my order, the amuse bouche of halibut was at best OK. The presentation was acceptable and the fish seemed to be reasonably fresh. The sauce though, overpowered the fish. The first course of wagyu beef carpaccio was poor. The meat was not tender and was sliced too thick. Basically, it looked like a dish you would get at an inexpensive catered wedding. I'm not sure how they accomplished this, but dinner went down hill from there. The proscuitto wrapped prawns were simply terrible. They were way overcooked and extremely salty. When I asked the waitress whether the shrimp should be very well done, she stated (to my utter disbelief) that it was necessary in order to get the proscuitto crispy (just silly). I'd bet that they prepped the dish and pre-cooked it without realizing that the shrimp would continue to cook after it was taken off the heat. The cherry on top of this disaster was the dessert. It was a molasses and macadamia nut tort with vanilla ice cream. The entire table thought it looked terrible and the taste lived up to its appearance. The crust was dry and the filling was nearly inedible. Even worse, I've had better ice cream from the generic section of the supermarket. Overall, it was basically a rubber chicken dinner.
My wife's dinner didn't fair much better. Her fresh greens salad wouldn't survive a rabbit's pallet. It was basically some mixed lettuce, a cherry tomato, some cuke's and one piece of carrot. I'm pretty sure a supermarket salad would be better. When they first brought out the Roy's Trio, the salmon was so dry and overcooked, it was obvious without even tasting it. How this made it out of the kitchen was beyond me. The rest of the fish was properly prepared but completely uninspiring.
Roy's describes itself as high end Hawaiian fusion dining. While there were a few hints of Hawaii, the 'high end' was nowhere to be found. There are many fine dining restaurants in the Phoenix metro and Roy's is not among them. Frankly, for the money, I can think of at least a dozen restaurants that stand head and shoulders above Roy's.
Perhaps we hit Roy's on a bad night, but I wouldn't return to give it a second chance.
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