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| - I have been so excited for Tuck shop since I heard from my Phx peeps that it opened (prob like 2 years ago!), and was anxious to try it out when in town last weekend.
First of all, I love the location in a random not-yet-gentrified neighborhood. The space itself is really cool - they renovated an old house and put in a big community table surrounded by smaller tables. Off to one side is a little mid-century modern "living room" with hip furniture and some old timey toys and knick knacks (for instance, those things that are filled up with water and you push the button to force the little pieces of glitter or whatever's inside there up and try to fit it into some little point-scoring area....kind of like underwater pinball...not sure if you know what I'm talking about, but my grandma used to have a bunch of those things that we would play with).
The menu is small, and about half devoted to tapas, with the other half for entrees. For tapas, we had chorizo stuffed dates (I don't like dates), ropa viejas chili (loved it), mac & cheese (very good, but not great), and garlic bread (do not order this unless you are seriously into garlic. it comes with a whole thing of garlic cut in half and roasted on the side.....and that's it!). For the entrees, we split the chicken & waffles and the red beans & rice. I did not like the red beans, but others really did, so I leave that as a personal preference. The chicken & waffles were really good, though. The waffles are cheesy, so not sweet, and the chicken is fried in a spicy delicious batter.
The free dessert of a cookie dough bite is a cute touch at the end.
Best of all, I thought, were the cocktails. Ok, actually, I'm very pregnant and I didn't have a cocktail, but they did make me a 'citrus soda' from their house sweet & sour, and it was really delicious, and not too sweet. Others tried to the house made ginger ale, which was extremely ginger-y, as expected. Bonus points for a really good beer list at excellent prices ($4 kiltlifter every day, and $3 at happy hour!)
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