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| - I've been way to generous with my reviews and I've made up my mind not to give five stars unless everything was impeccable.
I REALLY LOVED The Arrogant Butcher.
I picked up a menu that was on a side table at my gym, of all places.
I've looked at it for a week before finally giving in and going. I had a lot of carbs that night, but it was worth it!
It's good when a restaurant takes you to another place, and AB did that for me. For a while, I forgot I was in Arizona and thought I was back in Spain with friends. The build your own appetizer concept is cool. Just like a sushi menu, you mark off what cheeses, charcuterie meats, cold veggies, raw bar items you want and they bring them out with sides of breads, spreads, and sauces. ALL SUBLIME! You can taste the freshness of the ingredients and their attention to quality. Hard to get good cured meats here and I'm already trying to plan my next outing to AB to get my plate of salumi and proscuitto on! We ordered those meats, grilled asparagus, grilled mushrooms, giant white shrimp, oysters, heavenly pretzel bites with provolone fondue, marcona almonds, and a type of sheep's milk cheese very similar to manchego. My date and I were in heaven!
Near the end we ended up making these little sandwiches by splitting the pretzel bite, spreading the fondue on one side, slice of cheese, cut up mushrooms and asparagus, and a pile of proscuitto or salumi...
........ I couldn't stop smiling and we enjoyed ourselves so much because the food was so good! Great conversation while nibbling on this stuff... Awesome night!
The only disappointment were the entreés... Maybe because we liked the appetizers so much we didn't feel the entreés? I had the bolognese and my date at the sweet potato tortellis... They were both good, but nothing to write home about.
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