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| - Taps is a neighborhood-friendly beer and wine bar. The 10-12 beers on tap are a great balanced selection - domestic, excellent Arizona micro's, and top notch imports. The wine list reads like the "Best Buy list under $20" in a wine magazine. Which is really not a bad thing. The food is - well, its bar food. The 2 standouts - "air-fried" New York style wings. They are cooked by a special high temperature high air velocity convection oven so no grease at all, quite lean and crispy. Second, the brewed beef and French dip sandwiches. Succulent, well spiced, tender melt in your mouth beef. The rest of the menu - just average at best. Avoid the Costco-burgers - grill cooked to a pasty grey tasteless waste of time. The atmosphere is casual by both the employees and customers- almost like the owners and managers are more about the idea of being bar owners and bar managers than being self aware about the business itself. The staff is friendly, like going to your neighbors for a backyard cookout, and the service is pretty much the same level. You get the idea that the waiters-staff have little or no professional restaurant experience or skills, but one feels bad about not letting it go because they are just so like your own neighbors. They do have entertainment, some pretty good, some not so good. A duet called Copper Skies plays all the late 60s and 70s folk-pop ballads - pretty good. A 3-boy teen-aged band played very very badly, like the Jonas brothers without any skills age 12-15. It was enough to drive us away from those great beer taps and out the door. Yet some of the customers loved them, just as if your neighbors 3 sons played for you at their backyard barbecue. So have some patience, converse with those next to you while you are waiting on the service, order a beer or two, enjoy some spicy wings, and relax.
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