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| - The food here was nothing to rave about, but the service was superb, and eating outside by the pool under the hanging lights on a warm Phoenix night was awesome.
Like I said, the food was just OK. I had a veggie foccacia sandwich with sweet potato fries. The sandwich was bland, and the sweet potato fries were slightly burnt. The waitress was really sweet and went in the back searching for sauces and things to make my food tastier and came out with a nice jalapeƱo aioli and some maple syrup for the sweet potato fries (try it, its great).
I ate with 6 others, and they ordered a variety of things off the menu. No one was particularly impressed with the food.
This was our second time here, and both times they were sold out of the duck tacos - the things everyone wanted to try the most. The waitress said they were probably going away for good sometime in the near future.
We had two yelp checkins here, and were offered 2 free desserts (1 free dessert with the purchase of 2 entrees x 2) - woot woot for yelp check-in deals. We had the bread pudding and the mocha toffee mouse. They were both OK - combining small bites of them created a nice hot/cold dessert experience.
What saved this place however was our waitress and the ambiance. Our waitress was just the sweetest girl, and genuinely wanted to take care of us, and she gets lots of bonus points.
While the ambiance inside was nothing special, outside it was semi magical. The warm t-shirt weather night, the hanging string lights floating above our table, the blue lit swimming pool, red lit jaccuzzi, and the large gas firepit/fireplace behind us all created a sort of mystical pseudo summer tropical vacation experience (yes, in Phoenix).
We may be staying at this hotel quite a bit, and while I'm not particularly excited about the food, I'll probably come back for the ambiance and the service.
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