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| - R.C. worked well for this small family dinner celebration. We let them know about the celebration when we made the reservation.
On an early weeknight the place was busy as happy hour was wrapping up and what looked like dozens of business travelers on per diem were migrating to fill the dining area. It made for a touristy feel that we're all well experienced with here, but I still like to avoid.
Even though we came in the back door the greeter quickly came back to take care of us. A few minutes later we were shown to a table in the too brightly lit dining area, conveniently located right in the middle of all the per diem-ers. Not wanting to negatively impact Scottsdale tourism with our obnoxious and highly inappropriate at times selves, we asked to be sat at the nearby booth perfectly sized for us and sufficiently sound insulated by said booth. Greeter had to think about that one for a minute - or two - and we stood at our assigned table for quite a while while he disappeared somewhere to get permission. Don't know why the purpose of our dinner wasn't reflected at all in our original seating.
Our waiter was great, but was handling too many tables of large per diem-er parties. So after 15 minutes we're all waving our arms wildly to get his attention for that first critical cocktail. Service continued to be slow the rest of the evening, with our food all showing evidence of heat lamp exposure by the time we got it, but nothing too serious.
We started with the duck fajitas - sliced duck, shredded duck, some condiments I don't recall and some bite sized Wonder Bread tortillas. Perfect, juicy, first bite for an evening.
For entrees we tried the pork tenderloin with spaetzle, pork green chile stew and halibut. The waiter made sure to let us know the pork tenderloin would be cooked medium, which was great. Except it showed up medium-well, probably from sitting under heat lamp too long. The pork green chile stew was in dire need of flavor. Many more green chiles and some seasoning would have helped a lot. The halibut was amazing - perfectly cooked and seasoned.
Can I rant about tortillas, please? I mean, we are in an area teeming with people who are expert at making good tortillas. I have done my fair share of eating them too, and know I'm not the only one who appreciates a good tortilla. Wonder Bread pressed and cut into the shape of a tortilla does not a tortilla make. Why, oh why, does almost every restaurant around here treat the tortilla as an afterthought? That pork stew would never have come with a fork in the 85006, only a freshly made tortilla. Yet even with the bland stew, I could barely taste the tortilla I used to scoop it up. Local chefs - if you're going to serve southwestern fare, for goodness sake, do the tortilla some justice!....thank you for listening
We finished off with an amazing pecan pie with bourbon ice cream that was supposed to be mine but somehow was slowly pilfered when I wasn't looking. Or maybe when I was pilfering the almost equally amazing flourless chocolate cake.
To sum it up, the meal was a total success. R.C. didn't mind our loud, happy selves at all, and our waiter did a great job playing along with us. As the evening went on, the lights were dimmed to an appropriate level, and we ended up staying way too long enjoying the food and drinks. R.C. is a good choice in No. Scotts. for a small, casual, fun gathering.
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