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| - Not too impressed. I'll start with the good. The restaurant had a very good vibe. I had several conversations with interesting and intelligent people in the bar. However none of those were people that worked there. First it took precisely 8 minutes and 38 seconds for someone to ask me if I would like a drink. And that is when things took a turn for the worse. I said yes I would like a San Tan Brewery IPA, a Hop Shock. The waiter was down right rude in his response, we don't serve that. I was very surprised since I had been to the phoenix city grille's website prior to my visit and THE reason I decided to go there was because the phoenix city gille's website said that they served San Tan Brewery beer. When I informed the waiter of this he became down right rude to me. "Well you must have been looking at an old menu online" he barked. Wow, I was looking at what phoenix city grille had on their website, if that was wrong it was not my fault. I ordered another beer and moved on. At that point the rude waiter disappeared... as in I never saw him again. After 30 more minutes another waiter came by and asked if I would like to order food. Yes, I have been waiting to order your carne asada street tacos I responded. When the tacos came out the presentation was very good. Two tacos, a red and a green sauce and a cabbage/tomato garnish. The green sauce was very good, I believe it was a tomatillo based sauce which is not something I find everyday. The red sauce was very bland and lacked flavor. As for the tacos, I was hoping for a little more flavor in the the meat. It was dry and only medium flavorful. And then I hit a huge chunk of gristle and had to spite it out. At that moment the second waiter came back to ask if I wanted to order another beer. Having had enough of the crappy 4 peaks brewery offering for an IPA, I said yes I'll have a glass of your house Zinfandel. The waiter then went over to the bar, pulled out a bottle of 7 deadly Zins and poured the remaining half glass. He then shuffled and shuffled around and came out with a different Zinfandel label and poured the other half glass. The wine was fine but I've never seen a waiter pour half a glass of one label and half a glass of another label. Moving my focus back to the tacos, I then I hit it. A large shard of bone in my second taco. At that point, interesting conversations aside, I just wanted to get out of there. As I walked out I noticed that the restaurant that had been packed during happy hour was 3/4 empty for dinner service. The staff was too busy and too rude to serve me during happy hour and then at 8pm there was no one there wanting their crappy service.
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