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| - I love the location and the pub style interior. The place is central to a lot of other stuff downtown, and makes a great stop on a night of bar hopping. Also love the bench seats where you can dine and drink while spectating on the passers-by outside.
I bookmarked the "hot & new" Kettle Black recently so after picking me up at Sky Harbor upon my 9pm return from an east coast trip, my wife promptly took me there on the way home. En route, I called to determine if their kitchen was open late and to my relief (!!!!) they said I was good to go. Really glad we decided to swing by for the evening.
The "Rueban" and truffle fries were delicious. This is one of the better reubens I've had in a while, not that I eat that many of them. If you like reubens though, you'll really like this one. It's a great choice on the menu. The chips....er, truffle fries...were also really good, and ample. Speaking of chips...er...fries :), love that you can get them done any one of 6 ways. Overall, they have a nice dinner menu with a decent range of items to select from in the starters & salad arena, sammy/burger/wrap category, a few entrees, and an "across the pond" selection of a few British/Irish items including a couple of pasty choices.
I like the menu. There's lots here I would eat and it's perfectly fine that it's not 100% pure traditional British / Irish food. I am totally down with the pub styling combined with the ability to get good American OR food from "across the pond".
I had a couple of draft brews that were cold and hit the spot as well and subsequently went back for a second visit to meet a buddy for happy hour. Great beer selection.
Service was mediocre on my Sunday night dinner visit. Bartender on my mid-week happy hour visit however was awesome and super friendly.
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