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| - This should have been a showcase nite because it was restaurant week in Scottsdale. They should have really oyt their best foot forward, showing their best of the best....but that was not the case. Several of our friends ordered a drink. The bartender was basically doing nothing....but it took almost 15 minutes just to get a drink delivered to the table. Then we ordered....I opted to not have the restaurant week specials, but everyone else did. I ordered a veal chop. I'm a pretty darn good cook, by the way. The veal chops I made last week that I purchased from Costco were superior quality than the two chops that made up my order of veal chop. My chops I made at home (plus de Veau) were delicious and charred and and I am drooling thinking how good they were! Each chop at Ben and Jack's had a long tail at the end with bones on them. Weirdest thing not to have cut this part off. The meat was not aged well or it wasn't fresh. Sorry. It had a very strong taste. They served it with what they called Jus, but it looked like pure grease. No taste to it at all. Our friends had the medallions that they shared a bite with me. I was less than impressed. The chicken Parm was so paper thin, but it had lots of breading on it to make it look thicker. The salads were fine, but the desserts were, I am positive, brought in from an outside purveyor and were commercial grade.
Peter Luger trained???? I find that hard to believe. Peter Luger's steaks are outrageously delicious. If Peter Luger knew they fashioned this restaurant after Luger's, he would be turning over in his grave. I fear this will be another restaurant that will bite the dust like so many other mediocre attempts to open a fine restaurant.
It took us almost 2 hours to complete our dinner and this was a restaurant that was half full, or half empty however you want to say it. The server when he delivered my sizzling chop had it wrapped in a towel and as he brought the plate to the table, he dragged the towel along my husband's Chicken Parm!!! What a mess! I could go on and on, but now it's almost comical!
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