We have a rather large group (#evfn) that meets on Friday nights at different places throughout the east valley and last night we hit Tilted Kilt.
The bad: Crappy Parking. Moving company next door takes up half the available parking with their trucks at night. I rounded the entire full parking lot before double parking beside said trucks.
The cacophony. It's just too loud. Visually loud with TV screen on every available surface and beer/ale/sports paraphernalia squashed between. And generally loud with all those hard surfaces bouncing sound around. Our group was set dead center of the place and we were practically screaming to the person directly across the table to be heard.
The good: Strongbow. My favorite drink is Strongbow and while it's not on the menu, when I mentioned it to the waitress she had the gumption to go find out if they had it. And they did.
Our waitress worked her barely covered tushy off and I didn't hear many complaints from our group. Sure, the orders took awhile, but we had one primary waitress for over 25 people and she never stopped moving. We'd been invited there by management and provided gratis nachos which took forever to get to us, but the actual dinner I ordered came within a respectable amount of time and was quite good.
So maybe the parking lot would be emptier mid-week. Maybe it wouldn't be so loud out on the patio. I'll probably go back, but only if my group goes or sometime other than a weekend night.