Relish Burger Bistro is located in the impressive Phoenician Resort by the golf course. The parking is close and easy.
The menu does focus on a variety of gourmet burgers from vegetarian, fish, chicken, ribs and mostly 8 oz kobe style beef on house made buns. The average burger at the time of this review runs about $17.00. They also offer a large tequila bar and do make adult booze enhanced milk shakes to go with your burgers.
On my last visit we had absolutely delicious but over cooked burgers. Although the both burger were cooked medium well instead of the medium and medium rare we requested the burgers still had a delicious burger flavor and still were juicy. We also had not so great service so I thought it was a a fluke and my next visit would differ for the better. I thought I'd be adding a star or two to my updated review.
My visit did differ.
We were greeted promptly and soon were seated. I didn't notice at the time but the menu has changed slightly and the burgers cost slightly more than last time. Since I had a kobe style burger last time I thought I'd try a salmon burger this time ordering knife and fork style so I'd lose the bun and gain a tasty salad and get sweet potato waffle fries instead of tater tots.
Our platters arrive. There is no mention on the menu of crispy fried noodles for my platter and I thought they were very odd on top of a burger so I brushed them aside. I dug into the salmon burger and it had a really nice soy ginger crust but the inside was very salty with other flavors that over powered the salmon. I read that they serve high quality North Atlantic Salmon but with the way they seasoned and prepared the salmon tasted and also had a texture like grocery store low quality salmon. I missed that wonderful buttery texture and sweet flavor that very good salmon has. The salads were good. The sweet potato waffle fried were prepared better than last time. The wasabi mayo helped to mask the flavors in the burger.
My husband thought he ordered the delicious burger he had last time but it turned out to be a different burger with different flavors. This burger was cooked close to the medium rare he ask for but it lacked the juice and burger flavor the patty should have had so he was disappointed because you get all excited when you splurge for a $18.00 dollar burger and really think your going to get that perfect burger.
I don't know if the burgers get prepared different or they just had a new cook that maybe gave the burger a squish while cooking that might have released the juices. I do know that kobe style beef can be tricky to cook and only comes out well in a pan.
We were checked on and we told the waitress that everything was ok because overall everything was ok just not great like we were hoping for.
I had a Scottsdale preferred card and used to to get one meal free.
We got the bill and it only took out $9.00 so my husband brought that up with the server and a correction was made.
Great potential for that really awesome dream burger.
Maybe you will hit them when they do it.