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| - So I have driven by this place for years, but went yesterday for a friend's birthday celebration. Apparently, it used to be a school house and a Mormon church in the past as its on the register of historic places and there are historic photos from Arizona's past everywhere. You dine on the second floor, so there's a large staircase you climb to get to service. There's also a "salad room" which is a salad bar kept in its own separate room. It's not that much bigger than the salad bar at a Sizzler, for example, but in its own room seems more of a bragging point.
It's a little problematic when there's a lot of people waiting to be served. For a while, we had to wait on the actual staircase, then once we got up the entrance to the salad room is very narrow so we constantly had to move out of the way to let people in. Then people would ask me to take pictures for them - so that was a bit annoying.
I will say the salad room does have an interesting selection, various kinds of soup, including a delicious chili and chicken dumpling soup. They have at least 4 - 6 kinds of pasta salad. But then some things there are odd, like they have marinara sauce and meatballs, but no noodles. The actual salad bar toppings are different than I was thinking. They have red onions, but no shaved radishes or carrots for example. I will say the meatballs are great though. So is their cole slaw.
I ordered a chicken fried steak with country gravy, mashed potatoes for dinner. They didnt have a choice of vegetable, default was carrot and they were good, maybe oversteamed a bit for my taste. the steak was great though, gravy wasnt too heavy or rich and potatoes were excellent.
Worth checking out at least once for curiosity's sake, but more of a one-stop visit sort of place IMO.
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