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| - I'm sorry. Yes, the food here is great. Yes, they have a great patio. Yes, they have good drinks. But everyyyy singleeee timeeee someone in my breakfast crew throws Orange Table in the hat, I have to check my natural reaction to groan out loud. I usually use that time to throw up a quick prayer that they actually meant LGO and got confused by all the orange names.
So why why whyyyyy, when it's so tasty and so cute, do I hate going here you ask? The service. The slow-as-molasses-on-a-glacier service.
Don't get me wrong, I understand how some things are just going to take longer if you are at a prime spot, in prime time. However Scottsdale's puzzling lack of caliber breakfast spots (you either get the taste or the look, not both) has created such an artificial buzz about this "hidden gem" that the problem is beyond the kitchen getting slammed once in awhile. Then, what does a place do that's fortunate enough to have the right things going for it in such a market bereft of quality brunch choices that it always has a wait do? Well in this case you apparently don't invest in more staff or training. Maybe that is why there is always a wait. I can feel my bitterness seeping into this review.
Do you know what reallllllly gets to me, is once you've waited ohhhhh appx 30 minutes on average to get a coffee (one time I had to ask 3 times, and that was the time my table was lucky enough to get their drink order taken in the first 10 minutes of sitting down)... you never get a refill; unless you flag someone down like a stage mom at a beauty pageant trying to get their child's attention back on their routine. Coffee refills are not complicated, especially when you need to keep hungry patrons patiently waiting 45 minutes plus for their food. Same goes on the bloody mary front... I confess I've ordered two at a time so I don't get that awkward drought in between drinks (maybe that is the common strategy). Then to top it off, on four separate occasions after waiting the length of Rip Van Winkle's nap for my food... it has come out wrong. ie. eggs scrambled v. over hard, sausage instead of bacon, no toast, the wrong hash etc. Sadly, two of those times I was so hungry I didn't even care and didn't want to wait... again. Actually, I would have had to first get my real server back to the table to let them know there was an issue, not the poor soul they set up to take the fall when they deliver the food. Too much effort for a hungry hungover person (see the description involved in getting a coffee refill above for the visual).
And I, like an idiot, come back here again... to wait in line and pay for this? Orange table and its hipster "were so trendy we don't need service" vibe is just too cool for me it seems.
Other than that, anything on the menu is great and they use high quality ingredients. If you have a dog, you will love the patio seating. I've seen the hostesses get whipped cream for the dogs to snack on while they wait, seems to be a hit.
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