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| - My wife and I love Zinc Bistro in Scottsdale and when we went this time our waiter told us we should try The Mission, one of their newer and more "happening" locales in Old Town. I managed to get us reservations (just barely) for the day after next, which was a Sunday night. If you don't have reservations, you can expect to wait quite a while for a table on the weekends. As we expected, it was packed. Every table was full, standing room only at the bar, etc. With our reservation though, we were seated right away, which was great. It's a decent size restaurant but it's not huge, so they really try to pack people in, meaning the tables are both smaller than you might like and much closer to each other than I prefer. Don't plan on having too intimate or private of a conversation here.
We ordered two drinks to start, a Primarita and a Smokehouse; both completely delicious and at $13 each, fairly decently sized. And surprisingly, I didn't feel like I got more ice than alcohol. We also ordered the tableside guacamole, which is guacamole freshly prepared at your table to your specifications. However, in the already cramped conditions, it was a mildly awkward experience. What made it even more awkward though was that we also ordered the Pork Shoulder Tacos, which the menu tells you is meant to be shared by two people. What the menu doesn't explicitly state is that what you get is a hunk of slow roasted pork shoulder brought to your teeny tiny table and you have to proceed to attempt to shred it yourself before you can actually prepare and eat said tacos. Doing that without knocking anything off of the table was a delicate task that I am fairly certain made my neighbors just as nervous as it made me as there were numerous close calls with the aforementioned tableside guacamole and our drinks, waters, salsa, etc. I am not a big fan of paying for food and having to prepare it myself before I can eat it. Overall everything was good, but it's not a place we'd rush back to.
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