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| - First trip here during lunch time in late February. I actually live rather close to this restaurant, drove past hundreds of times and finally took the time to go try the food. I have heard from other people that have been here also having a good experience.
Inside the decor is bare wood and hardware-esq. The dining area was well maintained and the staff were always professional. One entire wall is glass allowing you to watch the east end of the runway at Falcon Field and the airplane parking for the pilot school near the restaurant. I had no idea just how busy that airport is during the day but there's always something to watch out the windows.
If you look at their menu online please note this is the dinner menu, the lunch menu has different stuff so you cannot rely on the online menu to always be accurate, just an FYI. The dinner menu is larger.
I got a steak (of course) salad bar and sides. In a restaurant I prefer to let the people who know what they're doing cook the steak so I opted to let them do it rather than do it myself on one of those big cooking stones at the table, although watching other customers cook theirs I may try it next time I just didn't want to risk ruining my own reason for coming there in the first place. It took them about 27 minutes to deliver my steak but I repeatedly told them I was in no hurry.
My steak was cooked textbook perfect to order, the sides were adequate and well seasoned. The salad bar was nice but don't expect to see something like Sweet Tomatoes for a salad bar here, its not like that. They also had taco fillings and shells at the salad bar if you wanted to make one of those in addition to a salad. All in all the salad bar was nice, also clean and well maintained. The sides I ordered were sauteed mushrooms and garlic mashed potatoes, both were adequate but I think I could have made better at home so I doubt I will re-order them again, but there are plenty of others to try. Again, the lunch menu has different sides from the dinner menu.
So my first visit made a favorable impression and since this restaurant is literally up the street from my home I will certainly go back, perhaps next time for dinner.
If you want a table with a view of the airport I'm not sure how to time your arrival or if you can reserve one by phone but it wouldn't hurt to call and ask but it would be a nice touch if you're into the airport traffic thing. 480-830-6100 is the number from their web site.
I don't give too many restaurants a 5-star rating so 4 stars is about as high as you get from me for a meal under sixty dollars a person. To sum up my first visit here: the food was cooked correctly, tasted great, the wait service was top-notch, the dining area was clean and well maintained. Parking is easy in a private lot, simple short walk to the front door, which is near all the handicap parking spots. I think people tend to walk to the wrong part of the building expecting to see the front door closer to Higley but it's actually facing the west.
With food and tip I spent $40 for lunch and probably wont need to eat again today!
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