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| - If you ever had 3 days of meetings in different cities each day, spending more time at the airports than the hotels, you will discover that you can end up eating non stop because food is available everywhere...at the meetings, at the hotel, in your luggage.... and you eat sometimes just to pass the time. At the end of the 3rd day, I had seen enough food to feed the LSU National champion football team. I could out fast Les or Bear on their survivor shows
Dinner time was approaching.....My business associate and I couldn't face a full course dinner for at least another 24 hours...but we knew we had to eat something so we wouldnt wake up at 3 am famished. I remembers reading about this place in Yelp that would be perfect for our situation....so remembering some favorable Yelp reviews in Phoenix I said to him:
"How about pastys for dinner?"
He went from a relaxed and carefree disposition to a stunned and shocked demeanor. He looked me like I was from another planet and his glance indicated doubt about my integrity. Then with a delayed but dry smile he spoke up and said....
"Aren't those things they wear at the....."
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! Not pasties......pastys." I retorted quickly before the people in the lobby heard the next nouns he was just about to utter. "Pasty's with a short vowel, not long. Have you ever had one.?"
Still thinking of the long vowel version, he hesitated a little and answered with a "No" veiled with a lot of doubt and concern.
"Good. That's where we're going." As I glanced over to him, I could see a sense of curiousity, dispair and expectation of upcoming chaos.
We arrived at 7:45 pm. It's dark everywhere. In the street, in the parking lot. We enter the restaurant and it's no brighter.
It is a very narrow and long restaurant with just enough room for seats at the bar nearly the length of the store and small side tables on the side. The interior decoration theme is obvious here. Build the biggest bar that would fit in this row house type of store, and accessorize the rest of the restaurant around the bar.
Sitting in a very dark restaurant, with Beatle music blaring away, this English pub type of place had a huge variety of pastys....from traditional steak and potatoes, to bangers and mash, to more contempory selections that include vegetarian, curries, and fish. They have a huge selection of international beers, many of which are of the UK......duhhh.
I wanted to eat "light" so I selected the Lovely Bit a Salmon which is
Atlantic Salmon in a white wine cream & dill sauce, sauted asparagus, spinach, roasted red potatoes, spinach and roasted tomatoes.
WHAT A GREAT DISH. Everything was layered carefully inside the pasty which was served cut in half. The salmon was cooked perfectly. The asparagus was not over cooked but had a crunch. All the flavors blended well together. I still wasn't hungry so I took one half of it back to the hotel....and had it for breakfast the following morning......which tasted just great.
My buddy had Spicy Asiago Chicken which was spicy chicken, roasted corn, black beans, asiago cheese, hatch chilies, and Mexican stewed tomatoes with a side of sour cream & salsa. That too was excellent.
If ever in Phoenix, this would be worth any drive to have lunch or dinner and a beer.
After dinner I asked him if he would return to eat here and he said he readily would. Then I detected a slight pause and a curl of a smile in the background.........maybe he was fantasizing buying a long vowel...
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