I was tremendously unimpressed tonight on our first visit to the thirsty lion at the Santan Village location, we've been to the Tempe marketplace location several times and had a great experience. this experience was entirely different, we asked for the check and to go boxes, it took 20 minutes until finally we asked a passerby how we pay her check and then we waited another five minutes for service show up. They didn't give us a receipt jacket but just left a receipt on the table. I asked the waitress if they offer the bill in a bill jacket and she said no they don't do that. I did notice on the way out another table did have a bill jacket. When we paid we had to physically hand a card over to the waitress. We left with two to go boxes and no bag and I dropped both of them on the floor. I asked the attendant at the front counter if there were any to go bags, she said yes and walk to the back and came back and without opening the bag for me as my hands were obviously full she handed me the bag and turned and proceeded to talk with one of the staff and yawned.
i'll never come back. we were delayed 30 minutes to take her to-year-old home and were thoroughly and completely unimpressed. I wasted seven dollars of a tip on that place.
I gave one star for the food, which was good. unfortunately food is not the only thing that makes a good experience.