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| - Went for dinner between Christmas and New Year. The place was packed, and everything was flowing efficiently. Noise wasn't bad. Waiter and sommelier were professionals.
Located in the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess grounds: Nice bar...you can eat there at Happy Hour. But, the main show is the dining room, where the waiters and sommelier perform expertly.
Get ready for the menu...lots of choices; and I recommend that you listen to the waiter's explanations (user assistance for the menu). It's key to your ability to order well.
What I came away with: the steaks are sublime, and so are the accouterments (mac & cheese (may have been a special item on our night), salt-baked potato with a huge array of traditional fixings, creamed spinach with smoked onion, sunchoke gratin with goat cheese sauce, and so on).
We had the 14 oz New York Strip...cut it in half ourselves, and that was plenty of steak for us. Very good steak by any standard.
But, even though the steak was sumptuous, the best part of the meal was the dessert (remember, "life is uncertain, EAT dessert!" ... Ernestine Ulmer). We had the mascarpone cheesecake. This is a deconstructed cheesecake served with strawberries, raspberries, and pistachios. Short of Bavarian cheesecake from Munich, very nice!
Bon appetit.
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