So I saw this place over the weekend when going to the container store... My bestie and I decided to celebrate her cancer free diagnosis by trying a new restaurant-on a Wednesday. The parking was scarce but to be expected with that many little stores and restaurants in the area.
The interior confused me- country chic but with a weird sterile feel. With my restaurant background, I would recommend fun table centerpieces that make it feel more country comfort, warm. and hang more than grayscale pictures. You have a great restaurant and location. The menu was 2 sheets on a clipboard that was modpogdged of cool country papers- looked cheap and didn't match the decor; especially given the chic, clean feel of the leather drink menus on the tables. 2 concepts that werent translating to the same restaurant. The drink menu-shocker!!- had a really in depth bourbon list. Unfortunately with the sterile environment, I don't think they're playing on their strength and bringing interest to what makes them different and cool. *their drink menu also said live music Wednesday night-they lied.* But we will come a night that they have live music.
Now let's get to the food. Besides the weird paper/clipboard menu, the menu is very eclectic. While it may work in Chandler, I think it needs slight tweaking for North Scottsdale. We tried the bacon bleu chips... The BBQ seasoning on the chips was- disgusting! It had either way too much of it or it shouldn't have been there at all. My recommendation, BBQ sauce instead of overly salty/sweet fake seasoning. Great concept- poor execution. I had the Bacon and Blue burger with Dixie sticks and my roommate had the OMG burger with the Mack and cheese. They use quality meat so don't order over medium (I ordered medium well because I didn't know the quality- my mistake). Both burgers were delicious. The Dixie sticks were okay- pre cut shoe string fries (nothing impressive)... But here is the gem that they need to showcase- the Mack and Cheese! DELISH!!!! Omg, I will be back if for nothing else the Mack and Cheese was amazing. Deliciously creamy with a little kick. This place needs to put this on the main page or highlight it. dessert left us underwhelmed after the delicious mack! The peach cobbler needs a great bourbon sauce for the peaches - the crumble was great but the peaches were just okay.
Overall, service was great (we had Courtney) and they seem to have corrected that from the other reviews or that "problem server" wasn't working tonight. Food was okay (besides the Mack that was bomb.com). Atmosphere is where you kinda lost me. I hope they stop making excuses or defensive responses and just make the changes necessary to succeed (we need a fun, non-snobby place to hang). We will be back on a weekend and I will re-review.