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I was treated by my fiancee to the Brick Oven Dinner to celebrate my birthday. The location is great. Close enough to the freeway to make it an easy trip from downtown Phoenix, but definitely in the country.
Blink and you might miss the sign to the farm, but follow the track to the very end and you will find many choices. Quiessence is one of the choices (on the left)
The table for the Brick Oven Dinner is very cute. Set apart from the rest of the tables under a canopy and of course the oven, with heaters on either side, which we needed later on. You really feel like a VIP sitting there.
Our server was very knowledgeable of the menu, but at times a little robotic. Another server who would pop by from time to time was a little more authentic. She engaged in conversation with us and added more logs to the fire where needed.
The meal got off to a bit of a rocky start when she got my drink wrong. I ordered a Gibson, she brought a Gimlet. No big deal, she'll switch it out. But then she comes back and says she doesn't have any cocktail onions, so I settle for a regular martini instead.
The premise of the Brick Oven menu is that it's Chef's Choice. He'll work around your allergies, restrictions and preferences to create a customized menu just for you. Sounds great! One vegetarian, one meat eater, no allergies please!
I realized while researching the writing of this review that what I received was almost exactly the same as Yelper Dave G. received. So I will defer to his review for most of the descriptions (plus photos for every course).
http://www.yelp.com/biz/quiessence-restaurant-phoenix?hrid=FhTlYlSYw_vQPUWBHO0tnA
Here's what we got -
Amuse Bouche - little shooter of chilled apple soup. mine had an oyster, her's didn't.
1. Charcuterie & Cheese. Nicely separated with the meat on my side and the cheese on hers. This course took FOREVER to come out. We would have been there for 8 hours if the pacing for each subsequent course had been the same as this one
2. Parsnip Soup - mine had bacon, her's didn't
3. Beet Salad & Seasonal Vegetables
4. I received the Wagyu Capaccio. This was my favourite dish of the night. She received the himachi crudo minus the himachi. The server said this dish was her favourite, but she had never seen it without the fish. Looked a little sad
5. Potato Gnocchi. Mine came with hen, her's didn't. Light and excellent. Highly recommend
6. For the entree I received chicken scallopini. I was a little disappointed with this course. Reading Rob's review (which had been identical up until this point) this was a letdown. She got a plate of vegetables.
7 & 8 - Not sure if they were getting tired of us, or if they wanted to go home, but courses 7 and 8 came at the same time. Panna Cotta with a blackberry soup; apple marscapone cannoli (excellent!) and dulce de leche bread pudding (very good)
We ordered coffees, one regular and one decaf and they were both cold. As we were literally the last people in the joint, we didn't ask for a replacement, plus she had already dropped the check right after the desserts, so the message was clear.
So, overall a 4-star experience. For the most part excellent food although I felt they took some lazy short cuts with the vegetarian options and I really don't know why the charcuterie board took close to an hour to arrive! Service was mostly good, although I felt rushed at the end which shouldn't be the case when you are paying $120 per head plus drinks.
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