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| - I wish I could give this place two reviews. One for the coffee bar in the front and one for the restaurant. I'll start with the good stuff. The coffee is awesome. I think it's their espresso machine. It doesn't have that burnt espresso taste like Starbucks. They even made the hot chocolate a little cooler for my daughter who would have totally burned her tongue by drinking it right away otherwise, cause that's what kids do. They have a punch card system where you get one free if you buy so many. Be prepared to wait in line if you come in the morning.
Now for the restaurant. It seems like something is always broken or falling apart. The first time I came it was the chairs in the booths. The tables are always wobbly, sometimes with folded up paper towel underneath to help it level, but that is usually failing. One time we went in dead of summer for lunch and they had the air off and the lights down low like they were trying to keep it cool with the darkness. No one mentioned anything about it. Our server did not say anything like, "Sorry the air is broken," so it is hard to say if the air was broken or if they are trying to save money. You have to have the air on in the summer in Arizona.
The service is up in the air as to what you will get, but most of the time you have to wait a while to be acknowledged and once you do it is by someone trying very hard to be nice and work for that tip, but very clearly overworked. Plates and silverware have to be returned, sometimes multiply times because of being dirty. If the food is hot then it is good but that isn't always consistent. Very often the food comes out luke warm. I wish this place was better. It seems like a place that started out as a great, hipster, trendy, gastropub and then they ran out of money and have been trying to hold it together ever sense. I want to like this place but they just really need to invest a little in maintenance and employees. I really hope this place can turn around because I love to support local businesses like this. In the meantime you, at least, have my coffee money but I will not be returning to the restaurant.
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