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| - Eww, do not waste your time at all going here. I bought the Groupon they had going...$40 for 2 appetizers, 2 entrees, a bottle of wine, and a dessert...what a deal! I just moved to the area and was super stoked to get all that for $40, at what looked like a really nice place. I checked out their Yelp page before buying the Groupon, and the pictures all looked amazing. That charcuterie plate, the yellowtail crudo, foie gras, whole sea bass! YUM. Well folks, those are all pictures of the old restaurant CUOCO PAZZO. These gave me a completely different idea of what I thought this meal would be like. False advertising, and, for my sake, super disappointing.
I ordered the beef stroganoff. It was watery, the pasta was soggy, and the chunks of steak in there had to be from an overcooked steak someone sent back a couple days ago. It was almost ashy in color, really tough, and legitimately looked and tasted really old. I picked out the mushrooms to eat, but lets just say it was hardly touched. My boyfriend ordered the bison burger. He said it was really overcooked, and nothing special. For him to not take leftovers for lunch the next day is pretty rare. We asked for our chocolate cake to go(and gave it to our neighbor). When the bill came, I had shown the waiter my Groupon, and he marked it as used. Now here is where my experience went from never coming back, to writing an extremely negative review(which I rarely ever do). I had asked the waiter if I can leave his tip on my debit card, since I wanted to tip him and I did not have cash. He said sure, I can charge you 1 penny and then you can leave the tip. We left a tip, and never looked back. Until I saw my card was charged $97.74 when I checked my bank account that following Sunday. When I was finally able to contact the restaurant(they aren't open Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday until dinner service) the owner called Merchant services and told me the full amount would be credited back to me within 3-15 days. Well just today I had to call up my bank and have this issue resolved for me...it has been almost a month!
Not only was the place empty on a Wednesday night, which is very strange for Old Town Scottsdale, the food was bad, and the service I received after the fact was even worse. I don't think I would come back to this restaurant even if the food was free. Man that sounds so harsh to say...I love writing fun, happy reviews. Unfortunately, fun and happy(or yummy)was far from what I received.
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