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| - It's a new place so they are working out the kinks. I don't have an issue with that unless I'm paying top dollar for their service and food and not getting it. Which is what happened on our visit. Food is very expensive, I left hungry and unsatisfied. It was a very underwhelming dinner experience for our party of four. Pork chop was raw in the center, when we asked for it to be cooked a little more, the waitress's response was "Well, its a good piece of meat so it's ok to cook it less and eat it like this." Implying that I don't usually eat "good meat" and I'm
Not aware that you can eat raw pork if the quality is good. Not only is that a stupid answer, its a wrong answer. They cooked it a little more and it was good. But a pork chop is $26 and the side dishes are $10 extra. The steak is "market price" and on this night it was $35 with no side and it was so flavorless and bland. Tasted extremely greasy, something you would get at Waffle House or other lower end diner. When the owner asked how it was and we told her , her reply was "Well, most people aren't used to eating high quality, grass fed beef." Well, excuse me. Once again, implying that we don't normally eat good food and we are just not used to it.
We eat out constantly and have high end taste and we know good quality. It was quite insulting to be talked to like this. It's almost like they've come to the east valley to show us morons how to eat good food, except we already know good food, and this place has far to go to meet our expectations, especially for the money they are charging. I don't care if the beef is grass fed and gets hot stone massages every Thursday, it was bland, tasteless, unappetizing and I would not eat it again much less pay $35 for it. The appetizer dish of mozzarella is $11. You get a splat of luke warm mozzarella on a dish with some very lightly sprinkled peppers. No bread or crostini to put it on. When we asked for some bread, she brought it ten minutes later and charged us an additional $5 for it. So this cold, hard splat of mozzarella is now $16 dollars! The answer to them not serving it with bread is that "they are new and just working out the kinks", But they supposedly have a high end chef on the payroll. There shouldn't be any food pairing kinks.
Anyway . For the money this place is charging, they are missing the mark on many levels. When we left we all said we would never ever come back here. Not for the money they charge the food they serve or the arrogance they dish out. Domestic bottle beer was $3. Best reason to go there.
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