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| - After a long morning of riding dune buggies through the desert trails, we stopped off at Harold's Cave Creek Corral for a quick lunch before heading back to our rental house... at least the plan was to just have a quick lunch, but that soon changed.
As soon as we sat down we were greeted by a friendly waitress who immediately took our drink orders, everything seemed ok up to this point. The drinks came out fairly quickly and a few of the guys that had gotten there early had ordered appetizers for the whole table, which also came out fast.... but then another table was seated in our section.
Apparently the restaurant can hold about 200 people, but as soon as more than 20 are seated the whole place falls apart. We didn't see our waitress for another 30 minutes or so as she frantically ran around to all the tables at the other side of the restaurant. We eventually had to go up and ask another waitress to inform our waitress that we had every intention of eating lunch, but she was making it quite hard to sit there any longer. I guess the threat of a table of 10 guys leaving was enough for her to check on us again and take our food order.
The food came out in a decent amount of time, but I don't think everyone was happy with that they got. The meatball calzone was apparently delicious, my BBQ Beef Sandwich was decent, but my brother's steak sandwich was absolutely terrible. So with terrible service and semi-decent food, we decided to ask for our check before we even finished eating (as we weren't sure we'd ever see our waitress again).
By the time the check came, the local pink-shirt-top-hat-wearing-drunk had made his way into the restaurant and made his way over to our table. I can't complain about that as we called him over and he was harmless. He told us a terrible joke and laughed at us as we got up and made our way out of the restaurant.
The only reason I gave this place 2 stars is because my food was decent and the calzone was incredible. The service was horrendous when the place was empty so I can't imagine it when it's full... Hopefully they are better staffed during normal busy hours, but I still can't recommend this place. There are a bunch of other places in the area I'm sure you'd be better off eating at.
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