Famous Daves in San Tan
After 3 visits and a broad sampling of what they have to offer, I feel I can review this place with objectivity.
It is expensive for what you actually get and the formula seems to weigh in favor of fats and sugars to keep you blindly returning for more.
Looking around the room while dining in one can see this hypothesis brought to bare on the wide girth of the patrons stumbling in.
They start you out with home made potato chips in a sweet BBQ sauce.
The lunch portions are quite small. For $8.29 my husband got a very small piece of chicken and a small scoop of mash potatoes with a small corn muffin.
Does anyone need all these carbs?
On another visit he had the double "portion" of meats ($9.59)
This came with a very small piece of chicken with a small hot link in a piece of bread, again the small side dish and muffin.
Clever sayings on the backs of the t-shirt uniforms reveal the sentiments of Famous Daves aptly.
One says " because you don't win friends with salad"
I suppose that anyone could choose some better side dishes but the problem with this is that the only way they know to make anything appeal to the palette is with butter salt or BBQ sauce. I had my side dishes sans butter and the lack of culinary skills at Famous Daves was supremely evident.
So if you are brave enough to taste the food here without its disguises ( Butter and or BBQ sauce) the awareness will dawn on you....not good food here...not good food at all.
True, it is a BBQ joint, but the quality is simply not there.
( butter, salt and BBQ sauce...the trilogy of culinary camouflage.)