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| - I am dumbfounded by the high ratings. We were in town from California to celebrate family members' 70th anniversary. Yep, 70th! We wanted to make it really special. Moreover, there is nothing fancy in Maricopa.
The service: Really good. Super friendly staff.
The food: BAD! We ordered three ribeye specials and rack of lamb. The elderly couple ordered their ribeyes well done. The other medium rare. As for my lamb, I wanted medium rare. To start, they gave us a sample of filet mignon and hot towels. The bread basket came with regular artisan, pepperoni, and bacon corn bread in a mini cast iron. STALE! The pepperoni bread fell apart and bit gritty. The corn bread was a bit undercooked and soggy; we used the spoon to eat it. The pesto was good with the regular bread.
We also ordered a shrimp and seafood cocktail. The shrimps were big and decent. The cocktail sauce was good, but there was very little crab with a lot of baby purple lettuce buried at the bottom of the martini glass. The special also included blue cheese wedge. The assault of blue cheese! Luckily, they gave us raspberry sorbet to clean the palate.
"Creamy" spinach and corn came in separate mini oval cast-iron cocottes. Cute! The "creamy" part is more watery with undercooked cheese on top. The spinach was bland! We thought perhaps the main course will redeem this bad experience so far.
The main courses:
Ribeyes - charred black! They couldn't even cut their meat! (See picture!). Literally tasted like charcoals. The medium rare steak was full of gristle and stringy. More blue cheese chunks loaded on top of the steaks. The lamb was raw, blood oozes into the plate, and cold in the center. No flavor! The garlic mashed potato was the only good thing on my plate. Asparagus was undercooked and stringy.
We ended the dinner with complimentary raspberry macarons. We told them that we were here to celebrate a 70th anniversary, not even an offer complimentary dessert. We saw numerous pictures of complimentary anniversary dessert.
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