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| - First off the service was amazing, attentive but not overbearing, informative and most importantly very pleasant. Numerous questions required visits to others with more knowledge and all were answered clearly and promptly.
All of the food was good to quite delicious, however the pricing is beyond what Scottsdale will tolerate with the number of very good and not quite as pricey offerings in town.
The rye old fashioned was very tasty although $12 for a tumbler with the now hipster single massive cube of ice and maybe, at very most, 3 ounces of liquid left me feeling cheated. Thankfully they did fulfill my request for TWO of the dark cherries (which ended up being Luxardo cherries even though they are not listed that way on the menu.)
We ordered the chicken arancini as an appetizer and when they came out we knew all the portions were going to be very small and overpriced....artfully arranged plate with four, less than golf ball sized, arancini with a tablespoon of very tasty tomato jam, a tiny amount of cilantro cream and four paper thin and minuscule pieces of dried/candied jalapeno for $9. Okay it doesn't sound that expensive right, it was just that the arancini themselves were not that interesting, only the accoutrements which were in short supply.
They split a wedges salad for us in the kitchen (nice touch) and it was very, very good, however with a few tweaks it could be stellar. One issue is that the candied bacon was about too smokey (they smoke it in house) AND that it was chopped up so fine it was like crumbs - no slab or thick cut bacon texture really. We want to see and feel that baconness... A nice add was the roasted tomatoes. The other issue is that all of the toppings were in separate little piles and not strewn about the salad imparting the flavors all over the wedge. If that salad either had all the toppings dropped all over the salad OR it were brought out in it's wedge form and then tableside chopped up and served like a chopped salad it would have been fantastic! Having to scoop up all the bits from the piles was too hard to get the mixture of ingredients right per forkful.
My order for dinner was the Tuna Taco Trio appetizer using jicama as the shell instead of crisp shells. The flavor was good (not great because the tuna was a tad fishy as if they had not cut out that really dark, smelly line of the tuna.) It had a nice a sweet and spicy jalapeno syrup and decent (but not special) red cabbage slaw. However the price really was crazy. Where do they think this restaurant is - Beverly Hills? $12 for 3 tiny tacos that equaled 6 relatively small bites of food is ludicrous. It was doll sized tacos, really.
The braised Asian short ribs were very tasty as well, nice tenderness and a not too salty and nicely rich sauce with garlic, ginger and sesame. The roasted carrots and Asian broccoli (long, thin, stalks like broccoli rapini) were perfectly cooked. It was again on the smaller size for a $27 entree, but not anywhere near as overpriced as the Tuna Taco Trio was.
We will return for lunch, probably on a Thursday in order to double dip on a much more reasonable menu pricing for lunch dishes (and a Korean Crispy Chicken Sandwich which sounds awesome and the 50% off on wines on Thursday. The Happy Hour pricing (3 to 6 pm) seems okay for the drinks but not particularly generous for the food specials.
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