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| - We have been to the original Bisbee Breakfast Club in Bisbee and enjoyed the food and service very much, so we were very excited that BBC was expanding to Mesa.
The new Mesa location is decorated with a contemporary, minimalist feel to it. There's nothing wrong with that, but it is a very different atmosphere from the original. The wall art painting of Bisbee, AZ was a very nice touch.
Service was eager...maybe a little TOO eager, but I can understand why. The wait staff came by our table at least 9 times during our meal to ask if we wanted coffee/tea refills. I mean...we hadn't even taken a sip of the last refill before somebody came by and asked if we wanted more. Well, the reason for this overzealous concern about our coffee and beverage situation was because the wait staff realized that the kitchen was behind the 8 Ball and that there was going to be a LOOOONNNNGGG wait until we received our meals.
Now, I realize that Sunday morning a few weeks into a Grand Opening is not the best time to try out a breakfast/lunch restaurant, but stupidly, we did. And we paid for our stupidity with a good, solid hour wait for our meals, which was a rather simple 4-top order of salad, veggie sandwich, pancakes, and biscuits and gravy. The food was absolutely fine...delicious in fact, but the wait was unsatisfactory. We kept glancing into the open kitchen to see what was going on back there, and it was obvious that the kitchen staff was either incompetent or overwhelmed. There were plenty of cooks on hand, so the problem did not appear to be quantity of personnel. Rather, it seemed that the kitchen folks were inexperienced, and they hadn't found a routine yet.
I'll give them a few months to work the kinks out of the kitchen because the food was delicious and plentiful when it finally arrived, and the service staff was very friendly. Let's hope they can find their way because the food is outstanding.
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