"3"^^ . "1"^^ . "2013-01-29T00:00:00"^^ . "The concept is promising, the execution is disappointing. The interior lacks character. The placard on the table looked like someone just dashed it off on their inkjet printer and I can't recall for sure at this moment, but I'm pretty sure there were misspellings. It's as if they didn't have the funds to decorate or add all the little touches that identify the restaurant in the diner's mind. Overall it could use a graphic designer to do the menus and table cards. A visit with an imaginative friend to some store like Z Gallerie or Marshalls Home Store where you can get ready-made framed posters, canvas prints and such could remedy the bland walls. This is a nice area, between Phoenix, Scottsdale and Paradise Valley. People expect a restaurant to have an identity. Your food has to be crazy good for people to want to return to a place which has all the character of a school cafeteria.\n\nOK so who cares about my aesthetic sense; what about the food, right? Well I've only been there once (a 2nd trip planned shortly). My bacon flight was disappointing; a couple of the slices were overcooked and had the consistency of beef jerky. My dining partner's eggs benedict were well-done. That's bad. I talked to another friend who went here and they said the same thing happened to their eggs benedict. The service was OK. I'll give it another try but I doubt this is a place I'll want to make a regular stop. I think I gave it one star too many because I just wanted so bad for it to be good.\n\nUPDATE:\n\nwent here recently for a 2nd time. Better experience but I'm not changing the 3-star rating. The burgers were very good. The website menu and the physical menu show a discrepancy in the size of the Oink burger patty. The site says 1/3 lb (while all others are 1/2 lb), the menu says 1/2 lb. Pretty sure the actual burger was 1/2 lb. Waitress was a little slow refreshing the teas but she did do it and they were both very good. I hate it when I get stale icky iced tea at a restaurant. It is very inexpensive to keep fresh tea around. It's just water and a tea bag.\n\nUnsolicited advice to the owner:\n\n1) the concept needs better execution so that your restaurant's concept is 'sticky' in the mind of the diner. They remember it and go back.\n\na) the menus do not really sell the concept and are printed on plain old office paper on an inkjet printer. Hire or finagle a graphic designer to design new menus that better reflect the theme of the restaurant. If you don't want to go for professional-looking laminated menus, at least go to Kelly Paper and get a ream of heavy card stock to print them on so they don't look so cheap.\n\nb) the walls need help.\n\n2) The table card also needs a graphic designer's touch. What's more, I would not have assumed that a breakfast place - yes I know they serve lunch too but in my mind and most people's, it's a breakfast place - would serve booze yet that is what is on the card, the adult drinks. They have beer and wine and hard drinks too. Some people would like a Bloody Mary with breakfast, I bet they'd order one if you let them know it's available.\n\n3) Speaking of Bloody Marys, did you know that there is bacon-flavored vodka? Why are you not pushing Oink Bloody Mary's or something like that? Missing the boat here.\n\n4) If I were designing your menus, I would have on every page in big bold type: \"SAUSAGE SIZE IT! ADD BACON OR SAUSAGE TO ANY ITEM FOR $1/SLICE\" or something like that.\n\n5) My friend raved about the bacon maple frosted donut. I did not see it anywhere on the menu. I had to ask the waitress and she said, \"oh it's there under 'donuts' on the back page'. All it said was , 'donuts' or whatever. THIS THING WAS ON THE COVER OF NEW TIMES!!! Why aren't you pimping the sht out of it? You might even have some other awesome donuts but you're not trying very hard to sell it to me."^^ . . . "0"^^ . "0"^^ . .