"This place was alright. I had the chicken skewers and we got the bruschetta quattro for appetizers. The bruschetta was pretty good. The chicken skewers you practically inhale...i.e. small quantity. So I payed $16.50 for these and there were like three wimpy chicken breasts on sticks with a mediocre amount of wild rice. I don't know, maybe this is to be expected from a place that seems to go more for appeal rather than food quality. It's definitely trying to take its place in Scottsdale as the cooler, classier version of the Cheesecake Factory. It definitely doesn't match up in terms of food, and I won't comment on the service because i've only been here once and maybe I had a sub-par waiter. The management is unorganized, but more on that later.\n\n My dad had two drinks and he loved them. That's about the only sure shot fired by this restaurant. But I mean it's alcohol... It's easy to enjoy alcohol. The generic cheesecake was also good. Again, it's easy to enjoy cheesecake. \n\nOK, onto the management. I understand that this restaurant is fairly new in Scottsdale so it's gonna be busy on the weekends. That doesn't give management an excuse to give out multiple reservations and not be able to give tables when people show up. OK, fifteen minute waits here and there with a reservation on Saturday is fine, but when it becomes a half an hour, you goofed up somewhere. I don't know who to bag on for this - the highschool hostesses, or the manager that trained them to figure out what time to tell callers when a reservation is available. A couple actually walked out after being waited for I don't know how long. The hostesses didn't even bother filling up the lounge. I'm sure if they told half the people that walked through that door that the lounge was free-for-all, first come first serve, same menu, same service, grab whatever table - the lounge would be filled. Instead people were getting tired of waiting, then asking what that table was doing empty. Then the highschool chick goes, \"Oh that's just the lounge, you can sit there if you want. Same menu, same service.\" WELL s#%t, thanks for telling us now. \n\nI hope if you try this place you get good service and the $16.50 plate you order isn't meant to nibble on."^^ . "2012-01-22T00:00:00"^^ . "1"^^ . . "0"^^ . . "3"^^ . "1"^^ . .