"4"^^ . . "1"^^ . "4"^^ . "1"^^ . "2009-05-27T00:00:00"^^ . . . "What I like about this place is that it is consistently good food, generous portions. It's one of the few restaurants in East Mesa that I know I can take visitors for a good, non-chain, meal.\n\nI was there on Saturday and this is how it played out: Our attentive and friendly waiter immediately brought the super-soft, right-out-of-the-oven garlic buns. I ordered a Shock Top Belgian Ale and the coconut shrimp with a baked potato and steamed veggies. My friends ordered Fettucini Alfredo with Meatballs, Steak Salad and a vegetarian pizza. I tried the Steak Salad and will definitely order that next time. Not that mine was bad. After all, the shrimp were more like prawns and there must have been 8-10 of them. The steamed veggies (varieties of string beans & carrots) were perfectly tender-crisp. It's just that the flavor on the steak was surprisingly, uh, vibrant. I don't know what they marinated it in, but it tasted like it might have had some kind of citrus in it. Yum.\n\nWe ordered two desserts - the cannoli which was properly crispy and the baked apple dumpling was cooked enough to soften, but not make the apple mushy. Yum yum."^^ .