Jenkins, Denesik and Schneider

I'm going to give a benefit of the doubt 4 stars here as I've only been once and it was with a large team of people who had traveled to Scottsdale for a business meeting so, the meal was one of those here's your salad, pick from these three entrees and these two desserts kind of deals. The salad non-choice was some fresh greens with what was a tasty vinaigrette that unfortunately was in short supply. Entree choices were organic rotisserie chicken, grilled salmon and a Dr. Pepper beef short rib with tomato jam.. I went with the short rib and found it both good and disappointing. The good was the fall off the bone quality of the meat itself plus the flavor of the meat and the less good was that it was kind of small, and too fatty. Judging from the conversations around the table, sounds like the chicken was the way to go. Dessert was an ancho-chocolate torte that was really pretty good and I'm not even really a sweets kind of guy. Walking to the banquet room we were in, I got to see some orders coming out to other tables and I saw some things that looked really good, including a delicious looking thick steak with some compound butter melting on top. I would have ordered that in a heartbeat had it been one of our choices. Service for the team meal seemed to be kind of slow with longer than should have been periods in between each course.

Called in an order for lunch. The gal on the phone wasn't very friendly but understood my order just fine :) Ordered the fried mushrooms and a falafal pita. Went to pick up the order, two gals were in the cook area. Again, no one oozed a whole lotta friendliness or customer service abilities. Was almost $11 for the two items. The pita was ho-hum. Maybe I'm just spoiled but the pita tasted store bought and not very soft or fluffy. The falafal was was a bit on the dry side and too salty. The fried mushrooms were kinda icky :(. Tasted like a frozen item that was fried thick until the outside is HARD and can make knocking sounds. Their cucumber sauce was not too bad but REALLY thick but had a nice cucumber flavor and the ONLY thing I got that in any way resembled homemade. For my lunch, I think I will stick with the $7 lunch specials from Eden's Grill, ty very much. :/ Now if I could just get over the fried food coma O.o

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