J&G Steakhouse is an upscale restaurant located in the Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale Arizona. The Steakhouse menu offers much variety with slight Asian Accents done by French techniques. The menu is also offers a few dishes of the namesake celebrity chef Jean-George Vongerichten. At this time the current executive chef is French Trained Jacques Qualin who has worked with chef Jean-George Vongerichten.
The restaurant overlooks the beautiful resort grounds and golf course.
The seating is sort of set up orchestra style with different levels so everyone can have a view.
On this visit it happened to be restaurant week and J&G Steakhouse offered an ultra amazing detailed generous three course menu for $44.00 a person.
They start everyone out with hot fresh slightly salted Parker House Rolls and butter…..I’ve been here before so I knew we had to order the black truffle cheese fritters ($11.00 subject to change).
Six TINY marble sized balls of pure JOY! So easy to woof down…….One person could easily eat all of them.
They just taste SOOOooooooooooOOOOOOh FORKING GREAT! Yummy delicious comte cheese black truffles that actually taste like black truffles and this ultra thin crisp miracle shell that holds in so much treasure. These are just SO FORKING GREAT!
We both went with the restaurant week menu.
My first dish was the smoked salmon toast.
WOW! It stunning! Sliced smoked silky salmon, salmon roe, borage flowers, dill, shaved cucumber, creamy spread and toasted quality bread and the most amazing delicious micro herbs and sprouts. Take a closer look.
This was so detailed…the flavors in the micro herbs were OUT OF BOUNDS and were so FRESH……I forgot to ask if they grow them there because that’s what they tasted like.
My husband started with the longevity noodles.
This was a generous bowl of noodles with three grilled wild shrimp in a ginger broth with pea shoots , herbs and chili.
For my main I had the slowly cooked arctic char.
The arctic char was so creamy and mild it almost was like custard. I rarely eat the skin but it was delicious here and was seasoned to perfection. The green in the middle of the plate is wood sorrel and wood sorrel emulsion…..It’s sort of like green borscht on the plate and adds a nice interest between the fish and the rest of the plate. The other side of the plate are perfectly cooked chanterelles (what a treat like $50 a pound at AJ’s and always in bad shape). The little slices aren’t potatoes but are pan fried slices of lighter more vegetal kohlrabi. This was really a stunning dinner….This dinner alone was worth $44.00 that restaurant week cost.
My husband had the grilled PRIME sirloin cap.
This plate also came with roasted Japanese Eggplant, chimichurri sauce, wine sauce, fresh herbs and Fresno-garlic marmalade. Stunning plate with strong bold flavors.
Then we shared TWO desserts.
One was a poached pear covering amaretto ganache in a hazelnut frangipane with some sort of white chocolate puffs.
The other was a molten chocolate lava cake with caramel ice cream and a crunchy sweet laced edible snow flake.
By the way…This was FORKING GREAT!
J&G Steakhouse at The Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale AZ was Worth a Fork!
www.JGSteakhouseScottsdale.com
Every thing is subject to change and your experience may or may not differ.
