Fly Bye is a casual order at the counter and take out restaurant located in North Phoenix Arizona in Desert Ridge and is soon to be in three locations in Metro Phoenix. This restaurant is one of eleven Fox Restaurant Concept Group restaurants that are in at least fourteen states. On the menu at Fly Bye are snacks like mozzarella sticks and crispy Brussels sprouts. They also offer chicken tenders, chicken wings, salads, a few hoagies, hand stretched pizzas, and Detroit Style pizzas. Bottles and cans of soft beverages, beer, and wine are available.
This is a small place but they do have a some tables inside and a few tables outside.
You order and pay at the counter.
Then you pick up your beverage from the beverage refrigerator and get your napkins, silverware and plates yourself. When your order is ready someone runs your food to you.
We ordered far more food than we could eat in one visit just to try as much as we could.
We started with the roasted buffalo cauliflower bowl.
This is a bowl of fried cauliflower, avocado seasoned with za’atar, tomato, arugula, cucumbers, onions, and creamy feta dressing is in the bottom of the bowl. It’s not bad but neither of taste any buffalo…maybe it was left off? The za’atar is good but it’s only on the avocado….? I wonder why they don’t add harissa here…It could pop with a little harissa.
Next we tried three chicken tenders. They come with a few crinkle fries, ketchup and your choice of sauce. I picked Nashville Hot sauce.
This was my favorite plate here today. The breading has a good texture and seems free of oil. It’s also a lot lighter than they look. Without sauce they do taste under seasoned. But the chicken inside is incredibly moist. I think that the Nashville Hot sauce is very good…..It’s so full of flavors and a little heat. Now I wish I had a pickle…..The crinkle fries are better than I expected them to be and are very fluffy inside and are seasoned nicely.
They offer hand stretched pizza in regular and large sizes and Detroit Style pizzas in regular and large sized. We ordered two pizzas to try and started with the classic cheese regular sized Detroit Style.
The pizza does have nice crispy edges but lacks that cheesy corner. The crust is MUCH lighter and fluffier than any other Detroit style pizza that I have tried. It taste just like Wonder Bread to me……The tomato is a rich tomato taste and the cheese is nicely melted.
We also tried a regular sized hand stretched Lebanese Mom Pizza.
This pizza is made of marinated tomatoes, roasted garlic, spinach, za’atar, and feta yogurt.
The crust also has that Wonder Bread Taste and it is stretched very thin so it’s not too heavy. It’s not a hard crisp bottom and is more like a party pizza bottom. The marinated tomatoes taste about the same as the regular tomato sauce today. You get the feta flavor from the feta yogurt. A little bit of za’atar was used to slightly season it………. It’s up to you to add salt, or a pepper.
That was a little taste of Fly Bye in Phoenix AZ
21001 N Tatum Blvd PHX AZ (next to Albertson’s at Desert Ridge Mall)
www.FlyByeto go.com
602-351-5150
Everything is subject to change
