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Angelina’s Pho & Grill of Glendale AZ – Is Worth a Fork

The Chicken and Asparagus Salad from Angelina’s Pho & Grill Glendale AZ

This is a small sleek and modern Asian Restaurant located in a strip mall with an outdoor patio. It’s hard to do a review on this restaurant because they make changes to the menu often.

Angelina’s opened up a few years back as a Vietnamese Restaurant. In the opening weeks they had some problems with service and Pho dishes weren’t being served with the correct condiments possibly due to service and management.

Angelina’s has come a long LONG way since then. At this time you can still get a variety of Pho, Pho like dishes, Thai Style Curries, Stir Fries, Beef Tenderloins, Salmon Consommé, weekend sushi, a bar and much much more.

I think one of the tastiest meals I had in all of Glendale recently was the Chicken and Asparagus Salad from Angelina’s. The dark meat Chicken was moist, infused with flavors and brushed with an exotic sauce. The salad was made with fresh crisp vegetables, grilled asparagus and crisp noodles. I think the clear sauce was fish sauce to use as a dip for the chicken but I never tasted fish sauce that was so layered with flavors before. The white sauce for the salad was also mysteriously delicious. I forking don’t know what it was but it was so good they should sell it. This salad is one of the most delicious dishes you can find in Glendale. I know a salad like this would cost $12-$14. in Scottsdale. I hope the menu isn’t a misprint because Angelina’s was only charging $7.09 for this great salad. I note I would still be happy with this salad if it cost more.

Luc Lac Beef

The Luc Lac Beef is flavorful moist and tender beef tenderloin. It was delicious and at the time was priced at $15.00. This dish was delicious, I think anyone would forking like this dish.

Green Curry Chicken

The Green Curry Chicken was made with tender chicken and a whole bushel of vegetables in an aromatic spicy sauce.

Yellowtail Sashimi

Angelina’s offers Thursday-Sunday Yumi Sushi. It’s among the best and freshest sushi you can find in Glendale as it never get old and forking gross.

Yumi Signature Roll

I don’t know of any other Asian Restaurant that serves an Asian Salmon Consommé.

Salmon Consommé with fresh dill

This dish I had a while back but I still remember how fresh the salmon tasted and it just melted in my mouth. This dish was very fragrant and unique. It was like an inspiration of Vietnamese, Thai and French all in one.

Hot and Spicy

My husband had this one. It was something like Pho but with a twist and was spicy. My husband almost always orders the Pho and pho like dishes here because it’s his favorite from the Vietnamese Restaurants we tried. It’s never watery and seasoned so well you don’t really have to add the sauces to the pho to get the right taste. I’ve had beef pho here it a long time back from here and all I remember is that it was a more intense of a beef flavor than other pho’s I tried. It seemed richer and the beef was tastier.

Yellow Curry Chicken

This might have been the best Yellow Curry I ever had. I still remember that it was very infused with Thai Basil and the chicken here is excellent. This dish also had an unusually large varied amount of vegetables in it including cauliflower, green beans, bok choy, and several other vegetables.

Rare Beef and Brisket Pho

Tasty fresh beef in a rich aromatic beef broth.

Chicken Pho

The Chicken is always good in any dish you pick at Angelina’s. I’ve had Chicken Pho at other Vietnamese Restaurants in the area and none of them were close to as good as the way Angelina’s makes it. It wasn’t lacking in chicken taste and the chicken in the bowl was moist and flavorful and an extra generous portion.

I’e been going to Angelina’s for years. The food has always been good. They always offer dishes you won’t find at other Vietnamese Restaurants like the La Vong Style Alaskan Cod in Turmeric and fresh dill, the menu is always changing, pricing is reasonable (I don’t think anything is over $15.00). The atmosphere is stylish and modern.Patio seating is available. I do note service is usually good but a few times it was a miss just like most restaurants.

Angelina’s Pho & Grill 5350 West Bell Rd Glendale AZ

Worth a Fork! You might not drive across town to dine here but if your in the area this is a very good choice.

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The House Brasserie in Old Town Scottsdale is Worth a Fork!

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This is a small converted old house with a large patio. The interior is a bit dark and filled with lots of wait staff and candles and mirrors. It’s kind of looks like the dark side of shabby chic. The cuisine is a Modern American mixed with international and created using French Techniques.

This restaurant offered an interesting inviting menu for restaurant week so I thought I’d give them a forking try. The Paper read that they were offering three courses and an amuse bouche for $45.00 a person.

We came and were seated quickly. I had to use a forking light to read the menu as it was painfully hard to read at my seat but I do note my husband had more light on the other side of the table. No mention of restaurant week was given by our waitress and I had to ask if they were serving restaurant week items. I felt weird asking about restaurant week but was given restaurant week menus quickly and ordered off the restaurant week menu.

They started us off with an amuse bouche.

Little corn breads topped with pickled mushroom and fresno chili. These were delicious! I could have forking ate a bunch of these.

Then I was surprised to receive a second amuse bouche.

Tiny perfect crepes wrapped around a piece of ham topped with San Marzano Tomatoes and fennel frowns.

My first course was …….

Malted Rice, scallions, mushroom dashi, garlic and furikake. It was delicious. I got to eat something great and different that was unique and delicious. It was really good.

My husband ordered the other first course I was thinking of trying.

Charcoal roasted beet with brussels, fava beans and caraway yogurt. This dish was also good but not as tasty as the malted rice. We switched plates halfway. I liked the beets with the caraway yogurt. They went together well.

I was surprised to also receive a complimentary full size glass of wine for restaurant week! Cheers!

My main course was the Scottish Salmon,

The Salmon was absolutely perfect, fresh tasting and delicious. It was pretty much all a salmon could be. It was just as good as the salmon I had at Bouchon’s in Napa CA. It tasted the same. The cauliflower, whole grain and dill complimented the salmon and didn’t over power the tender rich fish. Another high light was those amazing horseradish pickles. They might have been the best pickles I ever tasted. They were multi dimensional with flavors. I wish I could have purchased a jar of those pickles.

My husband had the Pork Collar.

It was basically pork over grits. My husband kept saying this is really REALLY good.

Then came two plates of dessert.

Little fluffy light greaseless donuts, each with a different filling. The first one was mild and honey like, the second one seemed like grapefruit with poppy seeds and the third one was spiced chocolate.

Then we ate the Roasted Apple Pain Perdu.

It was a fancy French Toast with melted camembert cheese and drizzled with a cider caramel. This dessert was great. I loved the play between savory and sweet. It was perfect. Delicious, light texture, buttery and tasty.

Dinner was lovely.

It was Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork! You might drive some distance to dine here.

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Atlas Bistro in Scottsdale AZ is Certainly Worth a Fork

Amuse Bouche of Hawaiian House Smoked Fish with Caper and Lemon

Amuse Bouche of Hawaiian Opah House Smoked Fish

Atlas Bistro is a small but upscale restaurant located in an older strip mall in Scottsdale AZ. This little ten table restaurant is also a B.Y.O.B. and is adjacent to a fine wine store next door. Different chefs have worked here over the years and all of them have gone on to open some of the greatest restaurants in the metro phoenix area. All the meals I had here were all exquisite, very detailed, masterfully prepared and exciting.

This happened to be Arizona Restaurant Week and we were getting a lovely three course meal for $44.00 each. They started us off with an amuse bouche of house smoked Hawaiian Fish with a caper and lemon aioli. It was just delicious and would be forking awesome on a bagel with cream cheese. I wished I could purchase some to go!

My first course was easy on the eyes and very easy to put away in my stomach.

Cucumber, sweet crisp watermelon, Israeli Feta, jicama, pickled honeydew, pistachios, and a watermelon/lime vinaigrette. This was delicious and was one of the plates my husband kept trying because it was so DARN likable. All the flavors and textures were exciting and so refreshing. The cucumber was so crisp and sweet, the pickled honeydew added light acid and the creamy very mild Israeli Feta just melted everything together. Anyone would love this dish as it was forking delicious. I never came across Israeli Feta before it wasn’t too salty or tangy like some feta cheeses are, and was much more creamy than the average feta.

My second course was also well orchestrated.

Golden beets that were so moist, soft and naturally sweet and obviously just picked, with creamy pungent blue cheese, fennel for brightness, onion brûlée, Swiss chard, crisp rye berries, a couple dabs of lightly smoked buttermilk and red beet vinaigrette. Another light and tasty earthy dish that’s full of lots of detail.

Then came dinner.

Exotic Wild Hawaiian Hebi Spearfish, beet cous cous, za’atar shitakes, asparagus, braised leeks, harissa, charred radicchio and saffron corn puree. This was all delicious and painstakingly detailed. But I had to fight my husband’s fork from taking too much of the amazing cous cous. The cous cous had the most exciting flavor of everything on the plate and outshined the perfectly prepared and seasoned fish. I never imagined cous cous could be so exciting. They were cooked with beets and that delicious mildly spicy, red peppery and the taste of caraway. It was just so delicious. The shiitakes were also very tasty the way they were seasoned. I would have traded some of the bitter radicchio for another mushroom.

Unfortunately I was too full to even forking think about dessert.

One of the benefits of a B.Y.O.B. is also a low down because your wine won’t pair with all the entrees but if you drink your wine between dishes it doesn’t matter. At the time of this review 9-21-15 the corkage fee is $15.00 at Atlas Bistro.

Worth a Fork! You’d Drive Across Town to Dine Here.

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Bistro Laurent in Paso Robles CA is Worth a Fork!

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Bistro Laurent is a little cafe in down town Paso Robles CA that serves up Classic French Cuisine.

You have a choice of ordering a la carte or doing a multi course tasting where the server picks for you after you discuss with him allergies or dislikes. Most of the dishes that were served to us neither of us would have forking picked but I still had an amazing dinner.

The meal started with an amuse bouche. This was sweet breads with apple. Honestly I didn’t eat this so my husband ate two of them. I know it’s phycological and not logical since I do eat meat but I can’t stomach the thought of eating brains. SORRY!

Then the vichyssoise (cold potato leek) soup came.

Bistro Laurent’s version of this soup stared the leek more than the potato.

My next plate I wouldn’t have pick but was amazing.

Tomato Cheese Basil Tart from Bistro Laurent Paso Robles CA

It was this Tart with Tomato Basil and Cheese. It was divine! So light and tender just bursting with delicious flavors. I could happily eat one of these every day.

Next course were these tiny raviolis. They were prepared perfect and were very good but I needed my stomach room for the next three courses so my husband happily ate most of these along with his own plate of raviolis.

My main course was this well prepared filet.

Bistro Laurant Paso Robles CA

The steak was tender with a nice flavorful crust and was prepared to a perfect medium rare. The potatoes were smooth and buttery topped with just the right amount of crisp onions for the just right accent.

Then came the cheese plate that was to die for….

It was simply the best selection of cheeses I ever tasted. I had to ask for a list of the cheeses we received. I never tasted cheeses that were that delicious before.

Tete De Moine

Etorki

Camembert

Comte

Reblochon

Ste Maure

Then came a dessert that really surprised me.

Floating Island from Bistro Laurent Paso Robles CA

We received something called a Floating Island. It was meringue that sat in a thin but rich custard sauce with fruit and the meringue had a super crispy thin sugar crust. Never had anything like that it was forking interesting.

Much of what I received I wouldn’t have ordered but I enjoyed my meal very much and this dinner from Bistro Laurent was certainly Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

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Where the Fork I’ve Been Eating in Paso Robles California 2015

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Most people go to Paso Robles to drink wine. I did a lot of wine tasting and also got to eat at several places.

My fist dinner was at Chico’s Cafe in downtown.

Chico’s cafe Paso Robles CA

I had the local sand dabs special. The fish seemed fresh and was just a tad over cooked with slightly burnt tasting potatoes. I’ve been here several times before and usually the food is executed very well. This wasn’t bad it just wasn’t as great as usual. Oh well.

The food from Thai Classic was so good I ate here twice during my stay.

Lime Fish from Thai Classic Paso Robles CA

I had the Lime Fish Special. It was spicy, garlicky, limey with fresh tasting meaty mild white fish. It was very good and tasty.

For my second visit I had the Mango Eggplant Curry with Chicken.

Mango Eggplant Curry with Chicken from Thai Classic Paso Robles CA

This dish was executed far better than from many Thai Restaurants in my area. The flavors were a welcome slap in the face. The lemon grass flavor just popped and basil was infused into the dish with the other flavors. The sweet mango and coconut milk toned down the heat. This dish just had everything going on and was so forking delicious.

Went to a newly opened restaurant called Fish Gaucho.

Fish Gaucho Paso Robles CA

Fish Gaucho is a casual Mexican Style Restaurant. They don’t bring you chips and salsa. If you want chips and salsa you have to order it for around $7.00 and they will bring you chips with several salsas. I tried the ahi tuna and watermelon salad.

Fish Gaucho Paso Robles CA

The fish seemed fresh but only had a grey sear on the ends. For my taste this salad had too much acid and was too spicy for me. This salad was almost painful to eat. The peppers were hotter than jalapeños. The salad did taste much better in the few bites were I had watermelon to cool the heat and balance the acid. The salad might have been good if they gave me more than four forking small chunks of watermelon.

Another place that was special that I ate from twice was the Bless Your Heart Bakery.

Bless Your Heart Bakery Paso Robles CA

In this little shop everything is diabetic friendly, gluten free and low glycemic. They don’t have much in the way of sweets on display but you can order nitrate free meat sandwiches on their special healthy fresh baked bread.

I had fresh roasted nitrate free turkey breast on that special rosemary bread. First bite was so different that it was strange to me. As I ate it it just got better and better. The meat was flavorful and natural. The bread didn’t leave a rock in my stomach like the way real bread does and it really was tasty. The rosemary bread went really well with the turkey.

I also went to the new Peruvian Restaurant called Mistura.

I had the escabeche. It was sea bass local root vegetables and three kinds of potatoes. Everything about the plate was fresh and tasty. I’ll probably revisit this place on my next trip to Paso.

Mistura Paso Robles CA

My most special and favorite meal came from Bistro Laurent.

Tomato Cheese Basil Tart from Bistro Laurent Paso Robles CA

Bistro Laurent is French Classic Cuisine paired with local ingredients fueled by an experienced Michelin trained Chef. I had the multi course tasting menu paired with wine. They sort of don’t let you pick your dishes. They ask you what you won’t eat and pick plates for you. Wine pours were very generous and the parade of perfectly seasoned and executed foods marched to us paced in a timely manner. Every dish was memorable such as the best cheese plate I ever had.

Bistro Laurent Paso Robles CA

The perfect steak.

Bistro Laurant Paso Robles CA

A really great dessert.

Floating Island from Bistro Laurent Paso Robles CA

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Why the FORK do people who CAN’T COOK Open Forking Restaurants?

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Bobby’s Cafe of Sun City – Sun City AZ

Why the FORK do people who CAN’T COOK open restaurants and how the FORK do they stay in business?

I went into this little restaurant in Sun City AZ. It wasn’t a fancy restaurant, it was more of a budget priced restaurant so I wasn’t expecting Michelin Quality Cuisine. I only had a very average day dream of hoping for just above mediocre cuisine.

Fresh Trout was listed on the menu with mixed vegetables and a choice of potato…….oh joy! I thought that sounded pretty good and picked mashed potatoes over french fries………… forking thinking that they would be ok.

We all know that mashed potatoes are pretty forking easy to prepare. I think most forking 10 year olds can make mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes are usually potatoes that are boiled and then maybe mixed with milk or cream, salt, pepper and some butter and usually taste yummy.

If mashed potatoes are really great they might forking look like this.

L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon Las Vegas NV

When mashed potatoes really forking suck they look like this in the photo below. These potatoes seemed inflicted with an illness and were forking sickly potatoes. I guess that’s why they forking look like phlegm or an infection that went bad.

Bobby’s Cafe of Sun City – Sun City AZ

I’m certain the cook at the Sun City restaurant was never told by anyone, “your food is so forking delicious you should open a forking restaurant.”

Bobby’s Cafe of Sun City – Sun City AZ

The vegetables on my plate were over boiled from what seems like frozen and falling apart lacking any freshness or life just the same as most of the diners I saw dining there.

This restaurant location is Sun City AZ.

Typical Sun City Resident

…..Sun City AZ is a whole town of Sr. Citizens …..I don’t think any children live in Sun City..It’s like a story from the forking twilight zone. Well anyway the potatoes had this greenish-grayish look so I was forking HORRIFIED when I saw them and asked the waitress,”why the fork are those potatoes green.” She ran away to see what she should say and she told me the forking cook said,

that black pepper and potato skin makes potatoes green. (what kind of forking stuff is that?)

I was forking hungry and ate some of the not so good trout because the potatoes and vegetables were forking inedible. The trout was dry and overcooked but seemed at the time better than the vegetables and potatoes. (later it might have turned out to be a bad thing?) Why the FORK didn’t I just walk out….I should have forking walked out…

This was that forking kind of nightmare food. The kind of forking food you think your suffering from in a nightmare because no responsible restauranteur would sink a bunch of money into a business serving up forking stuff like this unless he had this certain kind of crazy death wish towards people.

This seemed like the kind of place that you go to when you gave up on life and nothing matters anymore. This food was possibly worst than food they serve to prisoners. It’s possible that starving people overseas would turn this stuff down. Possibly this is food meant for forking euthanasia in Sun City. Don’t know if any of the blue hairs I saw there will ever return.

Bobby’s Cafe of Sun City – Sun City

Notice the Abel Funeral Home Ad in the bottom right hand corner of the plate. Your forking next of kin might forking need that ad after you eat at this place.

That’s FORKED Up!

Not Worth a Fork!

Not Worth a FORK!

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What the Fork The Wicked Spoon Buffet in Las Vegas was like

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I forking read in the Phoenix New Times that the Wicked Spoon Buffet was the favorite of the buffets in Vegas so after my plans failed for another restaurant we decided to try the Wicked Buffet at the Cosmopolitan for lunch.

The line wasn’t bad and we only had to wait 15-20 minutes to get in and pay somewhere around $27.00 each plus tax and tip.

They offered at least 6 serving stations.

The first station had mostly cold salads, smoked salmon breads and cheeses mostly in little bowls that were individual servings.

The next station offered pancakes and hot breakfast items.

Followed by a station of bacon, sausage, tandoori chicken, corn salad and cheesy potatoes.

The next station offered some individual lamb lasagnas and a few other items that seemed sort of Italian.

Next was the line of pizzas.

Followed by a line of forking dry looking salmon.

Then they had a small Asian Style Buffet with several offerings.

Lastly was a very large display of dazzling looking desserts and frozen confections.

I took a total of three plates.

Plate #1 was my favorite plate everything on this plate was very good — good.

The smoked salmon was very good, The beet salad was a little dried out but tasted good. I picked up two chunks of cheese that were tasty and a individual pot of mac-n-cheese that was a little dry on the top but tasted good.

Plate #2

Plate #2 looks good but there wasn’t much I could eat here as this is what my plate looked like when I was done.

The The noodles with vegetables were tasty but the Asian Chicken in the individual pan was very dry and chewy over hard rice. The Tandoori Chicken can be delicious as it usually is marinated and then seasoned and spiced with lemon, garlic, ginger, cumin, coriander, cayenne, cardamon and cloves but the tandoori here was absolutely next to flavorless so I dipped it into the kimchee bone marrow to eat.

Tandoori Chicken?

In the upper left hand corner on my plate is kung pao chicken. It sure had some POW as it was spicy but lacked the kung Asian Flavor and had dry chewy chicken in it. The sushi was typical of supermarket sushi that means not forking good. I have no idea why the fork I took that sushi.

Then I went off to the desserts

Wicked Spoon Buffet Cosmopolitan Las Vegas

All the desserts really looked amazing. The first one I went to try was the strawberry. It was dipped in chocolate that either was cheap or not tempered right. It was very hard in a bad way and way too thick. It didn’t taste right to me. It was kind of bitter, not sweet and not smooth. It didn’t taste like good chocolate. Then I went to try the cone shape thing. Same weird chocolate it just wasn’t right. The little tarts and the cheese cake are so pretty and detailed. I give them 2.5 stars out of five because they were ok like middle of the road desserts. You could eat them but if you miss them it’s no big deal. The one dessert that was really good was the tiny lime cream puff. It was masterfully made and was a perfect tiny pastry with the right tang, sweetness and flavor that made it delicious.

If I was able to start all over again I just would have taken more of my first plate and only lime cream puffs for dessert.

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Not Rated……….It is what it is…….

Sometimes You Just Forking Want to “Kick” the Cook

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I went into possibly the most forking adorable looking restaurant in Glendale AZ. I saw old fashioned cabinets stuffed with all kinds of antiques and nick knacks. Lots of baskets and cute serving ware everywhere. This place even has a spacious dog friendly patio with a DOGGY Dining Menu. I was hoping that this restaurant would be my new favorite spot.

They started us off with fresh hot from the oven mini muffins. It was really forking nice that the muffins were hot and fresh but they just tasted like two flavors of cheap box mix. I thought one flavor might be corn bread but it was vanilla cake with added chocolate chips and the other was spiced muffins with too many added spices. I have no idea what the forking butter was for.

Kiss the Cook Restaurant Glendale AZ

While we were waiting for our order I saw a busboy cleaning up a used table next to us. He only wiped down the half of the table where people were sitting and the other forking half didn’t get wiped. I hope nobody forking sneezed on that half because it didn’t get wiped.

Soon my cajun chicken caesar salad arrives.

Kiss The Cook Restaurant Glendale AZ

The Greens were fresh and crisp and the garlic parmesan bread stick that was suppose to come with my salad looked a lot more like forking toast than a bread stick. I tasted the chicken and it taste very salty and over marinated like processed chicken you might taste at a Costco demo demonstration. The forking chicken might have been teriyaki flavored and topped with too much forking salt. The taste of the chicken with the salad upset my forking stomach. I think the toasted cheesy toast was suppose to be a forking grilled cheese sandwich that the cook screwed up and just tossed on my plate. It was crispy grilled cheese and actually tasted pretty forking good. It was the one thing we tried at this place that was good. They should put crispy grilled cheese on the menu. I had to share the crispy cheese bread with my husband because he encountered some forking issues with his meal.

My husband went with the breakfast special.

Kiss The Cook Glendale AZ

His plate came out missing the tomatoes and green onions the waiter promised so I don’t know if the waiter screwed up or the cook just didn’t forking feel like adding them. The poached eggs were fine but they were on top of pork that lacked flavor and seasoning. Under the pork were soggy muffins that might have been tastier if they were forking toasted enough.

Kiss The Cook Glendale AZ

Lastly the cook forgot to fry the potatoes. It seemed like someone took a baked potato, cut it in chunks and just threw it in the oven. This action made the potatoes very dry like forking chalk. (potatoes are much drier than they appear in the forking photo)

Kiss The Cook Glendale AZ

This was a forking mediocre meal.

Not Worth a FORK!

Sometimes you just forking want to “Kick” the Cook!

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Eddie’s House Scottsdale AZ is Worth a Fork UPDATE Now CLOSED for Business

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When you enter Eddie’s House in Old Town Scottsdale AZ you’ll enter into a slightly different atmosphere than most other restaurants. It’s almost like walking into Eddie’s Real House because it’s decorated with many family photos and lots of personalized knick knacks. You’ll see many fishing items and also notice pictures of Eddie fishing that may also be representative of many of the assorted fish items offered on the menu.

In the metro Phoenix Area Eddie has been known as a celebrity chef and has made a lot of appearances on local TV. Eddie might know be considered a celebrity chef everywhere because of a recent award winning appearance on FoodNetwork’s TV Show Triple G-Guy’s Grocery Games where Eddie won the prize with his signature dish bacon infused meatloaf.

I’ve been to Eddie’s House a bunch of times over the years and always enjoy the complimentary blue cheese butter with fresh herb pistou sauce with the fresh bread. That darn stuff is so delicious it’s very hard to stop eating it.

We started with the grilled honey spiced chicken lollipops.

The chicken is plump and juicy and very flavorful with a deep chicken flavor accented with sweet, salty and spices. The legs are very tasty and are very easy to eat the way the chicken has been cleaned up just right.

For dinner this time I ordered the half portion of the dinner named, what’s in this steak. (not all but many dinners are available in half portions)

The name of this dish is as unusual as the presentation of the steak. It was a tasty tenderloin cooked to my liking wrapped in mashed potatoes with a crisp exterior.

The steak was very tender and seasoned just right. The half portion was just the right amount of beef for me. The mashed potatoes had just a tad too much salt for me but were very yummy. Who the fork doesn’t like a yummy mashed potato and these had a tasty crust.

My husband had the bacon infused meatloaf. It was topped with crisp onion straws and was served with mashed potatoes. It was tasty and after all it’s an OFFICIAL Food Network Winning Dish!

We also indulged in dessert as our server made the desserts sound so good and she was very excited about the white chocolate blueberry cheesecake so she talked us into it.

I don’t always like cheesecake because some are too sour tasting to me. I also am not a fan of the dense style cheese cake but this one was good. Even my husband ate it and he usually hates cheesecakes.

Eddie’s House participates in Local Dines so you can save a bunch when you dine out! So when in the area………

Eddie’s House is Worth a Fork!

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An Overall Not Worth a FORK Dining Experience in Metro Phoenix AZ

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Sort Rib Taco from Salt and Lime Restaurant Scottsdale AZ

Sort Rib Taco from Salt and Lime Modern Mexican Grill Scottsdale AZ

Mexican Food can be delicious and is usually made with various fresh herbs and lots of spices. This kind of food is not boring and certainly isn’t bland.

When I walked into this establishment besides nearly turning forking deaf from the blaring 70s hard rock anthem tunes, I could see by the patrons that the cuisine would not be authentic Mexican and would be some sort of Americanized Mexi Style kind of food. So I only had forking dreams of an average meal but soon my only average dreams turned to a mediocre experience. We were quickly whisked to the dining room filled with tables and booths that were very close together and some members of our party were actually rubbing elbows with strangers. We soon receive a basket of half broken corn chips that weren’t oily…….. YIPPIE!………. I dipped a chip into the salsa. It was oddly tasteless. It seemed like a few key ingredients were missing from that batch of salsa. It seemed like the fresh cilantro, chilies, salt, garlic and fresh onions were hanging out with the missing Lindbergh Baby.

I thought it might be a good idea to share a pitcher of margaritas. I tasted my margarita and it was cloyingly sweet like hummingbird water and seemed to only had trace amounts of liquor in it if any. It made me go mmmmmmmm not a forking good idea.

Oddly someone was running around passing out tickets to win a forking beer logo floatation raft. It sort of reminded me of a forking circus. My number wasn’t called so I felt deflated and didn’t win the forking floatation raft.

The tacos were $2.00 off for happy hour so they seemed appealing to start out with as appetizers. Four of us were at the table and between us we tried five different tacos. Four out of the five tacos were made with dry undeveloped with flavor meats and seemed to lack similar taste that the salsa was missing. I had the Huachnanco Taco, that is a snapper taco.

excuse the forking poor photo but that’s the fork how it came out.

Salt and Lime Modern Mexican Grill Scottsdale AZ

The fish didn’t seem over cooked like all the meat tacos but this taco didn’t have any delicious flavor to it either. You can see this taco lacks fresh cilantro and fresh scallions. This taco was loaded with a creamy sauce that lacked the cilantro flavor that the menu promiced and other good flavors it was suppose to have. You can’t tell by looking at the photo how the pickled onions taste. Usually pickled onions in a taco taste good. These onions tasted like straight vinegar. They lack the sweet to balance them out. It’s a little hard to see but there are small chunks of pineapple in the taco. The pineapple lacked a fresh pineapple texture and taste. I don’t know for sure but they seemed like sweetened pineapples from a forking can. When I bit into this taco I couldn’t forking taste much more than plain vinegar that made my mouth hurt. that taco was very unbalanced in flavor.

I had the kale and mango salad for dinner with added salmon.

Salt and Lime Modern Mexican Grill Scottsdale AZ

After the the not so good tacos (saying the forking least), weak sweet margaritas and not so good salsa I wanted to forking hate my salad but honestly it wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t great. While it wasn’t forking awful like everyone else’s meal but it was expensive for what I got. The salad does come in small and large so I asked the server the different in size so with her hands she makes like the small is a forking 4 inches big and with her hands like the large is a foot long so it makes me think I better get the forking large one that cost $18.75 with salmon. That’s a lot of forking money for a salad even for forking Scottsdale. The kale was prepared nicely and cut in the right size pieces. Mango, red cabbage, jicama, avocado, queso fresco and pepitas all were a good combination in the salad and did taste good. I can’t forking bust them for bad tasting dressing because the orange lime vinaigrette dressing was mostly forking tasteless. I did get about two bites out of many over the course of two days (because it was forking gigantic and took the rest home) that were DELICIOUS because those couple bites had the orange taste. That leads me to believe the dressing might have not been mixed well and I only got the light stuff off the top of the batch of dressing with all the flavors settled on the bottom. I have to say my salmon was cooked perfect. It had a nice crust and was prepared medium-medium rare. The salmon it’s self was very good.

My husband tried the carnitas. Sorry for another forking poor photo, I wasn’t drunk I swear because I couldn’t choke down that forking margarita.

Salt and Lime Modern Mexican Grill Scottsdale AZ

The carnitas were dry and not developed with flavor.

One person at the table had a vegetable burrito. I don’t know what was wrong with it but the Sr. Citizen that had it said, “it was mediocre at best”. I didn’t forking question that.

Another person at the table had the carne asada fajita. I saw the meat and could see it looked forking dry and shriveled up like beef jerky. It’s too bad the cook that prepared it didn’t feel like a forking jerk for sending that thing out. The person who had the fajita did say something to the waitress and she offered him a replacement that he refused. Later she did remove the fajita from the bill. That was nice and our server did seem very nice. Sadly she works in a place that prepared mostly mediocre food and drink when we were there.

So if your a fan of overly sweet/weak margaritas, American/Mexi Style food that’s bland and mostly dry, expensive salads, in a loud rubbing elbows bar and circus like atmosphere…….This is JUST THE Place for you!

Overall

Not Worth a FORK!

I note your forking opinion may differ and you just like this kind of cuisine. I also note this it how it was on the forking day I was there and on other days they could possibly be better.

The Forking Truth!

Slight update- The manager contacted me and said they’d turn down the music if we asked them too and that the pineapples weren’t canned. She also said I could come back and get a free appetizer.

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