Michael "Pooper The Purple Pup" L.'s Profile

We had both breakfast and dinner here.

Both meals were quite good.

Both times the wait persons were attentive and friendly.

I would go back.

I suspect when you read this you will think I disliked this place. I did not dislike, but am just telling as it was.

The lady behind the desk was friendly and helpful when asked a question, no problems here.

The room is ok, it was clean. It is much too full of furniture for the size and could be laid out much better than it is. Gus and I would take one step and bang in to each other and had no choice in the matter. On the other hand the bathroom is large this is where they could put the clothes holder leaving more space in the room. Water pressure was fine in the shower and the toilet if one sat on it when flushing would suck you in to the bay. But actually that would have been impossible since this toilet was made for a very short and small-butted midget. All this room in the bathroom and its ridiculously small toilet.

If noise is a concern for you, forget this place. Traffic, sirens and motorcycles racing from stop to stop is a constant. It might help if they reduce the space between the bottom of the door and the floor. But I doubt it would have made too much difference.

Being on the third floor we used the elevator when it was working which was only half the time. It was a hit and miss kind of thing.

We probably would not stay here again, but we are snobs and would not have stayed here had we not been traveling with my cousin and I was trying to keep the costs down for him.

I am tired, really tired of spending and being disappointed.

We came for dinner tonight.

Mike, Mer~, Gus and I were the eaters of note.

Mike had the lamb stew, it was over salted and peppered and he left half of his meal, he never leaves food on the plate.

Mer~ had the Shepherds pie which was to have Angus beef carrots peas and parsnips with fresh herbs, Of course topped with the mashed potatoes.
What she got was a whole lot of potatoes and a small side of peas with a speck of beef. Truly underwhelming with poorly portioned ingredients

Gus did not enjoy his meal of Beef pie with puff pastry crust. Tough dry beef with no flavour other than salt, the pastry top was not fresh as it was difficult to cut let alone eat.

I had the one good dish of the evening; the Pork shank. It was cooked well and tasted fine.

The restaurant/bar is ok I guess. No real feel of Ireland; more like what an American might think of Ireland. It is just too contrived to feel authentic even if the pieces are from Ireland.

The music was much too loud. Most pub - restaurants in Ireland when music is played real folks are doing it and often the folks join in. Here it is just too loud to hear your companions talk.

The wait folk seem like there is no real interest in being there. It is like, ok I am here what do you want.

Other customers at the bar were Americans acting like they expect folks at an Irish pub would act. Loud and obnoxious. Most customers in Irish pubs enjoy themselves with a bit more decorum.

Overall the experience sucked with one bright spot, my meal. I never felt I left Arizona either.

About two weeks ago we stopped in to check things out. We had not had a contract for well over a year and they were always trying to get us to reup.

You walk in and have to sign in and wait. It is amazing to me that so many folks want phones what seems to be 24 hours a day, these places are always busy.

Our turn comes up and Santiago is the young man who got us. We talked about a few Blackberries and he was calm and helpful with explanations on the two we were considering. So I decided on the Storm and Gus got an LG Chocolate with our plan these are free after the rebate. Santiago showed a few cases and other items available of which Gus got a case. He presented these items without being pushy about it.

So during the time I have had my phone I have encountered a few oddities. I would email Santiago and he would get back to me in a decent time frame. I could not get the phone to do a few things and the instructions did not help, his did. Yet still the phone was not doing as expected, but I figured it was me and not the phone since I am not the brightest bulb when it comes to such things.

After exploring my phone I got the feeling it was a reconditioned phone and mentioned this to Santiago and he assured me they do not give out such items. But he did tell me to bring it in if there is a problem and they will exchange it. I thanked him for the nice offer but said I will continue to play with it and see if it is indeed the phone or me.

Well a couple of days ago the phone turned off during a call and I was unable to get it back on. If finally came back on to a white screen with a very small clock in the center running very fast. After about an hour the phone came back to normal. It happened the next morning so this was when I came to the conclusion it was the phone and not me.

I came back to the store and Santiago took me right away and exchanged the phone with no fuss or muss. I also bought a case for it this trip.

I am very pleased with the service and Santiago, a guy who is actually good at his job, BRAVO.

oh well we had waited several months before trying this place.

An early dinner yesterday at about 4:30 pm.

Not busy so we were seated straight away. A booth, yuck I hate booths. This one was hot for some reason so we moved to a table with two chairs, I guess a half booth. It was much cooler.

I guy I forget his name was the server and he said at least three times I am going to take care of you real good and or well.

Well the first thing we order is our drink, me water Gus iced tea. Well the guy waiter took only a few moments to get this to us, but of course placed the drinks opposite to who ordered.

One appetizer, that being calamari.

MY meal was the Tour of Italy Being Homemade lasagna, lightly breaded chicken parmigiana and creamy fettuccine alfredo.

Gus ordered Pork Milanese

Pan-seared pork scaloppini crusted with Italian herb breadcrumbs, served with asiago cheese-filled tortelloni pasta tossed in a garlic-butter sauce with fresh spinach.

We had the salad too.

So we get the salad, but the waiter wants to give a one soup and one salad. The salad was not really great.

Appetizer is set down and about three minutes later the entrees. First off learn to pace the meal dude and try to remember who ordered what. Not once did he get it right even though he claimed it would be good service.

I won't go in to each meal other than to say it sucked. Oh well another 53 bucks down the drain.

Today 1:15 PM. 8-28-09

Gus Meredith and I went out to look at a house and since it was in the area we decided to stop and try Postino.

Yes there was a wait, but then considering the size of the building it does not take that many folks to create a wait. It was about 20 minutes before we were seated.

My back was pretty much to the whole of the place so I did not really get a change to look it over, but what I did notice was open and light.

I think the person who seated us and waited on were nice, it seemed that way any how. I was not in the mood to look up and study them ;-{)

I had the prosciutto with brie on focaccia with the Italian picnic it was the select two

Gus had bruschetta and I forget what choices he had

~Mer had Autostrada

Well all I can say is I am happy we stopped here. the food was great, very fresh and clean where one can taste each ingredient.

So we will be back, aYUP.

I go here at least once every two years whether I want too or not. It usually is not, but I go.

Today was one of those days.

We arrived probably around 1:20 p.m. and the lunch rush was over; if it had one.

The young lady took the name and said it will be about ten minutes, ok no big deal. This gave me time to look around again for the first time. The building and the décor is tired and uninviting. It could be really nice if it tried.

Ok so this is not fine dining I know that, I accept this.

Our server was Cory; he did a fine job with a very pleasant attitude.

I ordered what was recommended to me by two folks; the Mizithra Cheese and Brown Butter. It is said to be a toothsome treat for cheese lovers. What in Gods name does that mean I have no idea? Nor do I know why a cheese lover would love this dish. I also ordered a salad and cup of soup. Clam chowder was the soup and salty was its name. I beg, please do not give me a wet salad, dry the veggies first and then serve them. As for the toothsome treat it self, well no. Bruce looked over and said; man that looks dry is it missing something? I would not know since I have never had it before, but I do know if this is a favourite dish of anyone they have very low standards in food.

I like good food; I want good food even in a middle of the road place like this. Find inspiration and pass it along to your patrons. I mean if I am going to remain fat I want it to mean something.....

Well We Went To FEZ Today For Lunch.

I was warned about a few things.

1. I will feel like I am 100 years old. Why, well because of all the pretty young things giving me the evil eye.
2. I will hate the music.
3. The service sucks. Because of the sweet young things which I was led to believe included the wait persons.

The cast members today are, Bruce, Meredith and me, Mike.

As we were entering we were discussing the fact about the patio is being remodeled. So when the Tall guy came to seat us he heard us talking and with a very questioning face and voice said "You want to sit out on the patio?"  Well of course we didn't it is well over 100 today. So we all chuckled about it and was seated at a nice cool table.  By the way Tall guy can be most guys as I am a Short guy.

Another tall guy I believe his name is Chad came over to take our drink order. So I with the iced tea; brewed please, ~B lemonade and ~M coffee also an order of sweet potato fries.

What we ate:

~Me a FEZ burger m/r with no cilantro sided by the salad.
~M a tan-tan chicken sandwich also with the salad.
~B an all American burger with no mayo or cheese and must be VERY WELL DONE.

All of us enjoyed the fries, they really were quite good.

My burger was as I ordered. It is more burger than I can eat at one seating so home it went. Although I liked the salad for some reason each bite made me cough so ate little of it. It was a reaction to my allergies, not to do with the food.

~B his burger was VERY WELL DONE but did come with what looked like a version of mayo. He ate it and liked it with no result of death from suffering the indignities of the mayo.  He did change out his drink since the lemonade had little lemon flavour.

~M ate most of hers except the bun side with the baba ganoush spread on it; it was not to her liking.

Chad at times is a little disconnected, but nothing to rant about.

Now for the warnings.

There we no pretty young things, so I felt my age ;-{)
I liked the music and why anyone who knows me would think I would not is beyond me.
The service does not suck. Although Chad is a nice looking guy as were all the wait people they do not qualify as pretty young things and they were all friendly. I must admit I was fascinated by the REALLY TALL blond guy. He was not our wait person but I enjoyed watching his face when talking to his customers, very expressive.

I did Spy Thomas. I believe he was just coming in. He is very well put together.

Yeah I will be back.

Just left here not fifteen minutes ago.

One table of ladies with one rude woman sat next to us. Not the restaurants fault, yet irritating that such people exist.

Lemonade to drink, just fine as is.

Brie Brulee 12

Quite uninspired in presentation and the brie was very ordinary, my friends Mer and Mike serve one of much higher quality.

French Dip Sandwich 12

This one was with salad. Another lackluster presentation, but that would have been ok if were good. It was not, or at least to me.
The beef was cut too thick and with it being too well done and the gristle made for a tough sandwich with little redeeming flavour.
It was left half eaten

Chicken Cordon Blue 10

I did not eat this, but Brice told me it was ok if all you were expecting is a chicken and ham sandwich. He did finish.

We had mentioned we wanted to talk with someone about renting the extra room, or get a card. The wait person said ok after we are done she will send someone out.
We did sit a while after we were done; no one came out or was a card offered. But it might have been because I guess I caught her off guard earlier.  
In the middle of eating our sandwiches she asked if everything tasted good. I said no, she looked at me as if she did not understand, so I repeated that I did not like my food. Talk about someone's face changing from a smile to a deer caught in the headlights, she stammered and said sorry then ran off. NO question of why I felt displeasure or any thought of remedy. It did give us a chuckle with such lack of attention. But what it also did was make us reconsider if we should even think about the room for a party.

So once again I am in the minority since no rave from me.

Oh yeah and we had to ask for forks. Hahhahhahhah oh well.......

We had reservations and we were late. I hate being late but I was not in control of our group that night so there you go. But even though we were late they greeted us with a smile and still had our table waiting.

We then were greeted by the wait person, a very nice woman with a great smile. She took our drink orders and appetizers .It all came very quickly. But it did not feel we were being rushed in any way.

I honestly can not remember what we all ordered for the actual dinner. But I do know it was VERY good. I was surprised in that we have had a recent string of crappy meals in other places that this is what I was expecting. But lucky for us we all truly enjoyed our food and time.

This was a few weeks ago and it is time to go back ;-[)