text: This place was a joke Talk about trying way to hard to be what some year old guy in Scottsdale thinks is cool these daysnnThis is Urban Outfitters in restaurant form which might be forgivable if the food was any good or the menu cohesive For a gastropub the beer list was pretty pedestrian and the beer menu was inanely laid out The menu was all about clever pseudohipster layout and not at all about conveying information about the beers On tap they have Lagunitas but which Lagunitas They make several different brewsnnThe food was again trying way too hard to be trendy Unfortunately the gastropub trend jumped the shark years ago as evidenced by this prepackaged chain restaurant In fact I think that this incarnation of a gastropub cooked up by some restaurant company in that culinary mecca and launching pad of a dozen chain restaurant monstrosities of Scottsdale AZ may be the ultimate and final indicator of the gastropub shark jumpnnThe douchey beats from the pool outside pound through the restaurant and are beyond annoying The pretzels were stale and the cheese sauce they came with was grainy with too much flour in the bechamel The chicken curry was laughably bland with a couple of strands of dried up chicken breast and no rice i took this one to gonnThis place is so derivative and contrived Simon Kitchen First Food and Society are already doing the comfortretro food much better and do not need to package their menus in some goofy obvious appeal to a specific demographic except for First which is itself an overlyconceived douchatoreum but with slightly better food than CDnnThe funny thing is that they are obviously trying to appeal to Brooklynhipster types the exact people who would not be caught dead in the HRH let alone this charicature of a restaurantnnOne extra star for the cool couches