I did not eat here, but I did check the restaurant and menu out as I was trying to decide on a good restaurant at Aria. What really turned me off was the atmosphere and decor. The place is massive, cold and the lighting was very flat, depressing and unflattering. Though the interior was modern and cool, it was nothing special and felt like I was in an empty half built cafeteria (there must have been only 3 tables that were occupied in the carnivorous space) devoid of any character. There wasn't even any music, which made the space errily silent. I did not feel comfortable at all. The menu looked rather uninspiring, and after hearing all of the disappointing reviews here on Yelp, I was happy that I didn't take a chance eating here. Tiny portions and a typical tab of $500+ on top of that would have made me really angry. I have had excellent shabu from other restaurants with much livelier atmosphere, satisfying portions and personable service for a tenth of the price here. Seeing how expensive the restaurant must have costed to build and the near empty dining room on a typically busy restaurant night, I can't see this restaurant surviving much longer. Luckily I went to Julian Serrano nearby and had an excellent dinner.

negative

San Fran based boutique hotel chain. Kinda an oxymoron. Their decor theme is an outrageously bright desert sunset which turned out to be the ugliest decor imagineable. I think their flamboyant designer needs to lay off the acid trips before designing their next chain link. Not an ounce of charm.

negative

Visited this new spot very recently and I was less then impressed with their establishment and service as a whole. The smoothies that they made were okay in taste but not worth the money they charged for it. The service was relatively inconsistent as far as when the food, apps, drinks came out to my table. As far as specifics on food goes, they were pretty stingy when it came down to dressings and sauces and did not serve nearly enough with my meal. Furthermore the actual plates (if you can call them that) that we were served in were of really poor quality which I did not like at all. Lastly as a bigger guy I need larger portions and Chop Shop definitely does not have that. The portions were way too small and did not fill me or my friends up at all. Not great by any means.

negative

I've eaten numerous times at the Chandler location so expected this to be a similarly pleasant experience. Boy was I wrong. Let me start out by saying the service was rotten. We walked over from Little League opening day, and my son was chastised for having a partially full Gatorade container left over from the game. We were told we had to hide it in my wife's purse, and the server would "pretend she hadn't seen it." At first I thought the server was getting after my wife for preparing my 4 month old's bottle. Did I mention the service was rotten? The food is what it is. Fairly standard sports bar food. The prices aren't overly expensive, nor are they very cheap. My chicken fingers ended up being about an eight of an inch in diameter strip of chicken swallowed by two inches of thick, almost tempura like batter. It reminded me of something you'd get out of a fair booth. My sweet potato chips were fine, except for the quarter inch deep pool of grease under them. My wife's salad looked like it was left-over from another table from someone who couldn't finish all of theirs. We verified she got ripped off on the way out because two other ladies had the same dish, but had substantially more in their salad bowl. Did I mention the service was rotten? My son said his shrimp was bland and the BBQ sauce was too strong. This was unsolicited from a 12 year old. After having been stuck in there without seeing our server for about 45 minutes, we finally tracked her down, asked for a doggy bag (literally this time) for left-overs. Several minutes later she returned with the togo container. Did I mention the service was rotten? But with no check. Did I mention the service was rotten? After another 20 minutes I gave up and hunted her down asking for the check. Paid and my son wanted a refill on his soda. I already knew I wasn't going to wait for the server to return to our dimension from wherever it is she disappears to. So I walked over to the bar where there were 4 bartenders, with my baby in her seat on my arm. Did I mention the service was rotten? After standing at the end of the bar for several minutes I realized poor service wasn't limited to just our server, but it appeared to be a store policy. Did I mention the service was rotten? So I walked back over to the waitress station and refilled it myself. Did I mention the service was rotten? Wasted almost 2 hours of my life in there, and my wife was hungry within two hours of getting home. In case I forgot to mention it, the service was rotten.
negative