So I pull up because its my turn in line and the guy tells me they are having a special, you buy a hand wax you get the ultimate wash for free..The hand wax is 30 bucks the ultimate wash is 25. Sounds like a good deal right? Ok sounds good. He walks around my very dirty car and says you should get a buff (50.00) also your paint is oxidized ( my car sits in a covered space all day and is only 1 year old) I said show me where. He takes me to the dirtiest part of the car and says see this here its oxidation. I said no that's dirt from driving in the rain. Why don't we just wash it and wax it and call it square? I go in to pay and its 45.00. Hmm.. interesting. I get to pay 30 for the hand wax and 14 for the car wash.. that's not how he explained it to me. Cars already gone thru the wash and I am now sitting here staring at my car in their "detailing area" just sitting there. No one is waxing it or working on it. This place is a total rip off. I will not be coming back again. Not to mention they use the same dirty wet rags over and over again and the last time they washed my car it took 3 weeks to get the haze completely off my windows. Its sad. Have they no shame?? If i could give it no stars i would.
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It's ok if there's not a Bojangle's or KFC in the area, which there is so... why would you eat third best fried chicken?
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Yes! Now this is some good south Indian food! South Indian food is pretty different from North Indian food. Most people think of chicken tikka and palak paneer when they think of Indian food. South Indian food is almost always vegetarian, even vegan, and uses some different spices so the flavor can be pretty different. Woodlands is small, the restaurant lacks ambiance, and the interior can be dirty. That being said, the food is fresh, well seasoned, and yummy. My favorite appetizer is iddly (steamed rice and lentil patties that are very simple in flavor but should be dipped in sambar, which is easily described as a spicy vegetable soup). Vada are deep fried pieces of lentil and flour dough that are also dipped in sambar. For entrees, a masala dosa is a wonderful thin crepe like bread stuffed with potatoes (also served with sambar). Woodlands has lots of different types of dosa if you feel adventurous; I like the mysore masala dosa as it's a bit spicier. Vegetable uthappam looks like a big pancake and it's covered in veggies (again, served with sambar!). This is really yummy and filling. I haven't had the other entrees here but I will definitely be trying the uppuma, channa batura, and poori masal. I would give this place 5 stars for food, especially in Phoenix where Indian restaurants are few and far between, but the dirty interior knocks it down a star. That being said, if you set reasonable expectations, I think you'll be glad you gave Woodlands a try.
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Spak Brothers Pizza had some awesome pictures on Yelp which is why I drove 45 minutes to sample their fine food. Yes thats right, the pictures looked so good that I decided to go there. Today was the day. Spak Brothers sits a few blocks down from the Children's Hospital on the right. You can spot it a block away when you see the nice art on the side of the building. The inside is quite small. There is some art on the walls for sale, a nice arcade table, two pinball machines, as well as some counter seating around the perimeter of the shop. I personally loved the two ceiling fans that had no blades or the ac unit that was black from all the dirt on it. There was a nice bag of salt and a shovel up front which tells you how clean this place is. The staff was very friendly and they use a gas oven. No conveyor either. Just a good old gas fired oven. The staff looks like rejects from Miami Ink. Tattoos that made no sense and girls who thought they looked like Betti Paige. Why am I telling you about what the staff looks like and about the fan with no blades? Perhaps because the food was not what I thought it would be. They did have great pricing, buy 2 toppings and get one free. The pie I got had meatballs, hot peppers, pepperoni, and extra cheese (the standard for all of my pizza yelp reviews). The meatballs tasted like Mama Rosa's frozen special at your local grocery chain. The dough tasted homemade, but nothing to write home about. The sauce was not extra spicy, and if you didn't get extra cheese I have the feeling most people would not like the amount that they put on regular. Would I come here again. Sure, if I were in the area and i was hungry. Would I make the 45 minute trip...no. I would instead buy something local like a frozen Augustines pizza.
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