Problem: Place is the hometown brewery, excellent staff. Fate's brewers show tremendous creativity and willingness to take risk as demonstrated by the breadth and depth of beers brewed. The folks behind the bar are enthusiastic and knowledgeable about their product. They are always willing to let the timid or curious try a taste of something new and different! I learned to enjoy a good sour here. It's an entire range of beers I'd never liked before. Fate collaborates with other breweries to make some very tasty beers. Right now on tap are the 1055/Fate Into the Wind Sour Stout, and the Dragoon/Fate Infringement Pils with its 4 pounds of habanero chiles. And they're both well worth trying. The food is simple - only what can be done in a brick oven or cold. So it's pizzas (all good, very thin crispy crust) or simple sandwiches. Not on the current menu, but available if you ask, is the Molto Carne pizza, which is the carne plus kalamata olives. They make their own chile infused olive oil as a garnishment for the pizza or sandwich. Best deal is the Friday lunch special - small pizza and a salad for $10. Their salads are well done, not simple, I get the Fate salad with the spicy nuts and the Molto Carne. I highly recommend Fate Brewing Company!
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Problem: Went in after finals to have some drinks and listen to some music. We were really hoping for some food, but I guess after 10 on a Friday night is just way too late. So we got some drinks, which were oddly expensive. $7.50 for well drinks? Come on. But the absolute best part of the night was when our two male friends started dancing with each other and were immediately pulled outside by the bouncers to be interrogated about what state they were from, how much they had to drink (none at this bar, thankfully), and were then told in a less than subtle manner that they needed to leave. Considering how raunchy some of their other straight patrons were getting with their dancing, I can really draw only one conclusion as to why two men were asked to leave, just for dancing together and nothing else. So thank you Toby Keiths. Thank you for re-enforcing everything I knew about Toby Keith and Arizona in general.
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Problem: Anytime a new trend develops, you can count on the hipster trendoids loving everything about said trend, paying ridiculously overpriced tabs, and bragging how they got there first. One of the latest trends is, in a need to pretend to be eating healthy, eating some really weird stuff, that is marketed and wrapped in words like ORGANIC, WHOLE and TRUE. "YUMMERS! The Clarified Tibetin Yak Feces on Mandarin Chiffonade Soil Wafers with Escargot Infused Pablano Aioli is the best thing I've ever had." Yeah, Ok. For the trendsetters, trendoid wanna-bes, and lemming followers, this sounds great. There are a few of us, however, who understand that you're just eating YAK SHIT, ON A DIRT CRACKER, WITH SNAILS AND MAYONNAISE. Cut to True Food Kitchen in Scottsdale. With delights on the menu such as TUSCAN KALE SALAD, BUTTERNUT SQUASH PIZZA, "INSIDE OUT" QUINOA BURGER, and SHITAKE & TOFU LETTUCE CUPS, made from quality ingredients like SULTANA, FARRO, COCONUT SHELLFISH BROTH, & TELEGGIO, Yak Shit lovers must be cartwheeling. I made the mistake of ordering a Turkey Burger from True Food Kitchen at the behest of a Yak Shit eating co-worker who "just had to have" a Bison Burger. For $12 you get the following; Turkey Burger, Provolone, Lettuce, Tomato, Avocado, Mayo & Flax Seed Bun. Seems harmless enough, even almost tasty. Nope. It's hard to imagine screwing up a turkey burger this badly. Soggy, greasy, slimy....JUST PLAIN BAD. REALLY BAD!! The patty was dry. The bun was a soaky soggy. The worst, from a place that boasts "Honest food that tastes really good," is the terrible condition of the produce on this burger; slimy to the point of being gelatinous. Just plain gross. I took one bite and threw the rest away. Sorry, True Food Kitchen. I won't be back. Enjoy the KALE-ADE, THE SPAGHETTI SQUASH CASSEROLE & THE GRASS-FED BISON. To me, It's all just Yak Shit.
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Problem: Can I give two separate ratings? The two is an average of my two stops, for which I'd give it a 5 and a 0. Obviously the 5 visit came first or I wouldn't have been back. The first trip was great! My plane landed and I yelped for taqueria's (after 3 months in NJ following a year in SoCal I was dying for good mexican) this place was close to the airport with good reviews so I figured I'd give it a try. Fantastic, simple, cheap and delicious. The hot sauce was great, so tasty. This was therefore our logical dinner stop on our way back to the airport after a week and a half traveling around arizona and utah. I tried to order the "grande burro" with beans instead of the meat. I am a vegetarian, but I wanted the lettuce, tomato, and guacamole instead of just beans and cheese. After 5 minutes of discussion, trying to explain this (the girl at the counter spoke perfect english, I don't know why no meat was so confusing) she convinced me to just get a bean and cheese burrito. Fine whatever, so I got a bean and cheese burrito. Or so I thought. I cut into it (sitting in my car in the parking lot b/c they had closed the seating area for the night) and found a chunk of meat. So I brought it back, and told her that I didn't want meat. She was incredibly nice and very apologetic and had the cook re-make it "without" meat. At this point I'm looking at my watch wondering if we're making our plane. My boyfriend finished his food before I got back to the car. So I come back with a new burrito (and no new salsa since I'd dumped the salsa they'd given me onto the first burrito before seeing the meat :( ), dig into it and not seeing any meat, we drive off. Munching along while driving, I came across the meat. The rest of my burrito went into the trash at the car rental return place and I went home hungry and disappointed.
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