Am I enough of a Yelper to tell you my guilty pleasures? I love Kitchen Nightmares - that reality show with the angry British chef. It's part business case study, part peek behind the scenes of restaurant glamour. I know its tough running a restaurant, but can the people on the show really not see what's wrong??!! So why do I think of Kitchen Nightmares when I sit at the bar of Fusion on a Saturday night? Not because it's a candidate for the show, but because it's the complete and total opposite. Fusion owners Matt and JenLynn Long have the essentials of the restaurant business down: great food, great service. Fusion is the most humble restaurant in downtown Scottsdale. Tucked behind the too-cool-for-school W Hotel and Axis/Radius, this is the kind of neighborhood restaurant you'd expect in downtown Phoenix. Walk in and JenLynn will greet you like an old friend - even if it's your first time. She'll help you pick out the perfect martini - a pomegranate, orange vodka blend for me that night - and make sure your entree is just to order. A curtain separates the bar from the main dining where families and couples enjoy their meals. Sometimes Fusion can be a expensive - $30-40 for dinner. But it's worth it for a dinner you'll remember like a dream - not a nightmare.

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I walked into ATF which seemed to annoy the sales people. Since i went there looking for one thing (a ar-15 mil spec buffer tube) I decided I'd ask, I was told they didn't carry them, so i decided to look around hoping to find a deal on some upper receiver parts. I noticed they carried Spikes lowers. As some may know you can get a spikes lower for $89. They (ATF) wanted $195... nothing else was priced reasonably either. So here is what i propose everyone looking for a ar-15 receiver order a spikes and have it sent to ATF get the same one they have on their shelf for less. 89+25 for the FFL is still only $114 now use the $80 you saved on your lower at another place that isn't trying to Rob people who may not know better.

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_________nom_____nom______nom______yessssss_________ 1st of All In-N-Out is the best burger ever not just on the west coast but on EARTH! You just can't forget the TASTE, these will call your name from your burger loving subconscious, saying "NOM ME", so taste is 5 Stars, ten even, no, A MEEEEELLION! These PRICES are better than any fast food place for the quality of food your getting here, for example: The Buns have been Made just for In-N-Out by Puritan Bakery, which has supplied these buns for In-N-Out Burger since the late 1950s, using only high quality all natural ingredients, They don't have preservatives and are used when fresh, just like everything else at In-N-Out. This has got to be why it doesn't smell like a fat sweaty trucker (ahem MacDonalds) when you walk in the door, it actually smells like delicious appetizing food! So price and Quality are Tops. The SERVICE is always atypically friendly, Its like they hire former Disney Characters, Im pretty sure they are like glowing sparkle Fairys or perhaps some other form of semi- Magical people. You just don't get 'tude here, ever. EVER. So staff is excellent. CLEANLINESS is one of my hang ups, I can spot a speck of ketchup on a wall at 50 yards, or a dust fragment from space, But at this particular In-N-Out Location, I know they have seriously high scrutiny for cleanliness. My last visit was just yesterday and they had a supervisor literally giving the wallpaper the ol' White Glove treatment, scouring the place for any specks of dirt, lifting up the fake plants and looking under the bins of salt & pepper packages, even searching the window shades for any sign of dirt. The folks behind the counter had White, clean aprons on and the whole place just gleamed with cleanliness. LOVE. In-N-Out will you marry me?

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Evening Call will get you more alcohol for your money and the extra shots are mixed in as they pour the slush. Fat Tuesday puts the extra shot in a test tube, so you can't really add it until you've already had some of your drink and tends to make more of a mess. You also don't benefit from generous bartenders like you would at Evening Call. Flavors are pretty good, really sweet so hard to drink too much if you're planning on sipping all day but not bad if you just go once.
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