Cala Scottsdale

The food and service was amazing! It was a busy Friday night but you wouldn’t know it from the level of service we received. We loved our apps and entrees and have no complaints!

GREAT food, GREAT staff, GREAT design decor, but super loud, we couldn’t even hear each other. They moved us to a quieter spot for desert, but they crank the club music here and then everyone around is yelling to be heard, and it’s just cacophonous. But food was amazing and they were very sweet to us.

Service was excellent from our server. Food seemed overpriced. For example, a mid sized market greens salad (toasted pine nuts, shaved radish, caper berries, torn croutons, pecorino romano, red wine vinaigrette) is $15. To add a protein of chicken, salmon or skirt steak it runs between $9-16 in addition, for what looked like a 4 oz portion. And the salad was just ok. You can get a better salad at FlowerChild, LGO or Wildflower for less than half that. While I realize this is a full service dining experience, the star of the show should be the food and it should be just as good or better than a counter service food and beverage establishment IMO. Also of note was the iced tea was over brewed, way too strong and bitter and the color of coffee. We choked down half and added water to the other half to try to rebalance it but the damage was irreparable. We ordered dessert. It was a olive oil lemon cake. It apparently wasn’t stored properly. It was ice cold, not frozen but hard as a rock. Could barely get a fork through it, very dry and lacked flavor. Ice cream accompaniment had a lot of lavender in it which wasn’t described by server, not a personal favorite. Like eating a bath bomb. Parking is a mystery, no one stationed out front of hotel or restaurant entrances at 12 noon. Hostess was sitting down on iPad behind podium inside restaurant. Not a very polished greeting for a restaurant of this supposed caliber and price. We ended up parking down the block. Overall, I would not go back. Nothing special. Value of experience does not translate to the amount charged.

We had a late dinner around 8pm Sunday, it took about 20 minutes for our server to take our order and 45 minutes to get our food. The restaurant was not busy at all. The server was super was super sweet by the way and it wasn’t their fault.

We had reserved a dinner to surprise one of our friends. Before the restaurant we called to let them know we were celebrating a birthday if they could surprise her with a dessert they said no problem. After dinner we got the menu and once again we got up and told the waitress privately that we wanted to surprise her with a candle and something that just says happy birthday. We waited 30 mins for the dessert waitress had to go back and see where it was only to come out tell us no candles they ran out and the plate didn’t even say happy birthday on it….the least they could have done was wrote it on the plate.