Sassi

My wife and I had dinner at Sassi on 10/27/2010 and wanted to share our experience on this board. We used the previous comments posted on this board to help make some of our dinning reservations, while visiting Scottsdale on vacation. When we first arrived in the restaurant around 7:30 PM, the hostess was no where to be found. Out of the corner of our eyes, we noticed that there was a nicely dressed woman was flirting at the bar with the bartender. After waiting about 1 min, this same person came over to us and finally greeted us. The hostess did not apologies for this initial delay in her arrival. The hostess then proceeded to take us to our requested table. The restaurant is broken up into several small rooms, each of the room as a different theme within it. Some have stone walls, some have wood walls, some have wood beams in the ceiling and others do not. All looked very nice and would appear to be quiet for a romantic dinner. Once sited at our requested table, the waiter greeted me by name (very nice touch) and welcomed us to the restaurant. We were asked what type of water we'd like to drink and if we'd care for a cocktail or not? I then asked the waiter for the wine list, as we thoroughly enjoy a fine bottle of Brunello wine with our dinner. We made our dinner selections and also chose a $150 bottle of wine. What appeared to twin sommeliers (one woman, one man and both wearing a wireless communications systems around each of their wastes and a headset hanging over each of their shoulders.) later approached our table. The woman sommelier (dressed in jeans and a gold blouse), left two large wine glasses on our table and then the man sommelier presented the bottle of Brunello to us. He then began to decant our bottle into a nice glass decanter and subsequently divided up to small portions in both of our glasses. Our two different type salads which we had both arrived soon thereafter. We both looked at each other and were not at all happy with the taste of each of these salads. Both of the salads tasted bland at best. The waiter never offered any freshly ground pepper as most high end restaurants offer. These salads were poor at best. You could taste a better salad at a fast food type chain. At this time, we had both finished off our small amounts of wine in our glass and our waiter had stopped by our table several times checking on us and never filled the wine glasses back up. We looked at each other and thought that this was somewhat weird and just assumed that perhaps it was the sommelier's job to do this, so we waited, and waited and waited and waited. No one EVER re-filled our wine glasses for the rest of the entire evening. I had to re-fill our own wine glasses for the rest of the evening. In such a highly touted restaurant, this was absolutely ridiculous. We then received our main courses (my wife had a large Veil Chop and I had a combination Chicken Dish). Again, bland at best with hardly any seasoning on each. The veil chop was nothing special and my chicken was accompanied by with some watery chicken sauce and mushy (what appeared to be) risotto. The waiter cleared off our plates and by now empty wine decanter and never once thought.....Hmmmm? Was it his job to refill or glasses or the sommeliers? Guess we'll never know. I just felt some uncomfortable having to pour our own wine for the entire evening. Just ridiculous and unacceptable at this supposedly ""high end"" restaurant It should be noted that there's no salt and pepper shaker on any table in this restaurant. Wonder why? Didn't want to insult the chef, who doesn't use many seasonings in his entrees? We sure could have used some seasoning on our salads and main courses. We looked at the desert menus soon thereafter, but decided not waste any more of our time or money at Sassi. I then asked for the bill, it was brought to me in a time manner and quickly paid. It should be noted that there was no hostess at the main door of the restaurant, to say good evening and or thank us for our patronage. Overall, the ambiance was very nice, the service was mediocre to poor and the food was down right horrible. Don't waste your money here. There's many other great restaurants in Scottsdale, which are will certainly appreciate and thank you for your patronage.

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