Whisk Whisky - Flagstaff

Seated pretty quick, 15 minute wait. Drinks were great. Food....steak dinner and sides all cold, pork dinner way too salty, burger dry, forgot sauce, shrimp n grits just 'ok ', lamb tacos nothing spectacular. Out of 8 orders, no one felt their meal was great. Just fancy food cooked and served mediocre. Very loud, hard to have conversations. The wineglass with the pour lines was just tacky to see. Our server was fabulous!! We were out to enjoy a meal with friends, so nothing worth making a fuss about. But for prices, expected better.

Our first visit and all went well until the check came. Maddy the bartender took good care of us. House wine for happy hour was acceptable. The fried asparagus were surprisingly good as were the tangy wings. The atmosphere wasn't as nice as I expected based on the pictures on the website.What went wrong for only two stars? There was a 5% surcharge on the bill...no explanation or warning. I checked the menu online before visiting and again while sitting at the bar. I saw no reference to this anywhere. If it's there, it's in small print when it should be posted in an obvious place at the hostess station or other where patrons could make a decision of whether this is acceptable. It wasn't for us and we won't be back.

We had a very nice dinner, we were celebrating a friends birthday. We both wanted the salmon, they ran out but we recovered with the shrimp pasta. The French onion soup was delicious and the asparagus is always on point, we also tried the ricotta app that was also tasty. Was a little bummed we were not offered a dessert option for our friends birthday but overall it was great. I will also note the menu on open table is not updated to what they have now.

I was surprised to see that the bill includes a 5% surcharge to cover rising costs . This goes to the restaurant and not the service staff as our waitress explained. I don 't know of any other restaurant that has such a surcharge. Why not be upfront about it and raise the prices in the menu if the prices are not covering the costs, or list market price for the price of the items. Doing it at the time the bill is presented kind of hit me the wrong way.

As always, great service, great food delicious drinks