CeZar's at Hotel Scottsdale

Name: CeZar's at Hotel Scottsdale
Address: 5101 N. Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 85250
Phone: (480) 945-4392
Web site: CeZarsRestaurante.com
Date & Time visited: Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 9:30 PM
Guests: Jennifer and me
What we had: Seafood bisque (me), smoked salmon tostada (Jen), Dungeness and blue lump crab cake (me). I had also ordered a Valencia pizza, but see below. We shared all three dishes, which were on the Tapas menu but served as a light dinner for two. The bisque was creamy and flavorful with a bit of heat, the smoked salmon tostada had plenty of salmon and a crunchy tortilla, and the crab cake was perfectly made with just enough breading but not too much.

Service: Inconsistent. Seated immediately, took quite a while to place orders. Drinks came quickly, food took a long time. The Valencia pizza actually never made it out; the server came up apologizing left and right that it had been forgotten in the oven and burned, and they would start a new one for me. As it happened, we were both pretty full from the three other items so I told him to just forget it. That would have been the end of it except he kept apologizing, over and over and over. And over. Got pretty tiresome towards the end of the meal.

Would we go back: If we're staying at the Hotel Scottsdale again, which is fairly unlikely, yes. We did go back for breakfast the next two mornings.