Background I'm in Phoenix this weekend for two reasons. The first is to stay at some ridiculously cheap hotels in Phoenix, given that in summer they more or less pay you to stay here. For example, last night I stayed at the Biltmore and booked a $99 rate through American Express Fine Hotels + Resorts®.…
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This was AMAZING. I can't say I'd be as disciplined to be on my best behavior. It would just be too tempting. Thank you Ben.
-JRL
I had a pizza from Uno's recently. The cheese was the same (unmelted). At least your crust looked browned (unlike mine). Maybe they were in at hurry. It was at Baltimore Inner Harbor on a Saturday night and they were pretty busy.
Since you're in the area try Pizzeria Bianco. Arguably one of the best pizza places in the country.
The reason they have no servers on a Friday night is cause they know they don't need one. Plus who would want to work and make no money? Anyways Samy likes to do everything, as we saw in the show.
They are definitely delusional. I remember they claimed their FB page was hacked and the FBI was investigating. Yeah right.
That is too funny it was completely empty on a Friday night at 8pm. Wow.
Enjoyed the write-up Ben! Now I hope you don't get food poisoning. LOL
You're just another negative bully blogger!!!!
This place HAS to be a front for money laundering. I hope you at least picked up the check for your friends after dragging them to this train wreck.
What a sad story.
I hate it when bad things happen to good people.
...By which I mean your friends of course.
When I watched the show and also after seeing your photos I wonder how good their baked food is. In particular the cakes. They look really good and I think Chef Ramsey had no complaints about the cake. If so they should stick to their name and focus on baking.
@EndlosLuft - From what I remember, the cakes (and other sweets) aren't housemade, even though they are claimed to be. They're actually purchased from other bakeries and passed off as being made in-house (ABC actually stole images from other bakeries and put them on Facebook as their own...). The desserts might be a safer choice than actual food from the menu because of that 🙂
Ben, everyone is capable of isolated charm and attentiveness. if you'd have said the wrong word, you'd have seem a tv flashback from such a loose cannon. frankly, i don't know if i could do it- i'd feel 'dirty' giving them my money. i'd hate to think 'experience' diners are keeping these 2 lunatics in business.
I find Phoenix to be pretty awful all of the year, summer obviously even worse. I will never figure out why they stopped the wagons there, or Tucson for that matter, so i hope your mattress run was worth leaving the beautiful Northwest, which is spectacular this time of year.
After how they treated customers on the show, there is no way I would frequent their business that would 'indirectly' help to fund their 'business'. Honestly, I'm surprised they still managed to stay open given all that's happen and the few customers they get.
I lived for 8+ years just down the road from the place. Maybe 1-2 miles. Head east on Shea and south on Hayden and take the first left into a nice neighborhood.
The place to eat in that shopping center is Betterfields. Great breakfasts. Pancakes are excellent plus they have a German style pancake that takes ~30 minutes because they are baked in an over.
Also there is a Gelato place and another restaurant that gets the crowds. I don't recall ever seeing a crowd in ABC and it always had a bad reputation. Besides the food places I use to frequent the shopping center often because there was a gym across from ABC for about 10 yrs before they were bought out and closed down.
Next time you are out that way check out those places or even better get a rental car and drive about 90 minutes north and spend a day in Sedona seeing the red rocks. Well worth the visit.
How do they stay in business with so little business?
Maybe the money laundering theory is accurate, but for that to work, they need revenue.
My thoughts are that if there are really that few customers, then how old is the food that Lucky was served? When I was younger I worked as a waiter for several years and we would have to replenish the food in the kitchen every two days. I don't see that happening here unless everything is frozen.....
Maybe the bakery section carries it (or now the T-shirts).
How was the desert?
Lucky you are too funny that you actually went there. Not sure if you ever caught the cartoon version at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfD8L1euBuk
@ Carl P -- The dessert was fairly good. Not the best I've had in my life, but really quite good.
Ben, all you had to do was post Nick's hilarious video and we'd have had all the humor without having to read about you rewarding delusional assholes with real money. The money you spent was a vote of confidence for more of the same crap in the minds of those two. Like many other posters what really makes me scratch my head is how this company can stay in business after alienating anyone who might want to work or eat there. I have no specific knowledge of how these owners collected enough money to fund this abysmal excuse for a restaurant but I can say that they don't appear to have the morals or ethics to have earned it honestly. The cook is all God this and God that, but never here her consider treating her employes the way she'd want to be treated in their situation. You'd think we already had enough spiritual fraud on this planet to last us hundreds of lifetimes, but I guess there's always room for more so long as you can convince people with nothing else going on to come over and pay good money for the freak show.
The first time I heard about ABC was when you posted about the video during one of your LH's dining experience. I saw the full video. Next time I am in PHX I will go to ABC and test that out. I will try to talk to Amy as well and see how grumpy that kid is! Kudos that you tried this one is. We did sth like this in Boston suburb and felt so weird that I wanted to dispute the charge on my CC though I did not!
Lucky, @abby hit the nail on the head. Those two deserve each other and everything they are currently reaping.
So, perhaps that episode was more "reality" than most. It really was something else; thanks for scoping the place out as I was actually thinking of going in Feb., but now you have answered my questions and confirmed it is a awful place.
@ Alex - You’re just another negative bully commenter!!!!
You HAVE to be a front for harassing Lucky and Amy's Baking Company. I hope you at least thought about apologizing to Lucky after typing this train wreck.
Amy and Samy has nothing to worry about cause the people I know will know NOT TO GO TO THIS RESTAURANT THE OWNERS ARE STUPID AND STUCK UP. PLEASE PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD DO NOT GO TO THIS RESTAURANT AT ALL. THEY TAKE THE WAITERS TIPS SO SAD.
Amy doesn't bake or cook. Their entire menu was bought elsewhere, they pull food out of cooler, into microwave, to table.