| My Florist Cafe is misunderstood - by nearly | | | | bad service, don't expect too much out of the food, |
| everyone. Living in Phoenix you get used to how | | | | disregard any of the servers suggestions regarding |
| things are. If you own a food spot, it's either a | | | | wine and what do you have? Probably one of the |
| coffee shop, a bar, or restaurant. Much like the clear | | | | more unique atmospheres you can find in Phoenix. |
| zoning lines between residential and commercial, | | | | For the price and the location, there really isn't |
| Phoenix food spots are either this or that, and rarely | | | | anything like the ambiance you'll get at My Florist |
| allowed to be anything else - it would be too | | | | Cafe. |
| confusing. | | | | With an upscale decor, enough tables to comfortably |
| So while the complaints about My Florist cover a | | | | fit a small group, the jazz piano in the background |
| variety of subjects from the lousy menu, the lousy | | | | and the hum of conversation filling the room, I would |
| food, and the lousy service, it's only compounded by | | | | dare say that there isn't anything like this anywhere |
| the fact that when you enter My Florist, you're | | | | else in Phoenix. Sure there are different places to go |
| expecting to enter an actual restaurant. Someplace | | | | such as Chez Nous, but comparing the two would be |
| you can get hot food, drinks and listen to jazz music | | | | wrong. Where Chez Nous is a great, dark, soulful |
| while sitting there pretending you're in a completely | | | | R&B lounge, My Florists is excellently open and |
| different city. One that's more metropolitan, one | | | | bright. |
| that's more urban and cool, one that doesn't shut | | | | However, in the end My Florist Cafe has spent years |
| down at 10 o'clock. | | | | and years unchanged. You can only say a restaurant |
| My Florist Cafe fails, consistently and miserably. | | | | could be so much more for so long. After a while, |
| Oddly, years and years of bad service, bad food, and | | | | you decide to give up on it. You [ Decide that it really |
| surprisingly boring bread haven't stopped people from | | | | won't change. You decide that for some unknown |
| giving this place a chance. Over and over again. | | | | reason [ the servers are different every week and |
| Sure they have one of the best jazz pianists in all of | | | | so are their managers - but at least the woman |
| Phoenix (at least that you can find easily without | | | | playing piano can generally be counted on. |
| having to be in any sort of music circles), but is that | | | | My advice? Try My Florist once a year. Don't order |
| really enough? With the servers dressed up, | | | | any food, and definitely don't order any bread. Bring |
| disappearing regularly and delivering plates full of hard, | | | | some friends, order a bottle of wine of your own |
| nearly unedible bread, while having no knowledge at | | | | choosing, not the server's suggestions, and have a |
| all about any of the wines they're suggesting, why | | | | great time in one of Phoenix's few unique cafes. |
| do people continue to frequent this place? | | | | Review Summary: 2. |
| I think our expectations are too high. Take away the | | | | |