Pink Pony
(480) 945-6697
3831 N Scottsdale Rd
Scottsdale,
AZ
85251
33.4924
-111.9259
Neighborhoods: South Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Downtown Scottsdale
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Pink Pony features a laid-back setting with nostalgic accents like cracker baskets trotted out with the iceberg-lettuce salads. This agreeably old-fashioned steakhouse is decorated with a mishmash of cowboy knickknacks and sports memorabilia. During spring training, the bar (lined with caricatures of famous sports folk) is packed with Cactus League fans, the occasional player, and two or three fair-haired groupies. Enjoy the beefy steaks, shrimp cocktail, liver and bacon or the honkin' hunk of prime rib.
User Reviews
Mineralake
January 25, 2009
Hey, if you want great steaks, go to Ruth's Chris and spend $100 per. If you want a decent steak, good service at value, Do the Pink Pony. It is what it is and it's refreshing, to some, to find a non-chain in the middle of Yuppie-ville.
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carey934
January 20, 2007
This restaurant is staffed and patroned by seniors primarily. My fiance and I are almost 40, and with the exception of one other couple, we were the youngest people in the place. Gray hair and bald heads were seated at most tables, as was the wait staff. The singer 'Steve' has no band and plays no instrument. He has a Karoke machine and sings Dean Martin/Nat King Cole-type music, which you can barely hear over the crowd. The food is mediocre. My fiance ordered the prime rib ($30) which arrived 2 inches thick, 11 inches long and 4.5 inches wide (yes, I measured it!) That could have fed four people! It was the single largest piece of meat on one plate I have ever seen. Definitely what a European would expect to see an American eat for dinner. Perhaps there is some appeal to folks 60+ years old, but my fiance and I just didn't get it. The cheesy atmosphere, the mediocre food, the noise and cramped surroundings were simply not what we were expecting, especially after reading all the rave reviews posted here. I should also mention that they added 18% on to the check automatically ($12.50 in our case) and when you pay by credit card, there is a blank spot for you to write in your tip. I am sure many people that eat there don't realize they are double-tipping, leaving as much as a 30% to 40% tip to the wait staff. It's an awkward position to be in to write a 0 in the tip amount, because I feel as though doing so suggests the service was bad. However, an 18% tip added AUTOMATICALLY, is quite generous considering 10% is the normal, 15% if the service was great and 20% if the service was out of this world. Apparently there is a lot of baseball paraphernalia hanging on the walls, but it was so busy and crowded (and dark inside) it made it impossible to appreciate it's significance.
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Anonymous
September 17, 2005
My brother-in-law spent a year in Iraq with the national guard. while he was there, his unit received a box from the Pink Pony restaurant in Scottsdale. Having never heard of them but appreciating greatly the much-needed supplies they sent, he wanted to thank them when he returned by eating there. As we were waiting to be seated, he mentioned the package to the employee and told her to please pass along his gratitude to the owner. She was suddenly excited and said that the owner would want to meet him. Despite protests of not wanting to inconvenience anyone, the owner was called at home and immediately jumped her car and headed for the restaurant. She made such a huge deal out of his service in Iraq that everyone in the restaurant must have thought he was someone famous, and a buzz spread throughout. The entire time we were there she showered him with compliments of gratitude, and he felt very honored. The food was absolutely fantastic! At the end of our meal she refused (despite more protests) to let any of us pay for the meal and also gave us Pink Pony t-shirts. My brother-in-law has never felt so honored for the service he did in the war, and thanks to a wonderful group of people there at the Pink Pony we will be returning to eat there for many years to come.
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Payment Methods:
Gift Certificate, American Express, Visa, Discover, Diners Club, MasterCard, Travelers Check
Restaurant Special Features:
Local Favorite, Family-Friendly Dining, Celeb Hangout, People Watching, Dine At The Bar
