Had a lovely meal. Great service and food. Not sure it is truely 'Mediterranean' but we all love it. Gorgeous environment and location.
Had a lovely meal. Great service and food. Not sure it is truely 'Mediterranean' but we all love it. Gorgeous environment and location.
Lunch at olive and ivy. Nice menu, very busy. You can order same food off menu and sit outside if you want. It was the type of restaurant that people from Scottsdale came to be seen. Some of the attire was very interesting. Many people...came there to meet another person. People watching is definitely entertaining.More
It seems to be a pattern in the Phoenix area that when one goes into a restaurant solo one is told that the only seating available for single diners is at the bar. If I had been given a table my review of Olive &...Ivy would have been five-star. There was a good variety of dishes one the menu and I chose one of the vegetarian options. After a recent bad experience at a vegetarian restaurant, I was pleased that the bartender recommended their sweet potato cannelloni as am house specialty.It deserved to be: it was simply delicious. The cannelloni stuffed with something like a sweet potato pie filling, were surrounded by mushrooms, nuts and other veggies swimming in a rich butter sauce. I would like to get the recipe! There were a number of recognizably good wines on the wine list, at reasonable prices; I had an excellent albarino. Yes, pricing at Olive & Ivy is very user-friendly. No wonder the place tends to be full! Reservations recommended if you don't want to eat at the bar.More
Second time here, first was for dinner which was enjoyable, save for a very loud and rowdy party of eight seated nearby. My bride and I thoroughly enjoyed our late lunch/early dinner today. Our server JC was excellent, the perfect combination of professional and friendly....I would come back just to have him as my server again. We asked to be seated by the canal and were given a four table for two. My bride had the hummus and it was absolutely the best ever. JC told us the kick it has is jalapeno pepper. Best ever. I had the piccante flatbread and it was a very generous serving. We were there mid afternoon but I noticed they had many staff and servers and runners. Management obviously cares about service to employ so many folks at a slow time. Kudos to Olive and Ivy. You will always have my business and my gratitude.More
Very nice setting and terrific food and drink. Definitely plan ahead. We were in Scottsdale for 2 weeks and we had to settle for a 5.15 reservation 2 days before we left.
First time to Scottsdale and I have to say the food and drink scene is super vibrant. Every time I stepped into a new restaurant, I swore it was one of the best places I had eaten at, until I came here. Ok let’s start...off with a shoutout to KJ; what a great server he is. KJ needs to have a class or write a book on how to be an over-the-top server, and people should attend or read. KJ, you are bomb. A few notes about this place: 1. Ambiance is really great. This place gives off a trendy vibe, but not too ‘to be seen’. I saw a mixture of couples, families, girl groups and guy groups. 2. The place is huge; there is an outdoor area that was not utilized due to rain. 3. Food is really good; can tell it’s quality ingredients and the flavors made perfect sense. I mean it was genius to have an eggs benedict over crab cakes (in lieu of the usual English muffin. 4. We had just one drink (espresso martini) but it was really good. Pretty sure the other drinks are just as good! 5. Their complementary focaccia and dipping sauce is soooo yummy. I mean I can eat that alone and not even order a meal. 6. We already covered service….KJ was awesome but even his partners were good. They cleared the tables fast and didn’t leave any dirty plates on the table, which is kinda a pet peeve of mine. Of the 10 restaurants we covered in 3.5 days, I’d say Olive & Ivy was my absolute favorite. I highly recommend this place and will definitely be back one of these days.More
We made our reservation well in advance which was good because this is a very popular spot. We got off to a slow start when no one visited our table to offer drinks for about 10mins. But once they realized this, a manager visited our...table to take our drink order and our first round was on the house, which was nice customer service. The food was excellent and the atmosphere is really lovely. The patio looked lovely, so I’d sit out next time.More
Thank you for the review! See we have an opportunity in our service timing, but glad that things turned good after that! Appreciate you dining with us!
Ambiance was great with nice evening lights and propane heaters. Also the decor was cool and modern. Portions of food are really good. For appetizers we ordered a trio of bruschetta and each one had a different topping such as butternut squash, prosciutto, and mozzarella...with heirloom tomatoes; grilled pit with hummus; and shrimp and calamari. Appetizers were great! For dinner our group ordered rock shrimp tagliatelle, crispy Japanese sweet potato, original lasagna, cheeseburger, and another lasagna but this one came deconstructed. My husband and I asked to share the lasagna. We ordered it without the meat sauce and asked for more veggies and to split the order. It came out with noodles, tomato sauce and veggies but in a child size bowl for myself and my husband. Our son didn't finish all of his cheeseburger so my husband finished off his. The meat in the cheeseburger was really good quality but a little dry. Basically, the lasagna could have been done better. For dessert we ordered a butterscotch caramel cake. The cake was delicious. In the end, the pros are that the ambiance is nice and portions of food are large. Cons are that food was okay and service was really slow. Took us a little over 3 hours t finish our meal. They lost stars due to slow service.More
Nice place to find comfort food. Good ambiance. Dishes were presented well. For Thursday, the service was a bit slow, but otherwise, it's a nice place to go.
Service and turnaround time great. Slim choices on draft beer. I had the worst clam chowder I've had for years. Runny, full of onions and void of clams. My wife had the avocado toast and the "toast" was burned on the edges so bad it...was impossible to cut much less eat. The server could have seen that and replaced it but that didn't happen. I also had the chopped salad. It was okay. Great location with parking garage very close.More
Our experience at Olive & Ivy was fantastic! Great service. Enjoyed our seating outdoors and the bruschetta, lamb meat balls & corn chowder during happy hour was delicious and just as he right proportion. Highly recommend this restaurant
The best white truffle mushroom flat bread pizza I’ve ever had. Crisp but soft and more than enough for 4 to share as an starter. The staff are welcoming and the atmosphere is fun and vibrant with all ages of patrons.
Olive and Ivy is still over the past 10+ years one of my “go to restaurants” . Fine relaxed dining at the outdoor patio with the misters is a magical evening under the stars with close friends. Service (of course) with Alissa was 5 Star...… Cuisine excellente’ … 1/2 price bottles of wine on Monday! .,, enhances the truly amazing atmosphere of fine dining … OLIVE & IVY … Thank you for keeping the experience “THEE BEST”… year after year !!! …jMore
Soooo disappointed. First time back since 2020. Went for brunch and it was terrible! I ordered crab cake benedict. the crab cake was purchased and made by the same people that make fish sticks. Same fish stick breading with NO crab and only about 1/16...inch thick. formed out of a manufacturing facility. The egg was completely cold, and the hollandaise sauce was VERY oily. I took most of it home and feed it to the dog...yep - that bad! I don't write many bad reviews - but this was beyond unexceptable.More
Hello! Thank you for the feedback. I will absolutely be making sure that this is brought to our executive chef's attention and that we are adhering to our standards. We are a scratch kitchen and make our own crab cakes in-house, but it sounds like...More
We didn’t make a reservation but were able to sit at the bar. Beautiful restaurant, great service, and awesome menu! Outdoor area but it was too hot to sit outside when we were there (116).