Midwestern Meats

Reviews 6

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Madysen DuQuayne

This review is about the restaurant at Midwestern Meats. We have seen the bakery and the butcher shop, but they have been closed at dinnertime when we visit. I have also seen many of the previous reviews. The good ones love the good stuff and rave about it. The bad ones hate the gross stuff and come here to complain. I prefer to read a thoughtful, balanced review. I have been to Midwestern meats many times and here I give my honest opinions considering my long-time patronage of this restaurant: **Pros:** Delicious meat. Cooked precisely the way I ask for it, time and time again. The med-rare is actually med-rare. Only place in town I can depend on my meat being cooked correctly. The perfectly cooked meat is what brings us back across town several times a year. **Neutrals:** The free dessert really is free, so that’s nice. You can have a small piece of cake or a tiny bowl of pudding, depending on what they have on hand. You don’t get a choice of free dessert. I get pie. It’s 99¢ a slice! The side dishes are less than adequate. The tiny bowls they come in remind me of school cafeteria food. The taste is a hair below school cafeteria food. Most of the waitstaff is courteous and adept, but we have had some over the years who really need different jobs. **Cons:** Pretty much everything else, but especially their recent choice to cut corners on important things. The most alarming corner that they cut is the filet side of the T-bone!!! They take it off! One of ours had a one-inch by quarter-inch sliver of filet, but the other had absolutely none. That is not a T-bone, people! That is a New York strip with the bone still attached. The meat was delicious, but we didn’t get what we ordered, or what we paid for. They serve rolls and baked potatoes, but there is NO BUTTER anywhere in the establishment. What do they cook with? Apparently, NOT butter! What do they set out on the tables for their GUESTS to use on their FOOD? Buttery-flavored 48% vegetable oil spread. It’s not even margarine, and it tastes greasy and disgusting. The last time we were there before tonight, they still had butter. It was on the table in a little bowl, wrapped in gold foil, and it tasted good. We asked for butter this time. The waitress said she would see if she could get some from the chef, who, if he doesn’t use butter, is only a cook, but the waitress came back saying she could not find ANY butter back there either. We took our potatoes home to fix them properly. We should not have to take our restaurant food home to make it edible. This is a deal breaker. We are not likely to go back to Midwestern Meats again, and that’s too bad. We used to like it a lot. It used to be part of our Friday night rotation. We have brought friends and relatives to this place for good meat, but IF we ever do try it again, I’ll call ahead to check if they’ve gone back to butter, or bring my own, and will never order the cheaped-out T-bone again.

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A Private User

If you go to Midwestern Meats, Bakery, and Cafe and you go for the food in a restaurant, you will be disappointed. Most of the clientele are winter visitors and the food is cooked the way they like it...bland and overdone. My husband does like the prime rib and almost any meat you get will be excellent. However, stay away from the beef stroganoff as it will disappoint. I have gotten cinnamon twist raised donuts in the bakery, and it took me back to my high school years. I have to make myself stay out of there, or I will surely come home with more. Their hamburger buns are dry so dont bother. However, if you are looking for excellent cuts of meat, this is the place to go. I also am from Iowa and was raised on corn-fed beef. Their meats are the best around. I often get short ribs here and they are meaty and always tender. They will cut them any way you like them. If you are a Midwesterner, you will also find ham salad there, and its just like you get back home. One note...their breakfasts are pretty good and much cheaper than a lot of restaurants around town.

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Walter Decker

Represented as one of the Best Places in Mesa to eat, my wife, I and another couple had our first and LAST Thanksgiving dinner at this establishment. Best part of entire meal was a cold salad served with honey mustard dressing served on side. The 4-dinner rolls, 1 each, served with a side container of honey butter for all, certainly looked nor tasted homemade. The serving of green beans for each of us had the appearance of canned, dressed with bacon bits. 2-pieces of sweet potato yams were ok but also lacked much flavor. The chucks (not slices) of Turkey including a gizzard slathered over with a tasteless white gravy should have been a tipoff the moment served. " Home cooking at its finest" this was not. The final blow was the serving of a 1 1/2" slice of Pumpkin pie per participant which the waitress thought we had consumed and failed to present until asked. Oh by the way it was dark colored, also lacked flavor but did have a dollop of Cool whip. The $ 60.00+ tab for this was excessive.

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Linda Schweizer

Our retirement community sponsors weekly events with one of them being Midwestern Meats dinner at least once a month. During the winters our groups are larger when all of the snowbirds are in town. But during the summer those of us who call Arizona home look forward to the 2-for-one meal that Midwestern Meats offers. We printed the 2 for one specials for July & August & planned our events. We arrived last night and after being seated, learned that this special was no longer being offered. Im sure others were disappointed as well as the restaurant was nearly empty. I heard others asking about the special only to be told it wasnt available. You would think that if a group comes in knowing about the special that it would have been honored (we always make reservations.) There are so many other restaurants in the area that will welcome our business starting next week. We had to cancel our August event to Midwestern Meats Restaurant.

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Alyssa West

The staff was very friendly and attentive. The food was very disappointing. We have been driving by this restaurant for years and have been saying how we wanted to try it. We finally did it and were very disappointed. the food was very institutional and almost cafeteria like. The steaks were cooked well and tasted good but my husband ordered the t-bone and only got strip, no fillet. Afterwards we went over to the bakery and ordered some dessert to take home and when we got home they were disgusting. They tasted as though the flour had gone bad and tasted very artificial. We threw them away. The staff was wonderful though and very attentive to our needs but we will not go back. We love supporting our local restaurants but this was sad. We have heard wonderful things about their butchery, we may go back to buy meat.

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gloria .koch

Bought 3lbs wrapped frozen lamb stew meat on Saturday Jan 31, 2015 so I could not see what it looked like and I let it defrost overnight and went to use it on Sunday and opened the 3 packages and the stew meat was 50 % fat so by the time I finished trimming the fat I was lucky to have a 1 1/2 pounds of meat at 11.99 lb so I threw about 18 dollars in the garbage . Lesson learned do not buy meat sight unseen because they tend to try and rip you off with all the fat . These people are suppose to be butchers and should trim the fat so there is some but not half the meat Could have gone to Coscto and bought loin lamb chops for about 8 dollars a pound and cut them up and not have the waste I have with this stew meat . Will think twice about going back there

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