Indigo Crow Restaurant & Bar

Food poisoning! I ate at this restaurant and waited about 90 minutes to get our food. The food took so long that we finished our bottle of wine before our entrée arrived. The bread that they serve is amazing but don’t let it fool you, I got so sick from this place I would never go back.

So disappointed in our experience tonight. Cool location and really nice space with a promising menu, so we expected more. We started with the Ahi tuna and fresh mozzarella appetizers. Both were average at best– the mozzarella was definitely not «fresh pulled» as stated on the menu and the tuna was just bland. Kitchen service was so slow… 20 minutes for apps to arrive and then 45 minutes between first course and entrée arrival. I had the filet, my husband had the ribeye and both of us agree that we have had better steak at home, purchased at Costco and grilled by us! The ribeye literally tasted like A-​1 sauce had been poured on it and the filet with green chilies and blue cheese was just «okay». To top it off– we could see into the cook area/​kitchen and could see the GM hanging out in the prep line eating! He was literally stuffing either a chicken drumstick or lamb chop in his mouth in full view of customers! Sorry, we definitely won’t be coming back and cannot recommend.

Our party of 4 arrived on a Saturday night, with 6:30pm reservations. The hostess proceeded to tell us that there was a full house tonight, and so entrees will take a while to come out. She recommended that we order a bunch of appetizers in the meantime. We all thought this was strange because first, shouldn’t a restaurant be able to handle a busy night, second, there were empty tables on the ground floor, and three — she didn’t even apologize for a possible delay in our orders.
Our waitress shows up to take our drink and appetizer orders. The appetizers came out in a fairly short amount of time, but we had to wait over 15 minutes for our drinks. Her explanation — the bartender is in training and so our specialty drinks take longer. So, the restaurant has a busy night and they have a bartender in training working this evening?
Finally, there was no issue getting our entrees, but getting the table cleared of our dirty dishes took over 20 minutes (and two requests to the waitress). After the table was cleared, we had to wait another 15 minutes for the check.
All in all, I won’t go back. The food was good, but definitely not worth the poor service.

The only reason I didn’t give this restaurant one star is because the food was pretty good.
Although it took nearly 90 minutes to get our entrees. It was somewhat worth the wait.
The service however was less than decent…
Sorry to say this place is not going to last. It’s really too bad because it has a great décor and prime location.

We discovered this restaurant last Fall, left for a few months came back and found it this week to be as great as ever. Sam, our server all 3 visits there is super, knows the food and also know the wine. Very personalble and knowable. We like this place in our little Cave Creek area, give it a try. Happy Hour is great as well. Ginia S.

We had the most wonderful evening sitting at the patio bar. Katie & Brandon provided exceptional service. Can’t beat the half price appetizers. The seared ahi was so yummy, we ordered twice! Scallops, mussels and chorizo pasta were all delicious. My favorite was definitely the Gorgonzola mussels. Even the dipping sauce for the bread deserves a mention. Tastebuds very happy!!!

The food is very, very good — flatbread is great and the lobster ravioli is excellent.
The service is very, very bad — one bartender who did her best but one bartender on a very bust Friday night, ridiculous.

Fantastic restaurant with Owners and staff that are personable and friendly!
I ordered the Catalina salad and the Rack of Lamb!
Both fantastic
The owner then brought me a nice section of Lobster Ravioli to try and it was extremely good!
Ended with a Chocolate Brûlée w ginger cookie
Bottom line — this is a great restaurant that is a year old
Fantastic dishes with a superb Wine selection
There is a upstairs Bar and Outdoor balcony that offers outdoor dining w beautiful sunset views!
Will at the bar will provide you with Top notch service and is very personable and super nice
Can’t wait to come back!

Our compliments to the entire team at Indigo Crow! We happened upon the restaurant through Unilocal while in the area — and so glad that we did. The food was prepared perfectly-​not over seasoned — and they obviously use fresh and high quality ingredients. Our entire order, from drinks to dessert, was delivered correctly and totally yummy! The waitstaff was very knowledgable, attentive and professional. Thanks Bob and Sophie. We will be back.

A group (about 20) of us called ahead for happy hour. They accommodated us and even made sure that we could bring our ‘dogs’ (we were coming from an outdoor Art Fest and a few had theirs with) by seating us on the patio.
HH Food was Very good and there was enough variety for everyone. From sea food to Chorizo! They also had several drink specials that were tasty and unusual.
Will need to stop by for dinner!

Fabulous service beautiful place lovely location and wonderful food! The garlic bread is so yummy but if you don’t like garlic just look for the whole cloves and avoid them. Prawns are excellent sea bass salmon and mussels excellent. Nice portions too! Ok so We normally do not have dessert but our waitress Lanore said that we had to at least hear the list because they have an in house pastry chef. Well we went for it and the choc blueberry deal was awesome but the key lime pie was truly excellent! We are so full but so happy

Lord have mercy. This was one of the best experiences I’ve had for a dinner for the first time in a long while. We ordered the Brie En Croute for an appetizer. The Brie was baked in a flakey pastry covered in apples and berries soaked in a red wine reduction. Absolutely TO DIE FOR. My mom and I almost arm wrestled to lick the plate! For dinner I ordered the lobster ravioli and she ordered the filet. The garlic mashed potatoes were delicious but paled in comparison to everything else. The steak was killer in a garlic, butter cheese sauce. The asparagus were unfortunately bitter. The lobster ravioli was delicious and even though the main ingredient was cheese, it was not heavy at all.
The best of all was out server Karlie, she was so attentive and kind. She is exceptional as a server and I would hate to have anyone else but her for my next visit.

Nous avons été invité par des amis et c’était notre première visite. Nous avons adoré l’endroit. J’ai mangé le «airline chicken»…un pur délice. La sauce est incroyable avec un soupçon d’estragon.
Mon conjoint a pris le «ahi tuna» et c’était le meilleur thon qu’il ait mangé à ce jour.
Les garnitures dans les assiettes sont parfaites. Une belle sélection de vins au verres.
Le service a été impeccable et surtout on né se fait pas pousser dans le dos.

This is a review of their presentation this evening at the Taste of Cave Creek. Their booth had an incredibly misleading sample example (for lack of better terminology) at their booth. Five tickets was definitely on the high end for a sample, but when I saw the beautiful, thick, and generously sized piece of filet mignon sitting neatly on a pile of mashed potatoes, I thought, «Now that’s worth five tickets.»
Unfortunately, what I was actually served was not worth five tickets. Instead of what they had displayed, I received a small, thin, oddly cut chunk of overcooked filet swimming in a bowl of soupy potatoes. The size of the piece I was served was at best ¼ the size on display. How incredibly misleading. I was also not impressed with the flavor of anything in my bowl.
Now, I wouldn’t normally expect to receive a fine filet mignon dinner for five dollars, but if you tell someone that’s what you’re serving, then by golly you’d better serve it. Having felt totally lied to and like I wasted five of my tickets, I doubt I’ll be visiting Indigo Crow anytime soon.

This dining (not) experience occurred August 22^nd.
DH and I went out for dinner. Because it’s the Slow Season in Cave Creek, we try to support local restaurants. We were seated in a dining room that was 2/3’s empty but had what looked to be about a dozen servers on board. We got water immediately, then sat ignored for 20 minutes. However, we got to watch one server standing at the bar drinking wine, and two servers and a hostess (who later claimed to be the manager) leaning against the wall in the service area chatting. Another handful was standing around the kitchen hanging out, and two very busy servers were racing around tending to their tables. After almost twenty minutes of being ignored, DH and I decided to leave — there ARE other restaurants in Cave Creek-​Carefree who would appreciate our patronage. However, I did stop at the hostess station where two young girls were chatting to ask politely for the manager. One young girl says: «That’s me!» (I have to admit — I was a bit taken aback — she seemed very young to be in charge of what is obviously a very expensive build-​out and her demeanor was more cheerleader than leader, as evinced by the lack of staff supervision and her own gossip-​fest back in the service area.) Nonetheless, I explained to her we had sat at our table apparently in a cloak of invisibility for nearly 20 minutes. At which she looked at me blankly for about 10 seconds, then said: «Oh. Sorry about that.» Then she gave me another vacuous smile. Ooooo-​kay. So DH and I left.
Now, the chef and general manager (so who was the young girl?) did send me an email the next day apologizing for the incident and offering DH and me a gift certificate to try a return visit. I deleted the email. This is why: we had parked in the side parking lot between the restaurant and Cave Creek Road. We had made our reservations through
, which is an app that makes your reservations and awards you points when you check-​in for your table. It took us maybe 2 minutes (probably less) to walk out to our vehicle and get in. As DH backed out of the spot, my phone dinged and I looked at the newest email I had just received. It was from
, saying our reservations at Indigo Crow had been cancelled. And that’s when I got really aggravated. We couldn’t order a libation or get a menu in 20 minutes, but within 3 minutes the little manager-​girl made sure the 50 points we got for checking in was taken away. That was a bit much. Yes, fine, we didn’t eat there so did not earn the points, but she could have at least waited for as many minutes as we waited for service in a mostly empty and well-​staffed restaurant.
Since then, I of course talked about my experience and found that a lot of locals have not been happy with the service and sometimes the food, though mostly the service. So I guess they are planning to survive on tourist and Scottsdale trade. And Happy Hour. A few people said they do a nice Happy Hour, but they don’t *dine* there. It’s a real shame; beautiful restaurant and according to Unilocal,the food can be quite good. But there’s too many restaurants of this caliber in the area — -for $ 70+ a person, I want a guarantee of service and good food and not aggravation. I’d be a lot more likely to give them a second chance if they were one of the rare moderately priced establishments.

Great incredible people work here! Wow we were treated like royalty! The food — interesting and awesome! The drinks — fun and frisky ! Loved it — will be back and soon!!’

Upscale and fashionable this restaurant is in the Stagecoach Village which houses some typical higher end less touristy stores than in other areas of Cave Creek. The service was excellent and I liked the ambiance. We salmon and tuna which were excellent and well prepared. I would say they missed the coveted 5^th star if the menu was a bit more varied. Overall very good especially if you wasn’t something other than barbecue after your touring and shopping Cave Creek.

Had dinner there totally amazing. Food was out of this world. Kristina the exec chef knows what she is putting together. Next time I am in town it’s my new go to restaurant.

Just enjoyed a wonderful dinner again at Indigo Crow. Started out with a raspberry mojito, and I’m glad I did. Without a doubt, the BEST raspberry mojito I’ve ever tasted! That’s a big statement since I always order a raspberry mojito and so basically I’ve tasted every mojito in Scottsdale.
We brought friends with us and first enjoyed a round of appetizers to share: scallops, beef tenderloin skewers with Brussels sprouts, mango & prosciutto salad, (my 3 favorite appetizers!!!) then I ordered a 2^nd mojito, and could have easily ordered a 3^rd.
For dinner I enjoyed the rack of lamb with raspberry sauce over risotto. It was lovely and a perfect accompaniment with my mojito. Our friends ordered the airline chicken, and declared it to be «the tastiest chicken ever».
Although everyone was stuffed, we decided to share a dessert: red velvet moon pies. Fabulous. It’s not on the menu, so I can’t promise it will be available for you, but if it happens to be on special, do yourself a favor and order it.
There are so many wonderful things to love about Indigo Crow. This is starting to look like our favorite dinner hangout. Hope they get some gelato on the menu pronto and while I’m «wishing» maybe add homemade potato chips for happy hour. A gal can dream. can’t she?!

Killer happy hour!
Great food and staff.
Happy to have another option in Cave Creek.

The food here was fabulous. Everything came out cooked to perfection. Ambience is great! This place looks fabulous. Stagecoach really needed some type of life in there.
Waitstaff was great never needed to ask for another refill my glass was topped off