CHEF ALISAH'S - TUCSON, AZ

We don't eat here very often but when we do, we are pleased. oh, except for the one time, we showed up without a reservation and we were seated right away but oh, the wait was endless. I had to beg the son of the owner for some bread to tide us over.

And the son has been there on all our other visits too and there has always been some sort of 'issue' with his service.  But last night was the most pleasant interaction with him. He's young and usually acts as if serving food and taking orders in the restaurant is the LAST thing he wants to be doing. but perhaps he had a date set up for after the place closed since he was in a smiling and friendly mood and took our orders promptly and correctly.  So the only negative i could note was the state of his sweatshirt which was old and wrinkled and oh, so dirty. We were hoping the plates would not come anywhere close to that clothing.

The restaurant is small but the tables are not cramped together and the color theme is purple. Each time we've been there, the chef-owner has always smilingly come over and checked on us.

We got 10 of their sausages which come in the middle of this special spongy bread and accompanied by a wonderful garlic/yoghurt sauce and chopped onions. And the other entree was their goulash which is  magnificent. lots of tender beef in this tasty and spicy tomato based sauce and this came with a big bowl of coleslaw in this vinegary dressing and 2 'balls' of the tenderest and most butteriest (i know that's not a word) rice i've ever eaten.

And again, as always, we had lots of both dishes left for a  lunch. The tab came to $25 and this included tax and a tip. The restaurant is located on Oracle and Rudasill.