HIGH ON MUSHROOMS

We love it when we go in for one story but come out with another. Kinda like how Seftel will rip a place and then give it four stars.

Wait, its not like that at all. Its just Friday and were feeling feisty.

Take a look at the happy hour menu at Flemings. Pretty sweet deals for a place that caters to expense accounts and big nights out, right? Everything on it is six bucks until 7 oclock. Theres a burger made of ground Prime New York, about half-a-dozen slices of seared Ahi, and lumpy crab cakes. Theres even five cocktails and five glasses of wine all for six bucks.

But turn the menu over and theres a list of burgers. On a whim, we went for the Portobello Mushroom Burger and, craziest thing, it had us pushing away the one made of meat. This feeling of veggie-love being new to us, we had to ask the chef a couple questions.

He keeps most things secret, but agrees that the $10 portobello is the greatest thing on that menu. It actually tastes like a burger, yet as he says, it comes from the ground. So while the 5 for 6 til 7 happy hour is certainly newsworthy, that burger is a bona fide headline stealer.

*sample menu -- the wines are known to change from time to time.

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• howard seftel
• fleming's
• steve butler
• eateraz
• phoenix
• scottsdale
• food
• dining