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Deemo's American Grill
2525 E. Camelback Road ~ 602-381-6870

The cover of the take out menu for Deemo’s American Grill reads: Stocks, Sports, Spirits. It’s the perfect theme and setting for lunch with the boys. Throughout the history of men, marriage and making a living, “lunch with the boys” has been an important forum for allowing men to compare notes with each others crazed worlds of vanishing paychecks, wives gone mad, business deals squandered, speeding tickets accumulated and last night’s game.

My associates and I were seated and exchanged how-ya-beens; Greg; a high-strung business owner, began fielding questions from the floor about his first few months of marriage. Nothing much to report but we could tell from the glazed look in his eyes that he was still too confounded to report anything with accuracy. What he needed was a good meal.

After glancing through the menu he made a dead stop in the appetizers section and announced that he was going to have the Steak Sliders ($8.00). They came dressed with caramelized onions, gorgonzola, au jus and a side of fries. (Deemo’s does fries my favorite way which is shoe string cut and very crispy.)

Chris ordered the Wall Street Deluxe Burger with confidence (his office is walking distance from Deemo’s so he knows the menu pretty well). The Deluxe is 8 ounces of ground Black Angus with a large Portobello mushroom, port caramelized onions and Swiss served on a Kaiser roll. Chris isn’t a very big guy and the burger kept him fairly busy as he explained to us how his girlfriend has kicked him out of his house and he is living with his parents until she finds a job and moves out. Normally, this would be a real downer topic but Chris’s oratory style of talking with food in his mouth and waiving a French fry around like it was a cigarette kept the conversation light until it was cut to a halt by Chris’s boss Robert calling our attention to an attractive waitress.

Robert claims that Deemo’s has normal fries and special fries they make for him. I carefully inspected the differences between the fries we had received and Roberts “special” fries. There was no difference. They were the exact same. Regardless, the staff at Deemo’s had gone the extra step to make Robert feel special by calling them so and that counts for something even if he was living a lie as he munched away on his scrumptious grilled chicken sandwich ($8.00).

Deemo’s does their sandwich with a marinated chicken topped with provolone, chipotle-aioli and sliced avocado on a Kaiser roll. I won’t bore you with the fact that I also had the Wall Street Burger. As a food writer I should always try to collect the broadest number of dishes to report on but it sounded great and it was. All the sandwich items came with a choice of a house salad, Caesar salad, pasta salad, fries or Robert’s special fries. Deemo’s staff is fast and can turn a lunch table in a snap. That doesn’t mean you are going to get pushed along but if all you’ve got is forty-five minutes Deemo’s can handle it.