Pink Pony

Pretzel sticks with cheese and mustard was amazing!!! Totally ruined all other hot pretzel places! :)
I had the chicken sandwich, it was good! Husband had the blue geese burger, also good!
Friendly servers and staff. Covered patio in front for lots of fun people watching!

I was taken to Pink Pony for a first date. First impressions from the outside is that it’s a small, casual restaurant in Old Town Scottsdale. In fact, I’ve been in the area a few times and never noticed it before. Once inside, my impression changed immediately. It is very clean and inviting. The décor is very simple and modern. We were seated at a booth for two, but it was not cramped. My date chose the Pink Pony because of the mule menu; there are *seven* types to choose from. He had never had one, so we each picked one to try and compare. First round was the traditional Moscow Mule for him and the Tower of London for me. They were both refreshing and well mixed. The second round we tried the Bonnie & Clyde for him and the Oaxacan for myself. The Oaxacan was my favorite, but I like all things prickly pear (blame the desert rat in me). My date preferred the traditional mule, which is never a bad choice for your first time.
We each ordered steak, I got the NY Strip Steak (only because it was the cheapest red meat on the grill menu and I didn’t want to run the tab up too much) and it was delicious. It came with a salad, grilled brussel sprouts, and fingerling potatoes. Cooked and seasoned perfectly. It didn’t *need* the sauce that came with, but it was a bacon demi so I had no choice but to use it. My date ordered the ribeye that was on special and practically licked his plate clean.
The Pink Pony, like my date, really impressed me and will definitely get a second visit.
The reason for my 4 stars is the bathrooms. The restroom handles were horseshoes welded together into «M» and «W», super cute and fitting with the theme. But the W was pink. I get that it’s the «Pink» Pony, so make both bathroom handles pink. Not just ladies like the color these days. I’m not an ultra-​feminist, but that rubbed me the wrong way.

Pink Pony has treated me and the BNI group I am a part of extremely well. I recommend the Pink Pony to anything. Top notch Food, Drinks, and Staff. Rocky and Felix are my favorite staff members: A drink served by them makes it that. much better!

A group of us (party of 8) went to the Pink Pony on a Friday night. Used their valet parking due to the timer evening we were there. Well worth the $ 5 for this service. Simple and easy. The décor was very modern and well done. You can still see some of the old charm from the original décor though… The home plate and other baseball memorabilia along with Pink Pony references are place throughout the restaurant.
We order a variety of food which was all fantastic, I had the Fried Chicken and it was awesome. Crispy and cooked to perfection… another guest ordered the meatloaf and thought it was awesome… Burgers are huge… Enough for two people to share… And the Prime arab was said to be one of the best meals…
Our waitstaff was fantastic. Sienna made our evening. We had had a long day and were a bit sarcastic and playful and Sienna handled it with ease. She really hustled and took care of us without hesitation.
Definitely a place to go… we will be back.

Stopped in for just a drink at happy hour with my parents and sister while visiting Scottsdale. We ended up staying for dinner and additional drinks! The food was amazing. I had the prime rib dinner with Brussel sprouts, mashed potatoes and a side salad! The potatoes tasted like homemade! The prime rib was cooked perfectly! My dad had the fried chicken which was great! My sister had the wood fired veggies! Only thing that she wish was that it was on a bed of mashed potatoes!
The server and bartenders were great. We also even got to talk to the owner of pink pony. He was great and personable. If you are looking for a good restaurant with great food and reasonable prices this is the place for you! I know we will be back when we travel for holiday next year!

The place is very modern food is amazing defiantly order the pretzels and then blue burger great ice tea also order the ice cream sandwich. Great for large groups and family as well lunch hour Great views of out side. Dining area

You would think a steakhouse would know how to cook a steak to the proper temperature. They were 0 for 2 at our table. Nothing worse than ordering medium rare and getting one bite of medium and the rest medium well. To make it worse our server was horrible, despite only having one table. Hey dude it’s not our fault your boss makes you stay until close when there are no customers.

Excellent food! I had the steak salad. Probably the best I’ve ever had. Service was a little slow but friendly.

Great salad with salmon. My hunt loved the chicken sandwich. The fries are amazing. The best bartender ever works there, ask for Tori.

over-​priced tourist trap food. parking impossible.
been here several times through the redesign, new head chefs, new staff, new menu. unorganized vision/​management and poor use of a HUGE space.
lacks passion, focus and consistency. this defines Business Venture rather than Restaurant.

The pork chop WITH the Bacon Jus and mashed potatoes was very good! The complementary salad was blah and probably had pre made dressing. The Malbec was decent and only $ 7. My servers were excellent!!!

First time here found this place on tickets at work had a meal deal. I am so glad me and my wife came here for are 5 year wedding anniversary the food here is so good no complaints from me awesome service. Very up to date and modern with a smooth vibe thanks for a great time will come back again.

Wanted to check out the Pink Pony during my old town bar hop because from what I read about it, it seemed to be something I would like. I usually love the «old» places but was not impressed here. It’s like they wanted to lose the old school feeling of the place and tried to change it and make it modern and cool but I feel like they failed. It has a strange feeling inside and I had no idea what kind of place it really was or what they were going for. The service was also pretty blah as well as the beer list. Definitely my least favorite stop in old town.

We came here for lunch and had a blast! The bartender is super amicable and friendly. We were the only two at the bar and felt right at home.
We ordered the octopus, the yellowtail sandwich and the market fish special main dish. It was delicious
We will be back!

We stopped in one evening for happy hour to check out the facelift the Pink Poney received. Wow… what a change to put this place in the 21^st century! The bartenders were great, the drink list was extensive and really reasonable and the pretzels with cheese and mustard were to die for. We’ll definitely be back again for happy hour and maybe even stay for dinner.

Word on the street is that the Pink Pony is sporting a new saddle… And by that, it’s been remodeled/​revamped!
Embarrassingly enough, I have to admit that I have never been to this establishment in all my time living in Scottsdale. The pink pony is an iconic restaurant and a huge part of Scottsdale history, so it was worth a little visit.
I went after a two-​day long staff retreat… And as you can guess, my rubber arm wasn’t hard to twist as we were all in need of a drink, or two… maybe three. Who’s counting?
It’s the beginning of July here in Phoenix, and no one in their right mind sits outside in the late afternoon this time of year, so we bypassed the cool looking patio/​Arizona room-​esqe entry and headed indoors.
Inside we were greeted with a monochrome, sleek and modern décor with lots of booths and highboys to gather around. The place was pretty quiet but picked up after a bit. The demographic: tad on the older side, but whatevs.
Ordered a drink called «the forbidden fruit», at the recommendation of the bartender. Now I know what its deemed forbidden… No one should ever taste what I did! Unless you’re a fan of taking an ENTIRE pack of sweet tarts, shoving it in your mouth, and chewing them up, do not try this drink. I decided to be boring, but safe and order some sav blanc, and it was the most mind blowing glass of wine I’d had all day ;)
We went to town on apps; pretzels and beer cheese, hummus, sliders (they were to die for), blue Cheese fritters and chili cheese fries. A perfect combination of gut rot and awesomeness!
Not a bad little place to head for a quick bite and some drinks… I’d go back.

Having grown up in the valley of the sun I have lost count the amount of times I have driven past Pink Pony. For whatever reason, this weekend was the first time I had tried it. I thought since they had remodeled it, it would be the perfect time to try it! So this past weekend when my boyfriend and I were looking for a place to check out, we decided on Pink Pony since he was as curious as I was.
We made a reservation for 7:30 on open table, when we arrived we were greeted by a friendly hostess. We were sat in a booth in the bar where it was extremly loud. Why they sat us in there I will never know, there were open tables all over the resturant. Everytime someone got out of the booth behind me my seat would move, not wiggle but legitimately move. We were greeted by our friendly waitress, she was knowledgeable of the menu, and offered several recomendations.
We ordered the Wood Fired Octopus as an app and a Romaine salad. Both came out at the same time super fast which was kind of annoying. We had ordered a 36 ounce ribeye to share and we were told that it would take 40 minutes to cook, so the spacing of the food was slightly questionable.
The Octopus was ok but not great — it was Spanish Octopus, Garbanzo Bean Purée, Chives, Crispy Garbanzo Beans — Olive Oil, Salumi Butter and Banyuls Vinegar. It was slightly chewy and need some sort of acid on it — I squeeze of lemon would wake this dish up quite a bit. $ 13.00
The Romaine salad consited of baby romaine, parmesan
country bread croutons, crispy white anchovy and a citrus & parmesan vinaigrette. Again the salad was ok — the croutons was still pretty chewy, the vinaigrette was lacking a bit. It wasn’t bad it just wasnt great. $ 9.00
As I said above we ordered the 36oz Bone in Ribeye to share which came with 2 beers for $ 85.00. Since neighter of us drink beer we asked if they would subsitute something else for the beers, which they did without any hesitation, which was nice. We had asked for our steak to be cooked med rare plus, when it came it was so over cooked that it was almost like eating cardboard. We debated for a good 5 minutes on weather we should say something because we had already waited 40 minutes for the steak and we were both pretty hungry. So we ate it err he ate it.
I finally said something to our waitress — the manager came over and said oh it looks like several of the outer areas of your steak were cooked more well done. And told us that was normal. We informed him that the entire steak well done and not med rare like we had asked for. I get it we were eating it but that doesn’t make it ok. He offered us free desert.
I just don’t understand how that steak even left the kitchen. There was ZERO quality control. Between the cook, and the waitress someone should have noticed this steak wasn’t even cooked closely to how we had asked.
I was super disappointed with my meal here and wouldn’t recommend this establishment to anyone. $ 150.00 down the drain.
Bummer

I don’t get it. I just don’t.
So we go and wanted to sit on the patio and enjoy happy hour. They don’t *do* happy hour on the patio. do not get me started on businesses that don’t offer happy hour menus on their patios. Come ON, it’s Arizona. Let me also point out that it was completely empty. EMPTY. there were 3 couples on the patio and NOBODY inside. Our waiter «made an exception» for us. Insert my eye roll here.
The HH menu offers $ 1 wines (eh), and a variety of other drinks such as craft beer, mules, speciality drinks. We stuck with wine. They also offer a HH food menu. We ordered the blue cheese fritters and the wings. I’m sorry to say they were both terrible. Now, they were served to us literally 2 minutes after we ordered, which to me signals not so freshly made food.
I feel confident saying that because the wings looked mummified. THey were dry and brittle looking. They really didn’t taste any better. The wings have no sauce, coating, nothing. They are simply fried wings served with 2 dips, neither of which ‘went’ with wings. The blue cheese fritters were slightly better, but not much. Overcooked, over breaded and with a slight blue cheese twinge. They were nothing to write home about.
There was an obnoxious table that eventually sat down next to us. These four individuals starting playing loud club music on an iPhone. Loud enough for the entire patio to hear. It was beyond rude and obnoxious. When we said something to our waiter, he asked US if we wanted to move. Um, no, but you *could* tell the rude customers to turn their personal DJ system OFF.
We won’t be back again.

Since my last review the chef and menu has changed. They still have that cool modern décor and also play cool music in the background. I didn’t partake in alcohol but they still offer interesting sounding cocktails, craft beers and reasonably priced wine.
The Lunch menu offers some indulgent options that are carb heavy but also some healthier options too. To me the biggest change I noticed since my last visit was much more beef options on the dinner menu.
The tasty walleye pike sandwich I had last time was replaced with a house smoked salmon plate. It came out different than I was expecting and was more of a salad than a platter but still tasted good. The salmon seemed fresh and only had a light smoke so it tasted good to me. It was adorned with watercress, tomato jam, mascarpone cheese, roasted onions, fried capers and then topped with chopped up pony pretzels. The pony pretzels have a very buttery taste like Aunti Em’s but taste good with the salad. It was nice that every bite had a different taste. This dish was described as also being served with beer mustard with it and I think they left that out.
My husband had the Hot Mess. It was basically two tortillas topped with a meat green chili sauce, some cheeses, pickled onions, quark and two eggs. This might be a signature dish here because it’s very recommended and also very popular. My husband asked for the quark on the side because he thought he wouldn’t like it.
As our luck would have it the meal came out with quark so he sent it back. After a short time a new one came out with the quark on the side. The manager apologies to us about the mistake and does stop by after a few bites to ask how things are.
Not a solid 4 stars only because of human errors but I thought the food we tried was good enough for four stars.

Where do I start? Cocktails! This joint has an entire section of their menu for Moscow Mule variations.
That’s it. End of review.
Nooo. I kid.
But if you’re a fan of Moscow mules take a Lyft here. Partnered with a drinking friend during Happy Hour we were able to sample four of the six available. All include ginger beer. $ 5 during HH!
Yes, FIVE dollars.
[Be still my heart.]
Happy Hour is sweet. Mon-​Sat 3 to 7pm. If you come on Sunday a bottle of wine and pizza (or prime rib) is only $ 20. Monday ½ priced wine. Tuesdays offer $ 4 craft beers.
My partner in crime narrowed our eating options to street tacos ($ 3/​piece) and a $ 7 pizza. (What can I say? I’m a cheap date.) The tacos we had were amazing. I’d eat those again in a heartbeat. The pizza of the day was delightful.
This is a stunning restaurant. Outside seating for when the The Oven temperatures are not in effect. The bar has great seating. (You can comfortably enjoy a meal there.) Booths abound. Pink Pony has *tons* of baseball memorabilia. On the sidewalk is the original home base plate from the Scottsdale Stadium!
Being greeted like family at the door by the owner set the mood. I *adored* my visit to Pink Pony.