[Mark]

Anybody been to this joint on 35th Ave. in South Phoenix?

They just featured this restaurant on Channel 8's "Check please, Arizona" restaurant review show (which is an excellent substitute for sleeping pills).

http://www.azpbs.org/checkplease/segments/restaurant.php?id=2877

[azkitch]

Wow...I remember the threads from when he opened in Buckeye...IIRC, he's nephew to the Neely family, and closed that location down to concentrate on catering. I wonder how old that show was on 8? Could it have been a couple years old? OTOH, the website is still up, which must mean something...he was getting some good press from the Buckeye location, and I think some of it was here.
Update 1--I did recall correctly. Darryl Anderson is nephew of Jim Neely of Interstate BBQ in Memphis. Mentioned on his website. Back to reading it...OK. Nothing else different. Curious to find out if this is current...

[Crash]

We hit the one that was in Buckeye a few times.  Darrell was the owner's name (I think) and yes, he was related to the Neelys.  The Que was pretty decent, although I did find some mold on the bread once.  They served their spares untrimmed, which I actually liked.

Their french fries were easily the best I have ever had.   

[Mark]

Kitch, I believe this episode of the show is new. The host is Robert McGrath of Roaring Fork fame among others. He speaks is a NPR monotone. His guests of the week are uniformly catatonic dullards. All could benefit from a transfusion of Guy Fierri's blood.

The owner's relationship to the Neeleys now sense because he was saying that his BBQ spaghetti was a family tradition.

[mustang]

Kitch, I believe this episode of the show is new. The host is Robert McGrath of Roaring Fork fame among others. He speaks is a NPR monotone. His guests of the week are uniformly catatonic dullards. All could benefit from a transfusion of Guy Fierri's blood.

The owner's relationship to the Neeleys now sense because he was saying that his BBQ spaghetti was a family tradition.

Well at least this episode was "new" when it was filmed in October (2010) and first aired on PBS in early February, 2011.  This restaurant review show is currently in "reruns" on Channel 8.   They are soliciting guests to appear on the future "Season Two" which will be reviews of Sedona restaurants.

I agree with Mark about Texan Robert McGrath's inability to host this program properly.  He has tons of chef awards, and I used to enjoying visiting Roaring Fork regularly when he was a business partner and chef there. Nowadays, he's the chef at Renegade Canteen in Scottsdale and still producing some of his fantastic rustic combinations of flavor and texture.

But he's much better suited in the kitchen than in front of the camera, IMHO.  It seems that a lot of industries go looking for a 'spokesperson' thinking that just because someone has achieved excellence and recognition in one skill (cooking, for example) they would be great at any skill (promotions, for example) which obviously is not true. It would be like asking an astronaut to run an airline, witness Frank Borman's performance at the old Eastern Airlines!  Just because you're a decorated fighter pilot, you're not necessarily the best CEO of a corporation with complex problems.  Of course, there are exceptions, but rarely.