Fine Dining Restaurants in Prescott, AZ

“The rooms are clean and neat. We love this old hotel! The staff is polite and friendly. We love the bar and restaurant! We will be visiting again next month for a few days to celebrate my birthday.“

“It’s been two years since we’ve dined at Murphy’s and it was a very regrettable dinner tonight.

Sat promptly and waters served right away. Still looks fancy. Clean. The dining room was basically empty at 7:30 pm

Ordered their crab cakes as an appetizer and that was decent, the dipping sauce was particularly good. My mother ordered a salad as her side, which came with the appetizer. It looked fine.

Then, we waited. And waited. And waited.

My son ordered a kids burger without cheese and was served a flat patty with cheese that looked like it was cooked yesterday. He had to request lettuce, tomato, onion, which I thought was odd. His bowl of French onion soup was abysmal and he used it to dip his tasteless burger. French onion soup is a difficult one with which to excel, I know. Still, this was a weak broth with very little flavor, a pile of overcooked onions, and a nasty layer of burned parmesan—and it was COLD. I’ve had better French onion soup at tiny diners across the country. Did not finish.

My daughter ordered the mac and cheese bites, which she did not touch and I did not expect her to eat because she doesn’t eat trash. They were hard, old, chunks of deep-fried who-even-knows-what. I cut one and saw maybe remnants of cheese. The entire presentation was a joke and an insult. I guess the kitchen just considers all our kids rats that will eat anything and so her dinner consisted of my green bean side and my mother’s rice pilaf side.

I ordered a 14 oz ribeye medium rare and was served a very well done steak that tasted awful and was also cold. It came with a mysterious lemon sauce that seemed to have thickened excessively while sitting out. I’d never cover my ribeye with anything, but I tried it on the mashed potatoes and was not a fan. I ate the steak and I didn’t complain, because I have a thing against wasting food, but it was disgusting. Seemed like it was cooked yesterday, like the burger patty.

My mother ordered a filet and she said that it was cooked correctly and she found it flavorful. She also liked the mystery sauce. So, you win some, you lose some.

We debated bothering with desert, but we’re kinda crème brûlée connoisseurs and so we figured, “at this point, what the hell!” We were served a small bowl (red flag) of vanilla pudding with a sugar layer that seemed like it came that way from a box and not at all freshly caramelized, garnished with whip cream on the plate (another red flag because it appears cheap). Rich custard? It was absolutely vanilla pudding. We let my son eat it because he doesn’t like crème brûlée, but he loves the chance to eat pudding.

Service was fine. None of this is the fault of wait staff. This is a kitchen that doesn’t know or doesn’t care to know how to kitchen.

Will not eat at Murphy’s again unless I hear that it is under new management, with an entirely new kitchen staff.“