Joes Farm Grill - Gilbert AZ

If ever there was a triple-d restaurant where it would be worth visiting even if you are not eating then it would be Joe's Farm Grill.  It might be a triple-d restaurant but it is definitely not a dive.  It is beautiful.  It is right in the middle of 12 acres of "permanent urban farming."

Outside there are picnic tables facing right out onto the gardens with easy inviting walkways right through the gardens. There is indoor seating, although I'm not sure why you would want to sit inside because it was so beautiful outside.  One possible explanation might have been the sign warning people from climbing the large trees due to scorpion danger.  I suppose this is actually the desert after all.

The name of the actual neighborhood is called agritopia.  The land was obviously extremely well cared for.   I strolled down one of the long walks and started chatting with a greek guy who said he was picking grape leaves to make dorma for dinner.  Dorma, he explained was meat and spices rolled in grape leaves.   He seemed like a pretty happy guy. 

Joes seemed to be really popular with the locals.  I waited about 20 minutes in line to get to place an order on a normal Monday night.  My patience was however rewarded.

I think that Guy Fiere ordered the barbecue chicken pizza but, that seemed a little too heavy for me.  I just went with the vegetable pizza and a mango-colada milk shake.  This was a vanilla milkshake with bits of mango and some other citric ingredients; I'm guessing coconut cream and pineapple juice.  The pizza was a personal sized pizza with peppers, mushrooms, onion and a couple of unidentified veggies on there.  All of the veggies snapped when I bit into them. 

You can't help but imagining the cooks gathering up the day's ingredients out in the field in wicker baskets then serving them up throughout the day.  I don't know if that is true or not but, I like the fantasy.  It seems to make the food taste better.

I would rate Joes 9.8 on my triple-d scale.  The imagination that went into the milkshake was really pretty good.  I'm not a pickle person but, they actually make their own pickles right here.  The atmosphere was just delightful.  Between the Arizona sun, the beautiful gardens, kids running around and young people on dates, the atmosphere was just extremely pleasant.  I couldn't think of a better place to spend an hour on a Monday night.

Joes Farm Grill
3000 East Ray Road
Gilbert, AZ 85296
(480) 563-4745