Nine Cities Craft — Restaurant in Palm Springs

Really cute place. Clean. Good tunes. Lots of seating. Fake nice customer service, despite it being passive aggressive, it was fine. Very expensive, but compared to the only other places open at 4:30am in the airport, not bad. Even though they open at 4:30, and were 10 minutes late opening, took his sweet time to rearrange chairs, but didn't tell those of us waiting that all they could offer was black coffee & yesterday's blueberry muffins until 5am... until we were standing in line, apparently to his annoyance. Given the poor taste, they may even be day before yesterday muffins. Not even tea or juice?! I have to admit, part of me wonders if the lack of available items was due to the late opening. Coffee was awful and tasted like the cardboard cup it was served in. Overall, decent for the price & the menu looks great, had I had the chance to actually try any of it. I wish they were more transparent about timing & availability of items. A simple sign saying no food until 5am would lessen the...

Waited at the front for someone to seat me. No sign and no one came. Bunch of young waitresses talking to each other at the computers. Other people walked in and sat themselves. Only table that was left had been sitting I cleaned for the ten minutes I was waiting. So I sat at it. Another five minutes later one of the aforementioned waitresses steamed over and told me to get up and wait at the front till she cleaned the table. The people sitting in either side of me were shocked. I didn’t move of course. At this point I had already chosen not to eat here. Eventually, ten or so minutes later, the same horrible waitress came over and took the empty glasses away (did not wipe the table). I got a waters and a menu, proceeded to wait at the sit conditioned table for my flight to board. Then walked out and left. Funny enough the flight was delayed so I walked over to Los Casuelas and was drinking and eating in minutes....

I have eaten here before, not sure if it's exactly the same as before they did some construction. In any case, basically only giving a 4 because the servers were really nice, clearly busy but nice. Cocktails were good. They were out of a lot of different beers and wines, so not ideal. My irritation started with the fact I ordered a veggie sandwich, got a grilled cheese instead. Whatever maybe they misheard me, plus by the time I got food, there was no time to complain (plus they were busy and never came back other than for the check). On the subject of the check, $60 for a $13 grilled cheese, 1 white wine, and 1 martini, seemed SUPER high! I have a feeling something was charged in error, I've never seen an airport charge 5 star steakhouse prices for martinis. Again, no time to complain needed to get out to my flight.

It's a great place to sit in the sunshine and relax, but if you're in a time crunch or on a budget,...