Storytellers is located inside the Cliff Castle Casino in Camp Verde, AZ - about 25 miles from Sedona, 40 miles from Prescott - in other words, you have to really intend to go there.
We went because we are familiar with the quality of chef...Andre Deluca's cooking. He was the eponymous founder of Dahl and Deluca in Sedona, and was most recent at Bellavita in Cottonwood. He's creative and talented. He knows how to cook good food.
The Cliff Castle Casino is a pretty depressing place You walk past lots of people playing slot machines (that's pretty much all there is), to get to the restaurant. I had called ahead to ask if a reservation was needed, and was reassured that it wasn't. When we arrived, there were fewer than a dozen guests.
Here's the problem --- Andre Deluca is an excellent chef, but this is a really basic menu (they claim that that the difference is that the ingredients are very high quality and fresh). The food we had was quite good, but not the kind of extraordinary creations that Chef Deluca is entirely capable of doing, and not sufficiently special to warrant the trip.
Cliff Castle Casino, for us, at least, is not an attraction. Quite the opposite,
If you are heading up I-17, want a good meal at a fairly high price (figure $60 / person at least), it's worth the stop.
Otherwise, I hope that they unleash the creative impulses of their chef.More