The Best Italian Restaurants in Phoenix, Arizona | Eater Phoenix

"During his 30-plus years in Scottsdale, Calabrian-born chef Giovanni Scorzo has opened and closed two successful white tablecloth Italian restaurants, but he found his happy place when he opened this cozy market-cum-restaurant over a decade ago. Customers line up to order from the daily changing whiteboard menu, pay at the counter, and grab a vintage table set amid grocery shelves lined with pasta, wines, and other imported Italian foodstuffs. The atmosphere is relaxed, almost familial. And indeed, two of Scorzo’s adult children work in the kitchen, cranking out juicy porchetta sandwiches on house bread, house-pulled mozzarella set in a tomato-dotted nest of arugula, obscure pasta dishes that change with the seasons, and delicate desserts that look too pretty to eat." - McConnell Quinn