Andreoli Italian Grocer Somehow Makes Old-School Italian Exciting
Andreoli is the kind of place that forces you to be a little more European. I don’t know how to explain it, but whenever you’re there, you’ll just start ordering stuff and talking about it. Loudly. Sometimes with people you don’t even know. And you’ll see stuff on other tables and order more stuff. And when you’re done you’ll think, “If I take 1/4 pound of bresaola home, could I recreate this experience?” The answer is no, but you should get the bresaola anyway. And maybe a tiramisu.
Website: andreoli-grocer.com
Reservations: Nope
Tip: The place doubles as a deli, so don’t forget to grab some prosciutto to-go.
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FEB 13, 2024 / NIKKI BUCHANAN AND CHRIS MALLOY
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Chef Giovanni Scorzo has been turning out some of the city’s best Italian food for decades, long before he landed a James Beard nomination for Best Chef Southwest in 2022. Though imported meats, cheeses, and other ingredients line shelves and fill cases in this casual, old-world-style restaurant, most people come for Scorzo’s ridiculously good dishes, including sandwiches, a rotating list of pastas, his own burrata and salumi, bistecca alla Fiorentina, freshly baked bread and beautiful desserts.
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The dining room that spills away from the ordering counter is casual but retains a formality (and an element of timelessness) you'd experience at meals in Scorzo's native country. Though he hails from Calabria, Scorzo's cooking often reaches from far southern Italy into the north: Orecchiette with broccoli, Branzino Alle Erbe Fini and Pizza San Francesco di Paola. Salads, sandwiches and a fleet of pastas anchor a menu that prizes tradition. A white board revealing rotating specials tends to delve deep into the annals of Italian gastronomy. As with any Italian restaurant that looks back in time, the kitchen is at its best with regional specialties and plates closest to the earth or sea, like the simple grilled squid with parsley and lemon.
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Go into Andreoli and you’re gonna feel so Italian. Giovanni [Scorzo] is an amazing chef and mentor. His restaurant is a staple of Phoenix. Everybody knows this place. You go here if you want to feel like home. They welcome you. It’s a restaurant and a market: I go in there, buy a couple things—they have an amazing selection of stuff, like Calabrian peppers—then I sit down and eat. Usually Thursdays, they do these amazing pizzas. His daughter, Francesca, makes the pastries—she’s killing it!
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JAN 16, 2024 / FELICIA CAMPBELL
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When you walk into this restaurant and deli, it's like stepping back in time. Family pictures share wall space with photos of celebrities who've visited over the years. Owner and chef Giovanni Scorzo is nearly always there, either in the kitchen or at a table in the dining room having an espresso with his sons. The menu is a list of salads, cured meats and cheeses for antipasti, sandwiches served on focaccia and pasta dishes scribbled on a whiteboard. The epitome of classics, these plates rarely veer far from traditional preparations with the likes of rigatoni with homemade sausage and peas, potato gnocchi with pesto and penne in a veal red sauce. The food is as cozy as the crowded dining room.
JAN 7, 2024 / SERENA OZONUR
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Looking for Italian food in Phoenix? Andreoli Italian Grocer is the perfect spot to taste some of the most delicious Italian dishes in the city. Andreoli Italian Grocer offers a variety of dishes on their menu, including pasta, meat, sandwiches, salads, desserts, and so much more.
JAN 3, 2024 / LAUREN MILLINGTON
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Andreoli Italian Grocer imports and sells authentic Italian ingredients and crafts them into the most authentic European-style sandwiches in Phoenix. They make as much as they can from scratch here, in fact, some of their sandwiches feature exclusively made-in-house ingredients. Like on the Sempronio sandwich with salty prosciutto, creamy, fresh mozzarella, and a freshly baked baguette, all made from scratch. Or, go for the Tizio, warm, house-made sausage with a subtle heat paired with smokey peppers and onions all on a perfectly textured baguette—crispy on the edges and chewy in the center.
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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.
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