n e a r a r c a d i a La Fontanella Italian Restaurant Award-winning rack of lamb, ossobuco, homemade gnocchi, manicotti and ravioli, great Dover Sole, and homemade Berto’s Gelato. Served in an Italian villa- like dining room. Serving dinner every night, 4:30- 9:30 p.m. See our ad in the dining section 4231 E. Indian School Rd. • 602.955.1213 La Fontanella $44 Italian Treat Tee Pee Mexican Food Tee Pee’s Wall of Fame tells you everything you need to know about this family owned and operated eatery, which has been woven into the fabric of Phoenix for nearly 40 years. Tee-Pee has served its home-style Mexican dishes to world-famous comedians, athletes and even Presidents, and they all come back for more. See our ad in the dining section 4144 E. Indian School Rd. • 602.956.0178 2820 E. Indian School Rd. • 602.957.7540 Manuel’s Mexican Restaurant & Cantina The Salazar family has been serving award-winning Mexican food since 1964. Manuel’s new Fiesta Hour features a terri fi c $4 food menu which includes Mexican sliders, street tacos, mini-corn crisps and taquitos. You’ll also want to try our famous margaritas! Fiesta Hour is 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday. See our ad in the dining section Trader Vic's at the Hotel Valley Ho At the Polynesian classic reborn with Valley Ho fl air, Asia and the islands are reinterpreted in an exciting, affordable menu with newly discounted entrees. Order two and a bottle of wine’s included. Enjoy exotic libations at the home of the original Mai Tai, during Happy Hour beginning at 4 p.m. daily. See our ad in the dining section 69th Street & Indian School • 480.248.2000 Join us for Happy Hour! 4121 N. 44th St. • 602.840.0630 Pete’s Fish & Chips Pete’s Fish & Chips has been serving up tasty burgers and their famous fi sh and chips since 1947! Family owned and operated, Pete’s has eight convenient locations throughout the Valley waiting to serve you and has earned the title of Phoenix’s fastest fi sh! See our ad in the dining section J & G Steakhouse This summer, stay cool with a seasonal and local three- course prix fi xe menu that changes weekly for $38 at J&G Steakhouse, located atop the Phoenician. Featuring a selection of world-renowned chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s most popular dishes, enjoy multi-course dining at a neighborhood- friendly price. For more information, call 480-214-8000 or visit www.jgsteakhousescottsdale.com. See our ad in the dining section 6000 E. Camelback Rd. • 480.214.8000 4800 N. Scottsdale Rd. • 480.947.0795 Roaring Fork Roaring Fork captures the spirit of bold American West cooking, set in a contemporary western setting with a lively saloon and open air patio to accent the comfortable dining room. The menu centers on wood- fi red cooking embracing open hearth ovens and rotisserie wood cooking to create gourmet cuisine where fl avors crackle with a rugged edge. www.roaringfork.com See our ad in the dining section Revo Burrito Another delicious concept from Lenny Rosenburg’s Restaurant Group, creators of Zen32 and Delux. It is our mission to provide all-natural, delicious, Mexican food in a fast-paced, yet casual dining atmosphere. You can call-in your order and pick it up at the takeout window, which has its own parking spaces right in front. See our ad in the dining section 3154 E. Camelback Rd. • 602.522.6255 4900 E. Indian School Rd. • 602.957.0152 Black Forest Haus Chef Klaus Baechle, formerly of Flagstaff Matterhorn Grill welcomes you to the Black Forest Haus. Feast on German cuisine with complete dinners starting at $15. Live entertainment every Friday and Saturday night starting at 6:00 pm. B l a c k B l a c k Fo r e s t Fo r e s t H a u s H a u s Malee's Thai Bistro For the past 24 summers on Main Street, Deirdre Pain has been serving up refreshingly exceptional cuisine at Malee's Thai Bistro. The restaurant melds elegance, intimacy and class with exquisite food to create the ultimate Thai experience. Authentic Thai is known for balancing fl avors, and guests can experience this time-honored tradition through summer specials such as the fresh Crispy Pla Mango Salad, Cornish Game Hen and Roasted Pork Ribs. 7131 E. Main St. • 480.947.6042

Page 35 July 2011 ANDREOLI 480-614-1980 8880 East Via Linda Scottsdale www.andreoli-grocer.com Simple grocer-restaurant perfects old-world charm By Gabriele Bertaccini Inviting Italians who live here to come out to an Italian restaurant can be a daunting prospect, at least when we’re talking those who can cook, and cook well. They have very speci fi c ideas about how things should be done and don’t suffer indifferent or lazy food easily. Believe me, you don’t want your guests complaining that they would have eaten better at home. So when I asked an Italian friend to try Andreoli, I knew I was taking a chance. But the restaurant, which doubles as a grocery store selling Italian delicatessens, is one of my favorites. The food here — pizza, pasta and more — really tastes like Italy, comforting and familiar. “Normale,” as an Italian would say. Anyone nostalgic for a buca or small family restaurant will feel right at home there with the kitchen in full view. Andreoli is housed in an anonymous building just off the Loop 101 at the corner of Via Linda and 90 th Street. Once we were seated in the front dining room, my exacting Milanese friend immediately looked over the cardboard menu. “Interesting, for antipasti, they have veal tongue in tonnata (tuna sauce) and wild boar sausage with polenta. Let’s try those,” she said. “What about fried pig’s ears or frico made with Montasio cheese and potatoes?” I wondered. Yes, and yes. It turns out that one of the guests sitting next to our table, an Italian graduate student, comes from the Trentino area. His parents have a hotel at a ski resort there. My Milanese friend used to ski nearby, and she found some typical dishes from the mountains there on the menu. The rich, evocative melding of grilled Montasio cheese and waxy yellow potatoes is one. That rustic wild boar sausage, bursting with juices and served with bright gold grilled polenta squares, was another. The emerald salsa verde has a vinegary kick, perfect to cut the delicious porkiness of the fried pig’s ear. Vitello tonnato, sliced roasted veal with a creamy tuna sauce, is the classic. But here, instead of roast veal, chilled slices of veal tongue fan across the plate, covered in that tangy tonnata sauce and decorated with cubed tomato and capers. So far, so very good. On other visits, I tried the baby back ribs, which are very plain, the way they do them in Italy, accompanied by fat brown beans, a hearty and satisfying dish. Fried calamari comes with crisp tentacles in a loose, bright-tasting tomato sauce. Don’t miss the mixed black-and-white ravioli with zigzag edges stuffed with Venetian salt cod, then fried and served with a bagna cauda of anchovy, olive oil and garlic. That’s a perfect one to share with a white wine from the Alto Adige or maybe a Movia Sauvignon Blanc from Slovenia, just across the Italian border. Waiters are comfortable in their own skins. What a relief that no one feels obligated to indulge in waiter-speak. I didn’t hear “excuse my reach” or “how is everything tasting?” Not once. Servers are friendly, they speak some Italian or at least they try, but they also are ef fi cient, eager to have you eat well. With its plain decor, wood-clad walls and rustic wooden mismatched tables, the restaurant reminds me one in a small Italian village. On Wednesdays you can see through the open kitchen while the cooks open the maw of the pizza oven to slide in a round of dough. No wood-burning oven, though: Getting a permit where one doesn’t already exist is virtually impossible these days. Our Margherita pizza is made with mozzarella di bufala as a matter of course. Really good. Giovanni Scorzo, the chef and also a partner, is no slouch with the pastas either. They’re cooked al dente, not over-sauced and served in Italian-sized portions, meant to be more as fi rst courses than main courses. Continued on page 37 150 th Anniversary Celebration of Italy’s Unity! Dinner Special for 2 SICILY VIA PHOENIX $ 55 00 Set Menu Includes... A glass of Nero d’Avola Wine Primo Primo Pasta cu Matarcocu Choice of Secondo Choice of Secondo Lamb Chop Costoletti Impanizzati Swordfish Rollatini Veal Cotoletta Served with side of Caponatina & Vinaigrette Salad Choice of Homemade Dolce Choice of Homemade Dolce Cannoli or Cassata di Gelato Coffee or Tea Coffee or Tea 4231 E Indian School Rd • Phoenix 602.955.1213 • LaFontanellaPHX.com We return from summer vacation We return from summer vacation Friday, July 8 - Come join us for dinner! Friday, July 8 - Come join us for dinner! Offer Expires September 1st, 2011. Valid only with Payment in Cash. Offer Expires September 1st, 2011. Valid only with Payment in Cash.