There are so many positives to this restaurant. First, it's absolutely beautiful and I love that I can see the brick oven that you're cooking the pizza in and actually watch the guys make the pizzas by hand, press out the dough, and use that giant wooden thing to put it in the brick oven. It definitely makes for an amazing experience, and I love that they were able to get our whole group in.
I just wish the food lived up to everything else! I'm not saying it's not good, it's just not amazing and tastes relatively bland. Some herbs in the pizza dough, or even ON the pizza would go so far because letting the ingredients speak for themselves when you use only average quality ingredients just doesn't make a home run.
The cheese and meat plate to start was dissapointing and obviously was a bunch of pre-packaged cheeses and meats that were laid out on a plate with a few olives. In an environment as beautiful as this, at least cut your own? Have a small deli space for it??
The pizzas themselves ranged from so crispy it was like eating cheese on a cracker to almost chewy in consistency. It wasnt that pleasant and although we all liked our pizzas no one was "oohing and aahing" over the flavors. Personally, I much prefer Cibo whenever I go to Phoenix, but I'd probably not demand to go to somewhere else if it was chosen again.