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| - I had heard good things about Lo Cascio, had heard that they were voted "Best Italian restaurant in Scottsdale" and when I walked in and saw the old Italian couple walk out from the kitchen I thought I was in luck! Wrong. The food was WAY over priced, and not that great. Maybe I'm just used to (spoiled by?) MY old Italian grandma's cooking, but what I ate was not all that fantastic. Not "Best in Scottsdale" fantastic. I live in Scottsdale. My Italian cooking is better. We ordered from the "smaller portions" menu, and while it WAS a perfect sized portion, it was not worth what we paid for it. Also, they put sesame seeds on their bread. Sesame seeds in an Italian restaurant?? Why? Italian bread (GOOD Italian bread) is delicious without adding anything. Their bread had a soft crust (again, covered in sesame seeds for some reason) and the inside was on the mushy side. Not the hard crusted, spongy Italian bread to which I've always been accustomed.
One thing I did like about this restaurant was that instead of serving you a side of pasta with your entree, you have the option to sub it with fried zucchini, which I did, and it was pretty good. Although it's hard to screw something up when you bread it and fry it.
Bottom line, we won't be visiting here again.
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