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| - Service: Sooo slow.
Food: Sooooooo amazingly delicious.
Yep, folks, so that is the punch line. The service here was super slow but oh my, the food was sooo crazy good! I was here earlier this month and I am still thinking about the delicious pasta dish I had here - more on that later. Given the crazy good Italian food and friendly wait staff, I find myself overlooking the super slow service.
Bestie and I started with fried calamari. The fried version isn't on the menu so you'll have to ask for it. It was so lightly fried and perfectly cooked. Note that the calamari listed on the menu is sauteed I think so if you want it fried, be sure to specify that.
From there we went for the date pizza "datteri pizze." Dates, meh, not really my thing but when in the desert, eat dates. Plus, I wanted to try something different. Dates, goat cheese, bacon and rosemary makes one heck of a pizza. This was really good and just when I thought it couldn't get any better . . .
Next came the chittara. What is chittara you ask? It is a square spaghetti like pasta that adorned with a rich and creamy smoked bacon, green peppercorns, egg-yolk parmesan sauce that will leave you in a state of pure bliss. One bite and I closed my eyes and nearly slid off the booth under the table to some other world. Yep, so good and I can't stop thinking about it.
Despite being love-struck with the chittara and stuffed from the carbs we closed our meal with a dessert (since it wsa my bday). We had Taggia's version of a tiramisu which was tasty but not as special as our previous dishes.
Anyway, if I go back to Scottsdale I will definitely go back to Taggia for the chittara and probably get a few items to go too!
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