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| - While visiting Phoenix over the holidays, I mentioned I was turkey'd out and could use a good pizza. Friends immediately said we had to go to Oregano's for a Grandma G's?! We arrived and I was skeptical, the restaurant was filled with tons of tchotske, but the staff quickly won me over with their friendly enthusiasm and attention. So, we had to get "the usual" - Oregano's favorite salad, Grandma G's pizza, and the BIG cookie. I was in, but remained suspicious.
The food is HUGE...and shockingly, good! The salad easily fed the four of us and was not swimming in dressing as I was expecting. Off to a good start. Then the pizza came...did I mention that the food is BIG? First you have to adjust your thinking from pizza to flatbread. Once you're there, the cornucopia of ingredients in the G'ma G's isn't overwhelming - garlic chicken, tomatoes, gorgonzola, havarti and other cheeses, potatoes, caramelized onions and fresh rosemary. Wow, it was completely addicting - the flavors melded and didn't clash and the crust was like a crip cracker (I heated the leftovers up in a frying pan the next day for breakfast - deeeelish!). OK, so at this point we didn't really have room for anything else, but we ordered the BIG COOKIE (YUM!). We went with the peanut butter chocolate cookie, which is barely baked to warm, gooey amazingness and then topped with scoops and scoops of ice cream. WOW. I would go back just for the cookie and almost made my hubby stop by for one 'to go' as we headed out of town.
PS: There was no wait the day I visited.
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