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| - Michelina's, without a doubt, has the best food of any Italian restaurant in the Phoenix metro area, if not the best food of any restaurant period.
The Oysters Michelina are amazing. Make sure you dip the bread in the sauce! The fried calamari is done perfectly and is served with Michelina's marinara sauce, which is so good you can just dip bread in that too!
All the parmigiana dishes, veal, chicken and eggplant, are outstanding and served with linguini in marinara sauce. The fresh fish putanesca (sometimes halibut, sometimes sea bass) is served over linguini and is delicious. If you want to eat healtier, get the grilled Escalar served over fresh spinach. It's awesome. My wife doesn't like fish but she LOVES the escalar. I saw another reviewer say the escalar was bleh. She must have drank too much wine that night. Best grilled fish of any kind I've ever had.
Michelina also makes her own italian sausage from scratch. Try the sausage and peppers over pasta. Wow. If you like it hot, ask for it hot and she will gladly make it spicy for you!
I can go on and on because over the years, I have eaten everything on the menu. I can honestly say I have LOVED every meal I have ever eaten at Michelina's.
And with Michelina's great food, you also get Brad's great service. Brad is the best waiter that has ever existed in the Phoenix area, if not on the planet. Ask anyone that knows him or knows of him and I am sure they will say the same thing.
For dessert, the zabaglione (a creamy italian custard over fresh berries) and the tiramisu are to die for and are both made from scratch by Michelina.
Is it expensive? Well, if you are used to getting the $10 special at the Olive Garden or some other chain, then, yes. But, I took my wife and daughter to the Cheescake Factory the other night and dropped $100 and my wife and I went to Pappadeaux's a couple weeks ago and spent $90. And, we do not drink anything stronger than Iced Tea. Both times, on our way home, we said "We should have gone to Michelina's". The bottom line is that the prices are very reasonable.
Do yourself a favor. Next time you want to go to a chain and spend $50-$100, go to Michelina's instead. You will be glad you did!
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