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| - Amano's is refreshing little place among the chain restaurants and strip mall Mexican food places in South Phoenix.
It has a laid back vibe with a touch of style.
I love the you can see into the very clean kitchen from many locations! Pretty professional.
The wine list is for beginners but thats fine- they have a little of everything and at decent prices.
So, my friend and I live right down the road and we've been so curious about the Baseline 'wine bar,'- we stop in Friday night.
It's not too crowded- no wait. Professional, well dressed staff seated us promptly.
I ordered a glass of marlborough sauvignon blanc at 6.50 a glass.
We were impressed with the menu and very surprised- we thought this place would be a spagetti and meat balls kind of place.
I ended up ordering the Spinach, Sundried tomato, and Queso Fresco Pizza. ($11)
Neesha had the Pesto stuffed chicken breast with Fettuccine Alfredo and roasted vegetables. ($17)
We were served bread with olive and balsamic and I have to agree with Sunny B- the balsamic was too vinegary and the bread was super tough.
You shouldn't eat the bread anyways- especially if you're about to have a carb feast of pasta and pizza. So, maybe this is Amano's subtle way of making actually follow my dieting rules...
Our food came quickly- My pizza was good but its hard the go wrong with pizza. The crust was thin-ish and well seasoned, tasted fresh. The toppings were really good but I wish they would have really loaded on the spinach.
I needed salt and pepper which they don't provide at the table and the ones our served brought me looked ancient- seriously- they were gross and not cute at all.
This is a cool little restaurant- bring me some fresh sea salt and pepper in a GRINDER.
I tried some of Neesha's alfredo- which I had to generously salt, first- and it was really good. Fresh, not too rich, om nom nom.
I love alfredo, too- So I'm not going to sugar coat here.
The real stand out was a roasted fresh vegtables that she got with her meal! They were to die for! Oven roasted asparagus, broccoli, green beans with a light seasoning. SO GOOD!
The problem here- The portion size of the veggies was TINY- we absolutely demolished it. Amano's should cut the pasta portion in half and fill it with those phenomenal veggies!
I didn't try her chicken but it looked beautiful fresh green pesto oozing out the side of a perfectly browned chicken breast.
She ate the whole thing so it was probably quite good.
I really wanted to try and creme brulee but we had boys coming over so we had to hustle home to get pretty and make our house look semi-presentable.
Getting the check was a pain and took forever- our server forgot about us and after about 10 minutes we had to ask someone else.
Not a huge deal but not cool either.
I'm going to be back for sure- its a super decent place for baseline. I think my Hunny will love it and I have to try the creme brulee!
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