Le Ragazze is a real restaurant. I don't say that lightly, as most establishments selling food are not real restaurants, but dreams, mirages, hallucinations, or nightmares of restaurants. La Ragazze is on its way to making a real mark in Ahwatukee, not as a mere place to stuff yourself with mediocre fare while you watch sports on large deadly screens (a nearly ubiquitous situation in this part of town) but as a place where people gather to enjoy excellence in a charming room with other (hopefully charming, but that's partly your responsibility) people. Along the way, I suspect, Le Ragazze will become a place where people come to see their friends--the ones at the tables eating, and also the ones cooking and serving the food. The owners appear to be aiming at making this THE neighborhood restaurant in south Phoenix--such a good one that folks will also come from far away to enjoy both the menu and the ambience. As far as I know there is no other restaurant in this part of town that is even close to making any of that happen; Le Ragazze has made a lot of headway in a relatively short time. It's not quite perfect yet: there are the kinds of blips and bobbles both from the kitchen and from the service staff that one expects in a new establishment. These, in my experience, are minor. The food is authentic, flavorful, and fresh: the kitchen is dedicated to buying local products of real excellence, and serving them in style. But not so much style that anything detracts from the fact that you're getting a very very good meal.