Italian Restaurants in and near Phoenix, AZ

Phoenix Italian restaurants serve up everything from hearty pasta dishes to inventive specialty pizzas. Pane Bianco, for example, features a streamlined menu of Italian sandwiches, lasagna, and about a half-dozen pizzas that earned it a near-perfect score from Zagat. Another contender for the best pizza in Phoenix, Cibo, serves specialties such as La Noce, a mozzarella, ricotta, and arugula pizza topped with fresh walnuts after coming out of the oven. Deceptively, some of the top Italian restaurants in Phoenix and the surrounding area may not look like much from the outside. Take Vincitorio’s: its strip-mall exterior belies its rustic exposed-brick dining room and much-loved selection of pastas, sandwiches, and more than a dozen desserts.