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Some FANTABULOUS Dishes from Fabio On Fire Peoria AZ – Worth a Fork!

Fabio On Fire is an Italian Restaurant and MORE in Peoria Arizona. Fabio On Fire besides being an Italian Restaurant also happens to be a pizzeria, bakery, gelateria and a mobile catering service. The restaurant offers, Neapolitan pizzas, seasonal specials, hand made pastas, house made baked goods, house made gelato, bar drinks and wine too.

Fabio at work
inside

This is an award winning restaurant.

The porchetta dish is officially one of the best dishes of the valley according to Phoenix Magazine and was featured on the cover (Feb. 2022)

My picture of it isn’t as good but it certainly was a Fantabulous dish.

Porchetta – wood fired pork belly, chickpea hummus, rosemary focaccia

Whatever you choose you are going to start with the complimentary FANTABULOUS ciabatta puglese bread…possibly the tastiest most delicious bread in the valley…

ciabatta puglese

All the pizzas are very good but maybe the very best bufalina pizza in the valley is this one. It goes a few steps further than others that you can find.

bufalina pizza

The cheese is the best bufalina from Italy….But unlike most bufalina pizzas out there the high quality imported cheese gently melts on the pizza instead of being baked like at most places so you can taste it more and is enhanced with the best flavors that bounce all over……balsamic, bitter arugula, sweet tomatoes, and a rich certified San Marzano tomato sauce.

Certain times of the year spinach raviolis are a special on the menu. These raviolis are layered with flavors…..

The spinach raviolis are in a delicious slightly creamy walnut sauce. The pasta has an extra taste and maybe it was cooked in a little vegetable stock that adds another layer of taste. They might be the tastiest ravioli anywhere.

I’ve tasted vodka sauce at a few different Italian restaurants but none of them where as delicious as the vodka sauce dishes I’ve tried from Fabio On Fire. They do offer a lobster ravioli in vodka sauce on the regular menu but I was lucky to try a few specials with that delicious vodka sauce.

One special was smoked salmon pasta in vodka sauce.

Another was –

Arugula and sweet tomatoes with pasta and vodka sauce.

Off the regular menu you can get these incredible butternut squash stuffed purse shaped ravioli in an amaretto laced rich sage cream sauce……vegetarian or with crispy prosciutto di parma. These are really a treat to eat!

butternut squash ravioli

My husband loves the orecchiette with broccoli and sausage. He said that it is very good.

I don’t have a good picture of the halibut special that was offered several times but I can tell you that the halibut seemed as fresh as from a fish house and was prepared as well as from a fish house and came with extra fancy vegetables…..It was very good and maybe was the best fish dish offered on the west side of the valley.

Often wood roasted lamb is a special of the evening.

wood roasted lamb

The most delicious desserts and BEST gelato can be found here.

The baked goods do change up now and then.

strawberry rum cake

But this strawberry rum cake was amazing.

Fabio makes the best gelatos. Some of the flavors I’ve tried were blood orange, pistachio, brownie, passionfruit, peach, cherry, and STRAWBERRY.

All the gelato was amazing and delicious but the strawberry for sure gotta be the BEST strawberry gelato in the country. If you taste it then you WILL agree!

These were a few of the FANTABULOUS Dishes from

Fabio On Fire

Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Fabio On Fire

8275 W Lake Pleasant PKWY Peoria AZ

623-680-5385

www.FabioOnFire.com

Everything is subject to change.

The Forking Truth

A Little Taste of Zuzu Restaurant Scottsdale AZ

Zuzu Restaurant is located in the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale near to Old Town Scottsdale in Arizona. This restaurant is named after the Hotel Valley Ho’s Matriarch of the family known as Zuzu who they say was an amazing cook with great hospitality.

Zuzu

Zuzu the restaurant offers brunch, happy hour, dinners, cocktails and more!

Zuzu has a sort of club-like or lounge type of atmosphere.

inside
inside

They also offer patio seating for when the weather is nice.

A few items offered for early bites are things like avocado toast, for sweet eaters they have breakfast cinnamon buns, Moroccan style hummus, and garlic stuffed pretzel bombs with mascarpone.

They also offer salads, and brunchier foods like eggs Benedict, huevos rancheros, breakfast fried rice, half chicken and waffles.

They offer a few southwest style plates like fish tacos.

grilled fish tacos – red snapper, pineapple slaw, spiced crema, avocado, cilantro, flour tortillas

If you are a burger or sandwich person they also offer that too on the brunch menu.

2.0 burger – 8oz. patty, griddled onions, roasted garlic, pickles, fry sauce, American & provolone cheese

Happy Hours are 4-6pm and all five offering only cost $6-$7 each. (subject to change)

Happy Hour offerings are……..Moroccan Hummus, Whole roasted cauliflower, garlic stuffed pretzel bomb, Brussels sprouts, and chicken chicharrones.

For dinner some of the offerings are grilled Portuguese octopus, salt roasted beets, scallops, sea bass, pork shank, beef filet, and a SURPRISE dinner called, “Zuzu Take The Wheel.”

That was a Little Taste of Zuzu

Zuzu – located in the Hotel Valley Ho Scottsdale AZ

6850 East Main Street Scottsdale Arizona

480-376-2600

www.HotelValleyHo.com

Everything is subject to change.

The Forking Truth