Bottega Pizzeria Ristorante in Glendale AZ – Worth a Fork!

Bottega Pizzeria Ristorante is an Italian Restaurant located in Citadelle Plaza in North Glendale Arizona. Bottega Pizzeria Ristorante serves Neapolitan Pizzas, house made pastas, Sunday Brunch, monthly wine dinners, seasonal specials and more. They offer dining indoors at the bar or the modern dining room or outdoors with an indoor/outdoor bar or table seating.

Today we started with the Happy Hour Grilled Vegetables.

We received grilled eggplant, zucchini, red bell peppers and a very tasty fresh herb seasoned oil. It was delicious with the vegetables and I also enjoyed the sauce on some fresh bread. I liked that the appetizer was delicious, seemed healthy and didn’t seem too heavy. For my main I received a very different Eggplant Parmesan.

The eggplant was not breaded. This eggplant parmesan was made of thin layers of eggplant with a texture like I never had before. The eggplant was very meat-like……It wasn’t mushy….It almost had a texture like a firm mushroom……..but thin like lasagna noodles. In-between the layers of thin meat-like eggplant was a little tomato sauce, Italian hard cheese some mozzarella. The dish also got topped with the biggest basil leaf I ever saw. This dish didn’t seem heavy at all…plus it had all the flavor. Eggplant Parmesan is much better this way.

My husband had the Tagliatelle Bolognese.

He said it was very good!

Went for dessert and tried the Torte Nutella. Delicious! Not too sweet, satisfying amount of chocolate….I would like more hazelnut but can’t complain because it’s delicious.