*****UPDATE NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS****Meat The Ball is a casual full service meatball themed restaurant with one location in Scottsdale Arizona at the Promenade and another soon to re-open at The Biltmore Fashion Square. They serve a variety of appetizers, salads, sandwiches, platters, some platters with house made pasta, Seven kinds of meatballs or meat-free balls, pinsa (ancient Roman focaccia) and more.
It’s bright, cheerful, colorful and modern when you walk in.
You can sit at the bar or at traditional tables or outside on the patio.
The menu offers many tasting sounding things to try. We want to try most of the menu but can’t so we try a few things.
We decided on a flight of meatballs and a pinsa. They come out in reasonable time and here they are.
I really appreciate that the meatballs are all served in special separate plates. I shared two of the three meatballs. All the meatballs were good, very good or outstanding but our mutual favorite was the Cauliflower (bottom ball). WOW! the texture is very good, it’s very flavorful…but it’s also spicy……It’s simply delicious and the sauce is one of the most delicious curry sauces I’ve ever tasted….This is really Forking Awesome! I hope the recipe stays the same so I can enjoy this again.
My husband ate the Rustica (middle). He said it’s a very good meatball with a nice texture and good flavors. We liked the parmesan sauce but it needs to be noted that the chunks of red pepper ran spicy today. He also said it’s much better than most meatballs that he eats in restaurants. My husband grew up eating meatballs. Meatballs are part of his heritage.
I tried some of the Short Rib Meatball. It taste like a very good beef stew…………..It taste just like beef stew but in the shape of a ball………It’s almost odd to me because I wasn’t expecting it to taste like beef stew. I was thinking like BBQ Short Rib kind of taste. I personally don’t eat beef stew but if you are a fan of beef stew then this ball is very good.
Now to the pinsa.
Some people consider the pinsa to be a healthier alternative to pizza with less calories and less carbohydrates. Pinsa is suppose to be made of a combination of different flours with high hydration and long proofing to make the dough….I didn’t ask what the ingredients were but others pinsa makers use soy and rice flour mixed with basically a sour dough. Other people tell me that you should enjoy pinsa just because it’s the most popular pizza in Italy right now!
I take a bite. It’s tender, light and delicious. The crust feels like fine sand paper against my lips but it’s easy to bite into. It’s almost like a tender but lighter English muffin. The sauce taste like traditional vine ripe sweet tomatoes and it’s topped with melty mozzarella cheese laced with oozing basil. It tasty and light so your stomach has room to try meatballs.
My husband helps really well with the pinsa so we share something else.
Instead of dessert my husband picks the eggplant meat(less)ball ($4.00)
The Eggplant has a core of melty mozzarella….. and is dressed in meatless tomato sauce and topped with a little mozzarella and a little basil leaf. It taste just like eggplant parmesan. The texture and flavor is much better than the same meatball I tried at the Phoenix Location. But I do note that they told me that they were still perfecting the eggplant recipe at that time.
Service was very attentive, efficient and welcoming.
We enjoyed our visit to Meat the Ball in Scottsdale.
I’d say it was Worth a Fork!
****UPDATE NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS****
I hope the recipes stay consistent. I do note that I have been to the Phoenix location and did come across inconsistency with the seasoning and spice. The discontinued quinoa meat(less) ball on fist visit was spicy and amazing but on a second visit was mild and less flavorful.
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