Nothing is for certain. Leaving your house can be deadly during a pandemic. You can never know if you are careful enough to avoid catching the coronavirus. For me it is far too dangerous to dine in with others. I feel somewhat comfortable with take out because I wear a filtered mask and eye goggles (my onion goggles that don’t look too bad) I feel that I am 80% safe and won’t fully catch the virus protected that much. Some scientist believe with distancing that you won’t catch enough of the coronavirus in outside air to be deadly. With that information I feel less risk dining outside. This past Saturday the temperature wasn’t too high for Phoenix so we took a chance and dined out on the Cucina Tagliani Patio in. This is an American Italian Restaurant that offers most of your usual American Italian favorites and also several healthy options and lots of vegetable choices. I don’t know of any other restaurant that offers around a dozen different vegetables that you can add to a meal or have on the side.
Today I ordered a Caesar salad with salmon and added on artichokes and pine nuts.
Got a decent piece of salmon and it’s prepared reasonably well. The greens are fresh and the dressing is house made. I guess they forgot the croutons but I don’t need them anyway because there’s complimentary garlic toasts on the table. Oh did I mention that the patio is officially dog friendly?
My husband got the spicy rigatoni with added sausage.
I think they gave him extra sausage?……….Well that was nice.
I can’t believe how quiet the patio is today.
We were the only ones dining here at lunch.
We’ve been coming to Cucina Tagliani for years. It’s close to home, I like the healthy options, my husband likes the American Italian food and we enjoy the comfortable patio with misters and funny old fashioned Italian music that fills the air here.
Louie is no longer with us but was a big fan of Cucina Tagliani.
The Papa’s Platter (with Louie) Veal Parm, sausage lasagna and two manicotti
salmon with asparagus and spinach
SPAGHETTI SQUASH lasagna
My usual goat cheese, strawberry and chicken salad.
chicken piccata over SPAGHETTI SQUASH instead of pasta
Chicken Caesar salad
chicken pasta pepperchini
chicken wrap with healthy fruit side
Stromboli
GRILLED chicken parmesan (instead of fried) over SPAGHETTI SQUASH
sausage lasagna with meatball
minestrone
steak gorgonzola over SPAGHETTI SQUASH
chicken dynamite
take out salmon dinner with asparagus and spaghetti squash
I don’t get dessert here often but the chocolate mascarpone cake is very good.
That was my second patio dining during the pandemic at Cucina Tagliani in Glendale. I appreciate the healthy options and the comfortable patio with misters.
www.CucinaTagliani.com
Everything is subject to change and we hope it does for the better.
