A little taste of Parma Italian Roots Scottsdale AZ

Parma Italian Roots is a California coastal style Italian restaurant located in North Scottsdale Arizona. They offer high quality ingredients and a wood burning oven. The opening chef wrote the menu and worked under Brian Malarky, he also worked in Michelin restaurants and The French Laundry.

The seating is a mix of modern and blue velvet chairs, metal chairs, benches, booths, an indoor/outdoor bar and dog friendly patio tables with misters for cooling and heat lamps and personal heat lamps for those few chilly days.

Patio seating wraps around the building.

Lunch choices are sharing plates, sandwiches, pastas and salads and Pick two of either – 1/2 soup, 1/2 salad, 1/2 sandwich or 1/2 pasta.

Today I went with the 1/2 soup of of the day (tomato) and 1/2 strawberry balsamic salad with added chicken.

The soup is rich and thick with a generous amount of an Italian cheese (taste similar to pecorino to me). The 1/2 salad is a good size. I appreciate the stronger than usual balsamic flavor in the salad and the pecans were just right..and not too sweet.

My husband went with something a little more Italian.

Hot short rib 1/2 sandwich with 1/2 pappardelle bolognese made with more short rib. He kept saying that the sandwich was very good….he really enjoyed that. He also enjoyed the pasta. He said it was well made but stuck together slightly.

Here are some of the previous plates that we have enjoyed at Parma Italian Roots.