Pane Bianco is a small casual urban gourmet sandwich and more restaurant in Phoenix Arizona. Pane Bianco is a sister restaurant of the famous Pizzeria Bianco by James Beard award winning chef Chris Bianco. Pane Bianco focuses on serving a limited but high quality menu of foods that lean towards Italian. The bread made here is from wood fired fermented heirloom grain dough. The most popular sandwich here might be the split focaccia bread stuffed with tomato basil mozzarella sandwich made with house made mozzarella cheese. Pane Bianco offers sandwiches, salads, focaccia slices, calzone, specials, desserts, wine, beer and some dry goods for sale.
Before the pandemic Pane Bianco looked like this.
Today it is pretty much the same but the community tables outside were removed and only one table was on the patio that is now partially enclosed.
It looks like this when you walk in. You can order from the counter or seat yourself in the dining room.
The inside is mix matched in a charming way with lots of character.
We started out by sharing the salad of the day. It was a refreshing but simple watermelon salad with fennel, parsley, salt, and pepper.
For my main I tried the spinach calzone.
It is made up of house made mozzarella, parmesan, ricotta cheese, a little bit of spinach and Bianco tomato sauce.
The dough is paper thin. This calzone is large with a lot of cream rich delicious melty cheese. For some people it might be two meals.
My husband got the Italian combo sandwich today.
It’s made of crusty bread, mortadella, spicy soppresatta, romaine, provolone cheese, and a little vegetable salad garnishes the plate.
Currently but SUBJECT TO CHANGE…Pane Bianco is only open for lunch..But that does change every now and then…….11-3 Monday-Saturday.
I’ve been here for dinner before and used to enjoy the pizza here.
Here are not all but some of the things we tried from Pane Bianco.
soppressata and aged provolone with wood roasted red bell pepper
Albacore tuna salad sandwich
soppressata with aged provolone and wood roasted onion
focaccia
nutmeg Italian ice
Available for purchase.
I have to say….
Pane Bianco in Phoenix is Worth a Fork!
www.PizzeriaBianco.com
Everything is subject to change and everything usually does eventually change.
