Campo Italian Bistro is located in Scottsdale Arizona. They are a full service seasonal Italian Restaurant by Genuine Concepts Group. This group includes Metro Phoenix Bars and restaurants such as The Genuine, The Vig, The Little Woody, The Womack, and McMillon. James Beard Award Wining, Celebrity Chef Alex Stratta and Well Seasoned Chef Jeremy Pachero are partners of The Genuine Concepts Group.

Campo Italian Bistro offers a patio for outside dinning.

A lot of natural light come in during brunch and early dinner time.

Menus are seasonal but always include a lot of variety and usually seasonal specials.

Even the brunch menu includes snacks. It also includes some topped toasts, salads (proteins can be added), pizzas, brunch entrees, and panini.

The dinner menu is also seasonal and changes slightly now and then. The dinner menu also includes snacks, antipasto, salads, pastas, pizzas and entrees. Below are some brunch items and dinners that we’ve tried.

Here’s a snack of the day special – Goat cheese mousse with beets, apples, and a cheese crisp.

(not on current menu…darn so yummy) Sttacchino Cheese with Lavosh

crispy parmigiano cauliflower – breaded cauliflower (three colors that are slightly different in the mouth), parmesan, capers, Calabrian Chilies, citrus vinaigrette (dinner menu appetizers)

Salmon Rillettes- snack on current (August 2022) menus Brunch & Dinner

(not on current menu…BIG DARN…..so yummy) Artisan Cheese Plate with grilled Noble Bread

Smoked Salmon Everything Pizza – missing the everything seasoning and the capers differ from menu description (not fried)

Italian Ham & Cheese – Today this was served dried out. Last time it was much better.

Much better and not dried out.

I really loved this salad (below) but it’s not here this season. I am partial to the Salmon from Campo. It’s been fish house quality great every time so far.

This salad was the arugula, marinated fennel, with pistachios, local citrus, pecorino cheese, and a vinaigrette. (salmon was added). I must note that Campo Italian Bistro so far has always done phenomenal salmon. It always has a crispy skin, is seasoned nicely, and is never over cooked.

beet apple pistachio and whipped goat cheese salad with added salmon

special – short rib ganganelli

creste pasta (not on current menu) – locally made pasta, local Schriener’s sausage, broccolini, roasted peppers, feta cheese. Came out very dry without a sauce to hold it together.

chicken al matone with gnocchi and mushrooms – The chicken was very dry this evening and our server didn’t check on us. A busboy took the plate. I didn’t even bring the chicken home for my dogs. I didn’t want to complain after I was done but I didn’t come back for a very long time because of this dry chicken and service. On my recent visit I was going to order the chicken again to give it another try. So I asked my server about it. She said, “It’s a 50/50 shot if it will be dry.” I’m so glad that I had an honest server..So I didn’t take a chance on it again.

Crispy salmon with cannellini beans, kale, and tomato sauce

On my recent visit the salmon looked like this.

It’s a little smaller with less beans but still very good.

Grilled bone-in pork chop – crisp parmesan fingerling potatoes, Brussels sprouts, apple mostarda – This was tender, moist and good.

For dessert we’ve tried –

The semifreddo – (raspberries, pine nuts, yuzu) on a more recent visit it differed.

I didn’t get the yuzu as much…….

oive oil cake

On Opentable the Campo manager noticed my comments about dining there. I mentioned my dinner about the dry chicken and mentioned not being checked on. I said that I waited a long time to go back to Campo and again it wasn’t perfect again. Our two course brunch took 90 minutes. Our smoked salmon pizza was missing the everything seasoning and the capers differed from menu description (latter told they changed recipe). The other problem was my husband’s Italian ham & cheese seemed like it was sitting under a heat lamp for a long time and was served all dried out. The manager noticed my comments on Opentable and invited me back.

Again NOT PERFECT…..The manager was there (next to us comping something for that table because nobody was waiting on them) but ignored us and didn’t comp anything. My husband asked for the manager. After a few minutes the server said that he was no where to be found…………….My husband told the server about the situation and she did take my meal off the bill and THAT’S THE FORKING TRUTH!

Campo Italian Bistro in Scottsdale AZ – Not perfection but mostly very good.

Campo Italian Bistro Scottsdale AZ

8260 N Hayden Rd Scottsdale AZ

480-597-9195

www.CampoItalian.com

Everything is subject to change.