Vic and Ola’s Tavola Italiana is an Italian Restaurant located in North Scottsdale Arizona. They offer much of the usual Italian dishes that you would expect like meatballs, arancini, house made pastas, pork chops, veal osso buco, and more, many of the dishes are laced with Calabrian chilies and they also offer a lot of seafood dishes that you might not expect from a smaller restaurant like this.
This is most the the dining room.
Above is the bar area. This is where you will be sat if you don’t have a reservation.
On another visit I had a reservation.I thought I’d get a table inside but was sat outside during our coldest weather (If I knew that my table was going to be outside I would have worn a coat).
They started us off with delicious (cold) bread and herb butter.
You might want to start with an appetizer like the Roman Style Artichoke because that was delicious both times we had it.
The paolanzana (grilled eggplant) wasn’t as enjoyable to us.
While the cured olives were oh so delicious the combination of olives, raw tomato slices, basil and rubbery cheese was so overpowering to the eggplant you really couldn’t tell that eggplant was even there.
Or maybe you’d want to share a pasta like the cacio e pepe (spaghetti, black pepper, pecorino (we found this to be very buttery tasting and a little light with the pepper and cheese)
One of the many fish dishes is the branzino with farro, roasted red pepper, butternut squash, pumpkin seeds and figs. This one was good!
Or maybe you want something meatier like the veal osso buco (ok …could have improved since we had it)
On our last visit my husband had the Shrimp pasta dish called pasta Isabel.
It’s gemelli pasta (that was slightly over cooked), broccolini, jumbo shrimp, garlic, e.v.o.o., and whole Calabrian chilies. My husband thought that this was under seasoned. He also would have preferred that the Calabrian chilies had their stems removed and could have been chopped up in the dish so he didn’t have to do that. He was going ti say something to our server ….but….
Our server asked us how things were before we tried the food and we didn’t even see him again until after someone cleared our plates and then he asked us if we waited dessert.
I noticed that almost every table had a salmon tortelloni. I also over heard table next to us. I heard someone say that the salmon tortelloni is their favorite dish at this restaurant. So I went with the salmon tortelloni.
It looks delicious! I can tell you that it is in vodka sauce that is very good. I can tell you that the pasta on this plate is perfection. The filling does seem to differ some from the menu description.
The filling is suppose to be salmon, mascarpone cheese, and spinach. You don’t see it in this slice but this is packed with TONS of dill……All I taste is dill and dill doesn’t taste good with this sauce. If there is cheese in here it is such a small amount that it is impossible to detect. I don’t know if this is how they normally make the dish?
We left and nobody asked how things were.
That was Vic and Ola’s Tavola Italiana in Scottsdale a bit hit or miss. Go for the hits.
Vic and Ola’s Tavola Italiana in Scottsdale AZ
20775 N Pima RD Scottsdale AZ
480-513-2048
Everything is subject to change.
