Ciao Grazie Pizzeria Winebar

We have going here for over 4 years, never had anything but great food, great service so I am surprised at a few of the negative comments. The pizzas are excellent, the lasagna is great.

great food and great service. and very nice area

We stopped by for lunch over the weekend. I was not impressed with the service or pizza. You can get as good pizza at Grimaldis for much less money. $ 15 for apps? Never again, save your money

Top 3 Pizza Place in the state, best in the west valley hands down. The Vesuvio is a must have, half calzone, half pizza, fully wonderful.
Love the ambiance, love the service, love the food. would give it more than five stars if possible.
If you’ve never been here, stop what you’re doing and go now.
During the holiday season the square is lit beautifully, and will make quite the night time post meal sight.
Expert tip: the Fennel Sausage is probably the best you’ll ever have.

So I was out in the middle of nowhere with my son watching my daughter’s cheer competition at Verrado High School. We had a break and I hit the find restaurant nearby button on my iPhone — nothing came up. There were a couple of high school kids in the parking lot that said there was a great pizza restaurant nearby and gave us directions.
My son and I split the small Caesar salad and the Americana pizza with fennel sausage added. The Caesar salad was one of the best I have had in a longtime. The pizza was definitely large enough to share considering we split the salad. The pizza was awesome!
Well done Grazie!!!
We’ll be back if and when we get to this side of town again from Chandler.

Always the go-​to for a nice pizza pie. The brick oven taste is great, and I don’t have to go all the way into the city, or pay thrice as much.

The restaurant has delicious food and amazing customer service. Their are very kid friendly too. So whether you are looking for a restaurant on a date night or one to take your family, this is the one. We love the location on Main Street :) if you want to have their food at the Blue Daisy Spa across the street, you can order it through you can have delicious lunch while at the Spa :)

Food is great as always. Our waitress tonight was quite indifferent. There were only a few patrons left at 9p, and we were wrapping up with our group of 7, talking at the table while a few of used the restroom. As I’m standing there I see our waitress talking to the other waitress behind the glass wall and she’s waving us along, wanting us to get out of there. As we stood there for another 5 minutes or so, she was growing increasingly annoyed that we were taking too much time to leave the restaurant.
This is a forgivable offense, we will be back for the awesome food. But having just spent $ 150, I would appreciate the service being a little kinder and less annoyed with patrons. It is not good practice to stand in plain view of customers and complain about them.

First time here, and was delicious! Highly recommend the pizza! And salad as well!
Cinque formaggi with sausage was very good!

This has become by far out favorite eatery in or near Verrado and honestly if we did not live here we would one just for the pizza! Their other offerings are really good as well, service is always spot on, and the atmosphere is comfortable and friendly.

I ordered from here before and had a not so great experience but it seems that was a fluke. The restaurant contacted me from my previous review and asked me to give them another chance. I decided to have another try and I am so glad that I did. As I was walking up the good smelled amazing. I ordered a pizza, the ½ calzone ½ pizza and the dessert calzone. It was so amazing that my 3 yr old ate it and he had previously sworn that pizza (all pizza) was disgusting.
This will definitely be our next date night restaurant!!! Thank you Ciao Grazie for convincing me to come back!

Small town feeling, old world taste. You feel like a resident even if you are from far away.
It doesn’t really matter what you order, it’s going to be wonderful. I had the garlic bread to start. Crisp and tasty with olive oil.
My Calzone was perfectly cooked with their own concoction of fresh Marinara. My wife’s Pizza was excellent and service was on time and cheerful.
Be prepared to spend a little money. We spent $ 25 per person plus tip but we also ordered way too much food. I think the cost is worth it. I’ve spent more for a lot less!

Wanted to update that positive changes were made since my last review. I will definitely recommend to my friends.

Had an unfortunate experience dining here tonight. As a resident in Verrado I have dined here various times but the past few times the food has been sub par. Tonight was different. I met my Mom and had my two Golden’s whom I’ve dined with at Gratzi before. I tie them up on the outside of the restaurant fence and they sit quietly while we dine on the patio. When we sat down we sat near a table that had just left. A waitress came looked at us baffled and began cleaning the table without greeting us. We sat there longer than we should have, not being acknowledged while other guests on the patio where being taken care of and checked on. The manager comes out surprised that we have no menus. He was nice and gave my dogs water but did not apologize for how long we waited to be greeted which he seemed surprised with as well. The food was OK but overpriced due to the limited choices you have in Verrado. Seeing other tables near us get greeted and have friendly service was very upsetting. Not sure if the waitress was afraid of dogs or of serving people of color… either way I will no longer support this business who made my mother especially feel uncomfortable. Very disappointing as I love Verrado and Main Street.

Verrado should demand better. Pizza cold. Sevice, meh. Garlic bread is pizza dough with Garlic sprinkled on it. Not impressed. Won’t be back.

Its a little offputting to order the house red for $ 26 and have a cranelake presented, a recognizeable $ 6 brand. The service was unenthusiastic and the bruschetta was dry, however our salad and entrees were quite tasty when they finally arrived. The patio and location were very nice, offerring my hot blonde date and I the opportunity for a stroll to the nearby fountain after dinner. I would recommend this place, especially considering the lack of venues on the west side, but I would recommend the ownership offer a broader selection of well priced midrange wines. — and maybe more than one pasta option to round out their italian menu.

I really like the atmosphere of this place. Indoor and outdoor seating, large selection on the menu. I really like Margherita pizza and they have one of the best I’ve ever had. You may be able to share but you will probably want it all to your self and have a few pieces for leftovers. Their garlic bread is amazing! Great place for a date night or to bring your kids. Everything is made from scratch and they are pretty quick.

What could have been…
I took my car to get serviced this morning and then I was going to head to a different pizza place. Turns out, they don’t open until 4pm during the week. Rats! Change of plans, stat! I had remembered seeing this restaurant being mentioned in the «Best Pizza in Phoenix» category somewhere. They had this concoction of mythological proportions called «The Vesuvio». This thing was half pizza, half calzone. I knew at some point I had to try it out. Today was that day. I drove down here from Surprise, parked near the Bashas and walked on over. Cool little location and neighborhood btw.
I was greeted by a friendly host and told to sit wherever I wanted. I chose a table kind of near the pizza oven area. I ordered water to drink and then already knew what I was getting… The Vesuvio! I placed my order for that, sipped on my water and then about 10 minutes later my order was delivered to my table. Here is how it was…
The Vesuvio ($ 16.00) — Right when this was delivered to my table, I knew it wasn’t going to be amazing like I had hoped. It was decent in size but there were some obvious issues with it. First of all, the crust was really white. They probably used too much flour to dust it and/​or didn’t bake it long enough at a high enough temperature. There were no charred bits anywhere to be found. The bottom of the crust was barely dark either. The only dark down there was from some of the dust from the bottom of the oven it was baked in. I decided to cut open the calzone side first. This thing had cheese, ham and salami. About that… The ham was cubed up little pieces. While plentiful, it just didn’t work for this calzone. It would have been better with slices of ham. The little cubes of ham just fell all over the place and were a pain in the ass to pick up with my fork to try and eat. The salami they use seemed really pale and it was not piping hot like it should have been. Hell, even the cheese was not totally melted all the way. All of that paired with the soft, underdone dough was disappointing. Next up, I tried the pizza side of things. This was better but still not anywhere close to good. The cheese was at least melted, there were plenty of mushrooms and the sauce was decent. Once again though, on top of that dough, it wasn’t even close to being «good».
Did I eat the whole thing? Yup. The food was definitely edible and it wasn’t disgusting or anything like that. I was just disappointed is all. I had such high hopes and was totally let down. The fact that I dropped an Andrew Jackson made my wallet frown too.
Would I ever come back? Nope! There are way too many other excellent pizza places in Phoenix that know how to cook a proper pizza. The Vesuvio is one hell of an idea and if some other great pizzeria decided to make it, I guarantee it would be off the wall amazing! Just turns out that the one place that does make it, Grazie, falls short. Sad but true.

Was just driving through the Verrado area with my family and came across this great restaurant.
We enjoyed the pizza’s that we ordered. It’s a little greasy, but that was over looked by the great taste. I love thin crust pizza and it was a little burnt from the brick oven. I loved that burnt taste, to me it just adds a little extra flavor to the pizza. The only complaint I have is that the soda was flat.
The wait staff was great. I’m horrible with names and I can’t remember for the life me. She was a very pretty brunette with a nice smile. She was very attentive to our table and very nice. Also, we meet the owner as he was energetic and was greeting everyone there. It was a very welcoming feeling in there.
Can’t wait to go again… Mmmmm love the pizza!

Service was excellent! We ordered the Americana pizza ($ 14) and added Italian Sausage (only $ 1.25 to add) and it was done quickly. It was great! You can tell they make their ingredients fresh on site.
Their management and service is what sets them apart from competitors. We were greeted right away. Service was quick. Then a manager came over and asked how our meal was, and if we had been there before. We told him we were new and buying a house in the area. He immediately says a warm welcome and then brought us all, on the house, their dessert special the Dolce de la casa! It was sooo good! Then as we left seemed like all the staff stopped what they were doing to say goodbye and thank you.
Top notch 5 star quality business. ;-)