Pesto’s

Touchdown we were so lucky to find thus place on Unilocal!
Great selection of wine & food! The owner Frank was very friendly and personable!
The canollys were delicious, had white zin !
Happy hour best ½ OFF great selection of wine and appetizers!!!
Definitely coming back on V day !!!

Wow! What a find! The interior is quaint and cute. They have a bar area and a dining area. We were greeted and got a nice table. The menu has so many delicious items to choose from. We started with the calamari and warmed olives. The calamari had lots of small pieces with tentacles, the best!!! I has the caprice salad and ordered the eggplant rolentini. The salad was huge! Nice heirloom tomatoes and fresh motz. The rolentini was fresh, moist and the sauce, just like my moms! REAL ITALIAN FOOD HERE FOLKS!!! Our waiter Noah was on point! He answered questions and made suggestion. The wine list is extensive and lots of choices. They even have pistachio gelato! We will be back for happy hour and for many many more dinners. So happy we found a place that makes food like our moms used to!!!

Met a friend here on a Saturday night for dinner. We were pleasantly surprised that it was happy hour. We ordered the meatball sliders & calamari from the HH menu. The sliders are delicious but the calamari was a little rubbery. For my entrees, I ordered the mushroom ravioli with cream pesto sauce and my friend ordered the shrimp marinara. Both dishes were delicious. The ambiance was lovely. I’ll be back.

The stuffed mushrooms and bacon wrapped dates were amazing! The service made us feel as though we had been coming here for years. Definitely our new go to place for amazing Italian food!

Our go to place, when craving neighborhood pizza and wine in Chandler. Great ambiance, solid food and warm friendly service, especially from Vicky, our favorite hostess and Dayna, our favorite server.
Try the Tuscan pizza and wash it down with a bottle of Vista Point cabernet.

One of the best restaurant experiences in Arizona! We have now been there three times in the last three weeks since being introduced to this culinary gem. The food is authentic and fresh with specials that are creative and interesting. The drinks are served with gusto and the customer service and friendly faces are second to none. This is officially our go-​to spot!

Waw!!! Is all you need to know. Me and my wife went there last Thursday looking for an Italian bistro and we ended up on Pesto’s. I ordered the lamb burger and her the eggplant something. I can honestly say i had never tasted better meat than that burger. And I have been all over. I highly recommend this place. The food is delicious and it is also a bar which is a plus for me.

Loved their pizza each time i went there. Their Tuscan Pizza is my all time favorite.
Friendly owners and staff. we even got a polaroid picture of us given by the place as a souveneir.
Cute little place that looks a little fancy too.

Their service has been hit and miss. The food has been outstanding for the most part. Tried the Tuscan and Cracked Crab Alfredo pizza. very good. Their prosciutto and melon was also outstanding. The sausage stuffed mushrooms are excellent appetizer bites. The goat cheese and pepper jelly lamb burger is great! The linguini & white clam sauce was sub par and bland. I like the wine bar ambiance and intimate lay out. It is on the more expensive side if you want to have wine or drinks, but if you know what is good, it is worth the price.

Lovely atmosphere and Italian dishes at Pesto’s. This little eatery has been here forever it seems like! We ate here for lunch, and noticed that their happy hour lasts for quite a long time, 12 – 6. That would definitely make someone very happy!
I decided on the spaghetti with meatballs ($ 13). It was a gigantic dish with one large meatball split in two, pasta, and copious amounts of red sauce. It tasted great, and the meatball was flavorful and tender. The lunch special included a salad and a drink, which meant I was definitely stuffed after eating here.
Service was friendly and drinks were refilled as needed.
I’m glad I rediscovered this restaurant. It’s definitely a good option for Italian if you’re in the area.

We tried Pesto’s based on a recommendation from a friend and we were not disappointed! We sat at the bar and I had a glass of their house Cabernet, which was great. We shared the beet salad to start and it was just amazing! We followed that with the white pizza topped with pesto and fresh roma tomatoes. It was the best pizza we’ve had in a really long time. The bartenders were friendly and service was great! I’m so glad we discovered this place! We can’t wait to go back.

Wonderful locally owned place, no wonder it’s survived 20 years! I have been here a few times over 10 years & forgot to check in. Feel bad I never wrote a review until now!
Happy hour is 3 – 6, Good drink deals. $ 5 house wines that don’t suck, $ 4 Mich Ultras, & a GREAT list of $ 5 food items that definitely fills me up for «dinner.» However, CHECK OUT the specials… They are impressive, gourmet.
Service is friendly, genuine. The owner Debbie is AMAZING, she CARES. Like a friends’ place. Atmosphere is classy, relaxed elegance. There is background music playing, but you can have a conversation without raising your voice.
SLEEPER TIP: CHECK OUT the cocktails menu! I’ve always ordered wine. Finally saw the cocktails list — these are NOT the boring cocktails. These are CRAFT. The owner made my Hibiscus Kick all fresh. I was SHOCKED at how delicious & balanced it is… I expected too sweet… I’M delightfully WRONG!
In a sea of chain restaurants, I LOVE this neighborhood place!

10 inch «combo» w/​hardly any meat, not by request, was decent BUT $ 16?! 10 inch is almost as small as a personal size pizza. Get over urself Pesto’s Pizza. If you’re looking for awesomely delicious pizza where they give you your money’s worth, try Nellos — get «the skinny»

Nice Spot to Gather and Enjoy Food and Wine
This friendly spot was worth the drive to meet, sip wine, and chat with a group of new and old friends. Service was fast and friendly, I enjoyed the wine offerings, and had a nice Caesar salad. My only concern was that my calamari came out barely warm and overly salty. It was perfectly fried, but apparently during that busy time they couldn’t manage to get it to me still hot. If I lived closer I might be tempted to return to try the calamari under different circumstances. I didn’t want to send it back that evening because they were so busy.

Thanks Chef Chad for the 40lbs. Suckling Pig you prepared for our painting party. It was delicious. I recommend anyone hosting a party and NOT wanting to cook to give them a call. It was a show stopper and tummy pleaser!

We stopped in for an early dinner. It was our first time here. What a lovely experience. It seemed like a family-​run restaurant, and everyone was so friendly. I had the eggplant Parmesan and it was really delicious. The place seems to be full of regulars so it has a nice neighborhood feel.

I absolutely love this place! Delicious and authentic Italian food is created here… and that pesto… wow! A must try. Next time I’m getting pizza

Went a few weeks ago and loved the place. It’s a quite little place with the bar on the left and table to the right. We arrived in time for happy hour but just ended up getting a glass of wine. With I’d seen the calamari but there’s always next time.
First we started with an appetizer. Decided to get the sampler which was well worth it. So delicious. After I had the clam pasta and husband had the pizza. Do yourself a favor and have the clam. It’s fantastic! So traditional in the wine broth. It had a little spice to it but not enough to really call hot. It was a nice warm, subtle heat that only adds to the enjoyment. Husband loved the pizza. He’s not a man of many words so I have no idea as to the chewiness of the crust or anything else but I’ll say this, it looked like a good pizza. Not weighed down.
After we were finishing, we found out that our waiter was the owners son. It was lovely talking with him about his parents place and how the whole family is involved. Just gave the place an extra bump to know the love that goes into the food they create and serve.
Big thumbs up for me.

Go for the burger. No, seriously.
Pizza at Pesto’s was a tradition in my wife’s family for years, but they eventually moved away from going regularly because the pizza is really very expensive — about $ 30 for a large specialty pie! And this isn’t a 24 inch one either.
Recently we went back for dinner, but most of us ordered pasta dishes instead. The stuffed shells were very good, as was the mushroom ravioli. But for me the star of the evening was their Italian Burger.
This burger is a work of art. It is easily in the top three burgers I have ever had in my life, and it certainly is the most unique. It is a half pound burger, cooked to order, that is served on a custom roll, along with ricotta cheese, pancetta, an onion jam, and topped with arugula. The evening I got it it came with a side of truffle fries instead of tater tots. You know how some things in life are so much better than the sum of their parts? This burger is one of those things. It can be described to you, but until you experience it you really don’t get it. Pesto’s should be entering this in Valley wide burger competitions — it really is that good.
I originally felt like a bit of a rube ordering a burger when I went to an Italian restaurant, but when it was served any reservations I had quickly evaporated.

Lovely family own restaurant. A true neighborhood gem.
Awesome service and really comfortable.
They have more high tops than regular tables so be aware if you go with kids our elder people.
I tried the calamari, cauliflower, custom pizza, pineapple Canadian bacon pizza and the lasagna. Very solid and well presented dishes.
Be aware, servings are big.
Fit desert I had the chocolate lava cake with hazelnut ice cream. There was no hot chocolate filling :’(the I’ve cream was delicious though.
Highly recommended and we’ll be back and try other dishes (beet salad for sure).
So the missing star is because there’s room for improvement. Which for them will be really easy to do.
Prices are fair.
Cheers