The Americano Restaurant

We love the Americano and it is our favorite place to treat ourselves! Vito is always the absolute best from when he was a bartender to now as a manager. He presents himself and the Americano very professionally and adds to the environment! Megan is the absolute best and we love when she is behind the bar! Last night she really added to the night just by being her amazing self and whipping up delish drinks. We love getting to talk and learn more about her! The bar is our favorite place to sit as the atmosphere no matter the day is always a solid 10. Last night our group ordered fries, focaccia bread to start. The aioli with the fries is absolutely perfect! Two of us got salads: wedge and Caesar and those were filling and tasty.For entrees ribeye, wagyu, shrimp, and the pomodoro with meatballs was ordered with potato puree for sides. Everything was full of flavor, seasoned well, and very filling. I could tell the pomodoro changed slightly and I understand with Scott leaving that would happen but it was still wonderful. We did get a lot of drinks as well and I just appreciate how Megan was able to recreate a drink I get up north and it is always consistent every time they make it! Highly recommend this place and recommend to get to know your servers and bartenders are this is a place you can build relationships with the people there because there is a high chance they will still be there next time

Started out with the oysters, which were solid. The chopped Caesar salad was just so so. Nice portion, but wasn't great. The lamb pappardele fantastic. The lamb was so flavorful. The pasta was made just perfectly. My spouse loved her tagliatelle wagu. Our service was spot on. Nothing was ever lacking. My only complaints were that The wine pours were pathetically small for near $30 a glass. Also, after placing our order, we received the salad before the oysters came out. Most restaurants typically give you your appetizer before the salad.

Horrid - begging you... please, do not attend. This place has been going downhill since the day they opened, and after a string of bad experiences and "second" chances, this last experience was the end. Notably: 1. Literally the worst service I have ever encountered, hands down. Our server could not even be bothered to grab our daughter a Sprite refill despite having almost no other tables.. obviously as the place is a ghost town these days. I think I might know why. 2. Food? Inedible across the board. Husband ordered pasta which was about a .2 oz serving and gloppy/overcooked. I took a chance on the roasted Clams - fail. Half of the shells actually had clams and those that did had the saddest, most emaciated "clams" I have ever seen. Lest we forget the "sausage" in the dish which was two burnt meatballs.. I think meatballs? Daughter ordered steak frites which was passable but probably not fit for our dog. Thank God she's 9 and thought it was "ok," in her words. We tried to start with burrata but even that was not even remotely passable and came with a side of burnt bread.. Chef's kiss? 3. Again with the service.. ordered a "family side" and brought zero plates. Ordered a clam dish with no vessel to place shells. When we finally flagged down the manager to ask for these items, he was very put out and finally came back to say he had no bowls, but here is a random assortment of plates, and slammed them down in front of us. Not exactly Mr. Personality. Not that we really got to know our waiter as we saw him 3.7 tmes though, again, the entire restaurant was empty. 4. Pricing - ARE YOU KIDDING? The most overpriced garbage I have ever had in my life. Small portions, absolutely disgusting food... And while we are on this topic.. I ordered the most trash, warm Pinot Grigio (unbeknownst at the time of ordering, to my credit) off of the HH menu and was eventually charged $18 PER GLASS for a warm half pour. Nope. I can't wait for this place to close down so that we can try what takes its place. Again, this is following a string of horrible means with horrible service. No. Thank. You.

Came here on a busy Saturday night, with reservations - which I highly recommend. The decor esthetic is exactly what you expect from a higher end Scottsdale establishment, it was modern with an artistic twist. We started with cocktails and the focaccia. After that we were so distracted by how delicious everything was that the phone camera did not eat first. If you come here expect to check cost to be high and portions to be on the small side. But every bite you take with be delicious and worth it. Truly just well executed superb dishes. While the price does not suite everyone's budget, I do recommend coming her in a celebratory manner. It's an easy 5 star review.

Love this restaurant! Amazing atmosphere! We had cocktails in the bar and in the speakeasy that is located below the restaurant, we also had the oysters that is in the speakeasy, which are amazing, and upstairs in the dining room we had meatballs, duck, shrimp scampi, and the ribeye, all of the dishes were perfection, will definitely be going back!

I love Mora in downtown Phoenix but it's quite a drive for us so I was happy when they opened up this sister restaurant in Scottsdale. The ambience has a masculine feel with dark hues and gold tones. Service was good but very slow. As for the food, the hubby and I chose their pasta dish: the famous Pasta Pomodor and the Wagyu Tagliatelle. Both were fantastic. We also ordered the Focaccia as appetizer and it was ok; we wouldn't order it again. I think Etta has better Focaccia bread. We also tried their Banana Black Sesame dessert. It's basically banana mousse encased in dark chocolate shell. The chocolate shell was too think in my opinion but I would order it again. Another fyi, the charge soda by the glass and its $5/glass.

I used to go to the Americano all the time. I am extraordinarily disappointed with the decrease in quality over the past few years since it opened. I was so excited, because Moro is so far from our house. We are Uber foodies, and my kids are a big pasta fans, so this was a popular destination for a little while.The service is always reasonable. I felt like our waiter. Tonight was his usual self. He's waited on us several times, and although I don't expect to be recognized by wait stuff, he seemed a bit flustered by how busy the restaurant was. Yes, it was Friday and yes the restaurant was full.I feel that the biggest reason I have not been here in a while, was the lack of variety on the menu. I received an email from the restaurant saying that they hadn't seen me in a while and reminding me that maybe we should go back. This specific email mentions new, seasonal changes to the menu. I found that the menu was very unchanged from prior iterations. In addition to the menu, being pretty similar, the couple of things that were new were out of stock, including veal, ravioli, and Doppio.Previously, they had small changes to the bar menu, which I enjoyed some more, none of which were lasting. I realize that this restaurant in particular caters to the older, retired crowd, as well as the out of towners, looking for steak and pasta. That being said, I suppose that I feel that there should be more variety and inventiveness from somebody who has been on the Food Network for a long time.Very disappointing because I had enjoyed going here for a while. I can't say that I'll be coming back anytime soon.

Bar: Fun but loud for such class; drinks and wine list great; food good but overpriced; bartender/ servers were attentive, nothing outstanding but what one would expect! We were here previous, closer to why the opened and the food seemed to us better, cutting back like everyone I suspect......clientele was interesting; as we were leaving many, many classic young Scottsdale people coming in.....if you know what I mean lol.....nothing wrong with that - much like Maple & Ash. $$$$

The Americano is pretty swanky and sexy. It feels like a restaurant in Chelsea, NY. Their private rooms seem great for taking your clients out for a meal and there is so much space that it seems you don't even need a reservation. For food, we got the burrata to start, which was very good. It comes with some deli ham, which I didn't enjoy. It was so tough and too salty for me. For entrees, I got the ravioli, which was outstanding in taste, but so small in portion that I was still hungry unfortunately. My husband got the half-chicken, which was meh. It didn't fill him up, either. They don't even bring bread so we had nothing to fill us up. For the price point, I wish the portion was reasonable. Dessert time, we ordered the carrot cake, which comes with saffron gelato. Even though it's about three bites, it was probably the best thing we got. The gelato was delicious.

So we showed up to The Americano on a Friday night, just walk ins hoping to grab a small bite and drink before our movie started. We tried to get a seat at the bar but they were full. Coincidentally as we were leaving the manager Kevin walked by and had noticed that we walked in and were leaving so soon. He said he could get a table for us that would allow us enough time to eat and get to our movie on time. I didn't take any photos of our food unfortunately but everything we had was delicious! I got their unique drink called Versace on the floor, we had their hamachi crudo which was great quality. Melt in your mouth! We also got the caviar fries, bone marrow and oysters. All superb quality! The ambience is a fun, sophisticated atmosphere at the bar so this would make an excellent happy hour spot or date night. After we left we got in our car from the valet and no joke...the manager left us this gift card to the movie theater! Mind blown. Thank you Kevin, you are legit and we love the restaurant. We'll be back!