Spinato’s Pizzeria

Guess who works here… Encyclopedia Brown! Even more amazing, he hasn’t aged one bit since the 80’s, however, he is in disguise. So how’d I realize who he was…
It was a Friday evening around 5:45pm, May 27, to be exact. After being on hold for 23 minutes… no exaggeration (I looked at my phone when I hung up and subtracted a couple of min)…I finally got a hold of a person. I simply asked, does your gluten free pizza have egg as an ingredient, and Mr. Brown’s response was yes. To confirm I then asked again, so the gluten free pizza does have egg, to which Mr. Brown said yes! (With no hesitation. he does know everything).
By chance, my wife was getting frustrated with the wait and pulled up their gluten free menu online, and guess what?! It said he gluten free pizza actually does NOT have egg as an ingredient. She called back, of course Mr. Brown answered, and he admitted he just said yes and didn’t know whether the gluten free pizza had egg. It turns out the gluten free menu online was correct and there isn’t egg in their gluten free pizza. Close one… we probably would have never gone then.
So we went and got a picture of Mr. Brown in action. Turns out, not only does he pretend to know everything, I believe he keeps people on hold for 20+ min for no reason (as they definitely weren’t that busy). But that’s just my opinion, and I wasn’t there obviously when I called.
For everyone’s reference if you are seeking an autograph, I’ve included a picture of Mr Encyclopedia Brown in this review.
PS ask about the egg in the gluten free pizza… ha!

Best pizza in the valley! Forget that crap about hoyti toudi Pizza Bianco, it’s crap compared this place. Keep up the good work, Oprah should feature Spinatos on her show Instead of that other dump, pizza bianco.

Very allergy-​unfriendly. We asked to take an ingredient (that I’m allergic to) off a pizza and were charged an extra $ 5. Simply to remove an ingredient!
General manager Dave, was spectacularly unhelpful. He even seemed embarrassed to discuss it with me. Honestly, this is the worst style of management; AKA «the customer is always wrong.» So many great dining experiences here, and one horrible one ruins it permanently. Thanks for the pizza Spinato’s, but we won’t be back, nor recommend your restaurant to anyone in the future.

Called and put on hold for five minutes. Called back and asked for help and told them how long I was on hold. They said — hold please. Another four minutes and I gave up. Sad because the pizza is good.

Ordered a small pizza and some of the cheese garlic bread, and had it delivered. The thin crust is not truly a thin crust to this Midwesterner, but the pizza was good. The tomato sauce was rich and nicely seasoned. No complaints on the delivery time, took about 25 minutes over the noon hour when ordered on a Thursday. They don’t have a wide variety of drinks for ordering– just Pepsi, diet, Sierra Mist and Mtn Dew. Maybe common here?

Excellent! Just like the Tempe location!!! Pizza was perfect and the house Cab pairs perfectly :)

Have eaten here for years and have always had excellent pizza but this most recent time the crust was soft and the sauce was overly sweet. Hope this was just an off day

Phoenix metro has a lot of great pizza. I was surprised HOW good this place was. The garlic cheesebread was amazing. I had a sandwich, and the meat had to have been fresh cut. The chips were okay. Our pizzas were really good, they could have done with a little more time in the oven. Great place. Definitely returning.

I’m definitely a pizza lover. Aficionado is way too pretentious, but I enjoy sampling «gourmet» pizza as much as possible. I don’t think Spinatos bills themselves in the gourmet category, but they should. The quality of ingredients is always top-​shelf, their secret sauce is magical. They must purchase their sausage directly from Anteros, the Italian god of love and passion.
Our family always gets the same round (all personal sized, although my «person» ends up with a medium)…
— Mama Spinato’s Signature (spinach, secret spices and LOTS of garlic)
— The Chicago (Italian sausage, onions, peppers)
— Good olé plain cheese (usually plus olives)
Sometimes, we’ll go crazy and put some pepperoni in there somewhere.
DId you hear, they have a baked spaghetti calzone! Yeah, it’s crazy! It’s very good, but their pizza is just amazing, it’s hard to jump off to try something different.
My wife turned me on to them back in 2007 and I’ve NEVER had anything better. She’s been coming since they were partnered with Aurelio’s way back in the day.
It’s not the fastest pie in the West, but well worth the wait.

This is the best pizza in town that I know of. The salads are excellent as well. And every mployee we have met there has treated us like gold.

Love this place. Wanted to have my birthday dinner tonight. My folks got there at 6pm for seven of us, but they said it was 2 ½ hot wait! That’s BS! So here we are at humble pie! One star because it’s always BS when you arrive for dinner etc. secondly my old friend George from Nellos help make their sauce and you can never get in for seating. it’s not like their Biancos?

Was looking for the best places to eat pizza in Scottsdale and this popped up as number 3 on the Unilocal list. It did not disappoint. In fact, it was so good I couldn’t stop eating it! Love that they cut the pizza in little squares, makes it go down even easier haha
We ordered The Spicy Italian, The Combo and The Margherita for take-​away. My favorite was The Combo (Italian sausage, mushrooms, mixed green & red sweet bell peppers, mozzarella) but honestly they were all really good. I really appreciate that they use the true Italian sausage with fennel and that slightly sweet sauce is the icing on the cake! Will for sure be back. I think we found our new «go-​to» pizza place in Scottsdale. :-D

We are nothing but amazed and happy to find this pizza place so close to us!!!
so flavorful and tasty, crunchy thin crust !!! great service, always packed so you have to be patient and have a nice craft beer pint while you wait.
take out also works and the pizza stays good cause they have a great packaging.

The food here is absolutely delicious! The gluten free tastes almost identical to their regular crust! Great service and great food

The kid that took my order on the phone screwed it up so badly that it had to be remade.
30 minutes later, I walked away with a half baked, bad pizza.
The staff in the to go area is rude, and the hostess was talking loudly about her high school drama.
I’m shocked that it was so busy here. I won’t be back.

This pizza place is located at a perfect location for me and I normally call them as I walk to my car at work. By the time I drive from my office to here, they have my pizza ready for me.
I never dined in here but whenever I came to pick up pizza, service was always friendly, I am usually in and out very quick. Pizza here is good, only problem is that drive home after I pick up pizza. It smells so good, it is like a torture to drive to get home. I tried different pizza so far and everything I had was good.
Someday I would like to come in to eat here to enjoy hot pizza. (warm, cold, next day pizza were all good but I am sure hot right out of the oven will be better!)

Four of us just had dinner here and we will be back.
Very good pizza.
We all had side salads and interestingly, two salads were Caesar, one great, the other soaked in dressing. She only ate around the edges and left ¾ of it. I would have asked them to replace or add more romaine. That was the only complaint.

Sadly, I am a pizza fanatic. The only reason to workout is to make room for pizza. Spinato’s is my favorite in the Valley. I think its the slightly sweet sauce and the thin crust. I can’t say much about anything else but the thin crust pizza. Never stayed to eat, and have never ordered anything else. Staff has always been friendly on the phone and in the door. Pizza has ALWAYS been consistent.
If they ever start making wings I am in real trouble.

Scottsdale, AZ native and am obsessed with this place! I have been coming to Spinato’s for years. The pizza is an absolute MUST some of the best I have ever had and that is saying something. The tomato sauce is so sweet and the pizza dough is flaky and light! If you haven’t been to Spinato’s yet your missing out!!!

I’m a New Yorker at heart and it was difficult to find really good pizza out here. Well say No more!!! Spinato’s is the best pizza I have had outside of NYC. I was pleasantly surprised when I was seated in a timely manner and the staff was extremely friendly. The aroma was ridiculous,…mozzarella cheese permeating the air. I was so hungry I didn’t know what to order but we got the Mama’s pie. OMG… By far the best I have ever tasted. Garlic, spinach and mozzarella cheese. This pizza gave me life and then some. I highly recommend this place.