Looks like we maaaade iiiiiiit....to review 200!\n\nNow that I've got a Barry Manilow song stuck in your head (you're welcome), it's time to show some love for Postino, my favorite local place before I was a Phoenix local.\n\nFirst things first-the staff here is ridiculously nice. They are friendly, helpful with the menu and attentive; this is a glass half full place. As in my glass is never less than half full.\n\nPostino has a simple but solid menu of appetizers, soups and sandwiches along with a killer wine list that gets rotated out seasonally. My first visit here a couple of years ago (the downtown location) involved the Nine Iron sandwich, a sandwich that will fulfill your dreams of bacon and burrata on a delicious carby pillow of your choice of focaccia or ciabatta. I don't know if the bread is made in house but it's fresh and the ciabatta doesn't cut the roof of your mouth like it usually does at lesser sandwich shops. They use the same ciabatta for their brushcetta board which comes in fun combinations like proscuitto and figs, salami and pesto and brie with apples. You get a choice of four different kinds and honestly if you're dining solo this makes a good lunch (or dinner). \n\nTheir roasted red pepper soup has a cult-like following and I now know why. Think of the most delicious tomato soup you've ever had and multiply it by 100. It's a soup that I would eat in the dead heat of summer because it's one of those comfort foods that knows no season-it's just GOOD. \n\nThey offer happy hour from 11A-5P, $5 glasses of wine, bellinis and mimosas and I've yet to have a drink that has offended me. Everything is reasonably priced including a $10, pick two option of soup, salad and 1/2 sandwich which is usually what I do. \n\nPostino is on my short list of go-to lunch places, single girl dinner places and places to bring out of town friends. Also probably a good date spot...working on investigating that!
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