THE LOWDOWN: Good pizza, but not worth the wait nor the aggravation.\n\nI've been here the once, after hearing my girlfriend and her roommate rant and rave about it. Our group was composed of my girlfriend and myself, and two friends.\n\nFirst things first. Being where it is, parking is, excuse the language, a bitch. After arriving and finding that the very limited parking spaces had all been taken, I was forced to park in front of (presumably) another patron's car. Throughout the two hour wait and one hour meal, I was praying that I wouldn't get called out to move the car and find another parking space (ha, yeah right) or, worse, get towed.\n\nAfter that was the wait. Oh God, the wait. Even though Bar Bianco right next door provides for a comfortable waiting spot with a great selection of wine and cheese to tide you over, two hours is two hours. Two hours is four separate deliveries from any pizza chain that knows what they're doing. Two hours is about half the drive to Las Vegas. Two hours is... well, two hours.\n\nAfter the two hours of wondering just how good this pizza would be, we were finally seated and given menus at a simple wooden table inside the similarly simple and comfortably home kitchen-like restaurant proper. I was hungry and expecting nothing less than food that would give me an orgasm.\n\nI didn't get it.\n\nDon't get me wrong. The antipasti was good. The pizza was good - I especially liked Sonny Boy. But it was just that. Good. Not mind-blowing. Not life-changing. No sudden epiphany. No orgasm. The cappuccino was pretty good, though.\n\nThis is a place that lives - and thrives - on its reputation and exclusivity, which stems from the difficulty of actually getting seated and served. Pizzeria Bianco is one of those places which has transcended from \"a restaurant\" into \"an experience\", and deservedly so. The reputation is justified. The food is good. However, despite being pleasant and a must-do at some point during your stay in Phoenix, the whole experience isn't worth going through a second time; while the food and the ambiance justify the (very reasonable!) price you pay, the difficulty of finding parking and the wait are ALSO part of the experience, and is something that cannot be rectified. \n\nSo unless you happen to enjoy waiting, my advice to you is to go there the once and experience it for yourself. And then, regale your friends with tales of how amazingly awesome the whole experience is, con them into going, and tell them to bring home some leftovers.
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