Oregano's

This week a few colleagues from one of our California offices flew in to help train myself and a few co-workers on a new project for Shutterfly photo-books. One of the perks of this includes a company paid lunch. After much debating our decision was Oregano's. I love this restaurant because it has great pizzas, pastas and salads. The dining rooms are really cute, they are split into two different areas with an outside seating area between them. Even though it was pushing 108° we still sat outside, the misters work great to keep us cool enough to enjoy an afternoon outside of the office.


 



 

I love the retro menus and decor theme throughout the entire restaurant!

We started out with some appetizers, the Guaca Tony is featured below. It is an Italian guacamole, made with basil, fresh garlic and avocado and you use a thin pizza crust to eat it. It had amazing flavor and was a huge hit at our table. 
 
 
  

 

Then came our actual meals, I split two salads with a friend because we couldn't decide on just one. So we went with the Oregano's Favorite (salad on top) a greek type of salad with a honey vinaigrette dressing and The Antipasto Thing (bottom salad) which had a mixture of salami, pepperoni, capicolla, romaine lettuce, artichoke hearts, and the works topped with an italian dressing. The Antipasto Thing was my favorite salad of the two. Originally we were planning to split the dinner size, but then opted for the lunch portion. 
Good thing we did too, the portions are huge, even the lunch portions are 
large enough to share and still have left overs!!




After lunch the heat really hit us and it was time to find some air-conditioning FAST! 
Never have I been so excited to fly through the doors to the freezing office. 
Then it was back to work, but with a fully satisfied belly!

If you are ever visiting Arizona check out one of their 8 locations! 

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