The Italian Peasant

I had two meals in last week at the Italian business. Both were really excellent. It's service and quality of the menu items has improved over the last few months dramatically. I had the linguine and clams pasta and the primavera vegetarian sandwich. They both were so excellent. I'm not one to leave. Good reviews for restaurants very often but I do so for the Italian visit without hesitation

Was their first order of the day. No greeting except from two employees sitting at a table giving me no notice. Finally one said Que Pasa to someone in another room. Man came out to take my order. Upon pick up I paid by credit card and tipped tho felt service did not deserve such. The edge crust on the pizza was so hard it could be used to rasp callouses on someone’s heels. The cheese on the Margarita pizza was barely none existent and spot placed in chunks $22. Chicken wings 6 were palatable $12. El Greco salad had old lettuce that was slimy and needed to be picked out and was missing ingredients that menu stated would be present $16. Then desert oh boy. A small slice of Limonecello cake th...

Visiting Tubac for the arts? Afterward stop at the Italian Peasant for their terrific eats. If I hadn't checked out the online reviews I would probably have passed this restaurant by as it looks more like a sports bar from the outside. Inside it's cozy and cool and if you get there when it first opens 11am you'll have your pick of spot as it's seat yourself. We ordered the antipasto which was amazing, it had nicely breaded eggplant strips on the top and generous portions of meats, artichoke, and spicy peppers. We ordered the small which was plenty for 3 people. For mains we had the clam linguini which had fresh clams not the chopped up clams most places serve. Ordered a small eggplant parmig...