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Tuesday 4pm - 9pm Wednesday 4pm - 9pm Thursday 4pm - 9pm Friday 4pm - 9pm Saturday 4pm - 9pm Sunday 4pm - 9pm

Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro, 7100 E. Cave Creek Road Ste 150, Cave Creek, AZ (2026)

09/20/2026

I’m not saying Happy Hour fixes everything.
But for $8.50, I’m willing to let it try.
Real pours. Real plates. Really good cocktails and wine.
And because apparently we’ve lost our minds, draft beers are 2 for $8.50.
4–6 PM. AT THE BAR ONLY.
Come over. The bar is calling!!!!!
Brugos | Beautiful Stagecoach Village

09/20/2026

CAVE CREEK… EGYPT HAS HAD PAT LONG ENOUGH.

After three weeks in Egypt, Pat is finally coming home and he’ll be back at Brugos this Tuesday, September 22.

Before he left, I told him if he was going all that way he HAD to ride a camel. Camels and Arabian horses have gone together in that part of the world for thousands of years, so between that and the fact that I’ve actually ridden one, I figured I was fully qualified to give advice. Naturally.

My advice was simple: don’t let those big soft brown eyes fool you. They can be cranky, they can spit, and when something that size decides to stand up underneath you, that’s about the moment you realize how truly tiny and mortal you are compared to the camel.

And I know Pat. He didn’t have to tell me he was nervous about getting on that camel. I knew. Which is exactly why I was SO proud when he sent me this picture. He did it anyway.

And I cannot WAIT to hear the play-by-play. I want the whole story, especially the part where the camel started to stand up and Pat was probably thinking, Chrissy, this is one of those ideas that sounded much better from 7,000 miles away.

People have been asking about him the whole time he’s been gone. That’s what happens when somebody becomes part of the place. You notice when they’re gone. We all missed our Pat!!!

So Tuesday, the camel gets replaced by a barstool, Pat gets back behind the bar, and Cave Creek gets him back.

If you’ve missed him, come see him. If you want the camel story, come ask him.

Pat is back Tuesday at Brugos.

Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro
Stagecoach Village • Cave Creek
Open 4–9 Tuesday

Happy Hour at the bar 4–6 with our $8.50 Premium Happy Hour, real pours and not-so-small plates.

Walk-ins welcome. Reservations appreciated.

Reservations:
https://www.opentable.com/r/brugos-italian-bistro-cave-creek

See the menu:
https://www.brugospizza.net

Staying home? Take Brugos with you.

Takeout and Take-N-Bake start at 4.
Call 480-575-3044.
Come over to our house for dinner… or take a little of our house home with you!!! And as always Grazie for choosing us!!! 💕💕💕💕💕

Ciao and love,
Chrissy

09/19/2026

Cave Creek is going to be hopping tonight, folks!!! I just looked and there will be lots of fun and music!!!

And this is one of those nights where I really love that Brugo’s is in Stagecoach Village...and here’s why...you get the best of both worlds by seeing us first and then the wild side of Cave Creek after!

You can come have dinner somewhere quiet and pretty first, with the fountains and the twinkling lights. You know Diana Krall will be playing at our place as usual...and THEN if you want to head over to Harold’s, The Taphouse or Buffalo Chip, they’re literally just a few minutes away on foot.

Which, in my opinion, is much better than driving around in circles looking for a parking spot, finally finding one, having a fun night, then coming back out and thinking...Okay. Where did we park?

And then...to add insult to injury...how the heck are we getting out of here? Nope.

And I think the owners over there will probably be happy you parked over here anyway, giving them a few more parking spaces!!! And you were just being smart!

So tonight park at Stagecoach, have dinner with us, walk over and have your fun, then walk back to the same car you came in. SOOO much easier!

And for dinner...well here are my suggestions!!!

Maybe The Cefalù, our Finding Nemo Scampi Pizza, or the Rigatoni with Crumbled Italian Sausage.

The rigatoni is the real Sicilian comfort-food one and I completely stand behind this one. People LOVE it! Plus, you get a lot of food, which never hurts.

Or switch gears for a moment...maybe you’d rather stay home...
It’s a beautiful Saturday night and you just feel like sitting outside and enjoying it...but one thing for sure, you absolutely do not feel like cooking. And boy do I get that too.

After all these years of meal planning, cooking and dishes...day after day...I understand that one REALLY well. It’s exhausting.
So call us after 4 and we’ll make dinner for you. Takeout or Take-N-Bake.

480-575-3044

Walk-ins are always welcome. Or if you want to make a reservation, you can do that right through our website at brugospizza.net, or use OpenTable if that’s easier.

Here’s the OpenTable link:
https://www.opentable.com/r/brugos-italian-bistro-cave-creek

And yes, if you’re coming from Carefree, Desert Mountain or North Scottsdale, we’re an easy drive.

We’re inside beautiful Stagecoach Village in Cave Creek.

See you tonight!
Ciao!

P.S. Folks have already been asking me what tomorrow night’s special is!! What a compliment. ❤️

It’s our beautiful Chicken Piccata served over pasta or fresh spinach with that famous thick slice of garlic bread!!!

09/18/2026

CAVE CREEK... this is the kind of Friday night I wait for!!!!

The patio is opening up, the big bar doors are opening too, the lights come on, people settle in, somebody sees somebody they know and waves across the room, then somebody else stops at a table “for just a second” and twenty minutes later they’re still standing there talking!!!!

That part makes me so happy.

That is our Brugos to me. ....A little Italian living room, a little supper club, a little everybody-knows-somebody eventually.

And then our food starts messing with everybody’s plans....

You come in thinking you know exactly what you want and then somebody orders the Mama Mia Spicy Hot Italian and suddenly that spicy roasted garlic red sauce, salami, pepperoni, mushrooms, roasted red peppers, olives, tomatoes and cheese starts looking VERY persuasive.

Then the Chicken Club goes by with chicken, bacon, red onion, Roma tomatoes, cheddar and that roasted garlic white sauce and now somebody at your table is changing their mind again.

This is why I should never be trusted to make one simple dinner decision around our own menu.
You all know I get distracted easily!!!

And because it is Friday, House Roasted Garlic Shrimp Scampi over Fettuccini starts at 5.

That one smells good before it even gets to the table, which is really unfair to everybody else who thought they had already decided what they were ordering.

And then there is the Meat Craver Take-N-Bake.

Now this one I really love because it solves tomorrow before tomorrow starts being annoying.

Take it home, put it in your oven when you want it, and suddenly dinner is handled with absolutely no chopping, no pans and no standing in the kitchen staring into the refrigerator hoping something exciting has happened in there since the last time you looked. Now I call that planning ahead!!!

So tonight, come sit outside, have a cocktail, order something wonderful and stay awhile.

And to all of you opening houses back up around Cave Creek, Carefree, Desert Mountain and North Scottsdale... welcome back!!! We really are happy to see you again!!!!

AND I KNOW you’ve probably spent the day turning water back on, finding dead batteries, opening shutters and wondering where half your stuff went sometime around May.
So yes... you’ve earned dinner.

And to the people who stayed here all summer and kept Cave Creek going when the rest of the world had wisely gone somewhere cooler... WE LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU.

We NEVER forget that. In season or out, you’re the ones who kept showing up.

And now that everybody’s coming back...a bit of advice or a plea:

Let’s all ease back into the four-way stop gently.
The horn is not an emotional support device...at least try..I know ..I drive through there too!!

So tonight, start at the bar for our $8.50 Premium Happy Hour, bar only, from 4–6 with real pours and our not-so-small plates, then stay for dinner!!!

And if you’re visiting Cave Creek this weekend and looking for a beautiful family-owned Italian dinner, hand-tossed pizza, cocktails and a patio, come find us tucked inside beautiful Stagecoach Village.

Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro
Dinner 4–9 tonight
Happy Hour 4–6 at the bar
House Roasted Garlic Shrimp Scampi over Fettuccini starts at 5

Walk-ins welcome.

And if tonight sounds good, make the reservation NOW and let Friday be handled.

Reservations:
https://www.opentable.com/r/brugos-italian-bistro-cave-creek

See the menu:
https://www.brugospizza.net

Takeout and Take-N-Bake starting at 4:
480-575-3044

Come over to our house for dinner.
Ciao and love,
Chrissy

09/17/2026

After yesterday’s monsoon, I have a feeling quite a few people in Cave Creek were reaching for the Painkillers.
Plural.

First of all, I hope everybody found their lawn furniture….

And I’m hoping those little rivers that suddenly appeared everywhere are back to their normal Cave Creek condition, which is basically… does water ever actually run through here???

Which is why tonight you need a Painkiller. Flat out…
You earned it.

And I know where you can get the best kind… the kind that really works. No prescription needed. And it’s at our place.

Let me tell you, I speak from personal experience with the Painkiller… this drink delivers. That’s exactly why I put it on the menu.

It tastes like paradise. Coconut, pineapple, creamy, cold, ridiculously good.

Then about halfway through…

BINGO. You start tasting all the rums.

And suddenly you realize the name Painkiller isn’t being dramatic.

It’s being accurate.

And Thursday means Chicken Parmesan starting at 5, and if you feel like wandering off your usual order a little, try our award-winning Chicken with Roasted Garlic Pizza or Good Golly Miss Molly with shrimp, garlic butter and pesto.

And after yesterday, if today involved three trips to Lowe’s, a broom, a wet vacuum and language we probably shouldn’t repeat here… you’ve earned a mini vacation tonight at Brugos.

Just low lights, a really good dinner and one of those Painkillers doing its job.

Brugos opens at 4 tonight in beautiful Stagecoach Village.

Happy Hour is 4–6 at the bar with our $8.50 cocktails, wines and not-so-small plates.

Chicken Parmesan starts at 5. Dinner 4–9.

Walk-ins welcome. Reservations appreciated.

Reservations:
https://www.opentable.com/r/brugos-italian-bistro-cave-creek

Menu:
www.brugospizza.net

And if after all that cleanup you have absolutely NO intention of going back out tonight, I understand that too.

Take Brugos home.

Cooked-to-go is ready starting at 4, or order one of our Take-N-Bake pizzas and put it in your own oven when you’re ready. Hot, fresh Brugos pizza at home, no cooking dinner from scratch and no changing out of whatever you’ve been cleaning up the yard in all day.

Call us starting at 4: 480-575-3044. We’re in beautiful, dry Stagecoach Village.

So come over to our house for dinner… or take a little bit of our house home with you.

Ciao and love,
Chrissy

09/16/2026

If we’re going to be surrounded by liquid today, I vote we switch to wine.

Come into Brugos tonight. Every glass AND every bottle is 50% off with dinner.

Wednesday Wine Night • 4–9 • Stagecoach Village

09/16/2026

I think one of my favorite things about Wednesday Wine Night at Brugos is the incredible bunch of people who come in for it.

That’s really what makes the night.

We have some of the funniest, warmest, most wonderfully social people, and somehow on Wine Night everybody seems to know somebody. There’s a wave across the room, somebody stops at another table “just for a second” and twenty minutes later they are still there talking, somebody at the bar starts laughing and now half the room wants to know what happened.

I LOVE that.

Wine Night has this funny way of making Brugos feel a little like an Italian supper club and a little like somebody’s house where everybody knows somebody, and if they didn’t when they walked in, there’s a pretty good chance they will by the time they leave.

You come in with the person you planned to have dinner with and before long you’re saying hello to somebody else, somebody is telling you what they ordered and now you’re looking at their plate thinking… oh no, maybe I want THAT.

Then the wine starts showing up.

And tonight, every bottle AND every glass of wine is half off with dinner.

So maybe it’s the Bonanza Cabernet you keep looking at. Maybe the Emmolo Sauvignon Blanc. Maybe Mezzacorona Pinot Grigio. Maybe you just point at the wine list and say, “Let’s try this one.”

That is a very good Wednesday Night folks!!

Then at 5 comes Chicken Marsala, with tender chicken, mushrooms, that beautiful Marsala sauce, and your choice of traditional pasta or fresh spinach.

Or maybe tonight is pizza.

There is something about a big Brugos hand-tossed pizza in the middle of the table with a bottle of wine that just works. Everybody reaching in, somebody claiming they’re only having one piece, somebody else immediately offering them another one.

And then someone from another table says, “Have you tried the meatballs?”

Now you have meatballs.

This is how it happens.

Then maybe Chrissy’s Lasagna shows up somewhere nearby and everybody turns their head a little.

I know this because beautiful food that smells this good makes people interested
In the nicest possible way.

And that is probably what I love most about Wine Night. It’s warm, it’s social, people are laughing, talking, saying hello, sharing food, ordering another glass, and somewhere in the room somebody is telling a story that everybody else is now listening to too.

That is Brugos to me.

Good wine. Really good food. Incredible people having fun.

And a table that somehow keeps getting fuller.

Wednesday Wine Night at Brugos starts at 4 and goes all night. Every bottle AND every glass of wine is 50% off with dinner.

Happy Hour is 4–6 at the bar with our $8.50 cocktails, wines and not-so-small plates.

Chicken Marsala starts at 5.

Dinner is 4–9 tonight at Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro in beautiful Stagecoach Village.

Walk-ins welcome. Reservations appreciated.

Reservations:
https://www.opentable.com/r/brugos-italian-bistro-cave-creek

Menu:
www.brugospizza.net

Takeout starts at 4: 480-575-3044

Come over to our house for dinner.

Ciao and love,
Chrissy

09/15/2026

I have a confession to make about one of the pizzas on our menu.

I don’t really like anchovies.

There. I said it...!

Which makes Cousin Johnny’s Anchovy, Red Sauce & Basil Pizza a little ridiculous because every single time Johnny makes it, I eat it. And then I eat another piece.

Johnny’s right there in the middle of that first photo in the white shirt and big smile, and in the last photo that’s Johnny again with my sister Maria and me. I absolutely idolized Johnny.

I have SO many stories about him and I’ll tell you some of them another time, but one thing everybody in our family knew was you really did not argue with Johnny. He was a Teamster in San Francisco, okay???

So now that I think about it, that’s probably why I tried this pizza in the first place because remember, I do NOT like anchovies... but if Johnny told you to try something, what were you gonna do, start explaining yourself??? Not me. I had excellent survival instincts.

I mean, he could be smiling at you and be perfectly lovely and I would still be thinking...

yes Johnny, whatever you say Johnny, would you like me to move the car too Johnny??? I’m kidding. Sort of.

So I ate the pizza.

And darn him... it was wonderful.

That is the truly irritating part of this story because now Johnny didn’t just get me to eat anchovies, he got to be RIGHT about the anchovies too, and if you knew Johnny you would understand how much he probably enjoyed that.

The way he makes it is what changed everything for me. He doesn’t cover the top with great big anchovies so you take one look and start backing toward the door. He presses little bits of anchovy right into the dough before it bakes, then adds our red sauce, Parmesan, Asiago, mozzarella and fresh basil.

So when you take a bite you don’t think, OH LORD, ANCHOVIES.

You just think... oh gosh, this is really good. Why? It's subtle. It won't knock you over the head...it's just perfect.

And then if you’re me, you quietly take another piece and hope nobody points out that you have spent half your life announcing that you don’t like anchovies.

That’s one of the things I love about food though. You can be absolutely certain you don’t like something and then the right person makes it the right way and suddenly everything you’ve been saying for 40 years is out the window.

And no, you absolutely do NOT have to come into Brugos tonight and eat anchovies!!! We have plenty of perfectly normal choices for people who do not have a retired San Francisco Teamster standing over them telling them to try his pizza.

But if you’ve always said you don’t like anchovies... I’m just saying.

Johnny got me!!

Tuesday night feels like a pretty good night to try something on the menu you’ve always skipped over, or don’t!!! Order the Big Combo, order Chrissy’s Lasagna, order meatballs and garlic bread and exactly what you already know you love. I am also a very big believer that once you find something you love, there is absolutely no reason to start taking unnecessary risks on a Tuesday.

Brugos opens at 4 tonight in beautiful Stagecoach Village.

Happy Hour is 4–6 at the bar with our $8.50 cocktails, wines and not-so-small plates. Dinner is 4–9.

Walk-ins welcome. Reservations appreciated.

Reservations:
https://www.opentable.com/r/brugos-italian-bistro-cave-creek

Menu:
www.brugospizza.net

Takeout starts at 4: 480-575-3044

And which is exactly why I’m telling you about this pizza in the first place. I’m telling you... just try it. And remember, I’m Sicilian too, so really, how much arguing do you want to do here???

Johnny got me to try it and now I’m doing the same thing to you. Consider this the family tradition being passed down.

Come over to our house for dinner.

Ciao and love,
Chrissy

09/15/2026

I have a confession to make about one of the pizzas on our menu.
I don’t really like anchovies.
There. I said it.
Which makes Cousin Johnny’s Anchovy, Red Sauce & Basil Pizza a little ridiculous because every single time Johnny makes it, I eat it. And then I eat another piece.
Johnny’s right there in the middle of that first photo in the white shirt and big smile, and in the last photo that’s Johnny again with my sister Maria and me. I absolutely idolized Johnny. I have SO many stories about him and I’ll tell you some of them another time...
but one thing everybody in our family knew was you really did not argue with Johnny. He was a Teamster in San Francisco, okay???
So now that I think about it, that’s probably why I tried this pizza in the first place because remember, I do NOT like anchovies... but if Johnny told you to try something, what were you gonna do, start explaining yourself???
Not me. I had excellent survival instincts from an early age!
I mean, he could be smiling at you and be perfectly lovely and I would still be thinking... yes Johnny, whatever you say Johnny, would you like me to move the car too Johnny??? I’m kidding. Sort of...So I ate the pizza.
And darn him... it was wonderful.
That is the truly irritating part of this story because now Johnny didn’t just get me to eat anchovies, he got to be RIGHT about the anchovies too, and if you knew Johnny you would understand how much he probably enjoyed that.
The way he makes it is what changed everything for me. He doesn’t cover the top with great big anchovies so you take one look and start backing toward the door.
He presses little bits of anchovy right into the dough before it bakes, then adds our red sauce, Parmesan, Asiago, mozzarella and fresh basil.
So when you take a bite you don’t think, OH LORD, ANCHOVIES.
You just think... oh gosh, this is really good.
Why? Because that anchovy is so subtle done HIS his way. So I ate it.
And then if you’re me, you quietly take another piece and hope nobody points out that you have spent half your life announcing that you don’t like anchovies.
That’s one of the things I love about food though.
You can be absolutely certain you don’t like something and then the right person makes it the right way and suddenly everything you’ve been saying for 40 years is out the window.
And no, you absolutely do NOT have to come into Brugos tonight and eat anchovies!!!
We have plenty of perfectly normal choices for people who do not have a retired San Francisco Teamster standing over them telling them to try his pizza.
But if you’ve always said you don’t like anchovies... I’m just saying.
Johnny got me, and he was right.
Tuesday night feels like a pretty good night to try something on the menu you’ve always skipped over, or don’t!!! Order the Big Combo, order Chrissy’s Lasagna, order meatballs and garlic bread and exactly what you already know you love. I am also a very big believer that once you find something you love, there is absolutely no reason to start taking unnecessary risks on a Tuesday.
Brugos opens at 4 tonight in beautiful Stagecoach Village.
Happy Hour is 4–6 at the bar with our $8.50 cocktails, wines and not-so-small plates. Dinner is 4–9.
Walk-ins welcome. Reservations appreciated.
Reservations:
https://www.opentable.com/r/brugos-italian-bistro-cave-creek
Menu:
www.brugospizza.net
Takeout starts at 4: 480-575-3044.

So one more time, I’m telling you about this pizza. .. just try it. And remember, I’m Sicilian too, so really, how much arguing do you want to do here, okay???
Johnny got me to try it and now I’m doing the same thing to you. Consider this the family tradition being passed down.
Come over to our house for dinner.
Ciao and love,
Chrissy

09/13/2026

Sunday is funny because in the morning you think you have ALL day.

Maybe do some laundry, clean up the house a little, watch football, get yourself organized for Monday... all very ambitious Sunday thoughts.

Then somehow it’s late afternoon, the laundry is still sitting exactly where you left it, whatever you were going to clean will apparently survive another day and somebody says...

“What are we doing for dinner?” And BAM!!! There it is.
That nagging Sunday question....so here's my answer:

Today you can watch football, yell at the television if necessary, finish whatever absolutely HAS to be finished... and when the afternoon game starts winding down, Brugos opens at 4.

Come in for our $8.50 Happy Hour and stay for dinner, or call us for takeout or a Take-N-Bake if you’re heading home for the later game. I actually think that is a pretty darn good Sunday plan.

And Sunday has something else going for it at Brugos...
My Mom’s Chicken Piccata.

We only do it on Sundays and I love that. There is something about having a dinner you actually wait all week for. Tender chicken, that bright lemony sauce, capers, pasta... it just tastes like Sunday dinner to me.

Maybe that’s the Italian in me, but there has always been something special about Sunday dinner. It doesn’t have to be fancy. Just really good food, people you love, everybody talking and somebody already thinking about what else should be ordered before the first plates have even landed.

Which happens at Brugos ALL the time!!!
You come in completely sure you’re having the Piccata and then a Pizza Bella goes by... creamy Alfredo white sauce, chicken, bacon, roasted garlic, all that melted cheese... and suddenly everybody at the table is looking at it.

Then somebody gets Chrissy’s Lasagna with our family sauce, pesto, chicken, mushrooms and all that beautiful cheese and now somebody says, “Wait... what was THAT?”
Then the meatballs and sauce show up at another table...
Ohhhh!!! And somewhere along the way somebody decides garlic bread needs to happen too.

This is how a perfectly sensible Sunday dinner turns into, “Well... maybe we should get one of those too.” And you all know I LOVE that!!!
Food should make you excited. It should come past the table and make you turn your head. It should make you remember something you had last time and start planning what you’re having next time.

That is one of my favorite things about Brugos!!!

So if the house didn’t get completely cleaned today, the laundry is still sitting exactly where you left it, and Monday will somehow be here tomorrow whether the house is spotless or not...

Just Leave it. I'm Serious now.

Just come over to Brugos.

Happy Hour at the bar is 4 to 6 with our $8.50 cocktails, wines and not-so-small plates.

Dinner is 4 to 9 at Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro in beautiful Stagecoach Village in Cave Creek.

Mom’s Chicken Piccata starts at 5, and when it’s gone, it’s gone.

Walk-ins welcome. Reservations appreciated.
Reservations:
https://www.opentable.com/r/brugos-italian-bistro-cave-creek
Menu:
www.brugospizza.net

Watching more football tonight? Need takeout or one of our Take-N-Bake pizzas? Call us starting at 4 at 480-575-3044.

And if you’re looking for a great Italian restaurant, hand-tossed pizza, Happy Hour, a cozy Sunday dinner or just somewhere beautiful to eat near Cave Creek, Carefree, Desert Mountain or North Scottsdale, take the pretty drive up to Stagecoach Village.

The laundry will still be there when you get home. Unfortunately.

Come over to our house for dinner.!
Ciao and lots of love,
Chrissy

09/12/2026

Saturday night still gets me.

I can be perfectly happy at 4:00 in old clothes, hair doing whatever it has decided to do that day, thinking I am absolutely NOT going anywhere tonight.

And then something happens around dinner time.

Suddenly I want low lights. I want a really good cocktail. I want somebody to bring me something beautiful that I did not cook, on a plate I will not have to wash.

At 66 this apparently qualifies as a wild Saturday night and I am completely fine with that!!!

I still love going out to dinner. I love that little moment when you sit down, somebody brings the menus, drinks start arriving and everybody collectively realizes... oh good, we don’t have to do anything now except enjoy ourselves.

That is pretty much what I want Saturday night at Brugos to feel like.

Good music, Diana Krall and Nat. Low lights, a beautiful room, really good food coming out of the kitchen and that wonderful little Saturday feeling when you look around and think... I’m so glad we came out tonight.

And then tonight there is Mama Mia Spicy Shrimp over Angel Hair.

Now THIS is one of those dishes that wakes dinner right up. Shrimp, our spicy roasted garlic red sauce, angel hair, all those big Italian flavors together and just enough heat to make you pay attention.

It starts at 5, we make it to order, and when it’s gone, it’s gone.

Of course I will probably see a pizza go past and immediately reconsider my entire dinner plan because this happens to me constantly at Brugos.

The Franktown goes by with that roasted garlic white sauce, chicken, bacon, sundried tomatoes and Gorgonzola and I think... wait.

Then somebody gets lasagna.
Now I’m distracted.
Then I smell garlic bread and at that point all bets are off.

I have worked around this food for almost 20 years and I STILL get excited when I see it coming out of the kitchen. I think that says more than anything clever I could write about it.

So if your Saturday is starting to look suspiciously like leftovers and television... put on the good shirt.

Come over to Brugos. We’ll handle dinner.

Happy Hour at the bar is 4 to 6 with our $8.50 cocktails, wines and not-so-small plates. Real pours, really good food and no dishes waiting for you at home.

Dinner is 4 to 9 tonight at Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro in beautiful Stagecoach Village in Cave Creek.

Mama Mia Spicy Shrimp over Angel Hair starts at 5.

Walk-ins welcome. Reservations appreciated.
Reservations:
https://www.opentable.com/r/brugos-italian-bistro-cave-creek
Menu:
www.brugospizza.net

Need takeout or one of our Take-N-Bake pizzas?
Call us starting at 4 at 480-575-3044.

And if you’re looking for a great Italian restaurant, hand-tossed pizza, $8.50 Happy Hour or a fun Saturday dinner near Cave Creek, Carefree, Desert Mountain or North Scottsdale... take the pretty drive up to Stagecoach Village.

Come over to our house for dinner....I’ll be the one still trying to decide what I want!!!

Ciao and love,
Chrissy

09/12/2026

September 11, 2001.

We remember the lives lost, the families forever changed, the first responders, and the extraordinary courage shown that day.

Twenty-five years later, our hearts still remember.

We will never forget.

09/11/2026

Friday has arrived and I don’t know about you, but by Friday afternoon I am pretty much DONE making decisions.

Which is especially funny considering I own a restaurant full of food I love.

And you know what? I’ll think I have dinner completely figured out... and then I see one of our Big Combos coming out of the kitchen, all that pepperoni, Italian sausage, peppers, mushrooms, onions and olives, hot and bubbling, and I think OH YES. That’s what I’m taking home tonight.

Then somebody’s Chrissy’s Lasagna comes out... family sauce, pesto, chicken, mushrooms, all those cheeses melting together and suddenly I’m like wait. Never mind. THAT’S dinner.

And then it’s Friday, so here comes the House Roasted Garlic Shrimp Scampi over Fettuccini, all that garlic and shrimp and beautiful sauce through the pasta and now I’ve changed my mind again.

This happens to me constantly and I still love it!!!

I’ve seen these dishes hundreds of times. I know what they taste like. Some of them came out of my own head for heaven’s sake, and I STILL get excited watching them come out of the kitchen.

Maybe that’s actually one of my favorite things about Brugos. I get to watch dinner happen all night long and every few minutes I think... OH GOSH, that looks so good.

And somewhere in all of this I have also decided we need garlic bread.
Obviously.

So Friday dinner should be easy. Come in, sit down, let us bring you a drink, let us cook, let us do the dishes and you just enjoy the part where somebody else takes care of dinner for once.

Tonight at Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro in Cave Creek, our Friday House Roasted Garlic Shrimp Scampi over Fettuccini starts at 5. We also have our hand-tossed pizzas, homemade pastas, meatballs and sauce, lasagna and all the things that make choosing dinner far more fun than it probably should be.

Happy Hour is 4 to 6 at the bar with our $8.50 cocktails, wines and not-so-small plates. Real pours, good food and a very reasonable excuse to start the weekend early.

Dinner is 4 to 9 in beautiful Stagecoach Village.
Walk-ins welcome. Reservations appreciated.

Reservations:
https://www.opentable.com/r/brugos-italian-bistro-cave-creek
Menu:
www.brugospizza.net

Need takeout or one of our Take-N-Bake pizzas? Call us starting at 4 at 480-575-3044.

If you’re looking for a great Italian restaurant, pizza, Happy Hour or Friday dinner near Cave Creek, Carefree, Desert Mountain or North Scottsdale, come over to Brugos.

Come over to our house for dinner.
We’ll take care of the rest.

Ciao and love,
Chrissy

Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro

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Tuesday	4pm - 9pm
Wednesday	4pm - 9pm
Thursday	4pm - 9pm
Friday	4pm - 9pm
Saturday	4pm - 9pm
Sunday	4pm - 9pm