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Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro

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Family owned Italian restaurant & gourmet pizza Stagecoach Village, Cave Creek.We twirl dough, not mustaches hand-tossed pies & pastas.
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Wine Night Wed. 4 to Close. ½off bottles & glasses, $8.50 Happy Hour 4–6pm. Reserve on OpenTable Patio seating. Cozy, family-run Italian restaurant in Stagecoach Village, Cave Creek. Hand-tossed pizza, classic Italian dishes, slow-simmered sauces, and old-school hospitality. Twinkling-light patio • Indoor/outdoor bar • $8.50 Happy Hour (4–6 pm) • Wine Night Wednesdays (half-off bottles & glasses)

Warm, relaxed, Dean Martin–style supper-club vibe — conversation-friendly, dog-friendly, and never rushed. Widely loved as one of the coziest Italian spots and best pizza & Happy Hour in Cave Creek.

11/06/2026

True Story. WE OPENED OUR FIRST BRUGOS IN 2007 AND SOMEHOW FORGOT THE MOST OBVIOUS THING!
I'm embarrassed to admit it, but now 20 years later I think I can talk about it...

It was 2007 in Carson City, Nevada, where our Brugos story began, long before we found our home in Cave Creek, Arizona.

We had a tiny pizza bistro, a big dream, and absolutely everything we owned riding on it. Even our home.

Look at that first photo. There's Troy desperately rolling pizza dough as fast as he can, me worrying in the background, and our daughter Sarah, dressed in her very best outfit, ready to refill sodas.

In Sarah's mind, that was a VERY important job. And she was right!

Anyone who's ever opened a restaurant knows there are about a MILLION things to think about. Permits, inspections, equipment, deliveries, menus, employees, and a thousand little details that keep you awake at night.

We had checked and double-checked everything!
Beautiful glassware, lovely tables, paper napkins, and gorgeous pizzas. We had thought of EVERYTHING!
Or so we thought.
I'll never forget sitting in the back of that little dining room, suddenly terrified.
Oh, my Lord. What have we done? Why did we think this was a good idea???

I hadn't waited tables in years. What if nobody came? What if they hated our pizza? What if we lost everything?

And then the doors opened...
People came in smiling. They loved our little bistro! The pizzas were beautiful. I could finally breathe.

Maybe this crazy dream was going to work!

And then a lovely lady looked up at me.

"Excuse me, may I have a fork?"

A fork? A FORK?!

OH MY LORD! I FORGOT THE FORKS!!!

AND THE KNIVES! AND THE SPOONS!
WHAT IF SOMEBODY WANTS COFFEE? WE DON'T EVEN HAVE A SPOON!
We had remembered everything except what people were supposed to EAT WITH!

I could practically hear my mother's voice, with that unmistakable tone of utter disbelief....

"Chrissy... HOW COULD YOU?!" "I KNOW, MOM! I BLEW IT!"

I wanted to laugh, cry, and crawl under the nearest table. Mostly, I wanted to find a fork!

Well, nearly twenty years later, Brugos has some of the most beautiful, expensive flatware money can buy.

I can't even afford silverware that nice in my own house!

And now that we've managed to keep Brugos going for nearly twenty years, I figure I can FINALLY admit what happened that first night! I certainly wasn't telling anybody back then!

Sometimes I think about that frightened woman sitting in the back of our little bistro in 2007.

She had no idea how many wonderful people would walk through those doors. The friendships, celebrations, laughter, and memories that would become part of our lives.

I wish I could put my arm around her and say, "Honey, you're going to be okay. And someday you're going to laugh about those forks!"

To everyone who has shared a meal and a little piece of their life with us since 2007, thank you. You've made our dream something more wonderful than we ever imagined.

And just think!

We went from forgetting the forks in 2007 to being nominated for Best of Our Valley 2027 in THREE categories!

BEST PIZZA, BEST ITALIAN RESTAURANT and BEST PET-FRIENDLY RESTAURANT!
Who would've thought?! Certainly not that terrified woman looking for a fork!

NOW, WHO'S HUNGRY?
It's Friday at Brugos! Shrimp Scampi, hand-tossed pizzas, Italian favorites, and our gorgeous patio under the lights.

$8.50 Happy Hour premium pours at the bar, indoors or outdoors, 4–6 PM.

Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro
Stagecoach Village | Cave Creek, Arizona
Dinner 4–9 PM

Easy drive from Carefree, North Scottsdale and Desert Mountain. Convenient parking! Walk-ins always welcome!

Reserve on OpenTable:
https://www.opentable.com/r/brugos-italian-bistro-cave-creek

And if you need a fork...

OH, BOY DO HAVE WE GOT FORKS!
Ciao and love Chrissy ♥️

11/05/2026

IT'S THURSDAY! And at Brugos, that means CHICKEN PARMESAN! And here is the truth:
I've had Chicken Parmesan that made me want to kiss the cook. And I've had Chicken Parmesan that made me want to ask the cook a few questions!
So what is the difference with ours? Oh, let me tell you...
We start with beautiful organic chicken breasts, pounded thin, dredged in fine imported flour, real eggs and breadcrumbs, then slowly sautéed in extra virgin olive oil and butter until golden and gorgeous. The it goes into the convection oven with that famous sauce of ours and lots of cheese.
And our family sauce? Truly handed down from mother to daughter for generations, from Aunt Ida and my mom to me at Brugos. Good red w**e, tomatoes, garlic, herbs and six to eight hours of simmering Italian love.
And about that measuring cup? What's that? Who used measuring cups?! Not in our family. We cooked by taste and instinct. Garlic gets stronger, onions get sweeter, herbs change. You taste, adjust and trust your heart. That's how Aunt Ida and Mom taught me!
And then comes my favorite part...THE MOZZARELLA!
Lots of the very best, bubbling and melting with those gorgeous little golden spots on top.
Oh, somebody hand me a fork!
That's Thursday Chicken Parmesan at Brugos. A little family history and a LOT of mozzarella! Starts at 5pm.
Come hungry! We'll handle the cooking and dishes.
$8.50 Happy Hour premium pours at the bar, 4–6 PM, indoors outdoor bar. Then enjoy dinner in our cozy Italian dining room or on our gorgeous patio under the lights!
Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro Stagecoach Village | Cave Creek
Thursday dinner 4–9 PM
Easy drive from Carefree, North Scottsdale and Desert Mountain. Convenient parking!
Walk-ins always welcome!
Reserve on OpenTable:
https://www.opentable.com/r/brugos-italian-bistro-cave-creek

11/04/2026

Well, I almost fell off my chair when I saw this! Good thing it's Wednesday W**e Night at Brugos. I may need a glass later to recover!
Our little Italian supper club in Cave Creek has been nominated for THREE Arizona Foothills Best of Our Valley 2027 awards!
BEST ITALIAN
BEST PIZZA
BEST PET-FRIENDLY RESTAURANT
THREE! And we're up against some pretty wonderful restaurants. To see our little Brugos among them is truly humbling!
Now comes the part I'm not very good at. Asking for a favor!
Would you do us the honor of voting for Brugos? You can vote in all THREE categories every day through December 1!
BEST PIZZA

https://boov.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com/food-and-restaurants/pizza

🍝 BEST ITALIAN

https://boov.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com/food-and-restaurants/italian

🐾 BEST PET-FRIENDLY RESTAURANT

https://boov.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com/food-and-restaurants/pet-friendly-restaurant
For nearly 20 years, Troy and I have poured our hearts into this little restaurant. Our incredible kitchen crew puts so much love into every dish, and our wonderful front-of-house family makes everyone feel right at home.
But the real reason we're still here? YOU!
Some of you have been coming so long we know your favorite table, your favorite w**e, and what you're ordering before you even sit down! At this point, you're practically relatives. The good kind, of course!
You've shared birthdays, anniversaries, family dinners, and countless memories with us. Somewhere along the way, Brugos became one big Italian family. And we couldn't be more grateful!
Now, since it's Wednesday, I think we have a pretty good excuse to celebrate!
WEDNESDAY W**E NIGHT
Half off our wonderful w**es! Bottle and glass just dine in!
$8.50 HAPPY HOUR
At the bar from 4–6 PM!
Come celebrate with us tonight! Wonderful Italian food, a little w**e, and familiar faces. What could be better?
Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro
Stagecoach Village, Cave Creek
Dinner 4–9 PM
Need take out? Call us starting at 4
(480) 575-3044
Reserve your favorite table on OpenTable:
https://www.opentable.com/r/brugos-italian-bistro-cave-creek
From the bottom of our hearts, GRAZIE MILLE!
Vi vogliamo bene! (We love you all!)
Con tanto amore,
Chrissy & Troy

11/03/2026

A little taste of Italy, right here in Cave Creek!

At Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro, we believe a wonderful dinner is about more than what’s on your plate.

It’s freshly baked pizza, delicious Italian pasta, a good glass of w**e, and the kind of warm hospitality that makes you feel like family.

Join us for Happy Hour at the bar, Tuesday through Sunday, 4–6 PM, featuring our $8.50 premium pours!

Then settle in for a wonderful Italian dinner at our cozy little supper club.

Whether it’s date night, dinner with friends, or simply a night you don’t feel like cooking, we’d love to welcome you!

Conveniently located in Stagecoach Village, serving Cave Creek, Carefree, Desert Mountain, and North Scottsdale.

Dinner 4–9 PM
The best $8.50 Happy Hour at our beautiful indoor outdoor bar!
Need take out? Call us starting at 4
(480) 575-3044

Reserve your table on OpenTable:
https://www.opentable.com/r/brugos-italian-bistro-cave-creek

Walk ins always welcome!

Come hungry. Leave happy!

11/03/2026

There’s something about walking into your favorite little Italian restaurant and hearing, “There you are! We’ve been waiting for you!”
At Brugos, we love remembering your favorite table, your usual cocktail, and what you’re having for dinner before you’ve even opened the menu! Having good folks in… well that’s where we are very blessed!!
Wonderful Italian food, a little music, good w**e, and familiar faces. That’s our kind of evening.
Come spend a little time with us tonight. We’d love to see you!

Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro
Stagecoach Village, Cave Creek
Dinner 4–9 PM
The best $8.50 Happy Hour at the Bar too.
Need take out? Call us starting at 4:
(480) 575-3044

Save your favorite table:
https://www.opentable.com/r/brugos-italian-bistro-cave-creek
And walk ins always welcome!

11/02/2026

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We’re hiring one experienced server to join our little Brugos crew. ❤️

We’ve been family-owned in Cave Creek since 2007, and we rarely hire because our people tend to stay.

We have a genuinely great little team, incredible guests, short dinner shifts and year-round work with no seasonal layoffs. We work hard, laugh a lot, and take good care of each other.

A few things about the position:

• Dinner only, approximately 4–9 PM
• Closed Mondays
• Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Super Bowl Sunday and July 4th
• From May 1 through September 30, vacations and day trades are welcomed
• Small, close crew where people help each other
• Upscale-casual service with incredible guests who truly appreciate being taken care of
• Made-to-order Italian food, family recipes, pizza, pasta, a full bar, w**e and craft b**r

We’re looking for someone experienced, warm, dependable and genuinely good with people.

Saturday and weekend availability are required.

Please map us before reaching out. After nearly 20 years, we’ve learned this position works best for someone who lives reasonably close and can make Cave Creek an easy part of their regular workweek.

If you know a great server who might be a wonderful fit for our team, please send them our way.

Call or text Chris: 775-450-3797

Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro
Stagecoach Village
7100 E. Cave Creek Rd.
Cave Creek

11/01/2026

Some Sundays are made for going out. Others are made for football, a cozy couch, and letting somebody else do the cooking!
At Brugos, we've got both covered!
Come join us for our wonderful Sunday Chicken Piccata special, a glass of w**e, a martini and a warm Italian welcome.
Or bring Brugos home! Our delicious pizzas and pastas can always go home...like our famous spaghetti and meatballs, or our white pizza The Chicken Club!!!
Takeout and Take-N-Bake make Sunday dinner easy!!
The only thing you should be tackling today is deciding what to order!
Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro
Stagecoach Village, Cave Creek
Dinner 4–9 PM
Call for take out starting at 4! (480) 575-3044
Dinner special starts at 5 and yes, it can go home too!
We'd love to see you! walk ins welcome or Book:
https://www.opentable.com/r/brugos-italian-bistro-cave-creek

10/31/2026

Halloween always makes me smile.
Growing up in our Italian family in San Francisco, the kitchen was the heart of our home. There was always something wonderful cooking, somebody talking, somebody laughing, and usually somebody telling you to eat a little more.
And if you said you weren't hungry? Well, that was hardly a reason not to put a plate in front of you. In our family, refusing seconds was practically a medical emergency.
I look back on those days with such affection. Mommy and Daddy, the music, the wonderful smells coming from the kitchen, and that lovely feeling of being surrounded by people who loved you.
Our family also has a special place in the history of Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf. It opened in 1925 and went on to welcome generations of guests for nearly a hundred years. And I've often wondered why Alioto's lasted so long.
I think it's because we were simply doing what came naturally to us. We loved feeding people, welcoming them, remembering their families, their favorite dishes, and making them feel that their visit mattered.
To us, that was just normal Italian family life. But perhaps to the people who walked through those doors, it was something special.
And maybe that's why they kept coming back for nearly a century.
It's certainly why we do what we do at Brugos.
When you walk through our door, we're genuinely happy to see you. We remember your favorite table, your favorite cocktail, and quite often what you're going to order before you've even opened the menu.
Of course, we're Italian. Remembering what everybody likes to eat is practically a family responsibility.
And that family photograph hanging on our wall at Brugos? That's where some of those wonderful traditions began. I love looking at it and remembering the people who taught us that hospitality isn't something you learn from a book. It's something you grow up with.
And when you bring friends or family, we love getting to know them, too. Before long, they're part of the Brugos family.
We're not trying to invent some grand new idea about hospitality. We're simply carrying on what we grew up knowing.
Different city, different generation, same Italian heart.
So tonight, while the little ghosts and goblins are out looking for treats, we're making a few of our own.
And between you and me, I'd take a beautiful plate of pasta over a bag of candy corn any day. Although a little chocolate after dinner wouldn't hurt, I confess!!!
Come spend Halloween with us. Whether it's your first visit or your hundredth, we'd love to see you!
$$8.50 Happy Hour at the bar, 4–6 PM.
Dinner 4–9 PM.
Takeout and Take-N-Bake available, too!
Call us starting at 4: 480-575-3044.

Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro
Stagecoach Village, Cave Creek

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

10/30/2026

Daddy loved the rain.

He grew up in Cefalù, Sicily, (and our last name) before making his way to San Francisco (via a boat and Ellis Island), where a rainy day was always welcome. Good for the garden, cozy in the house, and somehow everything cooking in the kitchen smelled twice as wonderful.

Then Daddy would put on Mario Lanza or Dean Martin and wrap his arm around my Mom while she was cooking. And the joy of simple pleasures began. The rain, the music, those wonderful smells coming from the kitchen. What a lucky time to be a kid.

I think that's why I love the music at Brugos so much. It reminds me of home.

And with rain in Cave Creek today, we're bringing a little of that old San Francisco magic to Brugos tonight.

Good music, a glass of w**e, a classic martini, something wonderful coming out of the kitchen, and absolutely no dishes to wash afterward. Daddy would have approved.

Come in out of the rain. There's always room at our table.
$8.50 Happy Hour at the bar, 4–6 PM. Real Pours Real Plates.
Dinner 4–9 PM.
Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro
Stagecoach Village, Cave Creek
Need take out or take n bake? Call us starting at 4!
(480) 575-3044

Reserve your table:
https://www.opentable.com/r/brugos-italian-bistro-cave-creek

Ciao!

10/29/2026

You know what I love about Italian families?

Somehow, no matter what was going on in the world, everything seemed a little better once everybody sat down at the dinner table.

There could be a hundred things to worry about, but the minute those big bowls of pasta came out of the kitchen, somebody was pouring the w**e, somebody was telling a story we'd all heard twenty times, and somebody was scolding, "Eat before it gets cold!"

Now it is usually me doing the scolding. I get that from my Mom and Aunt Ida I know it.

And heaven help you if you said you weren't hungry!

Remember that scene in My Big Fat Greek Wedding when Lainie Kazan asks her daughter's boyfriend if he's hungry? He says no, and she says "Good. I fix you something!".

Well, welcome to my family! You could have just finished a five-course meal, but if you walked into our house, somebody was going to feed you.

Food is love. Always has been in my family.

And that's the feeling I've always wanted at Brugos. Not fancy, not fussy. Just wonderful Italian food, good company, a little laughter, and a place where you can forget about the rest of the world for a while.

Tonight is Thursday, and that means our Chicken Parmesan!

We take an organic chicken breast, pound it nice and thin, cook it until it's golden, then finish it with our homemade sauce and melted cheese. Served over pasta or fresh spinach, with a thick slice of garlic bread to make sure not one drop of that wonderful sauce goes to waste.
Now THAT'S Italian comfort food!

And with this beautiful Cave Creek weather, our patio is going to be awfully inviting tonight.

So come on over. Bring someone you love, order a good glass of w**e or a cocktail, and let us do the cooking. You can even tell us a story we've heard twenty times. We won't mind!

Patrick will have our $8.50 Happy Hour at the bar from 4–6, and dinner starts at 4.

Brugos Pizza & Italian Bistro
In beautiful Stagecoach Village, Cave Creek

Need takeout or Take-N-Bake?
Call us starting at 4: (480) 575-3044.

An easy, beautiful drive from Desert Mountain and North Scottsdale.

Come hungry. We'll make you feel right at home.

Love and Ciao!
Chrissy

Address

7100 E. Cave Creek Road Ste 150
Cave Creek, AZ
85331

Opening Hours

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

Website

http://www.brugospizza.net/

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