into the Soup has recruited two of our favorite young chefs Julie Fiedler and Katelyn Remick for our new feature – Dining on a Dime.
The Challenge? Find the best meal you can for two people under $30 (ok, so it is a bit more than a dime). These are tough economic times, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still enjoy good food. It exists all around at local your local family owned and chef driven restaurants. So get out there, eat well and support your local restaurants!
This week, Julie and Katie picked one of their favorite local eateries in Chandler, Arizona – Floridino’s:
Floridino’s is casual eatery that is well known in its community for its delectable pizza and calzones. It’s a great place to go with friends and family and is always lively on the weekends. We started our meal off sharing a small Greek salad which is ideal for two people. The salad is a heaping bowl of iceberg lettuce, feta cheese, olives, pepperoncinis, and Italian vinaigrette. For our entrée we had calzone’s with house marinara and ranch dipping sauce. The gourmet white calzones are a flaky turnover filled with ricotta and mozzarella cheese, butter, garlic, spices, and tomatoes baked to perfection! When our calzones arrived they looked so irresistible Julie picked hers up with her bare hands and dug in! This is not recommended. Years in the kitchen have given her asbestos fingers – one of the benefits of being a chef.
We finished the night off with a Sicilian Sundae. This warm, gooey, freshly baked, deep dish chocolate chip cookie topped with vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, and whip cream is an absolute necessity when dining at Floridino’s! What a great assignment. In the mist of taking thousands of pictures of the restaurant and our visit we quickly got the attention of the workers in the restaurant. One very curious server in particular asked about what we were doing.
We were quick to respond, “Were not camera crazy this is for a website project we’re doing for intothesoup.com!” He was more than willing to get his picture taken with us.
About Floridino’s:
Floridino’s opened its doors in 1996 with the promise to embrace family oriented, full service, true Italian food. The menu boasts of oven baked sandwiches, heaping salads, mouth watering pizzas, generous portions of pasta and calzones stuffed to the brim. Floridino’s serves lunch specials and has banquet facilities as well. Floridino’s claims to be home to the “World’s Largest Calzone” but they also want to be a home to you.
Floridino’s Pizza & Pasta
590 N Alma School Rd # 35, Chandler, AZ
(480) 812-8433
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