On a sunny morning in Scottsdale, Robert Quick, his wife Mary Lucille Quick and Matt Gottlieb walk through their forthcoming restaurant, il Bracco. The trio point out details that have been recently installed. There are windows that offer a view into the kitchen and bakery, a pasta extruder to shape the restaurant’s handmade noodles, a fryer exclusively used for crisping baby artichokes and a cutting station in the walk-in cooler to break down fish and meat.
The team from the Texas-based restaurant group Western Addition moves amid the whir and buzz of power tools on the active construction site. Il Bracco is springing up along Scottsdale Road at Rose Lane, just south of Gainey Ranch in central Scottsdale. It’s the group’s first Arizona eatery and first ground-up build. Signs hang along the fence enclosing the site, teasing the restaurant, which is anticipated to open in late March.
“It’s a big deal for us to come out here, and we’re really excited that Scottsdale is our first out-of-Texas market,” Robert Quick says…