The BEST Italian food outside of NYC or Italy itself! This place is so unexpected it's amazing. It's a tiny little restaurant at the end of a strip mall located just East of I-17 (look for it on the North side of the road next to a hair salon and Circle K). You cannot let the location fool you... this place is great. I heard it rumored that the owner was an executive chef at some foo-foo place in Scottsdale that had creative differences with the management, so he left to open his own place. I didn't have the courage to ask him, but he is straight out of Napoli and the food is fresh and exciting.\n\nI took two friends and we literally were fighting over who had the better food. It was so good that we had each picked out at least four more entrees that we wanted to come back for and were scheduling out visits to accommodate a goal to try every single item! I mean seriously there was no table talk or chit chat... all we talked about was the food.\n\nPizza A Metro only has a handful of tables, but when you walk in the door they start baking the most amazing Italian Flat Bread in their wood brick oven. It's served with a cold side of sauteed onions, eggplant, black olives and capers. The topping is good enough to eat straight out of the bowl and the bread is tender and hot. We ended our meal with a serving of homemade Tiramisu that was so orgasmically good, you could literally spread it over your naked body, lick it off and call it a night!\n\nIn addition to an extensive menu, they have two specials that change daily. Entrees are moderately priced between 7.95 and 8.95, the pastas are homemade and many can be interchanged with the various sauces or toppings of your liking. In addition to the pasta and meat selections they have an assortment of soups/salads/starters and several pizzas/calzones. Portions are large and filling (for example the \"Metro\" sized pizza is literally 39 inches across - seriously the guy showed me!).\n\nFor all you CenPho folks, they deliver from 35th Ave to Central and Camelback to Buckeye. They are open Monday - Thursday from 11:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. and Friday - Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.\n\nThe only downside that I could find (other than the limited table space) was that they don't serve liquor. But they do encourage b.y.o. and will cork it for you table-side.\n\nThis is the kind of place that Yelp was designed for. A local hole in the wall that serves mind blowing food and no one knows about. Please please please visit this place because it's only six blocks from my house and now that I know they are there I can't imagine them going out of business.  : )\n\n06/05/2008 Update: Okay I officially have a problem because I have now eaten at this place 5 times in the last two weeks, have sampled about 60% of their menu and am convinced that when introducing myself it should go something like this: \"Hi my name is Julie and I am a Pizza A Metro addict.\" Are there any 12 step groups for a restaurant junkie???