text: Dining at Tanzy solidified litmus tests in my mind for determining if a restaurant is nice or mediocre from perspective of someone who is dining savvy defined as would not eat at a chain restaurant a nice restaurant does not have tvs all over with a sporting event if your steak is overcooked and your new one arrives well after everyone at your table is already finished with their entree they should not charge you for itnnI laugh in hindsight realizing it was classified as an Italian restaurant true it did have a pasta section on the large menu reminiscent of cheesecake factory variety aiming to please all and as my husband just suggested with a shrug it did have mozzarella nnIts an upscale sportsbar with a menu for all with some expensive items to appeal to the kierland commons conference folk who want to get a steak dinner on companys dimennIf you consider yourself a foodie for lack of better overused term I do not think you will be satisfied here In general I have only found really good food at Old town in scottsdale the rest of it has a chainy feel Yet again at Tanzy you are dining at a mall