What is Enzo’s Italian Kitchen?
Enzo’s Italian Kitchen is the restaurant that most of North Scottsdale still calls Lorenzo’s. It sits at 23623 N Scottsdale Road, Suite 4, in the Pinnacle Peak Village center at the northeast corner of Scottsdale Road and Pinnacle Peak Road, the crossroads that serves Pinnacle Peak and Troon, Estancia and the gated streets east toward the mountain. For most of two decades it was Lorenzo’s Italian Kitchen, a family-owned pizza, pasta and hero shop; the opening year is not recorded in the press we found, but a 2025 profile called it a 17-year staple, which puts it around 2008.
The modern story starts in 2022, when Eric J. Greenwald bought it. Greenwald is a Scottsdale restaurateur with ProteinHouse franchises and, in Heritage Kitchen + Cocktails, a Chopped-finalist chef’s room elsewhere in the city. He kept the name and the menu for three years, then in August 2025 unveiled a full refresh: the 2,000-square-foot room got a mural, neon signage, black furniture, booth seating and red accents, the pizza dough was reworked with a new water-filtration system to come out lighter and crispier, and the kitchen added bolognese-topped fries and a dessert called the Brownoli while keeping the three things regulars would have rioted over: the house-made alla vodka pasta, the garlic knots and the lasagna.
AZ Big Media profiled the result in October 2025 and in February 2026 put Lorenzo’s first on a list of five Valley Italian hotspots, praising the handmade pasta and the New York-style heroes. Then, sometime in the spring of 2026, the name changed. Enzo’s website says the restaurant was formerly known as Lorenzo’s and is now under new management, same location, same community, new name; a June 2026 reviewer found the old sign still up and the staff explaining the change. No press release marked it.
It serves the far north end’s families, golfers and takeout habit. Our verdict: a solid neighborhood red-sauce kitchen in a part of town with few of them, mid-rename, worth a call before you drive.
Ordering at Enzo’s
Order the vodka pasta. Every account of this restaurant, before and after the renovation, leads with the house-made pasta alla vodka, and it is the dish the kitchen has protected through two ownerships. The garlic knots go on the table first; the lasagna is the other holdover. From the 2025 additions, the bolognese-topped fries are the one the owner pushed, the truffle fries are the safer version, and the Brownoli, a brownie and cannoli in one, is the dessert. The pizzas are New York-leaning rather than Neapolitan, and the fig-and-prosciutto is the one the press named; AZ Big Media also mentioned a Philly cheesesteak calzone. The New York-style hero sandwiches are the lunch and takeout order. Published prices are not part of any coverage we found, and the restaurant’s site was unreachable when we checked; expect a $15 to $30 a head neighborhood Italian bill.
Decide dine-in or takeout. The room is 2,000 square feet with booths, which fills early on weekends with families from the subdivisions around Pinnacle Peak. The restaurant has always done a large share of its business as takeout, delivery and catering, and in 2026 the delivery apps carry both names. If you are eating in, the first hour of dinner on a weeknight is calm; by 6:30 on a Friday the booths are gone.
Timing. The restaurant says it is open seven days for dine-in, takeout and catering. The listings disagree on the hours, with 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily on one, a Tuesday-through-Saturday schedule with an 11 a.m. Sunday open on another, and 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on the apps, so call (480) 502-1111 before you go, especially on a Monday. No reservations are taken as far as we can find; walk in.
Mind the two menus. The rename has produced confusion. A March 2026 reviewer thought they had ordered from Lorenzo’s and found the charges did not match the Lorenzo’s menu; a June reviewer got the explanation from the staff. The lorenzositaliankitchen.com domain forwards to Enzo’s, so you can land on either name online. Ask which menu is current.
Getting there. Pinnacle Peak Village is the corner center at Scottsdale and Pinnacle Peak roads, with its own parking lot. The nearest serious Italian alternatives are a long drive, Marcellino downtown and North Italia at Kierland, which is the point of a place like this.
The neighborhood Italian that got a makeover and then a new name
Pinnacle Peak Road in the late 2000s was where north Scottsdale’s growth ran out of restaurants. The master-planned neighborhoods east of Scottsdale Road, Troon, Estancia, Pinnacle Peak Country Club, had golf clubhouses and a few steakhouses and not much for a Tuesday night. Lorenzo’s filled that gap the way such places do: a strip-center suite, a pizza oven, a vodka sauce, heroes and a takeout counter for the families who live nearby. The press we found does not name its founders or its opening date; a 2025 profile called it a 17-year staple and another said nearly two decades, and the restaurant’s listings carry an establishment year of 2007. We will say late 2000s.
Eric J. Greenwald is the reason it has a record at all. He bought Lorenzo’s in 2022 and, three years later, did what owners of inherited neighborhood rooms rarely do: he spent money on it. The August 2025 refresh was covered by Arizona Foothills, the CITYSunTimes, Scottsdale.com and The Best of the Southwest, and the line Greenwald gave all of them was that he had kept the fan favorites and elevated the experience, with new food, wine and beer items rolling out through the year. AZ Big Media’s October 2025 profile called it a revival rather than a renovation and said great food is about connection. In February 2026 the same outlet named Lorenzo’s first among five Valley Italian hotspots, a family-owned gem with handmade pasta and New York-style heroes. For a 2,000-square-foot pizza room at the city’s northern edge, that is a lot of ink.
What happened next is less documented. By March 2026 a reviewer was reporting confusion between Lorenzo’s and a new name, Enzo’s. By June 12, 2026, another found the sign unchanged and the staff saying the name had just changed. Enzo’s own website describes the restaurant as formerly known as Lorenzo’s, the next chapter of a well-loved local spot, now under new management, at the same address; it also carries a page listing ProteinHouse locations in Gilbert, Arcadia, Scottsdale, Tempe and High Street, the chain Greenwald franchises, which suggests continuity of ownership even as the site says management changed. No outlet has reported the rename, Greenwald has not been quoted on it, and the restaurant’s old domain simply forwards to the new one. Whether Enzo’s is a sale, a restructuring or a rebrand, the record does not say.
The pattern fits the 2020s north end, where inherited neighborhood restaurants have changed hands as their founders aged out, and where a refresh and a rename are how a new operator signals a new chapter without losing the regulars. Greenwald’s other project, Heritage Kitchen + Cocktails on Bell Road, opened in 2025 as a chef-driven room.
Honest assessment: judged as what it is, a strip-center Italian kitchen for people who live within three miles, Enzo’s is good and the 2025 renovation made it better. The vodka pasta earns its reputation and the dough is improved. The rename, handled without a word to the press and with the old sign still up months later, has cost it some clarity it did not need to lose, and the hours on the listings do not agree. Call first, order the pasta, and do not expect the room to explain itself.