What is Postino Kierland?
Postino Kierland was the first Postino to open with a Scottsdale address, and like every tenant of Kierland Commons it is technically in Phoenix. It sits at 7030 E Greenway Parkway, Suite 185, on the west end of the center, and it opened on Wednesday, February 10, 2016, three months before its sister Postino Highland on Scottsdale Road.
The company behind it is Upward Projects, the Phoenix group co-founded by Craig DeMarco and Lauren Bailey that opened the first Postino in a 1940s Arcadia post office in 2001 and had added rooms in uptown Phoenix, Tempe and Gilbert by the time it announced two Scottsdale locations in May 2015. Partners Bill Levine and Andrew Cohn helped bring the Kierland deal together; Bailey said at the time that Scottsdale had been clamoring for its own Postino for years. Where Highland got a restored 1960s bank, Kierland got a custom two-story build with a loft that looks down on the main floor and books as private or semi-private event space, in a room that is roughly half indoor and half outdoor, joined by rollaway garage doors and sliding glass walls. Outside is a midcentury-inspired steel installation by a local artist; inside, the art is pop culture: limited-edition skateboards, a wall of vintage Playboy pages and Space Invader tiles. Brent Karlicek was beverage director at the opening.
The food is the Postino formula and has not changed much: the bruschetta board, four toppings chosen from about a dozen, with paninis, salads, boards of cheese and charcuterie, and a wine list priced to be ordered without a sommelier. The deals are the point. When it opened, glasses and pitchers were $5 before 5 p.m. and the Monday-and-Tuesday Board & Bottle was $20; in 2026 those are $6 until 5 p.m. every day and $25 after 8 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, with weekend brunch from 9 a.m.
Who it is for is everybody in the Kierland and Quarter district who wants a table without an occasion: Airpark office workers at happy hour, resort guests walking over from the Westin Kierland, shoppers from the Commons and Scottsdale Quarter across the road. Our verdict: the best-value sit-down meal in Kierland Commons, in the best-designed Postino in Arizona, and the room we send people to when the restaurant row is on a wait.
Using Postino Kierland well
Learn the clock. Happy hour runs from open until 5 p.m. every day, $6 for a glass of wine and $6 for a pitcher of beer, and Postino opens at 11 a.m. on weekdays, so a 3 p.m. Thursday is the cheapest good hour in Kierland. Board & Bottle is Monday and Tuesday after 8 p.m.: a bruschetta board and a bottle of wine for $25, still the best two-person dinner deal in the district. The full hours are Monday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday 11 a.m. to midnight, Saturday 9 a.m. to midnight and Sunday 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., with brunch Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Build the board. The October 2026 Arizona menu prices the bruschetta board at $17.75, gluten-free bread $2 more. The toppings are brie with apple and fig; burrata, bacon, arugula and tomato; prosciutto, fig and mascarpone; salami and pesto; cherry mostarda; sweet-and-spicy pepper jam with goat cheese; fresh mozzarella, tomato and basil; smoked salmon with pesto; warm artichoke spread; Mexican street corn; and a chef’s choice. Take one sweet, one tomato, one meat, one wildcard. The Pub Board (soft pretzel, Italian sausage, Spanish pork links, fondue, pickles) is $17.95, the Table Cheese board $17.95 and the Chef’s Charcuterie $18.95. For comparison, the board was $14.50 and the Pub Board $13.50 on opening day in 2016.
If you want a plate. Paninis come on ciabatta or focaccia with chips or a romaine salad: the Nine Iron (bacon, roasted chicken, stracciatella) is $15.75, the Roast Beef Dip $17.50, the Prosciutto & Brie $16, and a half panini with half salad or soup, the Select Two, is $16.75. The shrimp scampi with Calabrian chili and focaccia is $16.95 and the OMG grilled cheese with a tomato-soup dip is $15.25. The Brussels sprout salad with manchego and marcona almonds is $14.75. The menu is set statewide, so what you eat here is what you eat in Gilbert.
Where to sit. Ask for the patio in the eight months it is pleasant, the loft if you have a group (Postino handles parties of 20 or more through its group-dining desk), and the bar if you are alone. The patio is dog-friendly.
Getting there. Street parking along Kierland Boulevard is free and gone by 6 p.m. on weekends; the garage across Scottsdale Road at the Quarter is the sane choice. Reservations and a waitlist run through Toast from the website. For how the deals compare across the city, see our happy hour guide.
The Postino that beat Highland to Scottsdale
When Upward Projects announced its two Scottsdale Postinos in May 2015, the Highland bank building was the story and Kierland was the afterthought: plans still being finalized, “the usual stuff,” as Phoenix New Times put it, garage doors, patios and pretty people drinking $5 wine. Highland was scheduled for October 2015 and Kierland tentatively for November. Then the order flipped. Highland’s restoration opened on May 4, 2016; Kierland, a ground-up build in a lifestyle center, opened first, on February 10, 2016, and became the first Postino with a Scottsdale address, if not in the city itself. Kierland Commons sits west of Scottsdale Road, the Phoenix city line here, a fact the center’s own guide explains and most diners never learn.
It mattered for the chain. Upward Projects had built Postino on reused buildings, and DeMarco said in the announcement that finding, restoring and reusing historically relevant buildings was the company’s purpose. Kierland was the test of whether the brand worked in a new box, and the two-story room with a loft and half its seats outside passed it. The company has since grown into Colorado, Texas and North Carolina, sells a Bottle Club membership from $20 a month, and in 2026 marked 25 years with its CEO looking back, in the website’s words, on wine, bruschetta and belief in a dream. Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane turned up in the 2015 press release praising Postino’s “elevated hospitality and sense of place.”
In the district, Postino landed on a restaurant row that Zinc Bistro and North Italia had anchored since 2002 and that Scottsdale Quarter, opened across the road in 2009, had doubled. Its job there is the cheap, reliable middle: a glass of wine for less than a Quarter cocktail, a board that feeds two for the price of one entrée elsewhere, and a patio that works as a waiting room for everything around it. By the end of the 2010s, Kierland worked as north Scottsdale’s downtown, and Postino is the place in it that asks the least of you.
What the record does not say: the room’s square footage, which Upward Projects never published, and who runs the beverage program today. The prices have moved with the decade, roughly a quarter higher than in 2016 on the boards and five dollars higher on Board & Bottle.
Honest assessment: this is not where you go for the Valley’s best wine list or its most interesting cooking. It is where you go when four people cannot agree, when a resort dinner feels like too much, or when it is 4:30 on a weekday and a $6 glass on a patio sounds exactly right. For that, nothing in Kierland Commons beats it, and the loft makes it the easiest group booking on the row.