Caffe Boa - Ahwatukee

10/21/2026

🇮🇹 THE GAROFALO FAMILY LEGACY: PART 3 🇺🇸

Eight Became Fifteen. The Greatest Generation.

As we continue celebrating Italian American Heritage Month, we're sharing the family history behind Caffe Boa owner Patrick Larson.

Last week, we introduced the Garofalo family home on Goodrich Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota, where Italian immigrants Marco and Mary Garofalo raised their eight children.

Their seventh child, Mathew Garofalo, was born in 1916. And if you thought eight children under one roof was impressive, wait until you hear what happened next.

When World War II came, Mathew answered the call to serve his country, joining the U.S. Army.

Meanwhile, Marie Kathryn Lanoux, born in St. Paul in 1917, was making history of her own, serving in the U.S. Navy during the war.

Two veterans. One love story. And a family legacy neither could have imagined.

Mathew and Marie married on September 21, 1947, and began their life together in the very same Goodrich Avenue home where Mathew had grown up.

And then came the children.

Not two. Not five. Not even ten.

FIFTEEN! Eight boys and seven girls!

All raised under the same roof where Mathew had grown up alongside his seven siblings.

Mathew supported his growing family while running an automotive repair business out of his garage. And through it all, Goodrich Avenue remained home.

In fact, Mathew would spend his entire 92 years of life on Goodrich Avenue, while his marriage to Marie lasted 50 years, until her passing in 1998.

Among those 15 children was their sixth, Maureen Therese Garofalo, born in 1953.

And it's through Maureen that this extraordinary family story would eventually find its way from St. Paul, Minnesota, to Ahwatukee, Arizona.

Next week, we'll bring our Italian American Heritage Month series full circle and share how the Garofalo family legacy became part of the story behind Caffe Boa.

To be continued… 🇮🇹

10/19/2026

10/19/2026

🎃 WE HAVE A WINNER! 🎃

Congratulations to Elsa Johnson, our randomly selected winner of a FREE 3-Course Halloween W**e Dinner for TWO! 🍷🎉

A HUGE thank you to everyone who participated! We loved reading all your favorite things about Halloween! 🧡

Didn't win? There's still time to join us! We have tables available for tomorrow night's Halloween W**e Dinner featuring 3 courses, 3 w**e pairings, and live music for only $66.60 per person!

🍷 Reserve your table here:
https://caffe-boa-phoenix.resos.com/booking

We hope to see you tomorrow! 👻🎃

🎃 FREE DINNER FOR TWO! 🎃

Who wants a FREE 3-Course Halloween W**e Dinner for TWO at Caffe Boa?! 👻🍷

We're giving one lucky winner and their guest a spooky good night out, complete with three delicious courses, three w**e pairings, and live music! 🥂

Here's how to enter:

🎃 FOLLOW our page!

👻 COMMENT your favorite thing about Halloween!

🧡 TAG the person you'd bring with you!

That's it! We'll randomly select one lucky winner Tuesday, October 20th at 2 PM!

This Dinner is Wednesday, October 21st

Good luck, ghosts and ghouls! 🦇🍷

**eDinner

10/17/2026

This is not a drill.
Doors open in 90 minutes.
First 50 people get free bolognese with ANY purchase! Yes, even a soda, Happy Hour drink, ANY. THING.
See ya soon!
Hasta la Pasta! 🍝🇮🇹🤌

10/16/2026

🏆🍝 TOMORROW IS OUR SUPER BOWL.
National Pasta Day is tomorrow, and if there’s one made-up food holiday we were put on this earth to celebrate, this is it.
So we’re giving away 50 FREE Bolognese Rigatonis.
Starting at 11 AM, the first 50 people through our doors get a free Bolognese Rigatoni with any purchase.
Dine in only. First come, first serve. Once 50 are gone, they’re gone.
Come early. Come hungry.
Hasta la Pasta! 🍝

10/14/2026

🎃 ONE WEEK FROM TONIGHT! 🍷

Three courses. Three w**e pairings. Live music. $66.60 per person.

If you've been thinking about joining us for our Annual Halloween W**e Dinner, now's the time to make your reservation!

Next Wednesday, October 21st, we're bringing a little Halloween magic to Caffe Boa with a special fall-inspired menu, featuring w**es from 19 Crimes, Ghost Pines, and Bloodlines.

🍂 Three courses with your choice of soup or salad, three entrée options, and a seasonal dessert.

🍷 A w**e pairing with every course.

🎶 Live music from 5:30 to 8:30 PM.

💀 All for $66.60 per person!

We've hosted some incredible w**e dinners over the years, and this is one of our favorite traditions.

Don't wait until Wednesday to wish you'd made a reservation!

📅 Wednesday, October 21st | 4–9 PM

🍷 RESERVE YOUR TABLE HERE:
https://caffe-boa-phoenix.resos.com/booking

**Hasta la Pasta!** 🍝

10/13/2026

🇮🇹 THE GAROFALO FAMILY LEGACY: PART 2 🇺🇸

One House. Eight Children. Generations of History.

As we celebrate Italian American Heritage Month, we're sharing the family history behind Caffe Boa owner Patrick Larson.

Last week, we introduced Marco Garofalo and Mary Cossetta, two young Italian immigrants who found each other in Ashland, Wisconsin, and married in 1901.

Their next chapter took them to St. Paul, Minnesota, where they settled into a home on Goodrich Avenue.

Over the next 18 years, Marco and Mary welcomed eight children into the world. Four sons, four daughters, all growing up under one roof.

Their home became the foundation for generations of Garofalos, a place where the family's Italian roots continued to grow in America.

Among their eight children was Mathew Garofalo, born in 1916, the seventh child and grandfather of Caffe Boa owner Patrick Larson.

While Marco and Mary had traveled thousands of miles to begin a new life, they couldn't have imagined how much of their family's future would unfold at that one address.

Pictured here is the Goodrich Avenue house as it stands today, following a remodel. After more than a century of family history, the home was sold just a couple of years ago. The appearance and ownership may have changed, but its place in the Garofalo family story never will.

And as impressive as eight children under one roof might sound, the next generation was about to make those numbers look small.

To be continued… 🇮🇹

10/09/2026

🍝 FREE PASTA. Yep, FREE. 🍝
National Pasta Day is Saturday, October 17th, and around here, pasta deserves a proper celebration.
So we’re feeding the first 50 people through our doors a FREE Bolognese Rigatoni with any purchase.
Our slow simmered Bolognese, rigatoni, a little Parmesan and a whole lot of you probably shouldn’t sleep in Saturday morning.
Doors open at 11 AM. First come, first serve. Dine in only. Once 50 are gone, they’re gone.
Come hungry. Come early.
🍝 Saturday, October 17th
⏰ Doors open at 11 AM
🆓 First 50 people eat FREE Bolognese Rigatoni with any purchase
Hasta la Pasta! 🇮🇹

10/07/2026

From Calabria to America 🇮🇹🇺🇸
For Italian American Heritage Month, we're going back to where Patrick's family story in America began.
These are his great grandparents, Marco Garofalo and Mary Cossetta.
Marco was born in Marzi, Calabria in 1869. At 23 years old, he left Italy for America, arriving in New York in 1892.
Mary's roots were there too. Born to Italian parents in 1883, she spent her childhood in Marzi before making the journey to America at only 16 years old, traveling with her grandmother.
Two young people left the same small village in southern Italy for a country thousands of miles away.
Their paths eventually crossed in Ashland, Wisconsin, where Marco had gone to work on the railroad.
They married there on April 18, 1901.
And with that, the Garofalo family's American story had begun.
More than 125 years later, we're still telling it.
To be continued… 🇮🇹

10/01/2026

🇮🇹 ITALIAN AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH 🇺🇸

October is Italian American Heritage Month, a time to celebrate the food, traditions, families and communities that generations of Italian Americans have helped build.

For us, Italian food has always been about more than what’s on the plate. It’s about family, gathering around a table, feeding people well and making sure nobody leaves hungry.

All month long, we’ll be celebrating the food, culture and traditions that make us proud to be part of the Italian American community.

Happy Italian American Heritage Month from our family at Caffe Boa to yours. 🇮🇹❤️🇺🇸

09/30/2026

🚨 FOUND: EMMA! 🚨

For those who don’t know, Emma had already been working at Caffe Boa for years when we took over five years ago, and she stuck with us through every single one of those years.

So to say a lot of our customers got to know and love her would be an understatement.

But two months ago, it came time for Emma to go do the other thing she was clearly put on this earth to do: help shape the next generation through teaching. ❤️

Luckily for us, teachers get Fall Break. 😏

So for a very limited time, Emma is BACK doing what she does best around here: putting smiles on faces and taking care of the Boa family.

You can catch her Wednesday and Thursday this week, then Monday, Wednesday and Thursday next week.

Stop in and say hi while you can. Maybe order a Lemon Drop Martini and a Meatball while you’re here. 🍸🇮🇹

We couldn’t be happier to have this brief reunion with someone who has been such a big part of Caffe Boa for so many years.

And if you’re reading this wondering why the hell we needed to make an entire post announcing a server is working a few shifts...

Come in and meet Emma. You’ll understand. ❤️

09/29/2026

A special message from our owner, Patrick, regarding this month’s promotion.

09/27/2026

Some gifts are just too cool not to show off.

This one of one Caffe Boa display sneaker was created by Something Elz, and the craftsmanship speaks for itself.

Check out more of her work here:
https://abr.somethingelz.com/caffeboa

09/22/2026

A message from one of our owners, Patrick:
I joke all the time I quit my 9 to 5 and traded it in for a 24/7.
There's some truth to it.
When you own a small business, if someone calls out and nobody can cover, you're up. Something breaks, it's your problem. Something needs to get done, you do it.
That's part of the deal. I'm not complaining. I chose it.
But there's another side of the deal I probably don't appreciate enough.
Friday I got to spend part of my day volunteering at Charlotte's school as a WATCH D.O.G.S. dad.
I didn't have to ask anyone for the day off. Nobody checked how many PTO hours I had left. I didn't need anyone's permission to decide where I needed to be.
This is the “take” in the give and take.
And if someday the restaurant needs me at the same time she does, I have another luxury I never had at a 9 to 5: I can put a “Closed Early” sign on the door.
Will it cost us some money? Yep. But one thing I've learned about owning a neighborhood restaurant in Ahwatukee is how much grace this community gives its small businesses. If life happens, you understand. And hopefully we get to take care of you another night.
That's a pretty incredible trade.
I didn't trade a 9 to 5 for a 24/7 so I could work every waking hour. I did it so when something matters more than work, I get to decide what matters more.
And when it comes to her, I'm going to be present.
I don't “have to.”
I get to.

09/19/2026

🍸 Are you a bartender looking for a change?

We’re looking for an experienced bartender to join our team at Caffe Boa Ahwatukee.

We’re a locally owned and operated Italian scratch kitchen that’s been part of the Ahwatukee community for more than 30 years. We’re busy, we have an incredible base of regulars, and we take a lot of pride in great food, great drinks and even better hospitality.

What do we offer?

• Strong earning potential
• Bartenders also serve and take tables, giving you more opportunities to make money
• A full bar with room to sell and be creative
• Seasonal cocktail menus
• An established, loyal clientele
• No 2 AM nights. We close at 9 PM
• A locally owned restaurant where you're a person, not an employee number
• A team focused on sales, hospitality and taking care of our guests

We’re looking for someone experienced, dependable, outgoing and comfortable behind a busy bar and on the floor. Someone who knows bartending and serving are about more than making drinks and taking orders. It’s about making connections, building regulars and giving people a reason to come back.

If you’re ready for a change, send us a message and tell us a little about yourself.

Know a great bartender who deserves a new home? Tag them below. 🍸

09/19/2026

We’re celebrating Arizona Restaurant Week! Sort of.
We’d love to participate in the official Arizona Restaurant Week, but nonmember restaurants pay $600 per event, plus provide two $50 gift cards, before their Restaurant Week listing/menu is posted.

As a small, locally owned restaurant, that’s not in our budget right now.

But we didn’t want to miss out on the fun, so we put together our very own Caffe Boa Unofficial Restaurant Week menu!

Three courses. $55. September 18–27.

We’re pretty excited about it. Take a look at the menu and let us know what you think.

It’s only here through September 27, so don’t wait until everyone else figures out what we’ve cooked up. Reservations are highly recommended.

Reserve your table NOW!

**Community Above Everything Else.**

09/11/2026

Nice little write up from Ahwatukee Foothills News about what we’re doing this September.
More importantly, I love seeing the idea behind it get some attention.
There’s enough business in Ahwatukee for all of us.
Go eat somewhere good. Support our neighbors. Then come see us.
Thanks to AFN for helping us spread the word.
Community Above Everything Else.

Local restaurant’s offer: Eat elsewhere first