Hush Public House – Scottsdale, Arizona
During a February, 2024 episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, host Guy Fieri asked Chef Dom Ruggiero what type of cuisine her served at his North Scottsdale restaurant Hush Public House. Chef Ruggiero explained Hush features “New American,” a term which basically “let’s me do whatever I want.” Chef Ruggiero could have said “Martian” and it’s unlikely he would have received any argument from the periphrastic host. In part that’s because Chef Ruggiero is a former United States Marine. With tatooed guns nearly the size of Hulk Hogan’s, he still looks like he could take on a regiment of terrorists single-handedly. Despite the chef’s enviable musculature, Fieri observed a culinary technique he described as “such a big hand doing it so…