Pomo Pizzeria – Scottsdale, Arizona
When you visit the Valley of the Sun, the very last thing you expect is a record-setting, all-day rain that keeps you indoors most of the day. An all-day rain in December, however, is infinitely preferable to an all-day rain during monsoon season when the occasional deluge in 100-degree weather is exacerbated by humidity equalled only in a steam bath. Staying indoors isn’t a bad thing. It gave us the opportunity to study where we should enjoy dinner on Christmas Eve 2021. My sister Anita, the only other gourmand in the family, had some recommendations which will have to wait for another day. If drivers in Arizona are anything like drivers in New Mexico we didn’t want to drive as far as the restaurants she recommended. By the time we decided to head out, we had whittled our list down to restaurants meeting three criterion. It would have to be Dude-friendly. Our debonair dachshund wanted to celebrate Christmas Eve, too. It would have to serve great food; that goes without saying. It wouldn’t require us to drive halfway across the state in the downpour. We should have added a fourth criterion. The restaurant must be open (how obvious is…