For Star subscribers: The scion of Tucson's famous Italian restaurant family has dove into his passion for burgers.
Cathalena E. Burch The name Scordato in Tucson is synonymous with Italian food, but Daniel Scordato is hoping his latest culinary venture might add an asterisk: Burgers.
"I've always loved burgers," said Scordato, who has spent 50 years pursuing Italian fare in a career that started in his father's iconic Scordato's Restaurant in the 1970s before striking out on his own with Daniel's in 1984."I wanted to do a hamburger restaurant before it got real popular." The menu includes Southwest accents on the Sonoran burger — avocado, poblano chiles, Oaxaca cheese and a fresh corn and Cholula relish — and a hint of California in the BLT avocado burger. Scordato didn't put Italian entirely on the backburner at Uptown Burger: the Tuscan tops the beef patty with roasted eggplant — Scordato credits Fitzsimmons with that stroke of culinary genius — marinated mozzarella and diced tomatoes with pesto.
Uptown Burger is Scordato's second venture into fast food. In late 2019, he opened the healthy Italian-leaning fast-food restaurant Posto Sano Foods in the Uptown Burger space. That restaurant, which offered vegan and vegetarian versions of everything on the menu, was open about a year before it became a casualty of the pandemic.
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