For lovers of Italian food, heaven lies in Sedona and it’s called Dahl & DiLuca Ristorante Italiano. Growing up in an Italian family in New York, it’s very hard to find anything that compares with the homemade Italian deliciousness created by the loving hands of my grandmother and great-grandmother.  Then I walked into Dahl & DiLuca. From the moment I bit into Chef Lisa Dahl’s Arancini appetizer — Grandma called them “risotto balls” — it felt like home. Only better.

Chef Dahl, one of Az Business magazine’s Most Influential Women of 2018, is a self-taught chef who was the first to introduce fine dining to Sedona in the late 1990s. Since then, Chef Dahl has built the largest restaurant group in the area and has been featured on The Food Network, Travel + Leisure, USA Today, The New York Times, Travel Channel, Huffington Post, Marie Claire and many more.