Go here when you want to impress clients, friends from out of town or a date. Tanzy is a good place to go with a group of friends for a night out.

Tanzy isn't intimate. It is loud, bustling, full of life and with large tables. The bar area bleeds into the restaurant and into the nearby iPic theater. For that reason it is a great place to go for that style of outing, night life and being seen.

Also consider Roka Akor, Sushi Roku

Experience Tanzy is more upscale than the other restaurants in Scottsdale Quarter. It still has television screens with sports on it bu the restaurant tables are very large and will seat a group of eight comfortably. The food is pared down to high end meats with interesting sides. The restaurant has a bustling, energetic feel to it.

Tanzy is in the north side of Scottsdale Quarter/ It is upstairs next to the iPic theater and the Narcissis Champage Bar.

Patio I didn't see a dedicated patio, but it is possible the front windows open up in the modern style to make it a patio bar. I will have to go back in spring or summer and see.

Parking Scottsdale Quarter has a lot of parking in the dedicated northern and southern parking garages which are free. There is valet service out the front of the middle courtyard (infront of True Foods) and another in the rear entrance of the southern parking garage.

Website Tanzy

Menu The menu in PDF.

Map Northern end of Scottsdale Quarter

The Great Sea by David Abulafia is a huge book. I ordered it online and was surprised when it came how big it was. There are 650 pages. The book covers the entire history of the Mediterranean up to the present day. A large topic in and of itself as written history started with Phoenician traders keeping records of the transactions they had made with an alphabet.

Politics and war are part of the book but the main focus is on the trading and migrations that occurred across the sea. Starting with the Greeks and Phoenicians, the manner in which those peoples used the sea for wealth, migration and the expansion of power became indicative for how other Mediterranean empires, states, peoples and cities used the sea to increase their own prosperity.

The downside of the trading history was that weak states made for easy piracy. The Mediterranean had several periods of history when the sea when former empires and states collapsed. One of the best known is the Barbary Pirates probably because it was the first conflict that America committed itself to overseas. Another well known time was when the Roman Senator Pompey was given control of all Roman land within five miles of the sea in order to get rid of pirates.

We tend to think of the past as being of similar social organization to the ethnically homogenous nation-states. This is a recent aspect in human history. The past was far more ethnically diverse, especially in the Mediterranean where trading cities were focal points for the transfer of goods from Africa, Europe, Spain and the Levant.

The history of the Mediterranean is also the story of the port cities of very varied political loyalties in which merchants and settlers from all over the sea gathered and interacted.

One port city that has featured again and again in these chapters is Alexandria, which from the very start possessed a mixed identity, and which only lost that identity in the second half of the twentieth century, as rising nationalism destroyed the cosmopolitan communities of the Mediterranean.

It is hard not to feel from the book that this loss of cosmopolitanism in the Mediterranean to nationalism is worth mourning. The Mediterranean has been a remarkable vector for the transmission and innovation of ideas and technology. From the alphabet to religion to philosophy to political organization. The constant movement of goods across port cities and peoples increased the velocity of innovation, prosperity and technology.

A globalized world has lessened the importance of the Mediterranean to political power, economic goods and technology. By the twentieth century Asia had opened up to the west as major trading economies. The change occurred over time as Spain established South America as a trading location and Britain did the same with, North America and India. The Dutch established trading posts in Indonesia which they held until the mid twentieth century.

All these came with obligations to keep the major oceans free which previously had been the major focus of the Mediterranean cities and their reliance on trade across the Mediterranean Sea.