Looking to satisfy your appetite for Italian fare? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top Italian spots around Mesa, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of where to fulfill your urges.

In the Mesa area, consumer spending at restaurants tends to climb the most in December and November, according to data on local business transactions from Womply, a provider of online reputation management and direct response marketing for small businesses. The average amount spent per customer transaction at Mesa-area restaurants last year rose by 24% in November over the month before, just shy of the top monthly increase of 26% in December.