Email Author Carey Sweet

2003 Stories by Carey Sweet

• Yuck Fin

  published January 30, 2003

  I remember with remarkable clarity the first time I realized that fish wasn't just something you ate breaded, deep-fried and dipped in tartar... More >>

• Yippee Kai Yea

  published January 23, 2003

  Sometimes I think I'll go nuts if I'm faced with another plate of ho-hum restaurant chicken-and-vegetables, steak-and-potatoes, or fish-and-pasta.... More >>

• Chile Reception

  published January 16, 2003

  Silvana Salcido Esparza must know what it's like to be loved. Since opening her Barrio Café last summer, she's been positively drowning in... More >>

• You Grow, Grill

  published January 16, 2003

  Restaurant expansion. It's a little like sending a child out into the world. You know your infant needs to grow. You want your tot to... More >>

• Stiffed!

  published January 9, 2003

  As the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, it's business as usual at Privé, a new player in the Valley's hip-hop nightclub scene. The... More >>

• Aimless and Andes

  published January 9, 2003

  If I'd blinked, I wouldn't have noticed it. But there, tucked in a nameless Fry's shopping center in a particularly anonymous-looking part of... More >>

• Swan Song

  published January 9, 2003

  Oh, wow. That's all I can say about the Golden Swan at Hyatt Regency Scottsdale. I stopped in for dinner the other night, and couldn't believe... More >>

• And the Wiener Is . . .

  published January 2, 2003

  It's a few minutes past the noon hour, and my hot dog lies limp and ruined, a wizened gray tube of half-eaten meat on a soggy heap of... More >>

• Inn Sync

  published January 2, 2003

  Call 2002 "The Year of the Resort." While national economists wrung their hands over a plunging stock market, and the number of Arizona residents... More >>

• Good Wine, Cheap Chow

  published January 2, 2003

  Q. I enjoy trying really interesting wines with dinner, but am not confident of my knowledge. Where's a place with great food and staff... More >>