To be sure, every visit to Fine's Cellar ends up an impromptu wine dinner, but every Wednesday this month, the Old Town Scottsdale restaurant is doing something extra special: Chef's Table dinners.
Executive chef Cullen Campbell creates four courses tailored to each week's featured winery. This week, Bonaccorsi Pinot Noir is in the spotlight. Upcoming weeks will showcase Ferrari-Carano (Feb. 18) and Klinker Brick (Feb. 25).
Dinners are $75 per person, plus tax and tip.
Another week has come and gone leaving us to ponder the upcoming events that will shape our lives and, more importantly, our dinners out. But before we move on, let's have one last look at the blog posts from this week:
Now Open: The Parlor
Fine's Cellar Closes Over the Weekend
Chefs Cullen Campbell and Brandon Crouser Plan New Restaurant
Summer Beer Quest Week One
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier This Saturday
This afternoon, I finally got some time to catch up with chef Cullen Campbell in the wake of Fine's Cellar's recent closing, and he says he's really upset about it.
"It was pretty much the economy, and with the way things have going, the investors didn't want to put more money into it," he tells me.
But even before things really started to look grim, Campbell set his sights on opening his own restaurant, along with Atlas Bistro chef Brandon Crouser as a partner.
AZCentral's list of 20 new restaurants scheduled to open by the end of the year has suddenly been changed to 15 since the story was posted yesterday. Not hard to figure out which five are now missing -- it's the restaurants on Jackson that Bernie Kantak is planning. Should we read between the lines and assume that the project's gotten pushed out to 2010? Let's hope not.
A bunch of new Scottsdale eateries are reportedly in the works: Yellow House, a bakery and breakfast p
There's a new breakfast and lunch option in Old Town Scottsdale. And soon, it will be a dinner destination, too.
​After this summer's unfortunate demise of Fine's Cellar, chef Cullen Campbell teamed up with his good friend, chef Brandon Crouser, formerly of Atlas Bistro, to open Crudo Cafe, located in the Stephen Paul Salon (7045 E. 3rd Ave.).
They quietly opened over a month ago and have been tweaking their breakfast and lunch menu (served 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sa
