Full Service Restaurants

Colbert on Yelp: "The Critical Palate of Zagat With Not Having Anything Better to Do"

Monday night on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert joined the chorus of people who like to hate on Yelp, the business-review site. Colbert called Yelp a social media site that combines the "critical palate of Zagat with not having anything better to do." See also: - Is Yelp Fair to Restaurants? - ... More >>

Top Restaurants Where Cheating Spouses Like to Eat/Cheat in Greater Phoenix

Where do cheaters like to cheat when they want a meal with their extramarital rendezvous? See also: - 10 Best Food Art Masterpieces from Artist "Red" Hong Yi's Month-Long Series - 10 Best/Worst Pizza Tattoos According to a survey conducted by AshleyMadison.com, a hook-up site for married people lo ... More >>

LongHorn Steakhouse Tries Arizona (Again): This Time in Mesa and With More Locations to Come

Darden Restaurants, Inc., the same company who owns and operates Red Lobster, Olive Garden, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, and Eddie V's, is playing Santa this year in the form of steakhouse chain, LongHorn. See also: New Steakhouse Coming to Chandler Today, the casual American steakhouse that op ... More >>

Texaz Grill's Bottomless Chicken Fried Steak Laughs in the Face of Olive Garden's Endless Salad and Breadsticks

An open letter (not really) from the bottomless chicken fried steak offer happening this Wednesday, October 15, through Friday, October 26, at Texaz Grill, the neighborhood bar and restaurant, in east Phoenix. Dear Endless Breaksticks and Salad from Olive Garden, Shhh. Do you hear that? Yes, the l ... More >>

Ethiopian Famous Restaurant & Coffee Moves Out of Convenience Mart and Into Its Own Digs

See also: Ethiopian Famous Restaurant & Coffee's Oddball Location Belies the Treats Inside Abebech Ejersa was beaming when I popped in her new place at 4111 East McDowell Road in Phoenix on Sunday. "I couldn't have done it without all the wonderful people who came to visit me," she said. Ejersa, ... More >>

Noodle Knockout: North Fattoria Italiana vs. Olive Garden

Don't worry, you read that right. We put Sam Fox's brand new North up against Olive Garden. We thought it would be funny. We thought maybe Sam Fox's new Italian restaurant would prove to be comparable to corporate Italian beast Olive Garden. We thought that we could prove once and for all that no ... More >>

Distrito Kicks Off Fourth of July with Barbacoa Tasting Dinner and Prix Fixe Menu

Slow-cooked meats went fast at Chef Jose Garces' Distrito Barbacoa Tasting Dinner Thursday night. The dinner, which was led by Chef Michael Fiorello, Culinary Director for the Garces' Restaurant Group, served as both a barbacoa how-to as well as a preview for the restaurant's upcoming prix fixe di ... More >>

Pizza Patrón Offers Free Pizza This Tuesday Evening, With a Catch

Odds are good that if you're a gringo, you haven't heard of Pizza Patrón. Don't be too surprised. It caters primarily to Hispanic markets, with its metro Phoenix locations concentrated in South Phoenix, Maryvale, and central Mesa. Chorizo is an available topping and jalapeños are one of the most p ... More >>

Local Restaurants Featured on Food Network's Mystery Diners Tonight

A new reality TV show called Mystery Diners airs on Food Network tonight at 10 pm, and the "stars" -- for the next five or six weeks anyway -- are Phoenix area restaurant owners and their employees.

Eddie V's Prime Seafood and Wildfish Seafood Grille Sold to Parent Company of Olive Garden and Red Lobster for $59 Million

​Holy oceans, that's a lot of shellfish. ​Last week, Phoenix-based Eddie V's Prime Seafood, a luxury chain of eight restaurants in Arizona, California, and Texas with one location in the Scottsdale Quarter, and Wildfish Seafood Grille, Eddie's sister chain of three restaurants in the s ... More >>

Biltmore Offering After-Dark Dinner Deals Through July 31

Biltmore Fashion ParkBlack Chile's enchiladas are part of the Biltmore's "After Dark" deal.​We're thrilled that Arizona now has two Restaurant Weeks -- one during the spring season and another in fall. But it kind of sucks that you have to wait around for months just to partake in the event's dini ... More >>

Olive Garden's "Culinary Institute" in Tuscany: What the Hell is Happening Over There?

Hanover Signs​Poor Olive Garden. First the Italian food chain got tagged for accidentally serving a child sangria ("Mom, dis Kool-Aid makes my sgetti bwurry!"), now it's the target of recent internet buzz with tales of what really goes on at its infamous Tuscan cooking school. You can almost hea ... More >>

Sunshine Moon Peking Pub Coming Soon to Scottsdale

One of the creators of P.F. Chang's China Bistro is about to bring a new Asian restaurant called Sunshine Moon Peking Pub to the Old Town Scottsdale space that previously housed Bacon.Rich Sullivan -- who was behind the original P.F. Chang's concept, is an investor in the original Humble Pie pi ... More >>

Xtreme Eating Awards Announced, or Hey, Jabba, Jabba, Jabba!

​Way to go, Cheesecake Factory. Congratulations, California Pizza Chicken. Jabba the Hutt would be pleased. Along with P.F. Chang's, Chevy's, Bob Evan's, Five Guys Burgers and Fries, and Outback Steakhouse, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has named scale-tipping fare from the ... More >>

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Culinary star chats in Mesa

Free Blooming Onion at Outback

There's nothing we love more than food. Except maybe FREE food. While Outback Steakhouse isn't the kind of small, indie business we usually pimp here on Chow Bella, we ​have to admit they make a pretty awesome Bloomin' Onion appetizer. Sliced and fried till golden brown, the everyda ... More >>

Tonight: Taste of the Biltmore

It will be an all-you-can-eat extravaganza for charity tonight, when the third annual Taste of the Biltmore party takes over the National Bank of Arizona Corporate Center (6001 N. 24th St.) from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. Participating restaurants from the upscale 'hood include Donovan's, ... More >>

Dine4AZ Campaign Starts Today

Regular readers of Chow Bella already know we're big on putting your money where your mouth is. Now Governor Jan Brewer is helping to push the same message as part of a statewide campaign to "kick-start the economy" through dining out at local restaurants.   Dine4AZ, launched today by Shamrock ... More >>

For the Love of...P.F. Chang's?

Lauren GilgerAdam Aponte enjoying lettuce wraps at P.F. Chang's in Scottsdale. Adam Aponte loves P.F. Chang's. A lot. In fact, he and a friend took off Thursday night on a cross-country road trip to eat their way through seven different P.F. Chang's China Bistro's, in seven different cities from Ph ... More >>

Lost Dutchman Arizona Marathon

Arizona Road Racers Desert Classic Marathon, Marathon Relay, Half Marathon and 5K @ Riverboat Village

Bistro G Not Really Happening?

After posting about Luc's sudden shutdown yesterday, I heard a rumor that Luc's won't change its concept to Bistro G after all. Apparently the landlords at El Pedregal wouldn't approve the new concept unless the restaurant owners committed to keeping Bistro G open seven days a week, for both lunch a ... More >>

Liberty Market Brightens Downtown Gilbert

Remembering Dig Dug

See how far they’ve truly come at "ZAP! Vintage Video Games"

Lady Luck

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Wallet World

Here's a meal well worth its high price

Best Game In Town

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Mondo Beef

Is the Scottsdale eatery fixing to close?

Readers' Choices

Best Twilight Drink

Acacia - Four Seasons Resort

Going for Brokers

Which restaurants are up for sale? We hazard a few guesses

Summertime Blues

Two upscale restaurants close their doors

Fork Medicine

Friends pitch in when chef falls ill

Norman Abates

Legendary restaurateur Norman Fierros skips out on the check

Best Steak House

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