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KFC's New Original Recipe Boneless Chicken: You Ate the Bones? Really?

The Guilty Pleasure Food: Original Recipe Boneless Chicken Where to Get It: KFC, locations Valleywide Price: $5 for a two-piece meal What It Really Costs: Sodium bloat and shame. See also: - 9 Favorite Spots for Fried Chicken in Metro Phoenix Advertising executives have a harder time than ever cat ... More >>

Portillo's in Scottsdale Has an Outrageous Chocolate Cake Shake. Yes, Folks: Chocolate. Cake. Shake.

The Guilty Pleasure: Chocolate Cake Shake Where To Get It: Portillo's, Shea just east of Loop 101 The Price:$3.19 small, $3.99 large (and they mean large) What It Really Costs: Hopeless addiction. When Portillo's opened in Scottsdale, I had quite the reminder that a) There are a lot of expatriate ... More >>

Kevin Binkley to Open Bink's Midtown in Phoenix on Wednesday

No, it isn't your St. Patrick's Day hangover messin' with your head: Bink's Midtown, the restaurant from James Beard Award-nominated chef Kevin Binkley, will open this week in the former Sophie's Bistro space on Osborn. See also: -2013 James Beard Award Semifinalists Announced: 4 Arizona Candidate ... More >>

Korean Kids Get Kicked Out of McDonald's for $250 Fry Fracas

McDonald's locations in Japan and South Korea recently dramatically reduced the cost of a large order of fries. The result? French fry parties where hordes of teenagers descend on the golden arches with cash and a desire to create some low-grade mayhem. See Also: --In-N-Out Burger, McDonald's Fries ... More >>

This Is a White Love Castle Valentine's Day

White Castle, clearly the classiest of classy dining establishments, have a standing policy of taking V-day to the next level at selected locations. While we've heard of this we've never actually seen inside a White Castle during their yearly metamorphosis in "Love Castle." See Also: --In-N-Out Bur ... More >>

Rocket Burger & Subs Offers Soda Heaven

The Guilty Pleasure: The Wall of Soda Where to Get It: Rocket Burger & Subs, 35th Ave and Cactus Price: $1.99 (or $9.95 for a six-pack) 
What It Really Costs: Go ahead and schedule that dentist visit now. Everyone has their preferred bad-for-you vice. Some people can't live without a pack of smok ... More >>

What National Chain Restaurants Do You Secretly Like?

Welcome to Chow Bella's Bites & Dishes, where Valley chefs and restaurateurs respond to a question New Times food critic Laura Hahnefeld has on her mind. Have a question you'd like to ask? E-mail laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com.As much as they may deny it, chefs and restaurateurs secretly enjoy nationa ... More >>

Admit It. You Love Oregano's Pizza Cookie, Too.

The Guilty Pleasure: Where To Get It: Oregano's Pizza Bistro, 9 locations valleywide Price: $5 (cheap!) What It Really Costs: Snobby friends will see your Foursquare checkin and respond, "Oh God, you ate where?!" One of my favorite things about Phoenix foodies is their love/hate relationship with O ... More >>

In-N-Out Burger, McDonald's Fries and a Wendy's Frosty: Finding the Fast Food Trifecta in Paradise Valley

The Guilty Pleasure: Fast Food Trifecta Location: Tatum & Cactus Price: About seven bucks. What It Really Costs: Burning extra fossil fuel. What could be more American than that? I wish I could explain my fascination with fast food. It must be the instant gratification. Or maybe that it's the pures ... More >>

The Handlebar and Grill: Happy Hour Report Card

The Spot: The Handlebar and Grill, 680 South Mill Avenue Tempe, 480-474-4888, www.handlebaraz.com. See Also: - Boulders on Broadway: Happy Hour Report Card - (More) Craft Beer on Mill Ave. at the Handlebar and Grill, Open to the Public Today The Hours: Happy Hour is offered daily from 3 to 6:30 p ... More >>

Nikki's Top Four Picks for Arizona Restaurant Week

See also: Kevin Binkley on Loving In-N-Out Burger See also: Noca Owner Eliot Wexler on Chef Claudio Urciuoli Restaurant Week begins September 15 and runs through September 23. And while it smacks of Black Friday, Christmas in July and all the other bargain bonanzas that attract the great unwashed, ... More >>

Glass Popcorn Drops "Goin' Hamburger" Video (The Beef Eating Jam of the Summer)

See also: Glass Popcorn: Is This High School Rapper "Destroying Hip-Hop?" If my previous ink on local 15-year-old cloud rapper Will Neibergall, aka Glass Popcorn, left too much to the imagination, the day has finally come for his YouTube chrysalis to crack. He has spread his high-def wings and prem ... More >>

Kevin Binkley on Loving In-N-Out Burger and Why Squash Blossoms Are Overrated

Kevin Binkley Binkley's Restaurant 6920 E. Cave Creek Road, Cave Creek 480-437-1072 www.binkleysrestaurant.com Cafe Bink 36889 N. Tom Darlington Drive, Carefree 480-488-9796 www.cafebink.com This is part one of my interview with Kevin Binkley, chef-owner of Binkley's Restaurant and Café Bink. You ... More >>

What's Your Guilty Pleasure Food?

Welcome to Chow Bella's Bites & Dishes, where Valley chefs and restaurateurs respond to a question New Times food critic Laura Hahnefeld has on her mind. Have a question you'd like to ask? E-mail laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. Miss a question? Go here.When it comes to food, everyone has their vices. ... More >>

Raising Cane's Free Chicken Fingers at This Friday's Grand Opening Will Be Awesome for Those Who Like Chicken Fingers

Muralist Benny Graeff inside the new Raising Cane's on Thomas Road.​For those that missed my First Taste of Arizona's first Raising Cane's, the Louisiana-based chicken fingers chain which opened in September at 2715 West Peoria Avenue (1-17 & Peoria Ave), you can read all about it here. Chic ... More >>

The Devil Wears Prada at The Marquee Theatre, 11/21/11

The Devil Wears Prada Marquee Theatre Monday, November 21, 2011 I found myself at The Devil Wears Prada show in large part due to my kid brother. He's been high on openers Enter Shikari for a couple of years now and asked me to accompany him to the show. While I admittedly have never been big on ha ... More >>

Hole Foods: Boutique Doughnuts Are Leaving the Likes of Krispy Kreme in the Dust

The Daily Meal's "20 Food Topics that Won't Die": We'll Take the Hint and Quit with the Bacon

Cupcake takes the CakeThat sure is a Bacon Donut on top of a cupcake! ​Earlier this week we went on a little bit of a rant about a bacon wrapped matzoh ball. It was just too much and we couldn't contain our disgust any longer.  Of course we still love bacon, but we don't want to write ab ... More >>

Hamburger Havoc: The Habit Burger vs In-N-Out

Ando Muneno A challenger appears!This week we will pitting relative newcomer The Habit Burger Grill against the venerable In-N-Out in a patty-to-patty battle for hamburger supremacy. The Burger: Double cheeseburger with all the fixings. For the sake of equality, In-N-Out's secr ... More >>

Raising Cane's Is Your New Favorite Chicken Fingers Joint (If You Had a Favorite Chicken Fingers Joint Before)

Chicken finger sandwich.​If Chick-fil-A, In-N-Out Burger, and T.G.I. Friday's had a baby, its name would be Raising Cane's. Inside Raising Cane's.​The chicken fingers chain, based in Louisiana, opened its first Arizona location on Tuesday, at 2715 West Peoria Avenue (1-17 & Peor ... More >>

Now Open: The Habit Burger Grill Chandler

​Hey Chandler -- as of today, you have a new burger joint. California-based The Habit Burger Grill opened the doors of its second Valley location today. Sitting just south of Ray Road, east of the I-10, it's dangerously close to another California-based chain, In-N-Out Burger. An interesting l ... More >>

The Great Burger Taste Test: Is BBQ Really Better?

Paying homage to the King of the Grill.​With Father's Day coming up this Sunday, everyone is focusing on what meats to round up for the inevitable Sunday cookout. Because even though it's Dad's special day, he inexplicably prefers to stay home and chuck some ground chuck onto the faithful ba ... More >>

Critics Claim Supreme Master Ching Hai's Followers' Restaurants Featuring Tasty Vegan Fare Front For an Exploitive Movement.

Burger King Invites Colin Firth to Design Burger, or Thanks, But I'm Busy Until Forever

​Like every douchebag in college who suddenly became your friend after they found out you scored a bunch of weed, Burger King has offered Colin Firth a chance to design his own burger if he wins an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The King's Speech on Sunday. Wow, really? His own ... More >>

Got a Favorite Burger? Add Its Meaty Ass to BurgerMap!

​No beatin' around the burger bush here, BurgerMap claims to be exactly what the slogan says it is: The World's Best Burgers. On a map. But wait, not yet. BurgerMap can't do it alone. The map's success depends on people's patty input, and lots of it. According to the website, when enough fol ... More >>

Becky Windels of The Herb Box

​Chef Becky Windels' career is a culinary Cinderella story. Once upon a time when she was waiting tables, Windels was offered the opportunity to help start a catering business. When a chef friend backed out of the project, Windels began reading coo ... More >>

Calf Fries: Deep Fried Testicles from Stockyard's

Erica O'Neil A tasty platter of taboo eats. Calf fries with cocktail sauce from Stockyard's. ​Despite what the supermarket aisle may lead you to believe, there's more to an animal than neatly wrapped styrofoam trays of meat. From tongue to tail, offal (pronounced awful) encompasses all thos ... More >>

Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino: Hanging With Lo-Fi's Leading Lady

Smashburger Goes Chicken With New Menu Items

New Smashchicken sandwiches.​Does Smashburger know something we don't? Rather than introduce a new tasty burger to its lineup (shed tear here), the place that bills itself as "Every City's Favorite Burger Place" has gone chicken, with three new Smashchicken sandwiches: BBQ Ranch, Avocado Club ... More >>

The New Burger Kings: Smashburger vs. Culver's

Ever since Supersize Me came out, I've been loathe to dine at fast food restaurants. But with so many locals extolling the meaty virtues of the new pseudo-gourmet hamburger chains that have been popping up around the Valley, it was impossible to resist pitting two of these gut-bu ... More >>

Fry Girl Versus the Top Five Fish Sandwiches

The Naughty Vegetarian: Top Ten Fatty Meat-Free Foods

PETA caused some hullabaloo (shocker) a couple months back with a billboard posted in Jacksonville, Fla. that said "Save the Whales, Lose the Blubber: Go Vegetarian." The billboard had a picture of a heavy-set lady on the beach in a not-so-itsy-bitsy teenie-weenie pink polka-dot bikini. Really ... More >>

Campus Coffee: Drive-Thru Breakfast at D'lish

Can you remember the last time you had a salad with fresh, crisp spring greens, strawberries, goat cheese, candied walnuts, and pomegranate vinaigrette -- from a drive-thru? What about coffee that didn't taste like a foot? If you answered "never", give D'lish Kitchen and Coffee House a try ... More >>

Smashburger Makes Arizona Debut This Fall

​From Fatburger to In-N-Out Burger, there's no shortage of burger joints in Tempe, but with thousands of ASU students to munch on them, what's one more? This fall, Denver-based burger chain Smashburger is hoping to take a bite out of that business with the opening o ... More >>

5 & Diner, MacAlpine’s, and Udder Delights: A Pregnant Quest for the Valley's Tastiest Milkshakes

Cafe: Milkshakes

​ Some people are born lactose-intolerant. Not us! No, we earned it. Maybe it's the companion splash of milk in every cup of coffee that keeps our journalistic fingers hard at work that has trained our body to associate mammalian lactation with stress. Either way, we can't handle milk products ... More >>

Summer Guide: Shaking it Up with Valley Mixologists

Hot Links: Obama Coming to Phoenix; Jehovah's Witness Church Burns; Foghat and Starship Fly With Ostriches

It's not a honeymoon: President Obama will stop in Phoenix and Denver next week as part of his whirlwind U.S. tour to promote his stimulus plan. Fire, but no reported brimstone at a Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall in Mesa. Their albums have sold millions of copies, they've played before waves of ador ... More >>

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