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Mark Tarbell

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Three Ways to Eat Your Way Through Arizona Restaurant Week

    Sure, it may be called Arizona Spring Restaurant Week, but this nine-day sup-fest -- from Saturday, May 19, through Sunday, May 27 -- takes place when the Valley starts heating up and the restaurant business starts slowing down. In Phoenix and beyond, about 90 eateries are offering three-course di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    32-Year-Old Chef at CityScape's New Hotel Palomar Dishes on Working with Mark Tarbell, Favorite Valley Restaurants, and Changing the Phoenix Food Scene

    At just 32, Stephen Jones, executive chef of Blue Hound Kitchen & Cocktails, the "cozy, yet chic metropolitan gastro lounge" set to open this June in CityScape's Hotel Palomar, is ready to take the Phoenix dining scene to a new level. "There used to be a stigma about young chefs," Jones tells me, " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Top Ten Spots for Mac 'n' Cheese in the Valley

    Mm, mm, mac 'n' cheese. President Thomas Jefferson had it for dinner at the White House in 1802, Crayola made it a crayon color in 1993, and Kraft sells more than one million boxes of it every day. Dressed up with additional ingredients or stripped down and simple, mac 'n' cheese, essentially cook ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    Mark Tarbell, Tracy Dempsey, and Matt Taylor Help Kick Off Winter Chef Series at Phoenix Public Market

    Welcoming in the winter season, a new line-up of Valley chefs and taste makers has been set to host Phoenix Public Market's Winter Chef Series, two-hour demonstrations and cooking classes featuring a variety of memorable meals and culinary personalities. Mark Tarbell, chef and owner of Tarbell's, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Alice Cooper's Christmas Pudding Features Members of Cheap Trick and Brian "Head" Welch of Korn

    ​Talk about tying things together. We recently blogged about former-Korn guitarist Brian "Head" Welch dropping a new single and about Alice Cooper's twisted maze in Hollywood. But now we can blog about The Coop and Head at the same time. That's because Welch is scheduled to perform Saturday ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    Mark Tarbell to Judge First "Top of the Crop" Competition at Premier Food and Wine Festival in Maine

    ​If the kitchen at Tarbell's, the award-winning neighborhood restaurant in Central Phoenix, is absent one culinary whiz a few days in October, it's because its owner and chef, Mark Tarbell, is in Portland, Maine. The winner of season five of Iron Chef America, Tarbell will be one of a panel o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2011

    Mark Tarbell, the "Urban Cowboy," on Cooking Channel's Food(ography) Tonight

    Lori MidsonChef Mark Tarbell​From several small video appearances for his restaurant to Iron Chef America, Mark Tarbell, chef and owner of Tarbell's, the award-winning neighborhood restaurant in Central Phoenix, can hardly be called camera shy -- plus, c'mon, he's so damn engaging. Food(ograp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Grilled, Double-Cut Pork Chop From Tarbell's

    ​ Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing our 100 Favorite Dishes with you. Now we're back - with the 2011 edition. Have a suggestion for a dish you'd like us to try? Leave it in the comments section or email laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. 71: Grilled, Doub ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Arizona Culinary Hall of Fame Winners to be Announced Tonight

      scottsdaleculinaryfestival.org The Scottsdale Culinary Festival kicks off tonight not just with a kick-off party, but also with the announcement of the winners of this year's spots in the Arizona Culinary Hall of Fame. The nominees make for quite a power meeting, don't you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    AZ Represent! Locals on Beard Semifinalist List

    Chef Nobuo Fukuda, who won the James Beard Best Chef Southwest Award in 2007, is up for Best New Restaurant for 2011.​The highly anticipated semifinalist list for the annual James Beard Awards is out today, and some of the state's best and brightest chefs and restaurateurs have made the cut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2010

    2010 Redux: Culinary Happenings

    Crudo dished up beautiful plates of fish at the Devoured culinary fest.​In the spirit of tying up loose ends, we're recapping some of our favorite food-related finds of the year. We've already looked back on the Best Books, Battle of the Dishes, Just Offal, the Best R ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    Wine Expert Mark Tarbell Makes a Beery Good YouTube Appearance

    It's not much of a stretch to say that more local food personalities are going to start taking advantage of technology and our Food Network-obsessed culture to promote themselves on YouTube. I promise you, if I weren't an anonymous critic, I'd probably have my own vlog (that's a video blog). A new ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    AZ Wines Impress at FnB's Arizona Judgment

    Caffe Boa chef Payton Curry (left) joins FnB's Pavle Milic on the Arizona Judgment tasting panel.​Even though you'd never know it to look at his jovial expression, FnB owner Pavle Milic was a ball of nerves leading up to yesterday's Arizona Judgment, a by-invite-only blind tasting of wines that we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Mark Tarbell Dishes on Jamie Oliver and His Addiction to Opening New Restaurants

    Lori Midson Mark Tarbell   ​Our sister paper, Westword, has a tasty interview today with Mark Tarbell. His Phoenix restaurant, Tarbell's, has long been a Valley favorite, and he also runs two organic pizza joints in the Denver area. The always-entertaining Tarbell  -- one of hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    FnB Brings Wine World Heavyweights for Arizona Judgement 2010

    In Italy or in Napa Valley, drinking the local wine is a given. But in Arizona, where the wine industry has waged an uphill battle to improve its image, local wines are still a novelty at most restaurants -- so much so, in fact, that when FnB owner Pavle Milic and chef Charleen Badman commi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    Your Meal Ticket to Combat Cookery & Destination Dining

    ​Love Food Network's combat cookery shows? In this week's Meal Ticket dining newsletter, find out which upcoming competition will be hosted by Iron Chef America winner Mark Tarbell of Tarbell's Restaurant, and which two local chefs will battle it out in the kitchen. We've also got the wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2009

    Scottsdale Culinary Fest Comprises 12 Events This Week

    The Scottsdale Culinary Festival sounds monolithic, but the granddaddy among the Valley's culinary festivals is surprisingly multifaceted -- a dozen different events at 16 different restaurants and venues around town, ranging from casual tastings to semi-formal sit-down occasions.

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2008

    Chef Who? Local Businesses Don't Know Local Chefs

    Regular Chow Bella readers should easily be able to rattle off names of Phoenix's elite chefs like Eddie Matney and Michael de Maria, but according to the O'Neil Associates/ASBA Arizona Economic Indicators Monitor, the average joe on the street has no idea.  Three thousand local businesses we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2008

    Local chefs on national TV

    Regular Chow Bella readers should easily be able to rattle off names of Phoenix's elite chefs like Eddie Matney and Michael de Maria, but according to the O'Neil Associates/ASBA Arizona Economic Indicators Monitor, the average joe on the street has no idea.  Three thousand local businesses we ... More >>

  • News

    May 11, 2006

    Xtreme Cuisine

    Arizona's cunning culinary wizard Chef Kaz Yamamoto prepares taboo illegal moveable feasts for the elite and über-rich

  • Dining

    September 9, 2004

    Finding Nemo

    There's something fishy at Eddie V's

  • Dining

    September 25, 2003

    Dysfunction Junction

    The good, the bad, and the ugly end up on the table

  • Best of Phoenix

    September 18, 2003
  • Calendar

    May 15, 2003

    Don't Be Fooled

    He's even better than the real King

  • Dining

    June 27, 2002

    Tasteless

    Cheesy food fest doesn't fill the bill -- or the stomach

  • Dining

    November 8, 2001

    Gershwin Pickle

    Turning a grocery store into a dinner theater is no picnic

  • Dining

    September 6, 2001

    Zip Code Blue

    Too much of a good thing dilutes its charm

  • Dining

    March 29, 2001

    Chef's Surprise

    Local chefs wait eagerly for award announcements

  • Dining

    December 28, 2000

    Hangover and Out

    Tips for getting rid of the blahs

  • Dining

    October 5, 2000

    Whining and Dining

    Food fight at the Phoenician

  • News

    June 1, 2000

    Flashes 06-01-2000

    Food fight at the Phoenician

  • Dining

    May 4, 2000

    Burn, Baby, Burn

    Food fight at the Phoenician

  • Dining

    March 16, 2000

    My Left Fete

    Food fight at the Phoenician

  • Dining

    March 9, 2000

    Ego System

    Food fight at the Phoenician

  • Dining

    November 4, 1999

    Second Helpings

    Food fight at the Phoenician

  • Dining

    June 17, 1999

    Tarbell for Two

    Food fight at the Phoenician

  • News

    June 10, 1999

    Flashes

    Food fight at the Phoenician

  • Dining

    April 8, 1999

    Second Helpings

    Food fight at the Phoenician

  • Dining

    February 22, 1996

    Second Helpings

    Food fight at the Phoenician

  • Dining

    June 15, 1995

    COOK'S TOUR

    Food fight at the Phoenician

  • Dining

    March 30, 1995

    HYPE AND GLORY

    Food fight at the Phoenician

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