How Green and Leafy Is My Valley: My foray into the world of healthful eating made me wonder if our town had a vegetarian organization, a group of like-minded individuals that gets together and maybe compares tofu and sprout recipes. Well, I found a Valley vegetarian group, but it’s not…
Supreme Master Ching Hai Vegetarian House, 4812 North Seventh Avenue, Phoenix, 264-3480. Hours: Lunch, Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Dinner, Monday through Thursday, 4:30 to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 4:30 to 10 p.m. Over the years, my bodily temple has taken a considerable beating. It’s been…
“Life Is Too Short to Eat Bad Food”: That’s the motto of Mike’s Golden Crust, a west-side, BYOB Greek-Italian restaurant that I enjoyed on a review a couple of years ago. Since then, the place has grown so popular that Mike had to find larger digs. A recent visit to…
Bamboo Club, Biltmore Fashion Park, 2596 East Camelback, Phoenix, 955-1288. Hours: Lunch and Dinner, Monday through Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to midnight; Sunday, 5 p.m. to midnight. Does your idea of a great meal out mean hunting for a funky, inexpensive joint, with Formica-topped tables, semifluent servers and offbeat specialties posted…
Restaurant Revelry: If you spend as much time as I do eating out, you’re bound to have some bizarre experiences. I’ve observed almost everything while seated at a restaurant table, except the delivery of a child and a mob hit. Take the recent newspaper immolation I saw at Capers. A…
Capers, Orange Tree Golf & Conference Resort, 10601 North 56th Street, Scottsdale, 948-6100. Hours: Lunch, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., seven days a week; Dinner, 5:30 to 10 p.m., seven days a week. The Valley’s resort managers may not be trained physicists or mathematicians. But they’re well aware of Newton’s…
Urinating and making love and missing your family, struggling to survive and losing your courage at the crucial moment, eating chickens and trying to read the future in their livers–these things are what writer-director Bill Forsyth’s new movie, appropriately titled Being Human, is about. This ultimately unsuccessful but sometimes thrilling…
Brunch Tips: The number of high-class resorts in the Valley makes this one of the country’s great brunch sites. If Marquesa and Latilla Room are booked, here are a few other Mother’s Day brunch alternatives: Terrace Dining Room (Phoenician resort): The Sheraton folks have recently taken over the operation of…
Marquesa, Scottsdale Princess resort, 7575 East Princess Drive, Scottsdale, 585-4848. Sunday brunch: 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Lots of folks will be spending big bucks this Sunday on a brunch worthy of Mom. Not my pal Bob. He hates those opulent brunches. “There are so many choices, so many strategies,”…
Critical Notes: Elin Jeffords, whose New Times column gave birth to serious restaurant reviewing in the Valley 17 years ago, is back in the dining-out-for-pay business. After her seven-year stint here, Jeffords moved to the Arizona Republic, which she left with some acrimony in 1991. Since then, she’s occupied herself…
Arizona Kitchen, Wigwam resort, 300 East Indian School, Litchfield Park, 935-3811. Hours: Dinner, Monday through Saturday, 6 to 10 p.m. The mystery behind the disappearance of the Anasazi Indians, the Southwest’s original inhabitants, has long puzzled students of the region. They’ve hypothesized that disease, war or drought put an end…
Beulah’s, 2022 North Seventh Street, Phoenix, 252-5303. Hours: Lunch and Dinner, Monday through Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Pizza sure has changed since I was a kid in the old Brooklyn neighborhood. Back then, pizza was dished out in no-nonsense style…
Grill Talk: When I first sampled the fare at Eddie’s Grill about a year ago, chef Eddie Matney’s New American cuisine really impressed me. A return visit has left me even more impressed. This place is terrific, from breadbasket to dessert, from service to decor. First of all, Eddie’s Grill…
McSushi and a Happy Yaki Soba Meal: Given the dreadful nutritional fare at most fast-food operations–oily fried chicken, greasy pizzas, fat-laden burritos and artery-clogging burgers–you’d assume there might be a niche in the health-conscious 90s for a reasonably priced, reasonably nutritious, quick-service meal. And what ethnic fare is better suited…
Mikado, 7111 East Camelback, Scottsdale, 481-9777. Hours: Lunch, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Dinner, Sunday through Thursday, 5 to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 5 to 11 p.m. Just hint to my family that Chinese food is a dinnertime option, and you can see them mentally chowing…
6th Avenue Bistrot, 7150 East Sixth Avenue, Scottsdale, 947-6022. Hours: Lunch, Monday through Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Dinner, Monday through Saturday, 5:30 to 10 p.m.; Sunday, 5:30 to 9 p.m. According to a national foodie magazine, French bistro fare is poised to become the dining rage of 1994…
6th Avenue Bistrot, 7150 East Sixth Avenue, Scottsdale, 947-6022. Hours: Lunch, Monday through Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Dinner, Monday through Saturday, 5:30 to 10 p.m.; Sunday, 5:30 to 9 p.m. According to a national foodie magazine, French bistro fare is poised to become the dining rage of 1994…
French Resistance: The Valley restaurant scene has become a great deal more sophisticated over the past few years. These days, there’s lots of offbeat ethnic eating–witness the El Salvadoran fare at Eliana’s Restaurant, the Persian food at Tasty Kabob, the Vietnamese cuisine at Pearl of Asia and the Mexican seafood…
6th Avenue Bistrot, 7150 East Sixth Avenue, Scottsdale, 947-6022. Hours: Lunch, Monday through Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Dinner, Monday through Saturday, 5:30 to 10 p.m.; Sunday, 5:30 to 9 p.m. According to a national foodie magazine, French bistro fare is poised to become the dining rage of 1994…
French Resistance: The Valley restaurant scene has become a great deal more sophisticated over the past few years. These days, there’s lots of offbeat ethnic eating–witness the El Salvadoran fare at Eliana’s Restaurant, the Persian food at Tasty Kabob, the Vietnamese cuisine at Pearl of Asia and the Mexican seafood…
French Resistance: The Valley restaurant scene has become a great deal more sophisticated over the past few years. These days, there’s lots of offbeat ethnic eating–witness the El Salvadoran fare at Eliana’s Restaurant, the Persian food at Tasty Kabob, the Vietnamese cuisine at Pearl of Asia and the Mexican seafood…
Vagara Bistro, 6137 North Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, 948-9928. Hours: Lunch, Monday through Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Dinner, 5:30 to 10 p.m., seven days a week. If you’re searching for a town on the cutting edge of the 21st century, Phoenix probably won’t make your short list. After all,…
