The Guilty Pleasure: Wingless Buffalo Dip Where To Get It: Maizie’s Cafe & Bistro Price: $9.50 ($5 during happy hour) What It Really Costs: Your whole day’s allotment of carbs and fat… and that’s when you split one. See Also: Ten Favorite Spots for (Actual) Wings in Metro Phoenix There’s…
Ring the bell, it’s time for Last Call, where JK Grence, bartender at Shady’s, serves up booze advice and recipes. Got a burning question for your bartender? Leave it in the comments and it might be answered in a future column. See Also: Want Something With Beer? Have a Shandy…
See Also: The Great Kobe Beef Swindle The Guilty Pleasure: Allen Melt Where To Get It: Pomeroy’s Price: $7.25 What it Really Costs: There’s enough oil that the serving size should be one per lifetime. Someone, anyone, please tell me that the trend of fancy burgers has run its course…
Ring the bell, it’s time for Last Call, where JK Grence, bartender at Shady’s, serves up booze advice and recipes. Got a burning question for your bartender? Leave it in the comments and it might be answered in a future column. See Also: Five More Drinks That Get Screwed Up…
The Guilty Pleasure: Corn Dog (bacon-wrapped and double-fried if you dare). Where To Get It: Devil’s Pantry, on Whiskey Row in Prescott. The Price: $3 small, $5 large, $2 extra for the bacon; cash only. What It Really Costs: Justification for a day trip to Prescott. Easy enough in summer…
Ring the bell, it’s time for Last Call, in which Shady’s bartender JK Grence serves up booze advice and recipes. Got a burning question for your bartender? Leave it in the comments and it might be answered in a future column. See Also: Classic, Straight-Up Daiquiri Ask most bartenders what…
See Also: Tastemakers Brad and Kat Moore See Also: Hot Dog Food Truck Battle The Guilty Pleasure: Bear Hot Dog Where To Get It: Short Leash Hot Dogs The Price: $6 What It Really Costs: Weird looks when you describe it to your friends. I know, I know, it’s another…
Ring the bell, it’s time for Last Call, where JK Grence, bartender at Shady’s, serves up booze advice and recipes. Got a burning question for your bartender? Leave it in the comments and it might be answered in a future column. See Also: Five Safe Drinks in Any Bar See…
See Also: Laura Hahnefeld Gets Glazed at BoSa See Also: Jack in the Box’s new Waffle Breakfast Sandwich The Guilty Pleasure: Apple Fritters Where To Get It: BoSa Donuts, several locations Valleywide The Price: A paltry 75 cents What It Really Costs: About 400 calories. Keep telling yourself that it’s…
I love elaborate cocktails. I’m also more than a bit of a stickler when it comes to classics being done right (but that’s another column). And, I’ve come to find that I enjoy a nice low- (or no-) class dive when I go out drinking. This leaves me in a…
See also: Mill Ave. Ice Cream Sandwich Battle: Cookiez, Slickables, Sparky’sSee also: Someone Took a Frozen Dump (Sorry) on Mill Avenue, and It’s Chilling Mill Avenue is approaching frozen dessert overload… [checks his watch] any second now. At this moment there are seven, count ’em, seven stores on Mill that…
See Also: Phoenix’s Guilty Pleasure Nexus Cocktail Pairing: Suffering Bastards The Guilty Pleasure: Spam Musubi Where to Get It: Your favorite Hawaiian BBQ joint Price: About $3 for two What it Really Costs: Half your day’s sodium intake, and a little of your pride for the first one. Here in…
Ring the bell, it’s time for Last Call, where JK Grence, bartender at Shady’s, serves up booze advice and recipes. Got a burning question for your bartender? Leave it in the comments and it might be answered in a future column. See Also: Trader Vic’s original Mai Tai, from yours…
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, McDonald’s must be feeling pretty proud. Is the latest breakfast sandwich on the block a true guilty pleasure, or is it none of the pleasure and all of the guilt? The Guilty Pleasure: Waffle Breakfast Sandwich Where to Get It:Jack in the…
See Also: Last Call’s Gin Primer, How to Drink It and Like It There I was behind the stick a few days ago. A guest ordered a gin and tonic. I whipped up one for him, he tasted it, and pronounced that it was a darn fine one. I shrugged…
See Also: The Skinny Takes On Chino Bandido Good Fellas Grill Next to Chino’s is Good To-Go The Guilty Pleasure: Combination plate, preferably with a Jade Red Chicken Quesadilla Where to Get It: Chino Bandido Takee-Outee Price: About $8 What It Really Costs: Calories at least in 4 digits. If…
Tomorrow is Bastille Day, when the French celebrate the storming of the Bastille and kickoff of the French Revolution. You would think Americans would make a drinking holiday out of it. We already have St. Pat’s and Cinco de Drinko, so why not Bastille Day? Here’s why: The French drink…
The Guilty Pleasure: Biscoff Spread Where to Get It: Trader Joe’s, Fresh & Easy, or WinCo Foods Price: $3.50-$4.50 What It Really Costs: 90 calories a tablespoon; same as peanut butter without any redeeming nutritional value. (serving size 1 tablespoon? Yeah, right!) There it was, innocently sitting on the shelf…
I’ve fallen under the spell of a classic summer beverage, the shandy. It doesn’t get much simpler to make: First, get some beer, not too dark; lagers and wheat beers work great. Then, get your hands on some sparkling lemonade or citrus-flavored soda like 7-Up. Mix together in equal parts…
The Guilty Pleasure: Straw sandwich (with accoutrements) Where to Get It: Miracle Mile Deli The Cost: $10, give or take What It Really Costs: Your entire afternoon…
My pets know what they’re doing these days. The dog is currently laying spread-eagle on the tile floor, right in the fan’s path. The cat has all but taken up residence in the bathroom sink. And about all I want to do come 2 PM is lay on the floor…
The Guilty Pleasure: (Double-) Dirty Grande Soy Chai Frappuccino The Place to Get It: Starbucks Coffee; countless locations Valleywide The Cost: $5 to $7, depending on how dirty you like it and how you pay What You’ll Really Pay: 350 calories with whipped cream, 240 without. Counts more as dessert…
