3 Best Places to Eat and Drink This Week in Metro Phoenix

Easter Pressure Cooking Class Tuesday, March 10 Maybe you were feeling adventurous one day and decided to invest in a pressure cooker. You dreamed of cooking faster and making meat so tender it just falls off the bone. Then you remembered one misstep with that innocent-looking kitchen tool could demolish…

Carvalho’s Brazilian Kitchen Is Now Open in North Scottsdale

Diners with a craving for Brazilian food, drink, and even coffee have a new destination to try in Carvalho’s Brazilian Kitchen, which opened last month at 23623 North Scottsdale Road. The restaurant comes from husband and wife team Phil Marsteller and Ruth Carvalhos Marsteller, who lived in the Amazon for…

3 Best Things to Eat and Drink This Weekend in Metro Phoenix

Happy Hour at Little Cleo’s Today In honor of National Absinthe Day (which is today, by the way) Little Cleo’s Seafood Legend at The Yard in Phoenix is launching a new happy hour that features deals on shellfish, champagne, and, of course, absinthe. The restaurant’s new happy hour includes $1…

Centurion Restaurant in Downtown Phoenix Has Closed

Since June 2010, Centurion Restaurant, located at 214 W. Roosevelt Road, has been a cozy dining spot in the downtown Phoenix neighborhood. Opened by chef Eric Osburn, the restaurant offered beer, wine, and cocktails, as well as a menu of European-inspired cuisine. Unfortunately for the restaurant’s fans, Centurion closed its…

Here Are the Results of the 2015 Devour Phoenix Bartending Competition

Nine Valley bartenders went head-to-head for the title of Best Cocktail in The Valley 2015 yesterday at Crescent Ballroom during the Devour Phoenix Bartending Competition. The event, the second high profile bartending competition held this spring, featured bartenders from local restaurants including Crudo, Citizen Public House, Hula’s Modern Tiki, and…

5 Best Things I Ate and Drank in February

This month’s best bites can be found all over town — literally so, in the case of the smoothie from one of my new favorite food trucks, which travels to Tempe, Phoenix, and Chandler in any given week. Many of the memorable bites come from places I just recently discovered,…

3 Best Places to Eat and Drink This Week in Metro Phoenix

Chestnut Fine Foods & Provisions Today Mondays typically kind of suck. But Chestnut Fine Foods & Provisions and Mama’s Cold Brew are trying to ease the struggle. Every Monday from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. you can now get Mama’s Cold Brew coffee and Chestnut pastries conveniently delivered to your car;…

Phoenix Chef Glenn Humphrey of Arizona Culinary Institute Has Died

Phoenix chef Glenn Humphrey, who most recently worked as Placement Director at Arizona Culinary Institute, died earlier this month. The chef’s passing means the loss of a mentor and friend to countless Arizona chefs, who Humphrey influenced during his career as an educator in the state. Humphrey taught at culinary…

February Restaurant Openings and Closings in Metro Phoenix

This month saw a whole slew of restaurant openings including some highly anticipated concepts from local restaurateurs Peter Kasperski and German Osio. February also introduced some new restaurants in familiar spaces — Cafe Tranquilo took over the space formerly occupied by Gallo Blanco the old Bungalow Bar and Grill in…

3 Best Things to Eat and Drink This Weekend in Metro Phoenix

Edible Education Series Saturday, February 28 Springtime means the return of the Edible Education series at the Old Town Scottsdale Farmers Market and this weekend the free lesson will be taught buy Lynne Sczruba of Monarch Garden Box. From 10 to 11 a.m. at the at the Co-Liverys’ Carriage House…