This weekend is going to be a busy one! Arizona Beer Week starts tomorrow; Cocktail Week starts Sunday; Jennifer Woods is teachin’ class at the Public Market; Kitchen 56 is celebrating their first anniversary. It’s all good stuff but a girl only has so much time and her liver can…
Pardon us, we overslept this morning. I heard a little rumor yesterday via HuffingtonPost.com that popular ice cream hustlers Ben & Jerry are going Greek next week with the release of a new line of frozen Greek yogurt. A tweet from their shop in Manchester, New Hampshire stated that three…
This Saturday is the last class in the Downtown Phoenix Public Market’s Winter Chef Series and the host just happens to be our very own Chow Bella contributor, Jennifer Woods. You may know Jennifer from our Chow Bella book club or from her weekly online column In Season or from her…
Who knew that watching someone turn a slab of pork into chops really fast could be so interesting?! Maybe it helps when the soundtrack is Jay Z’s “The Takeover.”…
You may have already seen what I think is the cutest commercial since those adorable hamsters dancing to the black sheep. It’s also one of the saddest and most heartfelt commercial that I have seen in a very long time. It’s been making its way around design websites over the…
This is sure turning out to be an interesting year for Valentine’s Day gifts. Screw the flowers, the fancy dinners and the chocolates — this year the ladies want testicle pie and …..
Somehow I had never made it out to Food Truck Friday but I manged to change that last week. I’m not sure which trucks were there because I had known all week that I was going to go there for one specific truck that I had been hearing tons of…
For all of you procrastinators out there, we’ve dug up 10 more Valley restaurants that would love you to dine with them on Valentine’s Day. (Here’s our original list.)This is it though. There isn’t going to be anymore help after this. So make a decision and make reservations. You don’t…
Eat This: Dinner at That’s A Wrap! — After reading Laura’s First Taste of That’s A Wrap’s new dinner offerings, I have been DYING to get over there to try out the new evening menu. I can’t wait to get my hands on that beautiful soy-ginger flank steak or the twice-spiced pork…
Chocolate and Valentine’s Day go together like eggs and bacon, or cookie and milk, or cookies and bacon, or bacon and bacon …..mmmmm bacon. Oh wait, we were talking about chocolate. Anyhow, chocolate and Valentine’s Day go hand in hand. A Valentine’s Day without chocolate would just be another holiday…
Werner Herzog on Chickens from Tom Streithorst on Vimeo. Hey Werner Herzog, famous German film director, why don’t you tell us what you really think about chickens? I found this video over on the Tosh.0 blog (I don’t know how I ended up there. I swear I have been doing…
Because nothing quite says “I love you” like a nice big slice of bull testicle pie, UK gourmet pie maker, Charlie Bigham, went ahead and created one just in time for Valentine’s Day …
We’ve never met a happy hour that we didn’t like but just like everything else in this world, some are better than others. Whether you’re playing hooky from work on a Tuesday or just need a strong cheap drink after a grueling day in your dismal cube we know a…
It turns out that Arizona missed out on a very important commercial during this past Sunday’s Super Bowl. It featured an American comic genius, a field of flowers, and a can of … Old Milwaukee beer…
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. No, seriously it’s six days from right now. You have made dinner reservations, right? NO?! Well you better get to it. Good thing we know of a whole mess of restaurants that are celebrating the big V-Day. And guys — if the lady…
Hey Tempe, you have a brand new pizza spot and it may be the best five dollar pizza we’ve ever tasted. Located on Apache just east of Dorsey in the same complex as Food City, Big Jimmy’s is cranking out crazy good pizza for crazy cheap prices. It’s no Cibo…
You’re welcome. I knew you couldn’t live without seeing this super giant prawn for yourself. Last week, scientists on a deep sea research mission off the coast of New Zealand came across something huge — a super giant amphipod, aka a MASSIVE prawn. The scientists found seven of these unrealistic…
Just when we thought the bacon craze was over — this happens. Jack in the Box releases a bacon milkshake. A BACON MILKSHAKE!…
My favorite downtown pizza spot recently started serving weekend breakfast and it’s good. Like, really good. My omelet eggs were cooked to fluffy perfection and then stuffed full of Shriner’s breakfast meats; the rustic toast arrived with just the right amount of char; the apricot preserves were tangy; the little bowl of…
Okay this is it. We promise not to talk about the Super Bowl for an entire year after this post but we found these four things while looking for extremely important stuff on Pinterest. Like the above video of Top Chef champion Michael Voltaggio makin’ his super boneless chicken wings…
It’s Super Bowl weekend! I”m sure that most of you could care less but I have a not-so-secret love of football and the Super Bowl is one of my favorite excuses to go on a massive calorie binge of wings, chips, pizza, beer, and cupcakes. I wish it was Sunday…
We told you it was coming. Pavle Milic and Charleen Badman, the masterminds behind FnB, have been busy working on their latest Old Town Scottsdale venture (or three) — Baratin, Bodega, and AZ Wine Merchants — and tonight we’ll be able to snag our first look at the new digs. Housed…
