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The Pride of Guadalupe: San Diego Bay Restaurant Offers High Quality Food at Low Cost

By Eric Schaefer
Aug 5, 2014

Despite aspirations to the contrary, the Phoenix metropolitan area is largely a provincial town. Especially when it comes to food, we rarely leave our comfort zone. In a literal sense, we stay put. Restaurants in the west Valley rarely draw customers from Gilbert, and residents of Scottsdale often can't even...
Cafe Review: Angry Crab Shack in Mesa

By Eric Schaefer
Jul 10, 2014

Make no mistake about it: Angry Crab Shack is a blatant rip-off of Hot N Juicy Crawfish, a Cajun seafood concept founded in Las Vegas by a Vietnamese entrepreneur that has started its regional expansion and recently opened an outpost on Tempe's Mill Avenue. Hot N Juicy gained national notoriety...
Love Shack: Angry Crab Shack in Mesa Delivers Seafood by the Pound

By Eric Schaefer
Jul 8, 2014

Originality is dead. It is a universal truth that we have come to accept, whether it be with regard to Hollywood's inability to produce anything but sequels and remakes, fashion's predictable cycle of "what's old is new again" or restaurateurs who seem to latch on to a popular idea and...
Taco Guild in Phoenix Is A Beautiful Place with So-So Food

By Eric Schaefer
Jun 26, 2014

It doesn't take much to make an excellent taco. Oftentimes the very best ones come off of trucks or carts parked on the side of the road and its the simplicity of the dish that makes the dining so great. But Taco Guild takes an altogether different approach. The restaurant...
At the Taco Guild in Phoenix You'll Find Setting Over Substance

By Eric Schaefer
Jun 19, 2014

In its simplest form, a guild is an association built upon a specialized area of expertise, often chartered by a monarchy, involving a rigid structure of journeymen, apprentices, and crafstmen. Such guilds proliferated in medieval times and, in many ways, laid the foundation for what we now know as trade...

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