Tonight at 7, the third season of Chuck’s Eat the Street will debut on the Cooking Channel. If you’re not already familiar, the show takes viewers to some of the country’s best-known streets including Mission Street in San Francisco, Magazine Street in New Orleans, and, in this season, our own…
Someburros Scavenger Hunt Today through Saturday, July 12 Now through Saturday, Someburros is celebrating its 28th year of business with twice-daily Piñata Hunts. The restaurant is thanking customers for their years of loyalty by stashing two piñatas around town every day. At 9 a.m., Someburros will give hints Twitter and…
Phoenix already has one tequila fest, and this month, Affordable Food Festivals (the people behind a handful of events, including the Arizona Taco Festival) are launching a new tequila event to be held indoors at the Venue Scottsdale. The new festival will include tequila shots tastings from more than 30…
A Ukrainian design student has submitted his idea to the Electrolux international design competition, and you might want to grab a drink before you hear this one. This year, the competition is focused on “creating healthy homes,” and the Yura drone bartender aims to do just that, though it’s still…
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…
If nostalgia is what you’re searching for in a bar, Magnum Cigar Bar pretty much feels like a step back in time. With a clientele of mostly old dudes puffing on cigars bought at the store next door, the vibe can certainly verge on boy’s club. The whiskey-centric back bar…
Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing some of our favorite food folks’ “Personal Best” lists. This year we’re bringing back our list of 100 Favorite Dishes. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments…
The sold out Real, Wild, and Woody beer festival is going down on Saturday, July 19 at Tempe Center for the Arts. And if you’re a beer lover and don’t already have your ticket just stop reading now. Because the lineup of specialty brews is pretty impressive and you’re going…
When a new spot opens in town, we can’t wait to check it out — and let you know our initial impressions, share a few photos, and dish about some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that…
An Ohio resident named Zack “Danger” Brown is raising eyebrows after his Kickstarter campaign raised nearly $40,000 in about a week. The mission? To make potato salad of some sort…
The Spot: Geisha A Go Go 7150 East Sixth Avenue, Scottsdale 480-699-0055 www.geishaagogo.com…
Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing some of our favorite food folks’ “Personal Best” lists. This year we’re bringing back our list of 100 Favorite Dishes. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments…
Shakespeare may have argued that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” but apparently some Valley bar owners and restaurateurs don’t agree with the famous poet. Over the last few months there’s been a quiet but confusing game of musical names going on among three different concepts…
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…
We’re sad to say The Pie Hole, the small pie-centric spot that Mamma Toledo’s food truck once called its permanent home, is no longer open. The space was located adjacent to Short Leash Hot Dog’s Sit…Stay restaurant on Roosevelt Row. The good news is that you can still find Tonya…
A few doors down from Cartel Coffee Lab’s flagship roastery location in Tempe, there’s a door that reads “Cartel World Headquarters.” Inside, Drew Scharntizke, along with his fellow coffee instructor Bill Kennedy, spend most days using refractometers to ensure their brews are being extracted properly or educating new baristas. Since…
BJ Hernandez Havana Patio Cafe Chef, owner www.havanacafe-az.com In 1991, when Betty-Jane (BJ) and Gilbert Hernandez opened Havana Cafe in a space just off Camelback Road, you couldn’t even get chorizo or black beans in this town. You could smoke inside restaurant dining rooms (in fact, Havana Cafe eventually became…
Although not all restaurants participate in voluntary health grading from the county, a look into last month’s reports does give a pretty good picture of the compliance of local restaurants. While the vast majority scored A and B grades that participated, thirteen spots across the Valley were given D grades…
If you still are looking for a good seafood experience, you really don’t need to look any farther than Angry Crab Shack in Mesa to see the flaw in that thinking. The locally-owned restaurant serves a menu of Cajun seafood that includes crab, shrimp, and crawfish (on a seasonal basis)…
Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing some of our favorite food folks’ “Personal Best” lists. This year we’re bringing back our list of 100 Favorite Dishes. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments…
The number of places where you can get one of Miracle Mile Deli’s famous Straw sandwiches is now down to one. Last week the Scottsdale Promenade location of the Phoenix institution shut its doors for good. A post on the restaurant’s Facebook page stated the company decided to close the…
Congrats, Tempe! You’ve got your very own nut house now. Ok, we kid. But it is true that about a month ago downtown Tempe added a new candy and confection shop to the mix. (At least it’s not another ice cream shop.) The new kid on the block is The…
