Summer is pushing in on us here in Phoenix, and it is time to start prepping for toasty days and sweltering nights. Kiss our patio dinners goodbye until fall. When the temperature rises, the last thing you want to do is turn on the oven. Here are our 5 desserts…
Lobster Mania Today through Memorial Day weekend This weekend kicks off Lobster Mania at chef Eddie Matney’s Eddie’s House in Scottsdale. Every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday through Labor Day weekend you can head to the restaurant to dig into a 1 lb. fresh Maine Lobster and two sides for $29…
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…
With amateur mixology on the rise, it was only a matter of time before amateur spirit-making, its highly-illegal cousin, started gaining steam. Circumventing the whole messy legality business with home distilling, Darby Smart is offering a way that you can feel like you made your very own gin without actually…
It’s not easy to take over management of three bars all of the sudden and it’s even harder to do it when those bars have a reputation for high standards, trendsetting, and constant inventiveness like Citizen Public House, its upstairs speakeasy R+D, and Phoenix’s The Gladly, but Brandon Casey has…
Prickly pear has made its way onto drink and dessert menus in a growing number of restaurants. And you should be glad they it has. Prickly pears are the fruits on what are commonly referred to as prickly pear cactus, or nopales in Spanish. Taco Guild and Gertrude’s at the…
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 section…
It’s been a rough year for restauranteurs Robert and Linda Gabrick. In October they were forced to close their nine-year-old restaurant Carefree Station and now, less than six months after opening, their new restaurant Scottsdale Station has also shuttered. The 8,200 square-foot restaurant opened at 8220 North Hayden Road in…
Fans of Fox’s hit television series MasterChef know that the show searches for the best of the nation’s home cooks and then lets them compete in a series of culinary challenges to win a cookbook deal and a $250,000 grand prize. The show’s fifth season premiers next week and on…
Classic Italian Pizza owner Azhar Began is fond of saying, “Life is too short to eat bad pizza.” A true statement that made it all the more sad when his Tempe restaurant closed its doors in 2013. But now, just over a year later, Began and his wood-fired pizzas are…
Two of the best foods in the whole world are now officially words in the 11th iteration of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. Joining 148 other new (less important) words like turducken and freegan, the food world is making its mark this year, along with the ever-expanding requisite bunch of social…
The Spot: ZuZu at Hotel Valley Ho 6850 East Main Street, Scottsdale 480-248-2000 www.cafe-zuzu.com…
Move over, Pei Wei and Samurai Sam. Another fast-casual Asian eatery has set its sights on the Valley for expansion. Denver-based chain, Tokyo Joe’s, will open its first Arizona location later this month in Mesa and has plans to open dozens more restaurants in the area over the next few…
The Guilty Pleasure: Ben & Jerry’s Hazed and Confused Ice Cream Where to Get It: The freezer aisle of your local grocery store Price: About $5 What It Really Costs: A whooping 1,120 calories if you finish the whole pint. It’s been few months since Ben & Jerrys released their…
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…
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…
When it comes to the north Phoenix part of town, the question isn’t whether there are good places to eat, but whether or not you can make time to get to them all. There’s a lot of square mileage that constitutes this part of town, but whether you’re from the…
Back when we were growing up, the pinnacle of pancake artistry was probably the Mickey Mouse pancakes at Disneyland. However, springing out of the ever merging worlds of food obsession and technology, the PancakeBot crafts beautifully intricate designs out of pancake batter, resulting in the best breakfast you’ve probably ever…
In the previous decade, brewers pushed the envelope farther than it had ever gone in terms of alcohol content, barrel-aging and experimental yeast strains — and beer geeks loved them for it. To peruse a list of the top-rated beers in the world was to see a list of the…
You might remember Shine Coffee as an airstream trailer coffee spot outside of farmers markets around town, but since April of last year, the shop has had a brick and mortar location with a detached lounge area located off of Central Avenue just south of Thomas Road. Since then, Christiaan…
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 section…
Jade Bar Today There’s a lot of good stuff going on at the newly renovated Jade Bar of Sanctuary at Camelback Mountain. The lounge offers stunning views of the surrounding area for one, as well as a pretty impressive cocktail program courtesy of master mixologist Ryan Margarian. Their specialty cocktails…
