Ring the bell, it’s time for Last Call, where JK Grence, bartender at Shady’s, serves up booze advice and recipes. Got a burning question for your bartender? Leave it in the comments and it might be answered in a future column. With both Arizona Cocktail Week and Arizona Beer Week…
Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we’re handing out Candy Hearts — stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. “It smells good, right?” I ladled a small portion of the chicken fettuccine alfredo out of the pan and handed…
After making Mexican food in the Valley for more than 26 years, the Chandler-based Mexican restaurant chain Someburros has decided to expand north. Specifically, to Flagstaff. See also: – Fast-Casual Chain Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill Expanding to Arizona – Bombay Spice Grill & Wine Makes a Quick-Service Baby Across the Street…
The Spot: Gilbert Farmer’s Market, Open Saturday from 8 a.m. until 12 p.m. See Also: – Old Town Scottsdale Farmer’s Market: What We Bought, What We Skipped and What We’re Still Lusting Over – Gilbert Farmers Market: Beautiful Beef, Alaskan Salmon, and The Salts of The Earth – Gilbert Food…
They’re convenient, simple, and everything we love about pie in a size we don’t have to share. They’re hand pies. And a new bakery in Chandler is serving them up by the sweet and savory handful — even for breakfast. See also: – Here’s a Sneak Peek at the Menu…
Looking for something to put in your mouth this weekend? We’ve got you covered. Check out what’s on our plate. See Also: 17 Don’t-Miss Events During Arizona Beer Week, Feb. 16-23 6 Don’t-Miss Events During AZ Cocktail Week: Feb 16-22 13th Annual Arizona Strong Beer Festival Hold on to your…
The pancake-omatic is an automatic pancake making machine built by a team of designers over at The Happy Egg Co, a UK based company that turns out free range eggs and egg products. Their blog points out the wildly popular stop-motion series, Wallace & Gromit, as obvious inspiration. See Also:…
Approximately $75 will get you quite a bit of wine this spring in the Phoenix area. If you’re willing to plunk down the funds, there are three unique wine events coming just as warmer weather rolls in. Whether you’re looking for something large with a “scene” or a more intimate…
While a jumbo tub of hot buttered popcorn is one of our most frequently indulged guilty pleasures, we think a good movie deserves a little better company than junk food. Try out our movie and meal pairings for yourself or feel free to suggest one of your own favorites in…
An abundance of lemons is one of my favorite things about living in Phoenix. I go through at least one whole lemon a day and I’m always a little distraught about tossing the peel away – even if it’s going into the compost pile. Recently I read about a chef…
If you’ve been to the chain-infested corner of Seventh Avenue and McDowell in Central Phoenix, chances are you’ve seen or experienced How Do You Roll?, the fast-casual eatery that lets customers build their own sushi rolls, a la Subway, from an array of traditional and non-traditional ingredients. See also: -…
Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we’re handing out Candy Hearts — stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. In a decent childhood, someone feeds you routinely, from the very first day. How can there not be at least…
Fans of adult beverages and the events in which they’re celebrated are going to have a tricky time filling out their calendars from Saturday, February 16, through Saturday, February 23, this year. That’s when Arizona Beer Week and Arizona Cocktail Week, two of the Valley’s major events hailing craft beer…
AndyTalk: Salt – It’s So Much More Than Sodium Chloride It’s Valentine’s Day and that means stress, especially if you’re a bit of a procrastinator and/or you think that the card you bought just isn’t enough. If you’ve got some chocolate on hand, even in bar form, you can make…
Here is a phrase you never want to hear associated with your vacation: “Cabin carpets are wet with urine and water. Toilets are overflowing inside cabins. We are having to sleep in the hallways. Onion and cucumber sandwich last night.” Those are the words attributed by ABC to a cruise…
Dish of Death | Laurie Notaro I place the bowl of spaghetti on the table directly in front of my husband. Then I stand there for a moment and give him a dirty look, just like I do every time I make spaghetti. “So,” I say in a completely serious…
The Guilty Pleasure: Dessert and Coffee Where To Get It: Compass Arizona Grill, atop the Hyatt Regency Phoenix downtown Price: $8 for dessert, $3 for coffee What It Really Costs: The only regret is that you didn’t think of it sooner. On a recent dining excursion to downtown Phoenix, I…
The plaza near the southeast corner of University and Rural drives in Tempe is full of great, cheap lunch choices for a college budget. Pho Nhat, Tsom and Delhi Palace all offer different cuisine and dietary options for the broke college kid. Heck, even Gus’s Pizza, which we lovingly used…
Restaurants touting fresh salads and sandwiches are nothing new, but if you’re on the go and want to eat healthy, it’s nice to know when there’s a new one in the neighborhood. And (bonus) this one stays up late. See also: – Quick Service Pan-Asian Restaurant Chain from Canada Opens…
After Portland’s sometimes-vegan doughnut mecca, Voodoo Donuts, made a maple bacon doughnut, pretty much every doughnut shop with any sense jumped on the bacon bandwagon. Two local shops, Oink Café and Rainbow Donuts, have followed suit. Using either a cake or raised doughnut base to paint on richly sweet maple…
So the pope quit, President Obama said something last night, and the latest travel craze involves pooping into bags on a cruise ship. Now that the small stuff’s taken care of, we can get onto what the world’s really talking about: The three finalists in the Lay’s potato chips “Do…
Welcome to Chow Bella’s Bites & Dishes, where Valley chefs and restaurateurs respond to a question New Times food critic Laura Hahnefeld has on her mind. Have a question you’d like to ask? E-mail laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. When you’re in the food business, holidays can mean big money. What’s the worst one…
