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…
After a little over four months at Cuoco Pazzo, the Italian restaurant in Old Town Scottsdale, chef Peter DeRuvo has left. Citing differences in the management and business operations of the restaurant with father/son owners and operators Mario Rana Sr. and Jr., who also owned Mad Chef Gastropub before it…
During my probably-unhealthily-regular perusing of the liquor store shelves this week, I noticed something peculiar nestled amongst the bitters: a bottle of Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce. What was my favorite steak condiment doing next to the likes of Angostura and Peychaud’s?…
[jump] Another standout meat vendor was Gilbert’s own Davy Jones Seafood. These guys go up to Kenai, Alaska to catch boat loads (they sunk a boat once because they caught so many fish) of their Alaskan sole and sockeye salmon which they sell $12 a pound (but buy 2 pounds…
The Festival: Glendale Chocolate Affaire The Dates: February 3 – 5 The Theme: Chocolate, just in time for Valentine’s Day! What To Eat: Endless chocolate from more than 30 chocolatiers from across the country. There will be the usual suspects like chocolate dipped strawberries, chocolate ice cream, as well as…
Lately, we’ve been a little obsessed with this whole state food question. We’ve asked readers (who’ve already narrowed it down) to tell us which they’d choose: Sonoran hot dogs or prickly pear fruit.We’re not going to lie, we are pulling for the prickly pear. By way of convincing you, we…
If it looks inviting, tastes good, feels brittle, and sounds crunchy you’ll experience the salt with four of your five senses.
Last week the R& D department at Taco Bell grew tired of spinning the wheel-o-ingredients for zany breakfast products (French toast sandwiches? Denver stuffed hashbrowns?), and rolled out their new “First Meal” concept across 10 lucky states. “First Meal” is what we can only assume is the hangover-killing meal you…
In the Valley Dongbei cai, or the food of the Northeastern China, is a rare find indeed. In fact, at Chou’s Kitchen in Chandler, owners Tong Rizzo and Ping Chou may be the only ones serving up this region’s comforting and sometimes unfamiliar cuisine of distinctive flavors, colorful presentations, soft…
We walked into Lon’s at the Hermosa Tuesday evening just as the sun was setting and turning a bright orange — while everything else on the horizon turned into one big black silhouette. Lucky us. We were there for a media dinner, a chance to meet Chef Jeremy Pacheco and…
Jeff Kraus, the man behind ++Experience++ and the currently-defunct Truckin’ Good Food truck, will be teaming up with HB Hanratty’s on Friday, February 24th for the vintage pub’s Bike In Movie Night. Part of the Arizona Beer Week series of events, craft beer lovers are encourage to ride their bikes to…
Chou’s Kitchen isn’t just the kind of restaurant that’s used to being excluded. It’s the kind of restaurant that’s used to being excluded twice. In the Valley, this restaurant’s menu of mostly unfamiliar northeastern Chinese cuisine (devoid of Americanized General Tso’s chicken, crab wontons, and fortune cookies) might turn less-adventurous…
Today, the Phoenix location of Morton’s The Steakhouse, located at 2501 East Camelback Road (in The Shops at the Esplanade), has been shuttered. The Denver Post reports the closing of the Phoenix Morton’s and eight other locations across the country, each employing around 40-60 people, coincides with Landry’s Inc. boss…
Get excited. We are. That’s because we’ve got the list of a dozen chefs already signed up to compete in Caramelpalooza 2012, which will take place Friday, March 2, at Smeeks candy shop in central Phoenix, from 7 p.m. til the caramel runs out. We’re extending the deadline a bit, because…
If you’re planning a party for the big game this Sunday, we figure you’ve already got the basic four food groups — chicken wings, chips, dip, and beer — covered. But what about the sweets? It’s not a party unless there’s cake, right? And if you’re not throwing the party…
Did somebody say bacon? The Oink Cafe, a new breakfast and lunch spot in Paradise Valley, is slated to open at 6 a.m. Monday, February 13, at 4326 East Cactus Road (across from Paradise Valley Mall). Along with breakfast and lunch fare, The Oink Cafe will offer five kinds of…
A drink called the New York style “egg cream” is thought to have been created sometime after the popularization of soda drinks and the birth of the soda fountain in the late 19th century, but fizzled sometime before the modern-day milkshake and 2-scoop waffle cones. What is an egg cream?…
Fans of both Josh Hebert, owner and chef of Posh, the restaurant of improvisational cuisine tucked into the Optima Camelview condos in Scottsdale, and sake, Japan’s favorite libation, can enjoy them both at an upcoming dinner. On Tuesday, February 7, Hebert will host a Japanese sake dinner at Posh. The…
For North Scottsdale folks in search of Italian cuisine, Bella Notte Ristorante, a new upscale Italian eatery located at 10989 East Dynamite Boulevard (in the former location of the Painted Horse Cafe at East Dynamite Boulevard and Alma School Road) may be worth taking note of. From chef and owner…
Erin Forney grew up the daughter of a butcher in Michigan. She’s been in Phoenix since 2005 and has been “a food lover since birth.” She documents her food adventures on her blog Food Tramp Diaries. While she does have the hereditary love of food and writes about it, she’s…
Phew! January was crazy busy but metro Phoenix is now the proud home of 14 new restaurants and we have a whole bunch coming in the near future. Unfortunately, we lost a couple friends including a New Times favorite, Bonfire in Scottsdale. C’est la vie…
