When Eliot Wexler set out to open a world-class restaurant in Phoenix, the guy didn’t fool around. The Chicago transplant talked his way into Kevin Binkley’s kitchen for tips on searing foie gras, got Nobuo Fukuda to share his Japanese fish supply connections, and hooked up with the best organic…
After leaving Renegade Canteen earlier this month, it looks like James Beard award-winning chef and former owner of Roaring Fork Robert McGrath has already landed a new gig: as executive chef of the Spotted Donkey Cantina, the upscale restaurant of Southwestern and Mexican cuisine at Hayden Village in Scottsdale. The…
Beer: Pumpkin AleBrewery: BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse – ChandlerStyle: Pumpkin beerABV: 4.7 percent This week’s player in the Month of Pumpkin Beers is a real winner. Pumpkin Ale (no doubt buoyed by its super-creative name) took home hardware at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival, held just a few weeks…
But don’t get too excited. The popular Tempe brewery and restaurant has plans in the works for a third location but it will mostly be used for the production of the Four Peaks favorite, Kiltlifter. We have known this for sometime, the big question has just been where’s it going to go?Unfortunately,…
Open since 1992, Seamus McCaffrey’s Irish Pub and Restaurant has become a downtown Phoenix landmark serving cold brews and traditional eats for years. They’ve got an impressive selection of drinks and serve food early and late. So when “Irish pub” chain Tilted Kilt opened up in the new CityScape development,…
For those of you in the South Mountain area who might be freaking out that family owned La Cucina Italiana, which opened last July, is no more, DON’T PANIC — they’ve just changed their name to Our Family Bistro and their tagline from “South Mountain’s Traditional Italian Restaurant” to “Steak…
We’ve been chatting with the executive chef of the Limelight Dipping Bar and Grill, Chef Lefty Karropoulos. Today he’s giving us his recipe for a Chilled Seafood Martini. Chef Lefty also shared a recipe for Orange Sesame Ginger dipping sauce that he plans to add to the Limelight menu on…
Late last week, Phoenix fans of Cajun food were likely crushed to hear about the cancellation of this year’s Great Cajun Cook-Off and Foodfest, originally planned for November 6 at Heritage Square. The annual charity event is meant to showcase the Valley’s best amateur and professional Cajun and Southern cooking…
Hey Chow Bella readers — and pie lovers everywhere! Want to be a judge at the second-annual Pie Social, coming up Saturday, November 12 on Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix? We’ve got a star-studded line-up of celeb bakers, and we’re looking for one more judge to round out our panel. Intrigued?…
Looks like a lot’s going on for the Bidwill family these days. Last week, the owners of the Arizona Cardinals, along with the rest of us, got the news that Phoenix will be the host city for Super Bowl 49 and, as the new owners of Tom’s Tavern & 1929…
at the boxes along the cereal aisle might never be the same after viewing the latest show at After Hours Gallery: “Cereal Killers,” featuring Porland-based artist Brian Kappel’s dark but still-sweet mixed media pieces featuring his take on popular breakfast treats…
Our former Fry Girl and now full-time food critic, Laura Hahnefeld, has some good news. She and another award-winning Village Voice Media writer, Jonathan Kauffman of SF Weekly, have had their work selected for this year’s annual anthology, 2011 Best Food Writing, published by Da Capo…
Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives? Think Pink October isn’t over yet, which means there is still time to hit up these local eating and drinking spots to pitch in your donation to breast cancer research. (Come on, it’s more fun to…
Thank goodness Olive & Ivy, the Fox restaurant concept of Mediterranean meets California chic fare located at the Scottsdale Waterfront, is skipping the tradition of giving wood to celebrate its five year anniversary tomorrow. Instead, its offering five dollar food and drink specials all day long — and yeah, we…
The Spot: Rice Paper, 2221 N. 7th Street, Phoenix, 602-252-3326www.facebook.com/pages/Rice-PaperThe Hours: 11 am- 6:30 pm, 7 days a week.The Details: The Cen-Pho newbie may have higher price points on traditional Vietnamese fare than what you’re used to, but with happy hour discounts that run all day, 7 days a week,…
Sunday night’s Stephanie Izard (and Guests) Goat Tour dinner was a convergence of new and cool projects all gathered together under white lights strung above the grass carpeted courtyard of Joe Garcia’s soon-to-be-built-out The Accidental Yard in Old Town Scottsdale. The rock star culinary “set list” was written by Izard…
If you’ve got cravings only oodles of noodles can cure — and just a ten spot in your pocket — your lunch break could bring you to Focaccia Foirentina in downtown Phoenix. Located between Monroe and Adams just off Copper Square, this family owned and operated breakfast and lunch eatery has been…
This week we’re talking with Chef Lefty of Limelight Dipping Bar and Grill. Yesterday he shared how he got started in the culinary industry and today he’ll talk about his passion: people. Why did you choose the name Limelight? I had two ideas in my head. The first idea in…
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, some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that have just opened,…
Yesterday we got you the lastest heathful food scoop from Dr. Andrew Weil and Chef Michael Stebner at the cooking demo/tasting/discussion about vegetarian/veganism (and such) at True Food Kitchen at Biltmore Fashion Park…
Lately, in this In Season series, we’re taking a look at what I take home from Crooked Sky Farms each week and see what I’ve done with my CSA share, or part share. This week I’m using zucchini…
Holy oceans, that’s a lot of shellfish. Last week, Phoenix-based Eddie V’s Prime Seafood, a luxury chain of eight restaurants in Arizona, California, and Texas (with one location in the Scottsdale Quarter), and Wildfish Seafood Grille, Eddie’s sister chain of three restaurants in the same three states (with one location…
