Good grief! It’s too early for pumpkin! Dear Pumpkin, In the Peanuts classic, Linus never really was sure if the Great Pumpkin existed or not. But this year, I seem to have the opposite problem with you. You’re everywhere. Just as the department stores start rolling out the Christmas decor…
Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives? Food Truck Fest for Free? The Phoenix Street Food Coalition is looking for a slogan and they want you to come up with it. Your reward — two free tickets to the very first Food truck…
West passed away last week at the age of 97. Doritos’ history and the burial plans after the jump…..
Beer: Black XantusBrewery: Nectar AlesStyle: American Imperial StoutABV: 13 percent The birdwatcher enters the bar, cautious yet optimistic — he’s heard the Black Xantus has been spotted nearby. Usually expert at landing the scarcest finds, the birdwatcher has until now been frustrated in his search for this particular animal. Suddenly,…
It looks like the folks behind Cartel Coffee Lab are brewing up a little something different — beer. Ever since the popular Tempe location took over the adjacent space, the rumors having been flying about what exactly they are going to do with the extra square footage. We have heard…
Fall is officially in the air — so since a couple more foodie summer vacation reports fell from the sky, we figured we’d share. Today: Dominc Armato, who blogs his heart out at skilletdoux.com. Where I went: Big sky country… Marfa, West Texas. Population 1,981, former railroad water stop turned art community,…
Taking your honey to the theater and dinner is so chic and cosmopolitan — and just got easier to do. ASU Gammage and Mill Avenue District got together to give your pocketbook a break with a “Dinner and A Show” package. This is the third year that Arizona theater patrons…
This week in Chef Chat we’ll sit down with Chef Paul Lindsay of La Grande Orange and the Arcadia Room. When did you know you wanted to be a chef?As corny as it sounds, I pretty distinctly remember standing in the kitchen with my mom when I was like barely…
After less than nine months at Prado, the Andalusian-inspired fine-dining spot at Paradise Valley’s InterContinental Montelucia, chef de cuisine Peter DeRuvo has left. DeRuvo, who started at Prado in January a few months after leaving Sassi, the award-winning Italian restaurant at the foot of Pinnacle Peak, replaced chef Claudio Urciuoli,…
Famed French chef/restauranteur Daniel Boulud has a new cookbook set available later this month titled Daniel Boulud Cocktails & Amuse-Bouches, For Her & For Him. We’re a little dismayed at the gender separation with the recipes in these books because they all look equally delicious with nice photographs and simple…
Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing our 100 Favorite Dishes with you. Now we’re back – with the 2011 edition. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments section or email laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. 4: Delux…
Okay, it might not be the first pie truck to sling sweet treats in the Valley, but Mama Toledo’s is certainly the only one with the phrase, “We’ll shut your pie hole!” as a tagline. Featuring home made desserts like her Famous Eclairs, and pies including chocolate peanut butter creme…
Itchin’ for an excuse to pull that bicycle out of storage and get some extra wear out of your Cinco de Mayo muy loco party hat? Saddle up and get ready to ride through the streets of Scottsdale drunk off your ass and full of tacos, amigos, the 2011 CruzCruise…
In an effort to make mom proud, Chow Bella’s taking a good, hard look at the most important meal of the day in the form of Scrambled, a weekly review of local breakfast spots.Fast-food is never the answer — not even when you’re running late. No matter how many times we press…
Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Italian Wine Dinner Just because Restaurant Week is over doesn’t mean you should sit at your house and wait till next year to check out Valley restaurants. Throw caution to the wind, hit the town on a Tuesday…
Typically, here at Chow Bella, we prefer to sit back and let the conversation happen. We break the news, make the pronouncement, share the opinion. Then it’s your job, reader, to hash it all out — and of course let us know when we’re wrong. But after the downright crazy-ness…
[jump] The ingredients:1 can Red Bull2 oz. cherry vodka How to make it:Find a pointy object and stab a nickel-sized hole in the side of your can of Red Bull. Drink about two ounces from the opened can, then pour in the vodka. Tilt the can skyward, crack open…
We’re on a mission to find the places where diners should order dessert first. Local Phoenix favorite Cornish Pasty Co. is first to make the list with Chocolate Bread Pudding and Strawberry Pavlova.
Sometimes you just have to start your day off with a cheesy breakfast burrito and a heaping pile of crispy hash browns. This giant burrito was filled with chorizo, eggs, and veggies the topped with two different types of cheese. I’ll give you a hint — it was from one…
If Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda bumped into Martha Stewart, hit it off, became gal pals and then one of them got dumped — this book would be the result. “Screw the Skinny Bitches…I Want to Eat” is a sassy hybrid of break-up bible meets girl-power cookbook that offers advice…
Tacos may very well be the perfect food, but let’s face it, the standard Meximerican fare can get a bit stale after a while. Taco the Town is here to highlight some of the more unusual Mexican finds in the Valley. This week: Oaxaca Black Mole Tacos served up by…
Lucky for us, Joshua Hebert, sweetbreads guru and owner and chef of Posh, the contemporary American restaurant tucked into the Optima Camelview condos, did a stint in Tokyo in his 20’s. It makes his Japanese sake dinner, from 6 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, September 28, that much more captivating…
