amazon.com Not a pious Jew? You still might be interested in learning more about kosher food, and on Sunday the author of a new book on the topic will be in town to discuss it. According to the National Association of Specialty Food Trade (NASFT), sales over the last decade of kosher…
Staying in? We’ve got you covered — both on the culinary and entertainment fronts. Now presenting Dinner and a Movie — a guide to a do it yourself evening of food and film. What better way to celebrate Black History Month than with soul food? Soul food has many regional…
Award-winning pastry chef Christine D’Angeli has worked for The Ritz-Carlton, as well as for acclaimed chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten (at Hotel Icon in Houston, Texas), and she’s even starred in two episodes of Food Network Challenge. Now, she’s set up her pastry-making HQ — Slice Cake Designs — right smack in the middle of…
Tott’s Asian Diner closed last year, its owners promised fans the place would be back. Just a couple of months later, Tott’s is celebrating its grand reopening today from 10:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. There’s no free food promised — though students do get 10 percent off the end bill — but…
A slew of chefs have been nominated for the Southwest category of Food + Wine magazine’s new The People’s Best New Chef contest — ten in all, from Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and Texas — but there’s only one representing our great state: Chris Curtiss, executive chef of Noca. It’s not surprising…
Ignite Phoenix 9 happened a week ago, and we at Chow Bella are still aflame about the food-related topics discussed. As food writers and lovers of fermented liquids, we were most excited about the presentations of Maureen Basenberg, founder of the Arizona chapter of Girls’ Pint Out, and Pavle Milic,…
Kitchen 56 has just opened its doors this week after a major overhaul. The interior was redone, new management and staff are on board (Brittani West, formerly of Metro Brasserie, is the GM), and new chef Jonathan Stonis (who previously worked for Fox Restaurant Concepts’ Olive & Ivy and Bloom)…
The best ethnic food is often the most difficult to find. So each week we’ll spin the globe and search for a new other-worldly spot to expand our eating horizons around the Valley.This week we go to Sweden at Ikea cafeteria. “Is Ikea’s cafeteria really a Swedish restaurant?” I wondered…
Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives? Craft Beer Tasting Tonight! Join beer brewers, beer judges and beer lovers at Taste of Tops tonight for the first round of judging for the Great Arizona Beer Festival Craft Beer Competition. More then 30 brewies…
A few weeks ago we wrote about Hungarian paprika, and a reader left a question: “Where can I find gurkha also known as blood sausage? I live in Phoenix area.” While blood sausage is found in every cuisine from Asia to America, we could not find a name reference for gurkha…
Amber Miller doesn’t get a lot of sleep these days. Along with being a full-time student at ASU working toward a master’s in public relations, she also works at Sachi Salon & Spa, interns at ABC 15 News, and for the past eight months has been behind the bar at…
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: Raspados, or shaved ice, served up by Oasis…
The highly anticipated semifinalist list for the annual James Beard Awards is out today, and some of the state’s best and brightest chefs and restaurateurs have made the cut. Nobuo Fukuda’s Nobuo at Teeter House has been nominated for Best New Restaurant. Two previous semifinalists have once again been included…
Pane Bianco, the Italian sandwich take-out shop owned by James Beard Award-winning pizzaiolo Chris Bianco, now serves a full dinner menu from 4 to 8 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. “We wanted to expand the experience at Pane, with iconic dishes from my childhood,” Bianco says. The restaurant quietly started dishing…
Cambodian cuisine has been non-existent in the Valley, unless you’ve been lucky enough to sample it at one of Asian festivals. But not anymore. Sekong By Night is set to open at 1312 E. Indian School Rd. in the next day or two, pending a final health inspection, and will…
How fun is this new book planned by Dirt Candy NYC? Dirt Candy NYC is a brilliantly named vegetable based restaurant in NYC and is one of the only Michelin-recommended vegetarian restaurants in America. Even the most tired home cooks will drag their weary rears to be inspired by the…
We chatted yesterday with Emilio Morales of Sunshine Moon Peking Pub about everything from the family of 10 he grew up in to a mutual distaste for Andrew Zimmern. He shows us today how to make kung pao scallops. As Morales warned us in part one on Tuesday, Asian food…
Last week I ranted that Phoenix needs everything from a Farrell’s to bad Chinese food to a grilled cheese shop to some truly original ideas.Some of you were peeved, as expected. But more often, readers got in the spirit and offered their own suggestions — from low brow to high…
Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Beer Week Beer DinnerReserve your table now for this exciting Beer Week event. Citizen Public House in Scottsdale will be hosting a Four Peaks Beer Dinner Thursday February 24th. Chef Bernie Kantak has created a five-course mouth-watering…
Editor’s note: “Baked” is a new series that will appear on New Times’ food blog, Chow Bella (phxfood.com), to get you ready for the implementation of Prop 203, the medical marijuana law. The first time I made brownies, I was living with my mom and nana. My mother had moved…
We got word that Arizona was going to get its very own beer week back in November and we have been giddy ever since. More than just a one-day beer festival, we would finally join the ranks of real cities and get a whole glorious week! But when we heard…
First up: If you’re actually making Thai curry, props to you. If you’re like us, you’re probably picking it up from your favorite Thai takeout place. We ask Pavle Milic, the owner and wine director at FnB, what wine he’d serve with green veggie and chicken panang curries: Something sweet and German.
