Scottsdale’s McCormick Ranch neighborhood will get a new spot for personal pizza this spring. Called Pizza Me, the restaurant will offer personal pizza in a style similar to Chipotle. The restaurant will be located at 9619 North Hayden Road, on the southeast corner of Hayden and Mountain View roads. The…
Steve Kraus Owner Press Coffee www.presscfw.com This week we’re taking a break from our weekly chef chat to talk coffee with one of the Valley’s coffee roasters. Find part two of this interview here. According to the National Coffee Association, more than 80 percent of American adults drink coffee. For…
So Phoenix may not quite be a culinary destination, like New York or Chicago, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have plenty to offer the wandering food lover. In fact, there’s so much to eat and drink in this town, we’d argue that there’s simply no way you could get…
Just when you thought the wild world of the industrial food complex couldn’t get anymore sickening, disturbing, depressing, or infuriating, word leaked out of Kentucky that the Iron Maiden Pig Farm grinds up the intestines of dead piglets and feeds the cannibalistic slurry to the mother sows, among many other…
Girl Scout Danielle Lei has been making headlines for her savvy business decision to sell Girl Scout cookies outside of a medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco. According to Time, Lei sold 117 boxes of Dulce de Leches and Tagalong cookies in just two hours last weekend. That’s 37 more…
Recently at work, I found a bottle of amaretto in the back stock of liquor. A co-worker piped up, “Oh, yeah, that’s the almond-flavored liqueur, isn’t it?” I could only reply, “Au contraire, my friend! Everyone thinks it’s an almond liqueur, but it’s not.”…
As of Saturday, February 15, GoodyTwos Toffee Company, the north Scottsdale spot specializing in toffee candy has shut its doors for good. Donna Gabrilson and Stacey Barnes, the mother-daughter team behind the confection company, moved their shop to the location at 6990 E Shea Blvd in 2011 after outgrowing a…
Joining the ranks of other delicious artisan bread bakers in town like Noble Bread and Pane Bianco, Mediterra Bakehouse Southwest adds to its loaves a certain visual flair that others just don’t have. While the flagship Mediterra operates out of Pittsburgh, a Coolidge branch, opened by the founders’ father, started…
Grand Avenue soon will be able to add another dining destination to the growing list of restaurants found in the downtown Phoenix arts and small business district. A new restaurant called Grand Avenue Pizza Company will be located at 1031 Grand Avenue, serving pizza by the slice within the next…
We might be a long way from The Big Easy, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get in on the Carnival and Mardi Gras fun in the Valley. This year, Fat Tuesday (the last day of the Carnival season) falls on Tuesday, March 4, which means you have just a…
Bigger is just plain better — when it comes to creative ideas, that is. That’s why every year since 2010, we’ve searched high and low for emerging creatives doing exceptional things in metro Phoenix. They’re on the cusp of something major, these painters, chefs, designers, dancers, innovators, and visionaries. That’s…
If you’ve ever seen the show, then you know how impressive the transformations are in ABC’s Extreme Weight Loss. Each two-hour episode tells the story on one person’s journey, with the help of trainer Chris Powell, to lose half his or her body weight in a year. And though the…
Los Angeles might have just broken the Internet with its newest West Hollywood doughnut shop called Glazed Donut Bistro. Lovers of sweet and savory treats are going absolutely crazy over the announcement, which as of Thursday crashed the new spot’s website when the bandwidth limit was exceeded. Understandably, when you…
So remember when the big beef recall quickly fizzled in the collective concern of meat lovers because the list primarily consisted of uncommon cuts like tripe, tongue, and lips? Well, turns out some of those odd beef parts are found in Hot Pockets. The Rancho Feeding Corporation, which was at…
What do you think of when you hear the words “port wine?” British gentlemen’s clubs? Cigars? Mikhail Gorbachev? I think of the delicious, sweet, fortified wine of the Douro River Valley of Portugal. Few wines are as rich in history and culture as Port, or Oporto, or Vinho do Porto,…
In March of last year, chef Matt Taylor took over the kitchen at Market Street Kitchen at DC Ranch, replacing friend and mentor Robert McGrath as executive chef. Now, just under a year later, he’s preparing to move again, this time taking over the role of executive chef of Gertrude’s…
We’re not quite sure how it happened, but somewhere along the way Central Phoenix’s Arcadia neighborhood became the unofficial burger capital of metro Phoenix. So when The Stand opened, we were disappointed to hear the area would be getting yet another burger-centric joint. After an underwhelming first visit it took…
Do you dream of dining at the historic James Beard House in New York? Yeah, us too. And though we may never have that chance, chef Josh Hebert of Posh Restaurant in Scottsdale will head there soon to cook a dinner. But he’s not leaving his Valley fans without getting…
Menudo is a Mexican soup, an enticing bowl of hominy and tripe (beef stomach) made with either red or white broth. It’s a well-known hangover cure. But don’t save it just to bring you back to normal; it can be enjoyed when the temperature’s lower or you just want a…
Arizona Matsuri Festival Saturday, February 22 The annual Arizona Matsuri Festival will take over Heritage Square in downtown Phoenix this Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on both days. The event includes three stages with live entertainment, arts and crafts, bonsai displays, and Japanese food. Be sure…
If you haven’t made it down to Welcome Diner on Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix, you’ve been missing out on one of the more unique dining experiences that area has to offer. Between the scent of the Southern-style cuisine and the strings of lights that illuminate the patio after the…
There’s a new Facebook-based drinking game sweeping the U.K. and Australia and its extreme premise is being blamed for illness and even death. According to Time, the game Neknomination already has claimed the lives of four men under 30 years old in the U.K. with its severe challenges and viral…
