Mild weather of a Valley winter got you down? Get ready for seven days of shaking, stirring, and smashing — spirit-style — courtesy of Arizona Cocktail Week. Taking place Sunday, February 19, through Saturday, February 25, the first Arizona Cocktail Week invites folks 21 and over to imbibe in a…
Susie Timm of Girl Meets Fork and Kirti Dwivedi from Diya Marketing have been busy ladies! Earlier this month, they brought us the Pancake Quest and next month it’s the Grilled Cheese Throwndown. Join Timm, Dwiveti, and the American Cheese Society February 26 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Scottsdale…
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 mashup of breakfast recipes, news and reviews of local restaurants serving the a.m. crowd. We were eager to jump on the breakfast…
If the world doesn’t decide to come to an end this year, I’m predicting that Mill Avenue will be nothing but ridiculous college bars, sandwich stations and frozen dessert shops by 2015. Okay, the Starbucks will probably stick around and maybe the bank, but other then that every other store…
For allowing diners to pick three mini desserts for just $8, the restaurant’s lunch menu recently made our list of Top 10 Desserts in town. Pastry Chef Travis Watson crafts a completely different selection for lunch and dinner, so it’s really best to stop by to taste both – multiple times.
Yesterday we discussed a law before the Mexican congress that could affect farmers and distillers of artisanal tequila and mescal, as well as the bottles you can find on the shelf. Today, Rancho Pinot bartender Travis Nass shares with us a recipe that makes use of just such an endangered…
It’s an easy one this week — if you guys don’t know where I’m eating then you might as well crawl back under that rock that you call home and stay there until next week when I tell you where this bruschetta is from. I’m not even going to give you guys…
If you’d always wanted to play with the foods growing in and around our Sonoran desert like prickly pear and mesquite, there is an event tonight to jump-start your inspired kitchen. Changing Hands Bookstore is hosting a panel discussion and book signing led by Edible Phoenix Magazine tonight at 7…
For those full-up with new wine bar announcements in Old Town Scottsdale, there’s a new spot coming this summer that’s more interested in sausage than Sauvignon. Brat Haus, an artisan sausage and craft beer concept, will be taking over the Oregano’s at 3622 North Scottsdale Road in Old Town Scottsdale…
Whoa, where did the month of January go? Blink again and it could be the end of February, which would mean the third annual Devoured Culinary Classic — the Valley’s most popular culinary event featuring Arizona’s finest local restaurants, chefs, and wineries — would be right around the corner. Might…
More pasties? Yes, please. Cornish Pasty Co., owner Dean Thomas’ concept named after Cornwall, England, and featuring variations on the pasty (pronounced pass-tee), the savory turnover made up of a crust enfolding a meat-and-potato filling, is expanding its Tempe location. (A second restaurant exists in Mesa.) For those that think…
A round-up of tasty morsels from Valley food blogs. Valentine’s Day is still a few weeks away, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early to start breaking out all those chocolaty, insanely decadent desserts that we hate to love. This week Handle the Heat did just that by baking up…
[jump] Take, for instance, the produce offerings. Ask any frequenter – McClendon’s Select is the top dog at the Old Town Market. They’ve got several varieties of almost any seasonal, organic vegetables and fruits, and they bring seemingly bottomless baskets of the stuff that nearly sell out across six check-out stations…
There’s no rest for the wicked — or the hungry. This weekend is a busy one for me (work, work ,school, work, work, and then work some more) which won’t leave much time for eating out, partying, or really much of anything. BUT if someone hadn’t already planned my weekend…
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: Alegría from the good old fashioned Park…
Less than three months into his new stint as executive chef at Spotted Donkey Cantina, the upscale Southwestern and Mexican restaurant at Hayden Village in Scottsdale, Robert McGrath, the James Beard Award-winning chef and former owner of Roaring Fork, is gone. McGrath took the Spotted Donkey gig last October, after…
In what may be a Valley first, two fans of Big Earl’s BBQ, chef James Porter’s home of “old school ‘Q” in Old Town Scottsdale, have paid the ultimate tribute to the restaurant by having themselves tattooed with the restaurant’s logo. Kyle Ohland and Ike Conrsolle, both visiting from Minnesota,…
A kitchen sponge has more germs than the seat of the toilet being used by that man in the airport.
In response to Macayo’s recent ad campaign to anoint the Chimichanga as Arizona’s official state food, we started our own very unscientific poll.
Here comes another one. On the heels of the announcement that the potent pair behind FnB — front-of-the-house pro Pavle Milic and chef Charleen Badman — are planning to launch their three-concept experience, one of which is a wine bar, at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Craftsman Court (in…
The abundance of Sonoran-style Mexican food in the Valley is so great, it’s almost taken for granted. On the other hand, Oaxacan food, from the state of Oaxaca in southwestern Mexico, is something you have to look a little harder for. And for those looking for Oaxacan eats, served up…
American drinkers don’t often trouble themselves with Mexican affairs, but with the future of agave-based spirits suddenly unsure, perhaps they should. Trouble is brewing in our neighbor to the south, where legislators have proposed a bill that could harm the variety and quality of the agave-based spirits we enjoy, as…
