Want a Rock Springs Pie for your Thanksgiving spread but driving to Black Canyon City isn’t really on your to-do list? Well, you’re in luck. This year you only have to drive to Phoenix. The Duce will be getting a huge shipment of Rock Springs Pies delivered next Wednesday and one…
AZ Wine and DineTomorrow, November 17th, Lon’s at the Hermosa will be hosting an All Arizona Wine Dinner — and when they say “all” they really do mean all. Not only will all of the wines be from Arizona — even the roasted beets and the lamb chops will have…
Every hour is happy hour for The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger. So when we heard there was a drink named the Honey Badger at Cocina 10, the new restaurant attached to the Crescent Ballroom music venue (open last month in downtown Phoenix), we had to try it. Made with American…
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 green chiles and tomatoes.If there is a burger on the menu with green…
While we often decry the proliferation of monolithic food chains in the Valley, our home manages to host some unusual ethnic eateries, Tempe’s Beaver Choice springs to mind. Northern Phoenix’s Caffe Sarajevo certainly fits that model: It’s located in a strip mall, well loved by locals, and serves food you…
O.H.S.O. Eatery and Nano Brewery, the new restaurant and small-batch brewery from first-time restaurant owners Jon Lane and Pat Walsh, opens today in Arcadia in the former home of the Black Forest Mill German Restaurant at 4900 East Indian School Road. The newly renovated restaurant will feature American comfort food…
You call yourself a bacon lover. But are you a bacon lover? Baconlube is exactly what it sounds like — the world’s first bacon-flavored personal lubricant and massage oil…
Leave it to Liberty Market, the brainchild of restaurateur Joe Johnston and Gilbert’s go-to for gourmet burgers, to host their last community dinner in honor of National Fast Food Day (November 16.) Starting at 6:30 p.m., Monday and Tuesday, November 21 and 22, Liberty Market will host a five-course, “Fast…
Today we’ve got the second half of our chat with Tuck Shop owner DJ Fernandes. Yesterday he explained how he came up with the concept for his debut restaurant venture in the heart of the Coronado District. Today he’ll be sharing plans for his newly acquired space next-door and discussing…
In case you missed last week’s announcement, the Chow Bella Book Club is reading A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg. I thought you might want to get to know the author better, so here’s a few things you might not know about food writer Molly Wizenberg:…
Cave Creek Tap Haus, the new restaurant from Mark Bradshaw and partner Jim O’Toole, is now open despite an explosion from a pressure cooker that happened during its soft opening last week, sending two employees to the hospital. Bradshaw, who also owns the famous biker pub and grub stop The…
Looks like The Phoenix Cheesesteak Company, a mobile eatery serving up rib-eye cheesesteaks with a twist, is making the leap from four wheels to four walls at 2605 North 7th Street in Central Phoenix (northeast corner of 7th Street and Virginia). Unfortunately, that address used to be the home of…
Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives? Beer Dinners at the Brittlebush It’s time to kick off the 2011-2012 beer dinner season at the Brittlebush Bar & Grill, Kierland Resort’s very own public house — and Flagstaff’s Lumberyard Brewing Company is first up…
Beer: 11.11.11 Vertical Epic Brewery: Stone Brewing Co. Style: Chile beerABV: 9.4 percent Literally and figuratively, chile beer is hot right now. From San Diego to Delaware, brewers are snatching up hot peppers and throwing them into the boil to see what new flavor combinations the veggies can elicit. Sometimes…
It’s tough to find a restaurant that’s 100% vegetarian, but when in doubt, look for a place that serves authentic Indian food. Why? India has the highest population of vegetarians worldwide. For a spicy vegetarian fix, look no further than Woodlands Vegetarian South Indian Kitchen in Chandler, AZ.
This month, two more food trucks joined the Phoenix Street Food Coalition, tipping its number of mobile specialty food members to over twenty-five. The first, Aji Mobile Foods, is a father and soon team focused on Latin American fare and has made its first few appearances at the Avondale Farmers…
Big Earl’s BBQ got some mad TV love last month when Adam Richman and his crew of Travel Channel’s Man v. Food Nation (the evolution of Man v. Food, in which Richman recruits locals to take on food challenges instead of doing them himself) paid a visit to the Old…
Don’t know about you, but we’re still on a sugar high after the second annual Chow Bella/Roosevelt Row Pie Social. And with good cause. Hundreds of pies were consumed Saturday afternoon in downtown Phoenix, as some of the best chefs in town squared off in an extraordinary display of pie love. Chocolate…
Cuoco Pazzo is Italian for “crazy cook” — and it’s the name of Chef Peter DeRuvo’s newest venture in Old Town Scottsdale. Crazy, sure — crazy smart, crazy inventive and crazy fun. And we got to experience it last week at Cuoco Pazzo’s grand opening.DeRuvo — most recently of Prado…
The sixth location of NoRTH, the modern Italian restaurant chain from Fox Restaurant Concepts, opens today at 4925 North 40th Street with one big difference: It’s headed up by former Noca chef, Chris Curtiss. “The Arcadia NoRTH has a very different feel and really is a complete departure from our…
We’re back this week for Chef Chat with architect-turned-restaurateur DJ Fernandes of Tuck Shop in Central Phoenix. After attending architecture school in New Orleans and working for a firm in Phoenix, Fernandes was drawn into the restaurant business by a combination of passion for food and wine and desire for a new…
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 spotsOh, Ahwatukee. Land of SUV’s and soccer moms — not exactly a mecca for the granola culture, which is…
