Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Food Day What the hell is Food Day? We have the answer. Food Day is an organization dedicated to promoting sustainable, healthy food consumption and to making healthy foods more accessible. We hate the name but we love the…
Last night, while the rest of us were watching Modern Family and putting the finishing touches on our Transformers costume for Halloween, Christopher Gross, the James Beard Award-winning chef and owner of Christopher’s and Crush Lounge in Central Phoenix, was busy with his own evening activity: making dinner for none…
Seven local chefs duked it out for bragging rights and small plastic trophies at the second annual Mac n’ Cheese Throwdown last night in Scottsdale. In a partnership with the American Cheese Society (cheese made in America, not American cheese — an important distinction!), the event was also a celebration…
Joe’s Farm Grill is known for doing food right. But, are they worthy of being on our list of places to order dessert first? We’ll just come right out and say it: their dessert is generic and gets none of the TLC that Joe’s is known for.
Yesterday we met Dolh Chompupong, bar manager at bank-turned-nightclub The Mint. Today he shares with us the recipe for his Counterfeit Cantaloupe. Why counterfeit? There’s no actual cantaloupe in the drink, which is incredible given that the martini tastes like Sunday brunch. The drink is usually garnished with a slice…
Mmmmm tacos. Everyone loves tacos, right? Of course they do. How could someone not love delicious fillings in an equally awesome tortilla? Last week, my lunching companions and I hit up this gourmet taco shop in Phoenix for a few tacos — and a lot of salsa. This place has…
From the folks who brought the Valley The Living Room, the contemporary wine cafe and lounge, comes another room of sorts. This time, with a distinctive fishy flair. Located in downtown Ocotillo and in the same shopping complex as The Living Room, The Sushi Room, opening at 4 p.m. today,…
Tired of the same old tired orange chicken and California rolls? Want to venture beyond the standard suburban-stale take-out? Here comes Chop PHX, with the Valley’s rarer Asian offerings. This Week: Loat Cha from Sekong By Night The Basics: Cambodian food is the mind-blowingly delicious love child of Thai, Laotian,…
When we started the Chow Bella Book Club earlier this month with Changing Hands Bookstore, the hope was that eventually CHB would be able to persuade some kick-ass food writers to come to town. Well, that was quick. We’d barely announced the club’s first meeting when the amazing folks at…
Good-bye Princess, hello Pringles. A survey by UK charity Cats Protection has discovered that cat owners are increasingly naming their pets after food. The online poll of more than 1,000 people showed that traditional cat monikers like Tiddles and Thomas were being ditched in favor of food-focused names including Pringle,…
Oh my gosh, it’s FINALLY here. Phoenix’s first food truck festival is tomorrow! The most talked about event of the season is happening tomorrow evening on Roosevelt Row and we can’t wait. We’re super excited to see what kind of samples our favorite food trucks will be serving up but we’re…
Michael Hodgins has been one lucky corporate chef with a “wild” side (riding his motorcycle on weekends like a Wild Hog) and a penchant for endurance sports (probably a good idea for a food professional)…
Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Beer Party! Yes, yes, yes the Food Truck Festival is happening tomorrow but there is also another event going on that we feel might have been overlooked in the midst of all the FTF excitement. The 2nd Annual Peoria Beer Festival…
The tender: Dolh ChompupongThe bar: The Mint (7373 E. Camelback Rd., 480-947-6468) The pedigree: Dolh’s always worked in the industry. He started in his parents’ restaurant washing dishes, cooking, bussing tables and making drinks. He’s been at several places around town, including Pink Taco and Roka Akor. Until recently, he was…
There is sketchy and then there is down right punishment. It was the latter for our next foodie victim. In this edition of Dare to Dine, Chow Bella editor Amy Silverman and our last Dare to Dine warrior, Erica O’Neil, challenged fellow Chow Bella contributor Shannon Armour to go where…
What happens when some of San Diego’s premier craft beers are paired with the (RAWR!) wildness of the Midwest? Only twenty people get to find out. At 6:30 p.m. on Friday, October 28, Trophy’s, the “hunter’s steakhouse” in Queen Creek owned by big-game hunter Kevin Dettler, will be pairing meat,…
Eliot Wexler, owner of the award-winning restaurant Noca in Central Phoenix, has a theory about why we’re obsessed with doughnuts. “The great thing about doughnuts, in general, is that whatever culture you’re from, across the world, there is a doughnut. A variation, a permutation. Whatever culture you were in growing…
But facts are facts, and milk chocolate is to dark chocolate what 3.2 beer is to a boilermaker.
Burgers as a passive form of birth control? It’s true. The Sun reports fertility doctors from Harvard University and the University of Murcia, Spain, have discovered that healthy young men between the ages of 18 and 22 who ate a high proportion of junk food had poorer quality sperm than…
A round-up of tasty morsels from Valley food blogs. Jess Harter of Mouth by Southwest had one of the 60 seats for Il Vinaio’s semi-annual Beer & Donuts tasting last Saturday afternoon. Gourmet beer and doughnut pairing — say no more. Check out his blog to find out which was…
From bugs to dirt to rotten animal parts, there sure are plenty of disgusting things to eat out there. You may think you’ve seen it all but we’ve complied a list of what we believe to be the five most disgusting, truly gut-wrenching, make-you-throw-up-in-your-mouth-a-little foods from all over the world…
Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Woktoberfest, Yes That’s Right, WoktoberfestBored with the typical Oktoberfest fare? Then switch it up this month at Scottsdale’s Ling & Louie’s Woktoberfest. The Asian bar & grill took traditional eats and put their own spin on things…
