If you are like everyone else, you are spending this first week of the new year cleaning and organizing. This can be hard work and leave you feeling too tired to make dinner. This roast chicken recipe is even easier then ordering take out. It is also much cheaper when…
Robert McGrath, the James Beard Award-winning chef who founded Roaring Fork and now serves his signature Southwestern flavors at Renegade Canteen, hosts local food lovers who get to dish about their favorite restaurants in Check, Please!, a half-hour show that starts tonight on PBS. Three different Valley residents and restaurants are featured weekly. Each…
Is it a big deal if a coffee shop doesn’t accept plastic? Perhaps it shouldn’t be, but when the cafe is in CenPho (where there’s plenty of stylish competition, and people take their hangouts very seriously) and the java joint happens to be owned by Matt and Erenia Pool (creators…
In a response to thousands of dead birds falling from the sky with implications that the end of the world is upon us, Whataburger has announced a limited-time offering of its Green Chile Double, which features two beef patties, two kinds of cheese, and roasted green chiles. Smart move, Whataburger…
Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Blues in the BarnThe House at Secret Garden is quickly become a new Phoenix hot spot, despite its south central location. Tonight, see for yourself what all the buzz is about while enjoying live music from blues…
The Spot: Ticoz Resto-Bar, 5114 N. 7th St, Phoenix, 602-200-0160 http://www.ticozaz.com The Hours: Ticoz offers relaxed pricing on drinks and apps every day of the week from 3 to 6:30 pm, and again from 10 pm to close. The Details: Half-priced drinks all around with their signature drinks (margs, mojitos,…
After a 16-year business partnership, James Beard Award-winning chef Chris Bianco is parting ways with Susan Pool, who’s been a front-of-the-house fixture at the popular downtown eatery. “I’m taking over the ownership of the pizzeria,” Bianco says, explaining that he is now the sole owner of Pizzeria Bianco and Pane…
Chef Becky Windels’ career is a culinary Cinderella story. Once upon a time when she was waiting tables, Windels was offered the opportunity to help start a catering business. When a chef friend backed out of the project, Windels began reading cookbooks cover to cover so that she could take his place. Now more than fifteen years later, Windels…
This week, we shared our experiences cooking with Mosh Potatoes, a heavy metal cookbook filled with recipes from rockers like Lita Ford, Anthrax, Megadeth, and Otep. We noted that the most extreme recipe was “Krakatoa Surprise,” from Lemmy of speed metal band Motörhead.Apparently, this recipe is so crazy that its…
Yesterday we chatted with Carol Konyha, freelance dessert designer. Carol’s Hungarian roots and fondness for butter and sour cream drive her approach to baking. Her keen senses and skill with her hands produce desserts as pretty to look at as they are to devour. Best of all, Carol’s baked goods…
Helen Yung, Sweet Republic co-ownerI think it’ll be the year of gourmet food trucks. It started this year but will make a huge jump in 2011, with well-regarded restaurants joining the game.Craig DeMarco, Postino ownerMy short list: Multi-purpose spaces, sausage shops, pies, wine on tap, manuka honey and humble service staff.Bernie Kantak, Citizen Public House chef-ownerIt seems…
You know that random little eatery that you’ve driven past a zillion times but never ventured inside of? The one that’s right down the block? That’s Lo Cascio’s Italian Restaurant, a solid looking stucco building just south of Green Vegetarian Restaurant on Scottsdale Rd. in Tempe. The place has been around for decades, but…
Bill DeGroot, the industry pro who was brought in to help revamp Arcadia’s Vatra Grillhouse this past fall, confirms that he’s still in the picture as a consultant for the new Kitchen 56, and that chef Peter DeRuvo has indeed left the picture for “a bigger opportunity” that hasn’t yet gone…
Those Slow Food folks sure are busy, cooking up all kinds of “eco-gastronomic” community events to raise awareness of sustainability and supporting local producers. And you know what? There’s always some kind of delicious eats in the plan. Gotta love their priorities. (At left, they’re feasting at Atlas Bistro.)Feeling social? Want…
Jeff Moriarty The founder of Ignite Phoenix and organizer for ImprovAZ wants you to come to the No Pants Ride on Sunday, January 9. Find more details here. What’d you eat for dinner last night? Had an incredible meal at FnB in Scottsdale that I will fondly remember as I…
Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Healthy and Cheap? Bombay Spice in North Phoenix has announced their new menu just in time to help you stick to your New Year’s resolutions. The new menu will have you eating healthy and saving money, everything…
It’s a new year, which means it’s time to make some resolutions. But before you consider finally getting your ass to the gym — and your head out of the fridge — you should know something: your personal trainer hates you. And why shouldn’t he/she? As cocktail waitresses, Starbucks baristas,…
When I met my in-laws, I tried to bake a pie for the first and only time. I had this ingenious idea that if regular pecan pie tasted good, a pie made using cans of salted mixed nuts would be even better! The thing tasted like a lemony salt lick and looked like…
We believe in the adage everything in moderation, no extreme exclamations are on our list of New Year resolutions. Which is why we like the idea of Meatless Monday, a movement that has been quietly growing since 2003 appealing to authors, nutritionists, filmmakers, health professionals, athletes, environmentalists, public school administrators,…
What was the best thing you ate in 2010? I asked around with a handful of Phoenix food lovers, and they were split down the middle. For some, the answer was easy and obvious, a singular work of gastronomic perfection, whether decadent or humble. Others struggled to pick just one thing from…
There’s a new heavy metal cookbook in stores called Mosh Potatoes (Atria Paperback), and even if you’re not a headbanger, you’ll find something to appreciate in this clever tome. Where else could you ever find recipes for things like “Hot Rod Penis Loaf” (courtesy of Gen from Genitorturers) or “Shrimp…
Search the translation of “kitchen” from English to Hungarian and you will find the word konyha. Search for the most moist, well-balanced chocolate cake in Phoenix and find Carol Konyha, freelance pastry chef and custom clothing designer. Carol’s classic desserts are featured on the menus of the Coronado Café (triple…
