Just north of Indian School on 7th Avenue sits a tiny building that is home to your favorite festival treat—fry bread. Yes, you too can enjoy all the fry bread you want without ever having to face a toothless carnival worker or risk being thrown up on by a small…
Hungry yet? We’re working up our appetites for our huge Best of Phoenix issue, out September 30, with daily servings of Chow Bella’s 100 Favorite Dishes from across the Valley — in no particular order Leave your suggestions for upcoming favorites in the comments section. Visit our sister blog, Jackalope…
The Spot: Trader Vic’s, 6850 E. Main St., Scottsdale, (480) 421-7799 http://www.hotelvalleyho.com/scottsdalerestaurants/tradervics.html The Hours: Every day of the week from 4 to 6 pm and again from 9 to 11 pm. The Details: Retro-priced apps ranging from $1 (roasted garlic hummus, edamame) to $3 (a variety of surf and turf…
Equal parts Anthropologie and old Hollywood movie set, The Duce is an ambitious attempt at recreating an entire city neighborhood. Think New York or Chicago in the 1940’s. Complete with news stand, soda fountain, coffee bar, organic grocery market, various other retail nooks and perhaps most important a restaurant and bar,…
Originally designed to preserve vegetables for extended lengths of time, the pickling process has been around since ancient times. Julius Caesar fed pickles to his troops to increase their stamina. Pickles were purported to be a part of Cleopatra’s beauty routine, and Shakespeare repeatedly mentioned them in his plays. Today you’ll find pickles…
After a couple of unsuccessful turns as Regions, the space at 6th Street and Mill Avenue in downtown Tempe is about to become a completely different concept, with a new owner. Restaurateur Julian Wright, who owns La Bocca Urban Pizzeria + Wine Bar a block up the street, is transforming…
Ernesto Moncada The author, poet, improviser and actor with experimental theater ensemble Arcana Collective and The Empty Frames Experiment conducts and produces the variety show Firestage at the Firehouse every Third Friday, hosts the monthly live talk show Grand Avenue Live! at The Trunk Space, and acts as host for…
Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Estate House Gives it BackEvery Tuesday thru the end of August, Estate House is hosting “Give Back Tuesdays.” The Scottsdale restaurant will donate10% of every guest’s dining bill to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Arizona. Enjoy dishes like…
Anyone that has searched the couch cushions for a handful of change knows that boozing on an extreme budget can be a risky proposition. To help you decide how to spend that meager pile of pennies, we’ve scraped the bottom of the barrel to review some of the cheapest, most…
Last week’s Chef Chat was with Marcellino Verzino of Marcellino Ristorante. Below is a simple, light, summer recipe of his that you can make on your own at home. Buon Appetito! Tuna Tartare (Serves four: antipasto portion) Ingredients: ½ lb. fresh Ahi tuna juice of 1 lemon 1 tbsp fresh…
Bacon, the Old Town Scottsdale breakfast joint run by the Devil’s Martini folks, is no more. A “For Lease” sign went up at the Goldwater Boulevard space over the weekend. Bacon opened in the spring of ’09, and never quite took off. Good breakfast spots are always in demand –…
Remember in early June, when I reported on the closing of Sucker Punch Sally’s? The official word at that time was that the restaurant was only temporarily closed, due to air conditioning problems, and that it would reopen in September. It struck me as odd that an almost brand-new restaurant would…
Word spread like wildfire yesterday about Hillside Spot’s fire — seems like a lot of people wanted to hit it up for Sunday breakfast — but the blaze itself was brief and well contained. Yesterday morning, a spark from the rotisserie at the Ahwatukee restaurant created a fire in the hood…
[jump] Also delicious were pastry chef Renee Cade’s trio of passion fruit mousse with vanilla bean bavarois, pistachio cake with citrusy Grand Marnier cream and adorable little cast iron stove loaded with salt caramels and handmade marshmallows. Because Cade’s now taken over all of the sweets at elements, regulars will have to say goodbye to Chef…
On Tuesday, July 20, KFC will offer free Doublicious sandwiches to the first 10 uniform-clad associates of a competitive fast food restaurant who visit participating KFC’s — up to 50,000 free sandwiches for folks the Colonel calls “two-timing employees.” KFC will also offer “Sandwich Amnesty” (a.k.a. a job application) if…
Iron Chef Michael Symon breaks out of Kitchen Stadium this Thursday with his new show on The Cooking Channel, Cook Like an Iron Chef. Symon, who owns Lola, Lolita, Bar Symon, and the B Spot restaurants in Northeast Ohio, as well as Roast in Detroit, says the show is for…
Fans of Monster Energy drinks are in for both disappointment and surprise with the Monster Energy Shooters. We’re big fans of the 16-ounce regular Monsters, which taste like carbonated apple juice to us, but the Monster Hitman Energy Shooter was…well, a whole different monster. The shooter bottles are smaller (just…
Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Oh No, Not French Vanilla!Get to your nearest Baskin-Robbins soon for your last bite of Apple Pie a la Mode , Campfire S’mores, Superfudge Truffle, Caramel Praline Cheesecake, and surprisingly, French Vanilla. The original ice cream superstore…
Another week has come and gone leaving us to ponder the upcoming events that will shape our lives and, more importantly, our dinners out. But before we move on, let’s have one last look at the blog posts from this week: S’more Please Sundaes Craig Chenery, What Are You Eating?…
Recently we came across a drinking game called “Louisville Slugger.” To play, one drinks a can of beer as fast as possible while a partner counts the seconds. For every second, the drinker must revolve around a baseball bat held steady against the ground. Then the drinker must pick up…
My blog posts might be a hell of a lot funnier if I wrote them as letters to myself, and then snarkily responded to them.Or not.Because this is what writer Todd Daniel does on his hysterical new diet blog, Fat or Fiction, and I promise you, the guy doesn’t need a…
Talk about a breakfast of champions. It was far too early to be up on a Tuesday morning, but a weekly breakfast with a great friend is a must do. Any sleep sacrificed was quickly forgotten when the waffle arrived. Considering there aren’t too many breakfast joints around town, this…
