Cheba Hut “Toasted Subs” is silly. Cheech and Chong posters on the wall, big paper mache blunts hanging from the ceiling that say “order here,” and a menu that reads like an honor roll of marijuana varietals over the years. Most of the sandwiches have been named after strains of…
. What is the best dish your mother ever made? Sweet and sour meatballs from scratch. No frozen store-bought meatballs. We didn’t have that when I was a kid…
How well do you know your favorite cookhouse contraptions? See if you can guess today’s gadget and check back next week for the answer, and to see if you’ve won a most-awesome prize. Here are a few shots at this week’s trickster, add yours to the comment box below: -…
Our calendar is chock-full of pointless holidays: Sweetest Day, Arbor Day, National Boss Day, there’s even a National Children’s Day (yeah, like they need another one). So when a holiday in May comes along called National Burger Month, I don’t ask questions. What’s the history of it? Who knows? Where…
Painter Suzanne Falk, who is part of the Seventh Avenue Streetscape in Phoenix, has a show at Legacy Gallery in Scottsdale through the end of May. What’d you eat for dinner last night? Yellow curry with tofu and veggies. Favorite food: Fruits and veggies or Odwalla Sweet and Salty…
An early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives. From now until Sunday, May 8th, show your support for finding a cure for breast cancer. Bake for Hope Week is a nationwide, volunteer-run bake sale event with all proceeds donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure…
Sitting at Welcome Diner this afternoon, we asked the folks behind MF Tasty, a monthly “secret” dinner (or in this case lunch) held at a different location each time, what the MF stands for. Chef Eric, the culinary mastermind behind the event, told us that if his grandmother’s around it…
On the list of things that can’t be ignored, a box full of beer is fairly high. So you’ll understand my position when I tell you that this is the precise situation I currently find myself in. Sitting in and about my office are no fewer than twenty bottles of…
A few months ago, owners Marcellino and Sima Verzino of Marcellino Ristorante announced that they were leaving their longtime home on Northern Ave. in Phoenix for classier digs in Scottsdale’s SouthBridge plaza. Regulars — and believe us, there were plenty of em’! — worried that a Scottsdale Marcellino’s would lose…
Salsa fundamentals=tomatoes, peppers (hot or not), onion, garlic, salt and lime juice. We love it to drape, drizzle or dip. The mood and the accompanying food encourage enhancements to salsa fundamentals. This time it was a little sweet (the mango), and a little heat (chipotle and adobo). The avocado snuck…
Something about an Arizona beer festival felt a little trivial Saturday, a day when angry hordes across the country beat up our state’s idiotic new immigration law at May Day rallies.Hell, they were protesting the law in Milwaukee. If Milwaukee could ignore beer for a day, you might wonder, what…
Sorry people – salad again. We’ve always felt like our salad repertoire was just well, sad. So for the sake of personal improvement we’ve decided to work on it. Also – meager little confession – we want to eat more kale. Here’s the thing about kale — It makes us feel…
An early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives. S. Pellegrino’s annual “World’s 50 Best Restaurants” list was recently released and 8 United States restaurants made the list. Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark stole the number one spot from Spain’s El Bulli, which had been at the top…
In honor of Mother’s Day — and stove-slaving moms everywhere — this week we will present What Mom Made, Q&As with some Valley sons and daughters, who dish about their home-cooked favorites (as well as some flops). First up, Ty Largo, a 20-something marketing/PR firm owner in Tempe who writes…
Napoleon Dynamite: This is pretty much the worst video ever made. Kip: Napoleon, like anyone can even know that. Kip’s right. How can anyone know what’s the worst (or the best) of anything? TLC’s hoping we’ll trust their judgment with its new show, Best Food Ever, narrated by Treme star John…
We’ve tried hundreds of energy drinks, and just when it seemed like we’d tried them all, we found Lotte: It’s the Sun energy drink. The colorful 8.3 ounce can looks energizing, with its bright orange and red sun label and depiction of a soccer player, but is there really anything…
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: Green Pork Chili – Monday Night Martha Local Breeze:…
When it comes to a cold drink on a hot day, bigger (and rounder) is better—for ice anyway. The ice ball trend started in Japan, where artisans hand-carve them with icepicks or sushi knives to fit each glass, providing a longer chill and minimal dilution. Then Japan’s Taisin Trend Shop…
