Restaurants

Aaron Chamberlin dishes on menu changes at St. Francis, including the restaurant’s first pasta dish.

The tacos at Tacos Chava include the usual suspects, with the standard grilled chicken, carne asada, lengua (beef tongue), and cabeza (beef head and cheek), along with an immensely popular and totally respectable al pastor.

Tempe’s new Chinese restaurant Lucky Star Asian Dining offers Szechuan and Cantonese eats, plus luxurious private karaoke rooms.

There are all kinds of ways to experience the Arizona food scene around metro Phoenix and beyond. But we consider the five on this list to be absolute essentials for any local or visiting foodie.

Here are three Mexican bakeries in Metro Phoenix where you can “join the grassroots movement” and buy your sheet cake.

The Phoenix Rescue Mission is opening Mission Possible Café at 1516 West Van Buren Street this fall.

This over-the-top milkshake is nuts — and pie, ice cream, whipped cream, candy.

The restaurant, which closed earlier this year, is now open at 2241 North Seventh Street, just a few doors down from their original location.

Gadzooks, which opened in Central Phoenix in 2013, offers tacos in addition to their usual enchiladas. We’re particularly fond of their Modelo-braised bison.

We don’t want to eat with you any more than you want to eat with us; may a stray fiber from a pussy hat never again touch a MAGA baseball cap back-to-back in adjoining booths. It’s time for some boundaries — even in restaurants. Here you go.

DeCio in Tempe, is turning out innovative and insanely flavorful dry pasta.

This neighborhood restaurant deserves your attention.

Zak’s Chocolate is well known for single-origin, high-quality chocolate bars. But now, the Scottsdale shop has a new way to appreciate the aroma, subtle flavors, and terroir of their painstakingly sourced cocoa beans: the single-origin brownie flight.

Seasonal roasted Hatch chiles and where to eat them in Metro Phoenix.

After 72 years in the Valley, Riazzi’s Italian Garden has served its last meal.

Though better known for its whole chicken dinners and mixed grills, both the taco plates and the build-your-own plates of grilled meat and tortillas make for some of the best tacos in Phoenix.

Who doesn’t love a big, thick, meaty burger? Here in the Valley we have almost as many burger joints as taco stands, but these three meat patties are worth making a special stop for.

The Mission’s newly added “pig out” on Sundays features all-you-can-eat pork tacos at both of their Scottsdale locations.

Sushi and sake might be the perfect way to end the workday.

A spontaneous stop at Asiana Korean Market in Mesa lead to the most satisfying snack the Phoenix New Times food editor had all week.

Ever asked yourself, “What kinds of filled savory foods can I eat in Phoenix? And where do I get them?” Here is your answer to all the savory, carby, stuffed food questions in the Valley.