It’s hot and the last thing most of us want right now is heavy food. Pick up some Lebanese traditional mezze including Middle Eastern appetizers, salads, dips, and freshly made pita bread, from Middle Eastern Bakery on your way home tonight.
This week, July 17-23, there are some great dining deals, as well as several opportunities to give back to the kids and the troops while dining out in Metro Phoenix. We’ll be planning our meals around these good deeds and discounts.
Paquime Street Food opened in 2014, and though they serve a wide assortment of Northern Mexican street foods, they’ve become known for their grilled-to-order ribeye street tacos.
We’ve eaten our weight in carne asada and grilled chicken tacos, but there have also been a few unusual offerings that really captured our attention. If you haven’t already, these are the five tacos you should be eating right now in Metro Phoenix.
You can’t beat the price on these doughnuts.
Forno 301 Pizzeria and Bar won’t change much, the owners promise.
This year, the summer is far from a quite time for the Metro Phoenix restaurant scene. The openings keep on coming with four new spots including a Biltmore outpost of a popular Scottsdale restaurant and bar, a new doughnut shop in Arcadia, another deep dish pizza option, and a mysteriously named “900-degree” restaurant on Shea Boulevard.
Restaurant Atoyac became a cult favorite among diners looking for Oaxacan food and fried fish tacos close to Central Phoenix.
A new Aioli Burger concept has opened up in a midtown co-working space, and despite a conspicuous lack of burgers, it is extremely good.
Metro Phoenix may feel far removed from the Deep South, but Southern-style eats and traditional soul food staples long have been a part of our local food culture, and it continues to be, with restaurants like these five soul food gems.
We’re headed to Chick-fil-A to watch some people eat sandwiches dressed as cows.
Phoenix might be home to the world’s first camp-themed restaurant.
The summer of poor food safety practices continues, with 17 Valley restaurants racking up enough infractions to warrant a ‘D’ grade from inspectors, and one that received two D ratings in a single month.
Mercado Y Carniceria Cuernavaca acts as grocery store, diner, and corner market for the neighborhood along 68th Street, just south of Old Town Scottsdale. There, they prepare mesquite-grilled pollo asado and cecina, a quickly cured salted beef.
There are still plenty of new restaurants coming your way in 2017.
Shake-up a drink, mash some award-winning hummus, indulge in some sweet nostalgia, eat like a true Arizona local, and then go watch a bar fight. It’s all happening this week in Metro Phoenix.
Though it might be tempting to go for the carne asada, given that the name of the joint is “Sonora” grill, the chicken is where it’s at.
There is great, authentic Chinese regional cuisine right here in Phoenix, with many of the most interesting restaurants concentrated in Mesa and Chandler. So, make a plan this weekend to head down to those ‘hoods to seek out these five Chinese delicacies.
So-called ‘crazy fruit tea,’ a delicate, iced jasmine tea served in an extra-large cup stuffed with fresh slices of pineapple, orange, kiwi, strawberry, and whatever else they have on hand fruit-wise, is worth the drive to Boba Tree in Mesa.
Third in our three-part series on Phoenix restaurant design: Chris Bianco on his distinctive vintage spaces.
June brought more shuffling around in the Metro Phoenix restaurant scene, with half a dozen closings and nearly 20 openings. We were thrilled to see new outposts of favorites like The Vig and Carolina’s, and devastated to bid farewell to innovative dining venues like Posh Restaurant, but perhaps most surprising of all, was the restaurant that closed before it even opened its doors.
The men and women who run some of Phoenix’s most popular restaurants let their food speak for itself, but the walls of their restaurant spaces can’t actually talk, so we asked each of these entrepreneurs for the stories behind the aesthetic of their restaurants — the design decisions they made, and why. Second in our three-part series is Joe Johnston’s iconic Gilbert restaurants.
