It’s mid-morning on a Thursday at Posh restaurant in Scottsdale, but for chef Josh Hebert it feels a bit like Christmas. Standing behind the counter at the sleek restaurant the chef cuts open a cardboard box to reveal the spoils inside. From the weekly delivery he unloads a giant bag…
I have two questions: When did every American male under the age of 30 start sporting a beard, and why don’t I eat at Fez more often? I can’t answer the first of these, nor do I especially care to. But I can tell you that the answer to the…
Over the weekend the Great Arizona Picnic (GAP) rounded out a week of food-centric festivities during the 2015 Scottsdale Culinary Festival. This two-day marquee event brings more than 40 restaurants to the Civic Center Mall in downtown Scottsdale to serve up signature dishes to attendees, who indulged in good food…
The Guilty Pleasure: Chewy Chips Ahoy! Ice Cream Creations – Root Beer Float Where to Get It: Grocery stores, right next to the other weird Chips Ahoy! flavors Price: $2.98 What it Really Costs: The crushing reality that two of your favorite childhood desserts don’t go well together…
The call of the dessert can be, at times, so overpowering you have to stop what you’re doing and answer it. This doesn’t happen to you? Ever? Lucky for you it happens to us all the time. And this week the call came from the cannoli at Guido’s Chicago Meat…
When a new spot opens in town, we can’t wait to check it out — and let you know our initial impressions, share a few photos, and dish about some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that…
Viet Nom Nom Nom Dinner Lab Friday, April 10 This Friday the dining event company known as Dinner Lab will debut in Phoenix with Viet Nom Nom Nom, a pop-up dinner featuring chef Nini Nguyen. The company hosts pop-up events in cities from coast to coast with diners paying an…
Ladders, blue prints, and layers of dust covered almost every surface within DeSoto Central Market on Monday, but manager Shawn Connelly says he is confident the space will be ready by the grand opening this weekend. Regardless of the tidying up still needed, the preserved historic beauty of the building…
Arizona Distilling Company took yet another leap in legitimacy this past weekend when they came up big at the San Francisco Spirits Competition, winning a distinguished Double Gold medal for their Desert Dry Gin. The Double Gold billing is second only to spirits which, from the Double Gold group, go…
The Guilty Pleasure: Oreo Biscuits Where to Get It: Church’s Chicken Price: 99 cents for 5 What it Really Costs: A sugar crash, as well as the time and thought to redefine what you consider a biscuit…
Last month more than a dozen local restaurants — everything from supermarkets to small, independent spots to restaurants that are part of giant, national chains — failed to pass county health department inspections. And if we had to pick out a trend among the offending spots, it would be a…
When a new spot opens in town, we can’t wait to check it out — and let you know our initial impressions, share a few photos, and dish about some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that…
John Culver Executive Chef Blasted Barley Beer Co. 404 S. Mill Ave., Tempe www.BlastedBarley.com Walk into Tempe’s new Mill Avenue brewery, Blasted Barley, and you’ll notice the large patio, the kegs of beer sitting on a loft above the bar, and a selection of games — including cornhole and skee-ball…
Okay, so maybe old timey Coca Cola kitsch isn’t your thing. We get it, but when a good dessert comes along, it must be talked about so all can enjoy. Phil’s Filling Station in Fountain Hills is making homemade pan cookies that will meet any warm cookie need you might…
Some people rely on Pinterest, others just have an eye for style. Jill Anderson is the latter. The Pasadena native who got her interior design certification through Scottsdale Community College has made a career out of curating other peoples’ homes through Scottsdale Wiseman and Gale Interiors. When she’s not busy…
Travel writer Roger Naylor has infused two of his passions — burgers and hiking — to create the premise for his third book, Boots & Burgers: An Arizona Handbook for Hungry Hikers. The book is aimed at hikers and non-hikers and matches 37 hiking trails with nearby burger joints. The…
March was a busy month in the restaurant scene with more than a dozen new restaurants opening all over town. Some of the newest restaurants in the Valley include second and third locations of already popular spots, while others represent the sophomore efforts of well-loved local chefs. On the downside,…
East Valley residents looking for a quick place to pick up dinner have a new option in Nanay’s, a cafeteria-style Filipino restaurant that opened in January. The new spot comes courtesy of Aurea Gonzales and her two daughters, Alicia Ferrer and Aida Sembrano, who were born and raised in Pampanga,…
With temperatures heating up and spring pushing its way into the Valley, we pinned two chocolate peanut butter banana smoothies against each other to answer the ultimate question: which smoothie has what it takes to satisfy our sweet tooth and cool us off?…
Wingstock Saturday, March 4 This weekend the 5th annual Wingstock event will go down at from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday at Mesa Amphitheatre. The event combines music and chicken by pitting local Valley restaurants against each other in a competition for the title of “Wingstock King of…
We’ve got three words for you, Phoenicians: Tennessee Hot Chicken. That’s right, chef Cullen Campbell and the team behind Crudo and Bar Crudo plan to open a second restaurant this summer that will blend Southern cuisine with a hint of the Italian-influenced fare for which the chef’s become known. Called…
On Tuesday, Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law S.B. 1030, the Arizona Beer Bill proposed late last year that will allow brewers to produce more beer while retaining their retail locations.
