Food Porn Aggregator: Punchfork

Cleverly designed blog aggrigators seem to be all the rage – you know, like Pinterest or Tastespotting. Well folks, we have another one for food blog porn, and it’s called Punchfork. Punchfork pre-selects popular food blogs to be on their searchable list. So far they only have 36 and it’s…

La Condesa Gourmet Taco Shop Adds a Bar

La Condesa, the stylish little eatery of Mexican fare in Phoenix, has just gotten an additional punch of panache — it’s added a bar. And not just any bar, this one was custom made in Mexico, is accompanied by cowhide-covered stools, and fits perfectly with La Condesa’s rustic interior and…

Spam Sliders from Maui Dog

Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing our 100 Favorite Dishes with you. Now we’re back – with the 2011 edition. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments section or email laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. 29: Spam…

This Week In Chow Bella

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. Jobot Coffee Shop Considering Adding Ramen or Nachos (Nachobot?)…

Thai Kung Food: Dinner and a Movie

​The film is called Chocolate because the young girl at the center of the story, Zen, eats small candy coated chocolates (much like m&m’s) by bouncing them off of her wrist and catching them in her mouth. We added the candy Sixlets to a ginger butter popcorn, that really packs…

Now Open: Oregano’s South Tempe

Hooray, south Tempe finally has its very own Oregano’s. The “neighborhood pizza joint” (their words, not ours) has taken up residence in the freestanding building on the southeast corner of Elliot and Priest — a sad spot that has been empty for so long we can’t even remember what occupied it…

Al Amir Combo from Cafe Istanbul & Market

Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing our 100 Favorite Dishes with you. Now we’re back – with the 2011 edition. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments section or email laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. 30: Al…

Chef Mel Mecinas of Talavera Restaurant Added to Cycle Lineup

It’s not over yet, folks. Cycle, the pop-up venue inside the Lexington Hotel in downtown Phoenix that’s shutting its doors on August 27th, when the restaurant and hotel will transform itself into a boutique, arts-driven hotel and restaurant, has added one more event to its expiring venue lineup. On Friday…

Cafe: Curry Corner

Hungry for Pakistani food? We thought so. If there’s one cuisine type that curries favor with us, it’s Pakistani cuisine. Well, in this week’s reviewed restaurant you get a little Indian and a little Pakistani cuisine as well. We speak, of course, of Curry Corner in Tempe. Food Critic Laura…

Coming Soon: Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers

Ready for another funny franchise that you may or may not have ever heard of? Well get ready. The Louisiana-based chicken finger chain Raising Cane’s is about to bring its “perfect” box to Phoenix. (Insert “That’s what she said” joke here.) We’re talking boxes of crispy chicken fingers, crinkle cut…

Egg Rolls From Wahsun

Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing our 100 Favorite Dishes with you. Now we’re back – with the 2011 edition. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments section or email laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. 31: Egg…

Curry Corner Spices Up Tempe with Indo-Pakistani Cuisine

In a small Tempe strip mall, frequented by those searching for a stiff drink or a tough tattoo, sits Curry Corner, one of a handful of Indo-Pakistani restaurants in the Valley. Twenty-something Pakistani students from ASU seem to use it as a regular meet-up joint, smoking cigarettes outside until their…

Vincent Guerithault’s Lobster Chimichanga

This week we talked life and shop with Phoenix food scene veteran Vincent Guerithault. Today he shares a classic Vincent on Camelback recipe. Lobster Chimichanga Ingredients¾ pound fresh lobster meat1 large leek, white part diced1/3 cup heavy creamSalt and white pepper4 flour tortillas, 7″ in diameter2 ounces goat cheese, cut…

Baguette Vending Machine Installed in — Where Else? — France

Only in France will you find the public’s demand for a freshly baked baguette be so fierce that one of the 33,000 bakeries took advantage of the annual August holiday, where most will close up shop, to install a baguette vending machine. Jean-Louis Hecht’s wife was worried that they would…

Banana Cream Pie from Zinburger

Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing our 100 Favorite Dishes with you. Now we’re back – with the 2011 edition. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments section or email laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. 32: Banana…