Most of the time, I don’t mind dining alone. Give me a magazine or just the Twitter feed on my iPhone, and I’m self-sufficient. I’ve done sushi solo too many times to count, and I’ve even treated myself to fine dining, when the mood struck me. It’s sort of an…
What do you feed your little aspiring chef? Check out what these Valley chefs ate as kids that made them what they are today… or rather what they became in spite of what they ate.
Here at New Times, we’re not exactly the tea-and-scones crowd. You’re more likely to spot a tattoo or a death metal t-shirt than a frilly floral dress on one of our contributors — and ninety percent of us have no clue which fork to use when or that Miss Manners strictly forbids twirling…
“I love sweets,” says Betty Alatorre. This comes as little surprise from the woman behind the Mexican popsicles at Paletas Betty, which she and her fiancé Alvin Hong recently opened in Chandler. Gansitos, frescas, fruit on a stick, paletas – you name the Mexican sweet, and Alatorre probably loves it.
When Betty Alatorre and her fiancé Alvin Hong opened Paletas Betty in downtown Chandler, there was a lot of confusion as per what they were selling: Polenta? Palates? No. Paletas. The homemade Mexican popsicles we’ve been asking for.
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: – Death-Warmed-Over Warming Tray – Karl the Kitchen Hedgehog Hibernation…
Emma Pew The vocalist for local soul band Black Carl performs this Saturday, August 28 at The Sail Inn. What’d you eat for dinner last night? Shrimp ceviche from La Grade Orange–it is mind-warping tasty. Favorite food: Cottage cheese. Up until a few years ago, the stuff completely freaked me…
Holy burger bomb! How’s a Fry Girl supposed to catch up with the latest Jersey Shore dirt (news flash: Ronnie called Sammi a bitch — for serious!) when the worldwide interwebs is all bogged down with bloggage about Burger King’s New York Pizza Burger? Set fast-food feak show gun to…
Conspire, the popular Roosevelt Row coffee shop, artist co-op, and alternative-thinking-and-doing hangout, is about to undergo some major changes. John Sagasta, the brains behind the coffee aspect of the two-year-old shop, tells New Times that he will move operations across the street to the space that used to house HoodRide…
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: Taco Bell’s New Cantina Tacos (Based Upon Mexican Street…
We admit that we don’t typically spend a lot of time perusing the recall press releases on the Food and Drug Administration website, but in a quest to find an update on that whole egg mess (update: millions more eggs have been toss into the suspicious pile; here’s the latest…
Just when you thought the bacon trend had peaked and sizzled/fizzled, this morsel comes along. And why not? After all, who doesn’t want a bacon-cooking robot? Or, for that matter, a blog (and a photo blog and even an Internet show) devoted to bacon and beer. Thanks to Jason Mosley, mrbaconpants.com himself,…
Hungry yet?We’re working up our appetites for our huge Best of Phoenix issue, out September 30, with daily servings of Chow Bella’s 100 Favorite Dishes from across the Valley — in no particular orderLeave your suggestions for upcoming favorites in the comments section.Visit our sister blog, Jackalope Ranch, for a companion series on 100 Creatives who make…
There is a dish that was unknown to us before moving to the Valley. You’ll think us deprived (and rightly so) but carne adovada is this recent discovery. Naturally we think it’s delicious. The simmering sauce, the fork tender meat; how could we do anything but devour it? Now we…
Chef Eric Osburn of Centurion shares an impressive but easy date-night recipe that will bring two people a little closer: The Trojan Horse. A Lady and the Tramp moment sans spaghetti – with beef, mushrooms, cherries, wine, potatoes and puff pastry taking its place.
Hungry yet? We’re working up our appetites for our huge Best of Phoenix issue, out September 30, with daily servings of Chow Bella’s 100 Favorite Dishes from across the Valley — in no particular order Leave your suggestions for upcoming favorites in the comments section. Visit our sister blog, Jackalope…
A new Ahwatukee restaurant may be named after the Spanish word for “secret,” but it’s too delicious to keep under wraps. Judging from the packed bar and buzzing dining room at cozy Secreto, word’s traveling as quickly as a juicy piece of gossip. And I suspect that this place won’t…
A road trip to San Diego during summer is as natural to us Zonies as throwing buckets of ice in the pool. And when highway hunger’s got you looking for the nearest exit sprouting the golden arches, this Fry Girl says don’t get vacay-conventional, go galaxy-like with a Space Burger…
You’ve seen this, right? If you’ve driven to San Diego, you have. Right off the main drag through Gila Bend, the Best Western Space Age Lodge and Restaurant was opened in 1965 by Al Stovall, a friend of President Eisenhower and supplier of metals and plastics to the federal government…
Like your eggs runny? You might not, after reading this post. Dr. Joli Weiss, foodborne disease epidemiologist for the Arizona Department of Health Services, confirms that some of the 228 million tainted eggs involved in the national recall making news all over the place were, in fact, distributed in Arizona…
Centurion, which opened in June, is Chef Eric Osburn’s first foray into restaurant ownership and his proudest accomplishment to date. “European fusion” is how he describes the food. “We focus on all of the countries of Europe as where I pull all of my ideas and thought processes from, but we refuse to make one defined dish.”
Hungry yet? We’re working up our appetites for our huge Best of Phoenix issue, out September 30, with daily servings of Chow Bella’s 100 Favorite Dishes from across the Valley — in no particular order Leave your suggestions for upcoming favorites in the comments section. Visit our sister blog, Jackalope…
