Pick Up a Tasty Copy of Quick PHX

  Jamie Peachey Quick PHX, shot at Smeeks ​If you’re downtown this weekend, keep an eye out for Quick PHX, New Times’ pocket guide to Phoenix — including art, shopping, nightlife and, yes, food. We’ve got a sweet theme — literally, with plenty to chew (and sip) on from candy…

The French Give Salmon a Raw Deal, in “FoodLab 2010” (Part 6 of 7)

Molecular gastronomy (not the after-effect of eating too many black bean, spicy sausage and cheese nachos) is a scientific discipline that studies the physical and chemical processes that occur while cooking. Wonder what it tastes like? Find out in this seven-part series. Last week’s baby food nightmare of avocado chantilly…

Cafe: Rita’s Kitchen

The truth is critics don’t become critics by liking everything. They must resolve to heavily criticize the mundane to terrible so that the good will shine all the more brilliant. This week’s cafe column is all about one restaurant shining brilliantly. Food Critic Michele Laudig on Rita’s Kitchen: When it…

A Spring Training Guide to Food and Drink – West Side

This week Chow Bella takes a look at the culinary options available to Spring Training fans outside of the stadiums. Yesterday we took a look at the East Valley. Today we’ll feature dining and drinking options for all games held in the West Valley. Peoria Sports Complex San Diego Padres…

Kenny the Fishhugger Offers A Taste of Honey

He’s a salmon fisherman who raises cattle on the side, and — lucky us — Kenny Ashbacher has now gotten into honey. Aschbacher is a commercial salmon fisherman, interested in sustainability. He also raises grass fed beef on his family land in New Mexico. Interested in a healthy alternative to refined sugar for…

Jeremy Pacheco’s Lemon Ricotta Pancakes

  This week, we’ve heard from Jeremy Pacheco of Lon’s at the Hermosa on the greatness of fennel and an eight pound lobster. Today he shares his recipe for a new item on the breakfast menu: Lemon Ricotta Pancakes…

New Happy Hours App for Your iPhone

So we’re a little late with this. Yeah, we know Christmas was over two months ago, but the constant rush of this day-to-day journalistic lifestyle has left us with little time for gift-giving…or sun light. Anywho, we hope you’ll accept our late X-mas gift: the brand-spankin’-new “Happy Hours” app for…

Il Terrazzo Goes American With New Chef and New Menu

Did anyone hear that chef Victor Casanova left Il Terrazzo at the Phoenician? It happened under the radar — Casanova’s now in Los Angeles, opening Culina at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. And in his wake, the restaurant’s undergone a transformation from haute Italian eatery to more of an…

Craig DeMarco Planning New Restaurant and Sweet Shop

Last summer, when Postino founder Craig DeMarco bought a vintage strip mall just north of Postino Central, he promised that a new concept was in the works. Now, after months of research, plans are finally rolling for not one but two new places he’ll be opening in the 1940 building at Central…

A Spring Training Guide to Food and Drink – East Valley

This week Chow Bella takes a look at the culinary options available to Spring Training fans outside of the stadiums. Today we’ll feature dining and drinking options for all games held in the East Valley. Phoenix Municipal Stadium 599 E. Van Buren Street, Phoenix Inside the Ballpark: Phoenix Municipal Stadium,…

Battle of the Bratwurst

With spring training around the corner, our thoughts have turned to stadium foods: hot dogs, Cracker Jacks, brats. Made from ground pork, beef or veal, the bratwurst somehow managed to cross worlds from German foodstuff to ballpark treat. Maybe it was the fact they’re traditionally soaked in beer. For this week’s…

Chef Chat: Jeremy Pacheco of Lon’s at the Hermosa (Part Two)

Yesterday we sat down with Jeremy Pacheco of Lon’s at the Hermosa. Today, the conversation continues.Want to hear about Pacheco’s aversion to Bobby Flay? Read on … Favorite food show?I like watching Iron Chef and I’ve been watching a lot of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. I also like Alton Brown…

Win Pei Wei Money by Dominating at Facebook Games

We know more than a few people addicted to food-related Facebook games (Restaurant City, really?), but now there’s one that has an actual pay-off for becoming an expert, and you’ll learn a few cool recipes while playing.Pei Wei Asian Diner is currently hosting a “Wok Chef” game on their Facebook…

Closed for Business: Tutto at SouthBridge

Chef-restaurateur Joseph Gutierrez told me this afternoon that as of yesterday, Tutto is no more. The SouthBridge restaurant barely lasted half a year. Not-so-coincidentally, I spoke with one of the potential new owners yesterday, and was told off-the-record about the deal.  …

Essence Bakery To Join Old Town Farmers Market

I know a lot of you were simultaneously happy and heartbroken when master baker Ben Hershberger moved to NYC to work for Thomas Keller and took his Old Town Farmers Market cult-fave chocolate cherry sourdough bread along with him. (And I know many of you still have a stash of…

Chef Chat: Jeremy Pacheco of Lon’s at the Hermosa

Three weeks after his takeover, Jeremy Pacheco has reinvented the breakfast and lunch menus of Lon’s at the Hermosa. Who said Rome wasn’t polished in a day? The Tucson native spent seven years in the former Terrace Dining Room at the Phoenician. Opportunity then knocked, and Pacheco packed and left…

Next Week: RnR Opening in Old Town

Why am I so curious about new RnR, opening on March 11? Country-fried chicken and waffle sliders. Need I say more? Probably not, but there will also be Philly cheesesteak sliders, chicken and schnitzel, mini corndogs on a stick, gourmet burgers, and other sharable plates. For breakfast, I’m eyeing up…

Read This: Beckett’s Kitchen Table

Justin Beckett has lately become of the most social media-savvy chefs in the whole metro area, and he doesn’t even have a restaurant right now. Which is why his online musings are so clever. The former chef at the defunct Canal restaurant in Scottsdale is making good use of his free time…

What’s Cookin’? Apparently, a Board Game for Foodies

While shopping for nerdy gifts at a local Game Daze shop, I stumbled on What’s Cookin’, a party game created specifically for foodies. Yes, you can now impress your chef friends or foodie Meetup groups with a board game that is based on your love of a good meal. Sigh. Unfortunately, it…

The Lemon Chalet Creme Girl Scout Cookie Conundrum

To eat them or not to eat them? News has spread of a recall of some Lemon Chalet Creme Girl Scout cookies. Frankly, this is not as upsetting as, say, news regarding Thin Mints or Tagalongs. Still, those lemon cookies have their fans. Yesterday we got some bad information from…