Arizona Growler Law Gets a Shiny, Stainless Update

It’s been just about two years since Arizona’s lawmakers made the first set of commonsense changes to the state’s laws concerning growlers — large jugs that can be filled with draft beer and taken home. Their updates enabled bars and breweries to fill growlers with any beer they had on…

Lunch Be a Lady: Exploring the Arcadia Lunch Scene

If you’re lucky enough to lounge during lunch like a modern-day Oscar Wilde character, you have plenty of options. Arcadia has expanded its lunch game in the past year with more and more places that cater to the upper-crust, midday meal crowd. Chestnut, Flower Child, and The Market by Jennifer’s…

Kelly Fletcher of The Revival on Why He’s Playing It Safe

Kelly Fletcher Chef The Revival www.therevivalaz.com For years chef Kelly Fletcher wooed diners from the kitchen at Tempe’s House of Tricks, where he’d been working for some 10 years. But earlier this spring he left that post, seeking an opportunity to really do his own thing. He teamed up with…

PB&B Burger from Welcome Diner: 100 Favorite Dishes

Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing some of our favorite food folks’ “Personal Best” lists. This year we’re bringing back our list of 100 Favorite Dishes. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments…

NYPD Pizza to Open on Mill Avenue in Tempe Next Week

Next Monday, July 28, NYPD Pizza — the locally-owned pizza chain with 11 other locations around the Valley — will open its newest restaurant at 222 S. Mill Avenue. The restaurant will be inside the Tempe Gateway building, across the street from the Mill Ave./Third Street light rail stop. The…

Two Meat Plate from Little Miss BBQ: 100 Favorite Dishes

Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing some of our favorite food folks’ “Personal Best” lists. This year we’re bringing back our list of 100 Favorite Dishes. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments…

5 Best Things To Eat and Drink This Weekend in Metro Phoenix

Real, Wild, and Woody Saturday, July 19 We have a good feeling about this first-time summer event. The fest, courtesy of the Arizona Craft Brewers Guild, will feature dozens of in-state craft brewers who are pulling out all the stops to present an impressive lineup of speciality brews — think…

Mixed Grill from Copper Kettle: 100 Favorite Dishes

Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing some of our favorite food folks’ “Personal Best” lists. This year we’re bringing back our list of 100 Favorite Dishes. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments…

Earnest (Formerly Cork) in Chandler Opens Today; Here’s The Menu

After a two-week whirlwind makeover, Earnest will open its doors to customers today. The restaurant occupies the space previously known Cork and is operated by former-Cork chef Brian Peterson and with co-owner and pastry chef Danielle Morris. Unlike its upscale, wine-focused predecessor Earnest aims to offer diners a more casual,…

Pony Tale: The New Pink Pony Misses the Point

The first time I visited the Pink Pony, following its floor­-to-­ceiling overhaul earlier this year, I was distracted. Where was the slightly shabby lounge singer, cracking us up with tacky renditions of ancient Pet Clark hits? The cozily dark bar, straight out of a 1930s Warner Bros. gangster film? Where…

Pork Belly Pibil from The Mission: 100 Favorite Dishes

Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing some of our favorite food folks’ “Personal Best” lists. This year we’re bringing back our list of 100 Favorite Dishes. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments…