Open since 1992, Seamus McCaffrey’s Irish Pub and Restaurant has become a downtown Phoenix landmark serving cold brews and traditional eats for years. They’ve got an impressive selection of drinks and serve food early and late. So when “Irish pub” chain Tilted Kilt opened up in the new CityScape development,…
For those of you in the South Mountain area who might be freaking out that family owned La Cucina Italiana, which opened last July, is no more, DON’T PANIC — they’ve just changed their name to Our Family Bistro and their tagline from “South Mountain’s Traditional Italian Restaurant” to “Steak…
We’ve been chatting with the executive chef of the Limelight Dipping Bar and Grill, Chef Lefty Karropoulos. Today he’s giving us his recipe for a Chilled Seafood Martini. Chef Lefty also shared a recipe for Orange Sesame Ginger dipping sauce that he plans to add to the Limelight menu on…
Late last week, Phoenix fans of Cajun food were likely crushed to hear about the cancellation of this year’s Great Cajun Cook-Off and Foodfest, originally planned for November 6 at Heritage Square. The annual charity event is meant to showcase the Valley’s best amateur and professional Cajun and Southern cooking…
Looks like a lot’s going on for the Bidwill family these days. Last week, the owners of the Arizona Cardinals, along with the rest of us, got the news that Phoenix will be the host city for Super Bowl 49 and, as the new owners of Tom’s Tavern & 1929…
at the boxes along the cereal aisle might never be the same after viewing the latest show at After Hours Gallery: “Cereal Killers,” featuring Porland-based artist Brian Kappel’s dark but still-sweet mixed media pieces featuring his take on popular breakfast treats…
This week we’re talking with Chef Lefty of Limelight Dipping Bar and Grill. Yesterday he shared how he got started in the culinary industry and today he’ll talk about his passion: people. Why did you choose the name Limelight? I had two ideas in my head. The first idea in…
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, some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that have just opened,…
Lately, in this In Season series, we’re taking a look at what I take home from Crooked Sky Farms each week and see what I’ve done with my CSA share, or part share. This week I’m using zucchini…
Holy oceans, that’s a lot of shellfish. Last week, Phoenix-based Eddie V’s Prime Seafood, a luxury chain of eight restaurants in Arizona, California, and Texas (with one location in the Scottsdale Quarter), and Wildfish Seafood Grille, Eddie’s sister chain of three restaurants in the same three states (with one location…
Looking for a way to walk off all those eats from the Phoenix Food Truck Festival? Why not peek into some cool spaces nearby courtesy of the First Annual Evans Churchill Interesting Interiors Tour — after all, the home of Valley legend and Barrio Cafe chef and owner Silvana Salcido…
After three years of attempting to give shoppers shoppers a quick place to buy prepared foods, a la Fresh & Easy, the retail giant Walmart is closing all four of its Marketside stores this Friday. The 16,000-square-foot stores, located in Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, and Tempe, offered, along with prepared foods,…
There’s plenty of room in the limelight at Scottsdale’s first dipping bar but you’ll have to share it with a pretty big character: Executive Chef Lefty Karropoulos. Chef Lefty, as he’s known to most, isn’t the reclusive, I’m-too-into-my-food-to-talk-to-you kind of chef you have to drag out of the kitchen. Most…
Big Earl’s BBQ got some mad TV love this weekend when Adam Richman and his 16-person crew of Travel Channel’s Man v. Food Nation, (the evolution of Man v. Food, in which Richman recruits locals to take on food challenges instead of doing them himself) paid a visit to the…
CityScape announced today that restaurant mogul Sam Fox will be adding a new gourmet market to his roster — and it just so happens to be in the exact same spot as CityScape’s recently opened Oakville Grocery. Sam Fox, of Fox Restaurant Concepts, and Ashley Young, owner of Chloe’s Corner at Kierland…
Those with memories like a steel trap will remember Brugos Pizza, the family-owned gourmet pizzeria with locations in Carson City and Reno, Nevada, made a brief and ultimately failed appearance in Central Phoenix at the Camelback Esplanade — opening in April then quickly closing in July. Now, it appears owners…
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Aztec Couscous Salad is one vegetarian dish that anyone can enjoy. It makes a great lunch, light dinner, or side dish, and it’s quick to toss together with roasted peppers, corn, black beans, and more.
Move over, Pumpkin — an often overlooked sugar bomb has taken over a vast majority of the foodie interwebs recently. The telltale white, orange, and yellow stripes of the Candy Corn have managed to make their way into everything from cupcakes to cocktails and even onto a pizza. Take a gander…
It would be sacrilegious to write about dessert in this town without mentioning Tracy Dempsey. With that in mind, we headed to Citizen Public House to see what happens when a bacon-obsessed restaurant meets up with a pastry chef who’s known for her Bacon Pecan Brittle.
The Arizona State Fair opens today, and it seems my Chow Bella chums thought it would be a good idea to have our very own fair food showdown to properly kick off this 18-day event of livestock, concerts, crazy-ass rides, and, most notably, crazy-ass foods. Each day this week, a…
we went on a little bit of a rant about a bacon wrapped matzoh ball. It was just too much and we couldn’t contain our disgust any longer. Of course we still love bacon, but we don’t want to write about bacon or even look at photos of bacon, we…
