Staying in? We’ve got you covered — both on the culinary and entertainment fronts. Now presenting Dinner and a Movie — a guide to a do it yourself evening of food and film. This week we paired film noir with beer braised pork and Austrian style potato salad. Inspired by the ferris…
Bizarre? Um, yeah, to say the least. According to an interview with The Fix, Andrew Zimmern, chef, food writer, and host of Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, was a “New York City garbage-head” who, before achieving nearly 20 years of sobriety, was addicted to heroin, cocaine, and alcohol…
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 amy.silverman@newtimes.com. 99:…
It’s hard to live in the Valley and not hear mention of El Chorro Lodge. If you listen to NPR, you’ve no doubt heard an announcer remind you not to forget the sticky buns should you take a trip to the well-known eatery. The thing is, this week’s cafe column…
A few years back, New York jump-started the trend of “gastropubs” — British-style watering holes that go beyond the standard pub fare of fried fish and greasy burgers to present a quality, chef-driven menu of creative dishes. Shortly afterwards, the trend made its way to Phoenix via Mabel’s on Main,…
The Folgers coffee jingle? Yeah, we know it. But unlike a Mesa man, we didn’t rewrite it in a slick R&B style that made us one of five finalists in a contest that includes a trip to New York City, a live audition in front of former American Idol judge,…
Burrowed in the corner of the GROWop Collective’s burgeoning community garden on the corner of 6th street and Garfield is a hand-built cob oven, perfectly sized for mini pizzas. This Third Friday, the GROWop will be making pizzas topped with veggies straight from their garden for art-goers and boutique shoppers…
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 amy.silverman@newtimes.com. 100: Beckett’s…
Coke is it! At least, for many of us it is. Sweet and tingly on the tongue — no wonder the popular soft drink has been around for so long. True fans can celebrate Coca-Cola’s 125th year anniversary in retro-style by nabbing a limited edition reproduction of The Hutchinson –…
In March, Chandler’s Heart Attack Grill, the fast food restaurant that serves up such sky-high caloric fare such as Bypass Burgers and fries cooked in pure lard, threatened a trademark infringement case against 2nd Ave. Deli claiming the New York establishment stole their idea for its “Heart Attack Sandwich” and…
On my first trip to Arizona, a friend took me to El Chorro Lodge in Paradise Valley. It was the ’80s; that’s where you took visitors. And with good reason. The property looked like a set built for a John Ford movie — the fading sunset, cactus-spotted desert, and dusty…
We dropped by Chandler’s newest breakfast, lunch and dinner spot recently to get a look at Cork’s baby sister, BLD. The brightly lit space wasn’t exactly jumping for a Saturday night, but when your neighbors are Oregano’s and Rancho de Tia Rosa, competition for dinner patrons can get a little…
Changes are happening over at Sky Harbor International Airport, and we’re not just talking about the otherworldly metal arches that recently went up at 44th Street and Washington in preparation for the PHX Sky Train. The grub offered inside Terminal 4 is also headed for a major overhaul. Last year,…
Sometimes, along with great cinema comes great sandwiches. From Robert De Niro’s turkey on rye in Copland, to Gary Busey’s meatball sub in Point Break, to Clark Griswold’s picnic-sandwich-that-he-doesn’t-know-has-pee-on-it in National Lampoon’s Vacation, here’s a fun little montage honoring moviedom’s most memorable grinders. Follow Chow Bella on Facebook and Twitter. …
IHOP, the breakfast joint chain best visited following an evening of drunken debauchery, recently launched IHOP at Home, a new line of “premium frozen breakfast items that are inspired by the innovative and craveable flavors IHOP is known and loved for.” Huh? IHOP’s new frozen breakfast line includes Omelet Crispers…
Bacon, America’s meat candy, is already pretty amazing on its own. So a contest that challenges folks to make something from what some say is the most versatile meat on the planet truly raises the (bacon) bar. Instructables member and bacon-enthusiast, CopperTwist decided to take a porcine point of view…
If you’ve ever tried to photograph your food at home, you know that it’s tricky business. It looks and tastes so good but then you check the viewfinder of your digital camera and it looks like a yellow-tinted blob. Want to make your images look like what you see in…
If you happen to be in Tucson this weekend, you might want to stop by the Mercado San Agustin for “HotDish in the Old Pueblo,” a pop-up venture by Phoenix’s Lara Mulchay and Joel LaTondress. You might remember Mulchay from Petite Fromage, her (sadly) now-defunct Phoenix cheese shop. The self-described…
High unemployment, businesses tanking, Arnold and Maria splitting up after 25 years of marriage. Dammit, can’t we as human beings get just one shred of evidence that the universe isn’t going to shit on us today? That the recession isn’t causing one more good person to lose faith in themselves?…
They say living in Phoenix is like living in Chicago — only a lot hotter. There certainly are enough Windy City transplants here. And Chicago-style pizza. Now the Valley gets one more taste of Chicago in the form of Spinato’s fifth metro Phoenix location, which opened recently in Ahwatukee. Ken…
How much thought have you given to your plastic coffee cup lid? Not much, we’re guessing, unless you tipped it the wrong way and spilled impossibly hot liquid down your front. And definitely not as much thought as some folks, profiled in a fascinating piece in the Atlantic that includes lots and lots…
Less clown, more coffee shop. That seems to be the strategy surrounding McDonald’s biggest McMakeover in its fifty-plus year history. According to an article in USA Today (The Mickey Dee’s of newspapers!), the fast-food chain is spending over one billion McDollars to transform the majority of its 14,000 stores into…
