Defalco’s Italian Deli and Grocery

This family-owned Italian culinary hub located on Scottsdale Road is best known for its deli and grocery, but also contains a casual sit-down dining area, DeFalco’s Italian Eatery. This neighborhood joint makes its pasta sauces in-house and serves them with gnocchi, five kinds of pasta, lasagna, four-cheese stuffed shells, chicken parmigiana, and cheese and meat […]

Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral

Authentic Greek foods include gyros, kalamari, pastitsio (Greek “lasagna”), spanakopita (spinach pie) and lamb roasted on a spit. Also, melt-off-the-bone lamb shanks — and melt-in-your-mouth loukoumades (Greek doughnuts). This festival offers the most Greek pastries of any other, including baklava, melomakarouna dipped in honey and much more, baked by Greek yiayias (grandmothers). Packaged handmade pastries […]

Lee Lee International Supermarket

Fry’s and Bashas might be your favorite grocery store for eggs, milk, bread, and other common American foods. But when you need fish sauce, soba noodles, or kimchee, you’d better head to Lee Lee International Supermarket in Chandler or Peoria. The store also stocks hard-to-find produce like bitter melon, lychee, Thai eggplant, Korean daikon, and […]

Queen Creek Olive Mill

Sure, you can find Queen Creek Olive Mill’s extra-virgin olive oil, gourmet stuffed olives, and assorted tapenades at AJ’s and plenty of other places around the Valley, but it’s so much more fun to buy them straight from the source. While you’re here, at the far southeastern reaches of Queen Creek, sample the company’s full […]

Yasha From Russia

A beautiful little takeout deli and grocery stocked with Eastern European specialties. Service can be scary, but hurts are eased with delicious dishes like incredible piroshki (dough pockets packed with creamy mashed potatoes, homemade sauerkraut or meat). Take-and-bake items impress, with rainbows of frozen dumplings (cherry, potato, beef, lamb, sour cream). Groceries span an array […]