Bowl of Greens

The closest restaurant to the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Bowl of Greens is a counter service eatery offering build-your-own salads. The fast-casual restaurant also offers cauliflower crust pizza, sandwiches, and smoothies.

Daily Dose

Daily Dose is simultaneously stylish and down-to-earth, a cheerful indie eatery from Matt and JenLyn Long, the same folks who own nearby Fusion Restaurant & Lounge. They serve accessible, affordable American comfort food with tasty, creative flourishes. Depending on the time of day, the restaurant either feels like a hip cafe (free Wi-Fi is a […]

Federal Pizza

The fourth project from restaurateur Craig DeMarco and his Upward Projects team (Postino, Windsor, and Churn), this intimate yet lively pizza parlor, housed in a restored 1950s bank in north Central Phoenix, features a thoughtful food and drink menu with dishes ranging from the dependable, to the very good, to the sublime. Satisfying pizzas, designed […]

Fired Pie

When you bite into the Steak and Blue Pizza at Fired Pie, it bites back. That would be the gorgonzola, a pungent Italian cheese made from unskimmed cow’s milk that has salty sass running through its blue veins. The way the cheese interacts with the rest of the Steak and Blue’s ingredients – garlic, oil, […]

Fired Pie

When you bite into the Steak and Blue Pizza at Fired Pie, it bites back. That would be the gorgonzola, a pungent Italian cheese made from unskimmed cow’s milk that has salty sass running through its blue veins. The way the cheese interacts with the rest of the Steak and Blue’s ingredients – garlic, oil, […]

Focaccia Fiorentina

Downtown folks crowd this cozy shop for tasty pastas with homemade sauces (love the signature zesty tomato topped with light ricotta cheese and parsley), gourmet focaccia and baguette sandwiches, salads, and homemade cheesecake. Come hungry.

Forno 301

Forno 301 offers a small menu that’s full of expertly crafted dishes. A trio each of salads, Panini, bruschette, and house specialties are offered alongside three daily specials and a dozen different pizzas; highlights include the grapefruit salad, served as layers of tart fruit and slices of fennel tossed with mixed greens and tomatoes. The […]

Franco’s Italian Cafe

Offering a sophisticated cuisine both rustic and refined, this posh Scottsdale restaurant wows with appetizers like polenta gorgonzola, a tasty beet arugula salad, and a stunning seafood risotto. Franco’s mother’s merenghata is a light, tasty dessert you won’t find anywhere else in town. Read our review.

Grabbagreen

You’ll find the brightly lit juice bar and kitchen adjacent to the infamous Amy’s Baking Company, in a shopping center located on the northwest corner of 74th Street and Shea Boulevard. Grabbagreen’s menu offers plenty of choices, as well as the option to create your own meal in nearly every category. Juices come in a […]

Heart and Soul Cafe

This cute little cafe with a ’57 Chevy in the middle of the room (and a dining table in the middle of the Chevy) offersoptions to make your breakfast seem anything but everyday. It’s a favorite place for pancakes in particular, with the Bacon Blue Pancakes topping our list of favorite breakfast dishes. The dish […]

Hob Nobs

People who’ve lived here a long time remember when this little Cotswold cottage was the home of the Willo House, and many of us were sad to see that long-time favorite lunch spot go away. That is, until we stopped in to eyeball the warm, friendly, and chic breakfast-and-lunch caf

Ingo’s Tasty Food

Part upscale diner, part theater-in-the-round, Ingo’s interior offers a single curved counter where guests can enjoy superb gourmet burgers crafted around a thick puck of grass-fed beef, cooked to a pinkish medium rare and seasoned with only salt and pepper. The simple cheddar Cheeseburger is moist and chop-house sized, and the Paris Texas Burger, served […]

Kaleidoscope Juice

Regardless of how healthy you’re interested in being, you certainly don’t want to be sick. Lucky for you, Kaleidoscope Juice offers a juice elixir called the flu shot. $5 gets you the small, but potent combo of oil of oregano, garlic, tumeric, ginger, cayenne, lemon and green apple for flavor that will surely knock the […]