Native New Yorker

Pretend you’re in the Big Apple at one of 20 Native New Yorker restaurants in the greater Phoenix area. The pizza doesn’t taste exactly like the real thing, but there’s plenty to go around, including the Meaty Beast (pepperoni, sausage, bacon, ham, and meatballs) and Buffalo Chicken (spicy pizza topped with grilled chicken, hot sauce, […]

Ninja Japanese Restaurant

Looking for a show featuring lots of slicing and dicing? Check out the teppanyaki fare here. The kitchen sends out first-rate raw materials – juicy sea scallops, fresh shrimp, butter-soft beef. The knife-twirling chef sizzles them on the grill, along with lots of fresh veggies. It’s hard not to have fun.

NYPD Pizza

For more than a decade the fine folks at NYPD Pizza have been putting their ovens to good use, feeding the Valley’s masses. With a large menu of pizzas, calzones, sandwiches, pasta and wings, you’d be hard pressed not to find a selection to fit your Italian-style cravings. NYPD offers great lunch deals and a […]

Oregano’s

If you go to Oregano’s, go hungry. Or take friends. Even the salads at this mini-chain are beyond gigantic. The thin-crust pizza is a crowd pleaser, and the menu is packed with cute word plays (we love the ad campaign, which includes billboards with sayings like “Legalize Marinara”) and a selection of pasta, sandwiches, wings […]

The Ostrich

The Ostrich is located behind a wooden door at the bottom of a stairwell around the corner from Crust Chandler. The name of this basement bar could suggest an ostrich burying its head in the ground, but actually, this was the room where ostrich feathers were stored by city founder Dr. A.J. Chandler himself. A […]

P.F. Chang’s China Bistro

How many diners know that the giant, eleven-foot-tall stone horses flanking the entrances of many P.F. Chang’s symbolize the original Forbidden City in China, which was built for China’s first emperor Qin Shi Huangdi? Or that the restaurant’s founder, Philip Chiang, is still this successful chain’s consultant, and author of its current menu? People probably […]

Paletas Betty

This paleteria specializes in handmade Mexican ice pops in a variety of flavors, all of them made in Chandler. Betty’s paletas are crafted in small batches, using the finest ingredients, but never from canned or frozen fruit juices and never with nasty preservatives or coloring. The seasonal menu features ingredients from the best local gardens, […]

Pedal Haus Brewery

Pedal Haus Brewery features a Belgian-American inspired food menu, including bratwurst, poutine, salads, and sandwiches. Pedal Haus is home to brewmaster Derek “Doc” Osborne, who, thanks to a remodel of the restaurant, can produce 2,300 gallons of beer each week, including its Pedal Haus Wit [http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/restaurants/pedal-haus-brewerys-belgian-wit-is-authentically-brewed-to-style-8015648 along with pilsners, porters, dubbels, IPAs, and English ESB.

Peixoto Coffee Roasters

Founded by Julia Peixoto Peters and her husband, Jeff Peters, Peixoto Coffee continues the Peixoto family tradition of growing coffee in Brazil for nearly a century. Their farm, Fazenda Sao Jose da Boa Vista, is located in Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil; here, Peters is Peixoto Coffee’s primary roaster, and he works his magic on […]

Phoenix Palace

Phoenix Palace is a sea of eager faces, busy chopsticks, and whirling lazy susans bearing a smorgasbord of dumplings, meats, buns, and cakes. Located in the same Chandler plaza as Lee Lee Oriental Supermarket, the restaurant serves a full menu of both Mandarin and Cantonese cuisine, but it’s dim sum that brings us back again […]

Pita Jungle

Funky, popular spot that features local art on the walls, a healthful, vegetarian-friendly menu, and more dreadlocks and doo-rags (at least at the Tempe location) than you may ever see in one place. Well-known as a cheap-date restaurant with price points set for an ASU student’s wallet. Still, you don’t have to be a starving […]