Brand-spanking-new Korean BBQ joint with gracious service and fairly good Korean vittles. Suck down a bottle of soju with an OB beer chaser while firing up bulgogi (marinated sirloin), galbi (BBQ ribs), or dwaeji bulgogi (pork marinated in red pepper paste) on a gas grill built into your table. Try a kimchi casserole, fried dumplings, […]
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One of the closest things we have to a real New York café, except that the owners are friendly. The concept is order-at-the-counter casual, but the food is first-rate. Go for the tremendous meatballs, huge pizzas, excellent pastas, tasty heroes and fancier fare like veal scaloppine, chicken Francese and shrimp scampi. Read our review.
This Mexico City-style restaurant in Mesa takes its name from the largest traditional food market in Mexico City, a fact that seems contrary to its small, unassuming home in a near-vacant strip mall but not of its gigantic plates of boldly flavored and affordable eats. Street food fare includes stellar flautas full of moist shredded […]
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This Mexico-based chain delivers the fare of Mexico City — it’s different, but not exotic. Grilled meat and cheese dishes are the specialties here, but nothing will torch your tender lips. If you’re not filled by dinner’s end, give the bready sopapillas and dense Mexican flan a try.
Not a foreign word, or even an accent mark, on this all-American menu. But the simple fare, like prime rib, and corn-bread-and-apple-stuffed pork chops, is outstanding. And it all comes with one of the Valley’s better salad bars. The place to take Mom when she comes for a visit.
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 […]
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The capital of banh mi in AZ, banh mi being those Vietnamese submarine sandwiches crafted with crusty French bread and filled with any number of items including pork meatballs, barbecued pork slices, head cheese, ham, cilantro, pickled daikon, and so on. These Southeast Asian sammies are dead cheap — usually under $3 per — and […]
Named for the family-owned grocery store originally housed there, Liberty Market offers breakfast, lunch and dinner menus, and a separate coffee counter, the Strada Espresso Bar, serves coffee drinks. A colossal wood-burning oven bakes Traina’s thin-crust pizza pies. Appetizers are both familiar (a hummus plate; a roasted brie platter) and more adventurous, like the shrimp […]
It’s not what you think. Louie was a promising young baseball pitcher from Toledo, Ohio who loved the comforts of Mom’s meatloaf and Kung Fu movies. When Louie was a kid, his family hosted Hao, whose cousin, a rising table tennis phenom from Shanghai named Ling, grew up to be a stunning beauty and an […]
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Some claim that this place offers the best happy hour in Chandler, thanks in part to the $5 skinny cocktails from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. It doesn’t hurt that any dinner here can start with delicious appetizers like the artisan cheese platter (which also makes a nice end-of-meal dessert, too) and the Prosciutto […]
