Cafe Bebida

While this isn’t a greasy spoon style breakfast joint, Café Bebida does offer a great atmosphere. The café is located at Estrella Mountain Ranch, surrounded by 20 miles of multiuse trails. Breakfast items include the 3 Cheese Cronnini, a turkey pesto toasti, and a bakery case packed with pastries. Owner Deborah Huyer offers coffee sourced […]

Cafe Ga Hyang

In what may be the only late-night spot serving flavorful Korean cuisine in the West Valley, this Glendale restaurant focuses on fresh-made and affordable traditional Korean cuisine (and a few Chinese-based dishes with a Korean twist) made with natural and housemade ingredients like kimchi, signature sauces, and homemade noodles. Skip the Korean barbecue dishes and […]

Carolina’s

The Peoria Carolina’s is the third location of this Valley favorite and is just as good as its two siblings. Order anything involving a tortilla, especially the Oaxaca Special, a breakfast-minded mix of chorizo, bean, potato, and cheese, wrapped as a burro. Delicious menudo is sold on weekends, and house-blended chorizo is a specialty here. […]

Casa De Falafel

When people complain about Phoenix being too beige, they’re likely referring to areas like Cactus Road and 67th Avenue. But Casa de Falafel, located inside a gas station at this intersection called Simon Xpress, is the opposite of suburban snooziness. A Mediterranean grill churning out authentic Arabic street foods, Casa de Falafel has a menu […]

Cee Cee’s on the Corner

This quaint gem of a restaurant is located in the heart of downtown Glendale – indeed on a corner, at 58th Avenue and Palmaire to be exact – and promises to take you back to an era when life was a little easier and a little less stressful. Reminisce about days gone by while taking […]

Charley’s Sports Grill

This northwest Valley joint – you can find it in the back of a plaza on the west side of Loop 101 and Union Hills Drive, near Arrowhead Towne Center – is many things: a bar, a lunch counter, a place to get some off-track betting done. The front room has a fireplace, there’s a […]

Cheba Hut

Nowhere but here will you find a pakalolo toasted sub(smoked ham, Swiss cheese, and Hawaiian pineapple), but even the old standards served at this comfortable lunch spot are tweaked attractively. Like the Panama Red, a new take on Chicken Marinara smothered in home-made red sauce and topped with Parmesan and Provolone. Even their pizza subs […]

Cheba Hut “Toasted” Subs

Nowhere but here will you find a pakalolo toasted sub(smoked ham, Swiss cheese, and Hawaiian pineapple), but even the old standards served at this comfortable lunch spot are tweaked attractively. Like the Panama Red, a new take on Chicken Marinara smothered in home-made red sauce and topped with Parmesan and Provolone. Even their pizza subs […]

Chilly Bombers

West Valley bros and their babes bump humps at Chilly Bombers to Top 40 and hip-hop or head to the bar to suck down a selection of ice-cold specialty drinks and bombers, like the sweet sounding Purple Gatorade and Gummy Bear shots. Yum!

Club Deportivo Coliseo

There’s nary an empty seat to be found on Sunday afternoons in the grandstands of El Gran Mercado. That’s because more than a hundred fans of lucha libre (a.k.a. Mexican-style professional wrestling) never seem to miss the weekly wrestling action put on by the stars of Club Deportivo. As with most lucha events, many of […]