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3 Best Places to Eat and Drink This Week in Metro Phoenix

Joyride Taco House Tuesday, December 23 Both the Phoenix and Gilbert locations of Joyride Taco House are serving up some sweet deals on Tuesday nights. From 2 p.m. to close you can get $2 tacos in varieties such as braised beef, shrimp, chicken tinga, baja fish, and more. The Tuesday...
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5 Best New Metro Phoenix Restaurants of 2015 — So Far

We're more than halfway through 2015 and already the Valley has gained some incredible new restaurants this year. From a food stall with affordable and inventive Southern-inspired cuisine to a neighborhood pizzeria with unparallelled enthusiasm for authenticity, these five restaurants represent some of the best and hottest places to eat...
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Green Daze: St. Patrick’s Day Guide 2015

We're willing to wager a few pounds, boy-o, that your eyes, Irish or otherwise, will be smiling in the days leading up to this year's celebration of St. Patrick's Day and on the actual drinking holiday. Or, at the very least, they're going to be a wee bit bloodshot. Given...
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5 Signs That Your Bartender Is the Real Deal

Make no mistake, the real-deal bartender is serious about the craft. So serious, in fact, that the best bartenders set themselves up for successful evenings, to banter and make conversation that leads drinkers away from the usual script and toward getting the best cocktail for into their hands. If you...
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2015 Arizona Strong Beer Festival Tickets Are On Sale Now

Do you love beer? Do you love beer a lot? Do you love beer as much as you love your significant other? Well, it seems the organizers of the Arizona Strong Beer Festival are counting on the fact that you answered "yes" to all of those questions. Otherwise, beer fanatics...
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Why You Can’t Buy the Beers You Want in Arizona

You can't get Pliny the Elder in Phoenix. Let's just begin with that truism, since it'll be far easier to explain why not if you aren't spending this whole article wondering about the local availability of the country's most sought-after beer. Ditto The Alchemist and their double IPA, Heady Topper...
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Fate Brewing Company

Fate is kind of like all of Phoenix’s bigger brewpubs shrunk down to a miniature. While that means it isn’t supplying its beer all over town just yet, it does mean that Fate is constantly brewing new and different beers to sample every day. It also means you have a front row seat to the […]
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3 Best Things to Eat and Drink This Weekend in Metro Phoenix

Strong Beer Festival Saturday, February 14 This weekend kicks off Arizona Beer Week and on Saturday the festival's marquee event, the Strong Beer Festival, will take over Steele Indian School Park in Phoenix. The event brings together dozens of craft breweries that will pour hundreds of different types of beers...
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Angel’s Trumpet Ale House

This downtown gastropub, built in a ’70s-era block building with a spacious room, long bar, and outdoor patio, is more successful for its suds than its grub. Boasting 31 rotating craft brews on tap — think local favorites, seasonals, and all-over IPAs – beer enthusiasts would be hard-pressed not to find something to their liking. […]
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Rogue Ales Puts Sriracha in a Beer

Beer: Sriracha Hot Stout Beer Brewery: Rogue Ales & Spirits Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer ABV: 5.7 percent The red chiles grown at Underwood Ranches in Camarillo, California are very important vegetables. Every day, 30 semi trucks packed with peppers journey east to the L.A. suburb of Rosemead and deposit their payloads...
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SunUp Brewing Company

SunUp Brewing is the sort of spot some Phoenix diners and drinkers put into heavy rotation because of affordable vittles, an amiable atmosphere, and, naturally, the in-house beers. Brewed on-site in a seven-barrel system located in the glass-walled “Brewer’s Den,” the malty amber is a crowd favorite, while hardcore hop-heads dig the Trooper IPA, and […]
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Magnum’s Cigars Wine & Liquor

Though it seems a little out of place in a northside strip mall, Magnum’s is worth the trip for cigar lovers in search of a tasteful place for a puff and a pour. Past a sizable retail selection of beer, wine, and spirits you’ll find a 450-square-foot walk-in humidor and a sophisticated, Prohibition-style speakeasy. The […]
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Culinary Dropout

The menu at this trendy watering hole is full of hearty fare like short rib pasta, grilled cheese sliders, housemade chips, and burgers, although execution still leaves a lot to be desired. As a consolation, there are dozens of wines by the glass or bottle, 25 different craft cocktails ranging from classic (French 75, Moscow […]
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The Men of Magic Mike XXL Look Great but Could Grow Up Some

Steven Soderbergh's 2012 Magic Mike was a tease. The ads tempted audiences with sweaty chests and thrusting crotches, but after Soderbergh lured us in to his all-male strip club, he turned on the lights to show us the squalor. His hunks were drugged and morally decayed. The women — the...
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Bar 1

Far from the leather bars, rainbow-flagged saunas and diva-filled discotheques found elsewhere, Bar 1 is casual gay nightlife that still knows how to have fun. Established in 2008, its easygoing, candlelit atmosphere allows patrons to talk in their (gasp!) indoor voices whether relaxing in the lounge seating, playing pinball or unwinding on the outdoor patio. […]
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How A Beer Wins A Great American Beer Festival Medal

Over the weekend, if you haven't heard, the city of Denver was swarmed with brewers and beer nerds celebrating the 2014 edition of the Great American Beer Festival, the largest celebration of American craft beer in the country. While a grand beer-tasting set up in the main hall of the...
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Fatso’s Pizza

Looks can be deceiving. What should be a run-of-the-mill pizza joint situated in a North Phoenix strip mall is actually a large music venue with a full bar, pool table, eclectic menu, and big family crowds. As its name portends, the food and drink selection is fat with 20 different Italian pies and a beer […]
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10 Must-See Bands At McDowell Mountain Music Festival

Long before the Valley of the Sun was boasting multiple major music events, as seems to be the rage these days, McDowell Mountain Music Festival stood alone as the premier metro Phoenix outdoor music festival. And arguably, the Valley's homegrown Bonnaroo is still the best music festival in town. Before...