CLOSED: Bueno Burger in Scottsdale

Just a little over a year ago, owners Gary and Vanessa Shaw shuttered Bueno Burger Mex American Grill in Glendale. This month, they’ve shuttered their second concept, Bueno Burger, in Scottsdale. See also: CLOSED: Oaxaca Restaurant & Cantina in Downtown Phoenix and CLOSED: Ivy League Dogs in Goodyear Opened in…

The Secret Is Out on New India Bazaar & Cuisine

New India is a grocery store with a secret. Past produce boxes filled with long, green loki and purple beetroot and shelves lined with bags of basmati rice, sweet corn flour, and enough spices to stock nearly every pantry in the neighborhood — as well as a small deli case…

Downtown’s Co+Hoots Gets a Coffee Shop

Co+Hoots, the collaborative, co-working space for creative entrepreneurs in downtown Phoenix, is set to host a start-up shop of the caffeine kind right inside its walls. See also: A New Weekly Food Truck Event: Washington Wednesdays at Co+Hoots and Jobot Duo to Open Vegan/Vegetarian Diner in Bragg’s Pie Factory “This…

Chefs, What Would It Take to Sell Yourselves to a Major Corporation?

Welcome to Chow Bella’s Bites & Dishes, where Valley chefs and restaurateurs respond to a question New Times food critic Laura Hahnefeld has on her mind. Have a question you’d like to ask? E-mail laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. Since James Beard likened himself to a “gastronomic whore” after signing an endorsement deal with…

Camelback Esplanade Picking Up Sushi and Italian Restaurants

Since what seemed like a mass exodus of restaurants over a year ago from the Camelback Esplanade, the mixed-use development on the southeast corner of Camelback Road and 24th Street, the seven-month-old Del Frisco’s Grille was the first to show the complex still had a chance at new culinary life…

The Vig to Open Third Location in Downtown Phoenix

Gettin’ Vig-gy with it (sorry) in the downtown area might be a reality in the next several months for the popular upscale tavern The Vig. See also: Cupcake Love-In Founder Opens Coffee Shop Inside Her Scottsdale Bakery and Jobot Duo to Open Vegan/Vegetarian Diner in Bragg’s Pie Factory Celebrating six…

Growing Pains at Macayo’s Family’s Milagro Grill in Arcadia

Milagro Grill is a new take on Macayo’s Mexican Kitchen from a new generation of Johnsons, the family who’s been running the Arizona-based chain of Mexican eats since Grandpa Woody Johnson and wife Victoria founded the family business in 1945. See also: – Angels Trumpet Ale House Nails Beer, Fails…

Milagro Grill Still Going Through Growing Pains in Arcadia

If Macayo’s Mexican Kitchen is the Valley’s popular party girl, than Milagro Grill is her sophisticated older sister. Inside her small, laid-back pad in Arcadia, she’s swapped out Macayo’s festive, bright surfaces for more refined textures of polished wood, brick, and metal under low lights; traded the booming dance tunes…

Is Yelp Fair to Restaurants?

Welcome to Chow Bella’s Bites & Dishes, where Valley chefs and restaurateurs respond to a question New Times food critic Laura Hahnefeld has on her mind. Have a question you’d like to ask? E-mail laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. Last December, when Bizarre Foods host Andrew Zimmern called Yelp a “forum for uninformed morons”…

6 More Spots to Score Mardi Gras King Cake in Greater Phoenix

Carnival may already be in its second week, but Mardi Gras fans in the Valley still have time to score one of the event’s most popular traditions before Fat Tuesday, February 12: King Cake. See also: Barb’s Bakery in Phoenix Kicks Off Carnival with Signature King Cakes Akin to coffee…

New Ripe Awards Rotten for Some Foodies

For most folks, the 2013 Ripe Awards, “a selection of five of the Valley’s edgiest chefs,” probably garnered as much attention as the also-rans at this year’s Golden Globes. After all, a new culinary award program takes time to develop, even when, as in the case of Ripe, it’s likened…