CLOSED: Market Bistro

After seven years, Market Bistro, the family owned lunch and dinner eatery of pizzas and sandwiches (not to be confused with Vincent Market Bistro), has shuttered both of its locations. The Moon Valley location, on 777 East Thunderbird Road, opened in 2004 and the Kierland location, at 6501 East Greenway…

Perk Eatery: Where Breakfast Is Serious Business

If you are from the Midwest, you understand that breakfast is serious business. By nature, it is a hearty endeavor — designed to be satisfyingly filling and prepare its consumer, forkful by loaded forkful, for an array of seasonal servitudes. There are gardens to be planted in the spring, sprawling…

The Breakfast Club, The Strand, and a Chipotle Coming to Downtown’s CityScape

CityScape, downtown’s newest highrise (and ongoing restaurant scene saga) of residential, retail, office, and hotel components, has announced three new restaurants opening in the coming weeks: a second location of Scottsdale’s The Breakfast Club and Barrista Bar, The Strand, a fast-casual Italian restaurant, and the Mexican grill, Chipotle. The news…

Festival of Fruit Not Short on the Fruit Stuff

Interested in hearing an evaluation of central Asian Pomegranates? How ’bout a how-to on growing guavas in arid climates or a tour of the Tropica Mango Rare and Exotic Fruit Nursery? If you’re a freak for fruit or just berry curious (sorry), then the Festival of Fruit is for you…

Body Parts Made From Bread Make Us Turn Down Lunch Invitation

Fine artist Kittiwat Unarrom, who also helps run his family’s bakery in Ratchaburi, Thailand, has found an unsettling method of combining his two trades. Since 2006, Unarrom has used dough to create crazy-creepy and realistic renditions of heads, feet, hands, arms, and other body parts he calls, “Human Bread.” Created…

Cafe: El New Yorican

In my latest column, owner Alberto Rivera provides the hospitality, the food, and the explanation behind El New Yorican (pronounced Yor-ee-can), his west side restaurant of casual Puerto Rican cuisine. Prepared in the style of Créole cooking, or what the locals call cocina criolla, this family-run eatery serves up a…

Phoenix Coyotes Offering Food Allergy-Friendly Suite Rentals

And while I maintain a parking lot and decorating the back of an SUV doesn’t sound like much fun for anyone, I did come across something pretty cool in the family fun category — ice cold to be specific — and (bonus) it’s allergy-friendly, too. The Phoenix Coyotes, the pro…