Campbell’s Soup has created a new strategy to get you to buy their 115-year-old tomato soup. In honor of the 50th anniversary of Andy Warhol’s iconic “32 Campbell’s Soup Cans,” which made its debut in 1962 and currently hangs at the MoMA in New York, Campbell’s has teamed up with…
From now ’til we publish the 2012 edition of Best of Phoenix, New Times and Chow Bella present 100 Tastemakers — Valley residents who make the cut in our culinary scene. Some you’ll know; for others, it’ll be a first introduction (but likely not the last). While you’re here, check…
When it opened in Tempe last summer, Taco Migo was a 24-hour fast food joint that served alcohol. A few months later, it reinvented itself and became a casual, sit-down restaurant with a new name: Migo’s. And now it appears that Taco Migo, or Migo’s depending on the time frame,…
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For the culturally-conscious coffee sipping types, a new shop coming to downtown Phoenix in September promises to mix the java with the justice — specifically for coffee farmers in Rwanda. Set to open at 6 a.m., Tuesday, September 4, Eighth Day Coffee & Culture, located at 828 North 2nd Street…
See also: Matt’s Big Breakfast Moving to Bigger Digs: Twice the Space and Its Own Loo For those still wondering what to do this holiday weekend, checking out the new and bigger location of Matt’s Big Breakfast might be reason enough to drag your late-sleeping ass out of bed. Check…
Carol Steele is a legend in the Phoenix food scene. Between the mid-70s and early 90s, Steele launched the local farm to table movement and has been the veritable “godmother” of local chefs and restauranteurs ever since. Steele left the Valley two decades ago to take up residence at her…
See also: New Times Calendar of Events Looking for something to put in your mouth this weekend? We’ve got you covered. Check out what’s on our plate. The Oscar Burger @ Liberty Market Better clear your schedule and hightail it out to Gilbert for the very last day of Liberty…
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From now ’til we publish the 2012 edition of Best of Phoenix, New Times and Chow Bella present 100 Tastemakers — Valley residents who make the cut in our culinary scene. Some you’ll know; for others, it’ll be a first introduction (but likely not the last). While you’re here, check…
Hey, readers, get ready. We’re putting new meaning into the term “street food.” For Chow Bella’s latest mission — “Eating 16th Street” — we’ve employed a young woman who’s literally eaten her way around the world. Alex Rodriguez has eaten borscht in Moscow, steak in Buenos Aires and a “life-changing…
The question being begged is what happens when you cross a fig and a pickle.
If you’re from or familiar with the Sunnyslope area, chances are you’ve driven by El Rinconcito del D.F. a million times, but have never stopped. Not as well known as its neighbor, Oaxaca Restaurant, which resides in the Let It Roll Bowl bowling alley, El Rinconcito has been content with…
See also: 10 Corporate Food Trucks Totally Bogarting the Mobile Kitchen Scene, Man In what may be the Valley food truck scene’s shark-jump moment, a Scottsdale golf club has exited the fairway and merged onto Trend Route 101 with its own roving mobile kitchen. Introduced in February, the food truck,…
When it comes to places to score kaiten-zushi, or conveyor belt sushi in the Valley, don’t count Sushi Eye in Motion as one of them — at least not anymore. The Chandler restaurant at 58 West Buffalo Street shuttered later last month, leaving Sushi Station and Teharu Sushi as the…
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El Rinconcito del D.F. in Sunnyslope is less a restaurant and more a Mexico City street scene that’s found its way indoors. A hangout for the neighborhood’s locals, it’s a place where giant, creamy licuados and bottles of ice cold Sidral Mundet flow as easily as the conversations of families…
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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. Miss a question? Go here. As the popularity of cooking continues to rise, so does…
