Casa Reynoso, an Arizonan institution of Mexican dining, has been open in Tempe since 1984, serving well-known dishes like green chile burritos, cheese crisps, and crispy-shell shredded beef tacos.
The “AZ Pure Water Brew Truck” will be making some special deliveries.
This week in Metro Phoenix, it’s all about going a little over the top. We start things off with steak entrees for a buck, then moving into tequila dinners, and food tattoos. We’ll balance things out with a charitable Saturday brunch to benefit the homeless.
Famous 48 is the latest undertaking of Square One Concepts, and is being described as a tavern-themed restaurant, scheduled to open this fall in Old Town Scottsdale.
Mexican wrestling garb covers the pink walls and upbeat Latino hits blare from a small television in the corner of the little Scottsdale shop turning out epic shrimp and carne asada stuffed tacos and burritos.
There are some places we go for the food, others we go to for the novelty, and others still that we go purely for the ambiance. A truly magical sweet shop embodies all three, satisfying both sweet tooth and whimsy. These three Metro Phoenix shops are full-on sugar plum, Willy Wonka, gum drop guild approved.
The New Times Food Editor muses about sandwiches, fried chicken, and the true taste of the south.
The 10-day 2017 Fall Arizona Restaurant Week will run from September 15 through 24, with nearly 200 participating. There are three critically acclaimed (and fairly pricey) restaurants that we are especially pumped to visit for a discounted dinner.
A Phoenix-based app is in the works that will let users hire Valley chefs to stop by their homes to cook meals using ingredients from area farms, co-ops, and backyard gardens.
A family-owned and Michoacan-influenced restaurant serves dishes like house-made chorizo and cochinita pibil on tortillas made from yellow and purple corn in midtown Phoenix.
Hamburgers cooked in red wine turn up from time to time on restaurant menus here and abroad, but a lot less often than one would expect. And assuming that every big city—even every state—has its own wineburger operation is an unwise assumption. It just isn’t so. Phoenix, on the other hand, has two wineburger joints.
The little convenience store at the base of the Capital Place apartments in Downtown Phoenix is closing today, but before they do, they’re selling everything at a 50 percent discount and giving away coffee.
Barbecued fish, fried spare ribs, mapo tofu, spicy stew, noodle dishes, pan-fried specialties, and veggies offer a glimpse into the vast universe and contemporary possibilities of Sichuan cooking at Original Cuisine, Mesa’s latest hot spot for Sichuan-style Chinese.
It might be summer in metro Phoenix, but at least we have tepache.
The Stand opened its second location in May of this year in a strip mall near Scottsdale Road and Shea Boulevard. We went to check it out.
A little hole-in-the-wall in Phoenix serves meaty manta ray tacos courtesy of the Yaqui tribe.
This week we are kicking things off with tequila tastings, eating bacon brittle in Tempe to get over the midweek hump, and grabbing free coffee to see us through the end of the work week. This is our Metro Phoenix drinking and dining plan for the week of July 24 to 30.
La Frontera 1, also known as La Frontera Comida Mexicana, has been parked at the intersection of 16th Street and Van Buren for a decade, where the immobilized truck has become a staple of late night dining.
There so many delicious meals wrapped, stuffed, and layered between carbs here in Phoenix that you have no excuse to go for the same old sliced bread sandwich, hoagie, or burger this weekend. Switch things up at lunchtime with these five out-of-the-bread-box sandwiches around Metro Phoenix.
Okay, so we all know these national food holidays are nonsense, but that doesn’t mean we’re above using them as an excuse to eat. National Junk Food Day is so vague. Does it mean sweet, salty, fatty, or just plain over-the-top? How about one dish that is all three?
James Beard award-winning chef Chris Bianco, owner of Pizzeria Bianco, Tratto, and Pane Bianco in Phoenix, talks about his new book “Bianco: Pizza, Pasta, and Other Foods I Like” (Ecco, 2017), which will be released on Tuesday, July 25.
The southern-style counter at DeSoto Market served its last meal this week, and the space is officially closed for business. But Chef Stephen Jones has plans for a new opening later this year.
