From time to time, Chow Bella’s contributors challenge one another to a showdown: Make the best dish you can, using one common ingredient. This time (naturally), it was pumpkin. For the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing the results, and at the end, we’ll let you know who won. Today:…
Over the past few years, the dine-in theater concept of combining restaurant-style cuisine with first-run movies has gained popularity. With just the push of a button, moviegoers can enjoy tableside food service and cocktails from luxurious leather seats while watching the latest blockbuster. In 2011, two dine-in theaters, Studio Movie…
After six years, Cadillac Ranch, the little bit country, little bit rock ‘n’ roll bar and restaurant in the District at Tempe Marketplace, is shuttering this weekend. And as you might expect, the hangout for ASU students and general party hounds into Southwestern pub grub, endless drink specials, and entertainment…
After nearly two decades in central Scottsdale, Los Sombreros, chef-owner Azucena Tovar’s restaurant of well-crafted Mexican cuisine, is expanding. The new location, a remodeled space at 14795 North Northsight Boulevard (formerly Javinos restaurant) in North Scottsdale, will open at 11 a.m. Friday, November 1. Here’s what’s in store…
They may make gourmet food for a living, but that doesn’t mean chefs don’t have a sweet spot for Halloween candy. So what treats are Valley chefs planning to pass out for this Hallow’s Eve assemblage of ghosts and goblins? Whether they’re the same ones they enjoyed as kids or…
The Guilty Pleasure: Raspberry Rose Macaron Where to Get It: Essence Bakery, Tempe or Arcadia Price: $1.40 for the small, $3.25 for the large What it Really Costs: There are nuts in the shell, and raspberries in the filling. Convince yourself it’s good for you. It’s hardly a secret that…
Offal often gets a bad rap for being the odds and ends of animals that no one wants to eat. The term, used more frequently in British English, refers to non-muscle parts of a butchered animal. It covers all sorts of tasty bits like intestine, liver, kidneys, feet, head, brain,…
My nightmares are filled with the drunken faces of American college kids smeared with paint depicting garish skulls, twisted toothy grins, hollow cheekbones, black pools of pain for eyes . . . Death isn’t the scary part here, it’s the ever increasing popularity of the Day of the Dead and…
This week we’re chatting with chef Jay Bogsinke of St. Francis, who’s taking some of pressure off chef/owner Aaron Chamberlin at the restaurant as he deals with his second spot, the Phoenix Public Market Cafe. On Monday, we found out what brought Bogsinke to this farm-to-table haven. If you missed…
On the heels of opening North Scottsdale’s Renegade by MOD in May, ex-Kai chef Michael O’Dowd and partners Ed Leclere and Don Misheff of Vivid Lifestyle Concepts have opened their second restaurant — this one tucked into a golf club in Fountain Hills. Called Wicked Six Bar and Grill by…
Heads up, burger-and-beer hounds: Hopdoddy Burger Bar, the Austin-based counter-service eatery from the owners of Roaring Fork and Salty Sow, is opening its doors in Scottsdale tomorrow. Listed as one of 33 best burgers in the United States by men’s digital lifestyle brand Thrillist.com, Hopdoddy has two restaurants in Austin,…
For the past two years, Sacha Levine has been at Scottsdale’s Rancho Pinot working with chef Chrysa Robertson. But now the up-and-coming Levine is headed to Quiessence at the Farm at South Mountain to be sous chef with chef Dustin Christofolo, who took over this fall after the restaurant’s chef…
Welcome to “Schaefer,” in which Eric Schaefer — a local guy with a big (but discerning) appetite and a sense of humor to match — takes on the Phoenix food scene. What would you do if you were responsible for the long-awaited expansion of a Midwestern legend into a city…
It’s been a busy year for the owners of Pomo, the three-year-old, certified authentic Neapolitan pizzeria from executive chef Matteo Schiavone and partners Stefano Fabbri and Mark Proto. Since losing their restaurant’s home at The Borgata of Scottsdale shopping center early this year, the Italian trio not only made plans…
From time to time, Chow Bella’s contributors challenge one another to a showdown: Make the best dish you can, using one common ingredient. This time (naturally), it was pumpkin. For the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing the results, and at the end, we’ll let you know who won. Today:…
Dozens of the Valley’s food trucks hit Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon for the Taste of the Trucks food truck festival. We headed out on Sunday to sample just what the fest had to offer — and we’re happy to say many of the…
Stacy Phipps may have taken a few hits in his restaurant career, but the Phoenix barbecue man hasn’t been knocked out yet. After his second Scottsdale location of Stacy’s Smokehouse shuttered at the start of last year (after being open just six months and setting Phipps back about $120,000), Phipps…
Once you’ve wrapped your head around the fact that the luxury hotel and resort chain Four Seasons has its own food truck, you might want to get ready to eat. The Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North and Scottsdale’s Food Truck Caravan are teaming up for two downtown Scottsdale…
Jay Bogsinke Chef St. Francis stfrancisaz.com 602-200-8111 This is part one of our interview with chef Jay Bogsinke of St. Francis. Bogsinke has been at St. Francis since August, when chef/owner Aaron Chamberlin decided to call in some extra firepower for the restaurant as he wrangles with the new Phoenix…
Set those alarm clocks, breakfast biters. Snooze Eatery, the Colorado-based breakfast and brunch joint that’s had the Valley buzzing since the announcement of its first Arizona location in the Town & Country Shopping Center in May, has set a grand opening date. At 6:30 a.m. on Monday, November 25, Snooze…
Construction is coming to an end at the newest restaurant concept from popular grocery and pizza spot La Grande Orange in Arcadia. Once used for much-needed additional parking, the northwest corner lot of Campbell and 40th Street (across from LGO) now sports a cylindrical structure of gleaming metal and brick…
Coffee: Elixir of the gods — or at least the sleep-deprived. Here in the Valley, there are plenty of places to get a fix of fresh-brewed coffee. But if you’re looking for a particularly satisfying jolt of caffeine we’ve narrowed down the options in this year’s Best of Phoenix® edition…
