The Guilty Pleasure: Sour Cream Enchiladas Where To Get It: Los Olivos, two Scottsdale locations (but you want the original one in Old Town) Price: $7.95-$13.95, depending on your combination plate of choice. What It Really Costs: A whole day’s worth of calories on one convenient plate. I have come…
the 11-year-old breakfast and lunch spot in Arcadia, has undergone a makeover of sorts. Recently opened in the Camelback Village Center (at the corner of 44th Street and Camelback), the restaurant, under new ownership, is now called Daily Bistro. An updated interior and a new beverage program help to separate…
Ask any of your eco-friendly pals and they’ll tell you that sustainability is the green gift that keeps on giving. From edible gardens to ethically raised eggs, more and more Phoenix urbanites are looking to their own backyards to fuel their families. See Also: – A Hipster’s Guide to Farm…
Attention, shoppers. FnB is offering gift certificates at 50% off today — and just today, until 6 p.m., (they just extended the time by an hour), at which point you will be mercilessly cut off — so get on the horn and call them for the best deal going. 50%…
Eating pie is pretty much the best way to spend a Saturday afternoon, and at Saturday’s Pie Social, there were plenty of celebrity pies to enjoy — 14, to be exact. At first, as we judges waited around for a seemingly endless procession of pies to be brought to the…
Well, this is sad news. Very sad news indeed. Zaidi’s Grill, the unassuming eatery of exceptional Pakistani food in Scottsdale, has shuttered. Featuring classic dishes made from family recipes and memories of meals in their hometown of Karachi, Syed and Tabassum Zaidi, the restaurant’s owners and chefs, called their authentic…
We’ve spent the last year in the laboratory putting Phoenix under the microscope to reveal hundreds of specimens of the best culture, outdoor adventures, shopping, dining, and nightlife the city has to offer. And we’re finally ready to publish our results. Nerd alert! Now presenting Scientific Phoenix. If you’ve lived…
Jose Garces comes to town frequently to check up on Distrito, his modern Mexican restaurant specializing in Mexico City-style street food. This trip, however, the Iron Chef had another objective: to promote his new cookbook — The Latin Road Home — by hosting a special five-course dinner using recipes from…
Lee Hill, Communications Director for Arizona’s Department of Liquor Licenses and Control, has confirmed a rumor that’s been flying around the restaurant industry for weeks: The department is conducting a statewide investigation of the relationships between licensed wholesalers (liquor distributors and wineries, for example) and licensed retailers (restaurants, hotels, resorts,…
In what will most likely be the biggest news of the year for fans of Sweet Tomatoes, the national buffet-style restaurant chain and purveyor of loaded baked potatoes, flavored gelatin, and something called “Joan’s Broccoli Madness,” the Phoenix Business Journal reports the eatery’s San-Diego based parent company, Garden Fresh Restaurant…
Kenny Barrett — co-founder of GROWHOUSE and programs manager for Roosevelt Row — is knee-deep in honey. Okay, that’s an exaggeration, but he’s surely got enough of it to sell, thanks to the hard-working honeybees living behind GROWop, the vintage boutique that shares a formerly blighted, quarter-acre lot with GROWHOUSE,…
From about October 2010 to March 2011 the best jerk chicken sandwich in Arizona was made by Charlie Blonkenfeld. Monster-size and jam-packed with chunks of chicken, shredded cabbage, scallions, fresh basil, and a flippin’ fried banana slice piled high in a poppy seed bun, the only place to score one…
For those in the Southeast Valley looking to score a.m. eats like cheddar jalapeño biscuits and gravy, caramelized banana and pecan brioche French toast, or battered and fried breakfast sausages on sticks, your mornings just got a little sunnier. See also: Aaron May Dishes On Being a Chef, a Restaurateur…
Looking for something to put in your mouth this weekend? We’ve got you covered. Check out what’s on our plate. See also: – Pie Social 2012: All the Sweet Details – Biltmore’s Central Bistro Announces Grand Opening Date (It’s This Sunday!) Human Rights Campaign’s COOK Phoenix The Human Rights Campaign’s…
If you’re a devout cocktail devotee, you’ve surely heard of Fernet Branca, the in-your-face Italian liqueur that makes its cousin Campari look like a cherry lollipop by comparison. There’s bitter, and then there’s Big Boy bitter. That’s Fernet Branca, an acquired taste that aficionados like to say you’ll have to…
It takes a steady hand and a little nerve to hack into the armor-like skin on a butternut squash. Luckily, the skin is the only thing hard about butternut squash.
Nobody really knows who invented the Reuben sandwich (but we’d put flowers on his grave if we did). Some say it was Reuben Kulakofsky of Omaha, Nebraska, who served it at late-night poker games at the Blackstone Hotel. Others swear it was invented by a cook at Reuben’s Restaurant in…
“I was desperate for the food I was accustomed to,” Walter Bergamaschi says on why he and wife Marti decided to open Dolce Vita Italian Grocer in east Mesa. “Ninety-nine percent of what we sell and use here is imported from Italy. The other 1 percent,” he jokes, “is the…
Another busy month for the Phoenix restaurant scene. We bid farewell to some excellent Peruvian joint but said hello to a new Ethiopian restaurant. See Also: – –September Openings and Closings We’re also excited to see the soda fountain making a comeback even if we’re also losing one of our…
Dolce Vita Italian Grocer is what happens when gelato makers turn their attention to Italy’s more savory food. Where pastas are equally as luscious, cheeses and cured meats just as intensely flavorful, and sandwiches as deserving of slow and thoughtful roll-over-the-tongue tastes as the Italian sweet treat — minus the…
The construction is finally finished in the former home of Zen32, at 32nd Street and Camelback Road, in the Biltmore Neighborhood. And at 5 p.m., Sunday, November 4, Central Bistro, the modern restaurant featuring flavors from Italy, France, and Spain, opens its doors after nearly nine months of remodeling and…
We’ve spent the last year in the laboratory putting Phoenix under the microscope to reveal hundreds of specimens of the best culture, outdoor adventures, shopping, dining, and nightlife the city has to offer. And we’re finally ready to publish our results. Nerd alert! Now presenting Scientific Phoenix. It’s officially farmers…
