Emma Pew The vocalist for local soul band Black Carl performs this Saturday, August 28 at The Sail Inn. What’d you eat for dinner last night? Shrimp ceviche from La Grade Orange–it is mind-warping tasty. Favorite food: Cottage cheese. Up until a few years ago, the stuff completely freaked me…
Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Beer Pairing DinnerGet your tickets now for Thursdays beer pairing dinner with with Four Peaks Brewery at Noca on Camelback. The four course tasting menu will feature Crispy Chicken Thighs, Berkshire Pork Belly Sopas, Oatmeal Stout Braised…
Holy burger bomb! How’s a Fry Girl supposed to catch up with the latest Jersey Shore dirt (news flash: Ronnie called Sammi a bitch — for serious!) when the worldwide interwebs is all bogged down with bloggage about Burger King’s New York Pizza Burger? Set fast-food feak show gun to…
Conspire, the popular Roosevelt Row coffee shop, artist co-op, and alternative-thinking-and-doing hangout, is about to undergo some major changes. John Sagasta, the brains behind the coffee aspect of the two-year-old shop, tells New Times that he will move operations across the street to the space that used to house HoodRide…
Anyone that has searched the couch cushions for a handful of change knows that boozing on an extreme budget can be a risky proposition. To help you decide how to spend that meager pile of pennies, we’ve scraped the Bottom of the Barrel to review some of the cheapest screw…
We have a lot of family birthdays in the spring so we decided to get a suite at the ballpark and have a joint celebration. A cake was ordered for the big event. When it arrived it said, “Happy Birthday Tom”, the only problem was no one celebrating a birthday…
My good friend and colleague Steve Jansen tipped me off to a call for entries in an upcoming Ouija Board-themed art exhibit at Green New American Vegetarian Restaurant. The public will be invited to pick favorites in the exhibition, and the winner will get two free meals per week for a whole…
Want to open a restaurant but can’t handle the overhead? Cook in the moment with a temporary eatery. Consider what L.A. chef Ludo Lefebvre is doing with his insanely popular “pop-up restaurant” LudoBites, featured on NPR’s Morning Edition today. Every couple months, he temporarily takes over an existing restaurant and…
Although change is coming to a North Scottsdale restaurant, the good news is that locals won’t be deprived of Italian food. The owners of Tutti Santi are taking over the space that has been home to Amarone Ristorante Italiano since late 2008. After renovations, the restaurant will open in September…
Some secrets are just plain juicy (your best friend’s boyfriend’s into what!?) and others are just so-what’s (your best friend’s boyfriend’s aunt suffers from gout.) Family Style, the new reality show from Food Network that aired a special preview last week and is nowhere to be found on FN’s website,…
When it comes to high-octane sodas, few brands can compare to Jolt cola, which generally packs more than twice the caffeine of supercharged pops like Mountain Dew. But one fairly new “energy cola,” X-Drinx, comes pretty darn close to Jolt-power.A 12-ounce bottle of X-Drinx Kosmic Kola contains undisclosed amounts of…
Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Tempra Tantrum Wine DinnerTuesday, August 24 hidden gem Fuego Bistro welcomes you to join them for a special dinner with the owner of Tempra Tantrum Wines. From 6 to 8 p.m. enjoy a custom four course dinner…
Another week has come and gone leaving us to ponder the upcoming events that will shape our lives and, more importantly, our dinners out. But before we move on, let’s have one last look at the blog posts from this week: Taco Bell’s New Cantina Tacos (Based Upon Mexican Street…
We admit that we don’t typically spend a lot of time perusing the recall press releases on the Food and Drug Administration website, but in a quest to find an update on that whole egg mess (update: millions more eggs have been toss into the suspicious pile; here’s the latest…
Yesterday we met Greg Murphy, W Hotel’s laid-back and garrulous drink maker. A bartender for more than five years, Murphy’s come up with his share of original cocktails, but there are a few he takes special pride in. There’s the Time Machine (made with Ciroc Coconut and Midori), the Denzel…
Just when you thought the bacon trend had peaked and sizzled/fizzled, this morsel comes along. And why not? After all, who doesn’t want a bacon-cooking robot? Or, for that matter, a blog (and a photo blog and even an Internet show) devoted to bacon and beer. Thanks to Jason Mosley, mrbaconpants.com himself,…
Hungry yet?We’re working up our appetites for our huge Best of Phoenix issue, out September 30, with daily servings of Chow Bella’s 100 Favorite Dishes from across the Valley — in no particular orderLeave your suggestions for upcoming favorites in the comments section.Visit our sister blog, Jackalope Ranch, for a companion series on 100 Creatives who make…
Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?A Chocolate AffairFor all you chocolate lovers out there, every Saturday the JW Marriott will be hosting “A Chocolate Affair,” a cooking class all about chocolate. The class will be held in the brand new Champs Kitchen…
There is a dish that was unknown to us before moving to the Valley. You’ll think us deprived (and rightly so) but carne adovada is this recent discovery. Naturally we think it’s delicious. The simmering sauce, the fork tender meat; how could we do anything but devour it? Now we…
Zen 32, restaurateur Lenny Rosenberg’s Japanese-themed eatery and bar at 32nd Street and Camelback, will close August 31, when the current lease expires.Rosenberg planned to renovate the space and change the concept, but says, “we found out at the last minute that the costs came in exorbitantly high.” Rather than continue,…
The seemingly vast community of bartenders in the Valley is smaller than you might think; Greg Murphy got his start at Merc Bar, serving drinks alongside Simon Alam and Sean Snelling. He now crafts cocktails at Scottsdale’s W Hotel (7277 E. Camelback Road, 480-970-2100), where he’s been since the opening on…
“Cupcake smack down” is the prominent theme on the twitter account for Cupcake Love-In, posted this week in sync with the launch of a Valley culinary event celebrating sweet treats. Our Zach Fowle — Phoenix darling of eating contestants and author of our own Feast of Fury series — says game on!…
