Talk about friends with (food) benefits. Ethan Adeland of the food blog, Tastes Better With Friends, decided to celebrate his friend’s birthday by making her a sweet treat trio of the more adult kind: cakes shaped like hot dogs and covered in three flavors of boozy frosting. Adeland’s three kinds…
Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing our 100 Favorite Dishes with you. Now we’re back – with the 2011 edition. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments section or email laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com 85: Mushroom…
Yesterday, Michele Laudig, ex-restaurant critic and food blogger for Phoenix New Times, launched her own blog. And it looks amazing. With an orange banner reading Michele Laudig, Agent of Secrets – Eater of Culture, Laudig’s blog (once you get past the beautiful photography) tells tales of the high-tech new Macallan ice…
If there’s one food item that can turn us into machines of unbridled consumption, it’s bread. So this week’s “Cafe” column had us eagerly anticipating a trip to Kitchen 56 in Arcadia right from the mere mention of pan borracho. Food Critic Laura Hahnefeld on Kitchen 56: There’s much to…
Summer in the Valley means wearing more sunscreen, drinking extra water and wide-brimmed hats. It also means tomatoes, corn, cukes and summer squash — all the luscious summer vegetables we dream about all winter as we down those roots and greens. Those farmers are our there bustin’ their butts in…
This Saturday, June 4 marks the Grand Opening of Xtreme Air Jump n’ Skate Park, a new 34,000-square-foot indoor skateboarding and parkour venue at Pecos & McQueen in Chandler. To give parents something to do while their kids are thrashing and grinding the rails, the owners opted to include a…
Oh, San Francisco. Isn’t it enough you have beautiful weather, cutting edge music, emerging restaurants, and Fisherman’s Wharf (okay, not Fisherman’s Wharf, that place is gross.) Now you come along with this kick-ass cake at the rooftop coffee bar of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Called the “Mondrian…
Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing our 100 Favorite Dishes with you. Now we’re back – with the 2011 edition. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments section or email laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. 86: Barra…
There’s much to be said about the rare opportunity to dine in denim with an ahh-inducing view of Camelback Mountain — too bad I couldn’t say a word of it at the table. I was too busy shoveling forkfuls of pan borracho, or drunk bread, a glorious baked concoction of…
What the fattoush is a fattoush salad?! In the simplest of terms, traditionally it’s a salad made to utilize pita bread that is going stale. It doesn’t sound so appetizing in those words, but that’s why the pita bread for the fattoush salad is traditionally fried. We all know most…
Take pictures of your food much? Um, yeah, we all do. Now there’s a simple new app for iPhone users that combines your food photos with a health and happiness meter and does away with scales and calorie counts. Clean and simple, Foodish takes your food and drink photos and…
Northern Nevada’s award-winning pizza has made its way to The Valley of the Sun just in time for summer. The family owned and operated Brugos Pizza Co. recently opened its first Arizona location in the upscale digs of the Esplanade business and retail complex. Christina and Troy McDonald opened their…
Okay, you can uncross your fingers now. Mary Coyle, the landmark Phoenix ice cream parlor, is staying open. Two weeks ago, I reported that an employee of the 60-year-old establishment told me Mary Coyle’s did have a buyer and, barring any paperwork snags, they hoped to be back in business…
courtesy of FnB Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing our 100 Favorite Dishes with you. Now we’re back – with the 2011 edition. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments section or…
Looks like a fresh coat of pale yellow paint wasn’t enough to lure customers into the seemingly cursed building of Rural just north of Broadway. Plaza Bonita opened its eighth Arizona location just five short months ago in the old pink Tres Margarita’s building (a daring move after a man was…
Looks like Mill Ave. is back to having just one sushi joint again. Open for just under a year, Kanpai closed its doors last week — or, according to sources, had their doors closed for them after they couldn’t make rent. Who would have guessed that a sushi bar with…
When it comes to creating one-of-a-kind cakes for ginormous events, most of us would add our own sweat to the list of ingredients. Not chef Tracy DeWitt, an instructor at Scottsdale’s Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, self-described sugar artist, and five-time competitor on Food Network Challenge. DeWitt will…
Sounds as if Scottsdale residents will soon be getting a taste of their own drool-worthy ‘cue from Stacy’s Smokehouse, the tiny, no-frills purple building on Indian School Road and 16th Street. Between bites of rib tips smoked over almond and hickory wood and doused in Stacy’s sugary-sweet sauce, I recently…
How many Mexican food restaurants can you fit into one city? Not enough, in our opinion. Which is why we’re welcoming Black Chile Mexican Grill, another multi-unit concept to recently join the Biltmore Fashion Park restaurant repertoire of chains. The original Black Chile branch is located in Minnesota, and now the owners…
Whether you’re a CSA devotee, a farmers’ market weekender or consider ketchup a veg, we’ll bring you fresh inspiration for how to prepare our local produce.This week’s harvest: Zucchini These mild-tasting, phallic summertime beauties are ready for harvest now. We’ve been enjoying gazing at their pretty yellow flowers and now…
Last year we marked the hundred day countdown to Best of Phoenix by sharing our 100 Favorite Dishes with you. Now we’re back – with the 2011 edition. Have a suggestion for a dish you’d like us to try? Leave it in the comments section or email laura.hahnefeld@newtimes.com. 88: Chicken…
Who says London tea parties and fine, fresh, and fierce California girls don’t mix? Not Emma Thomas, more commonly known as Miss Cakehead and creator of the adults-only cake shop Eat Your Heart Out. Inspired by Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” video, Miss Cakehead has once again decided to turn high tea…
