Just got the word from chef Matt Taylor at Metro Brasserie that the SouthBridge eatery has changed up its menu. A salad of green asparagus, morel cream, cured lemon, and fried corn; a pork pate banh mi (traditional Vietnamese sandwich on baguette); lardo-wrapped halibut; and duck breast with rhubarb, beluga…
Ever thought of pairing your spicy tuna roll with prickly pear ponzu, or creating a ceviche roll? If so, we’re impressed with your culinary adventurousness — and happy to introduce you to the new Banzai Cowboy Sushi Restaurant & Martini Bar at Scottsdale’s DC Ranch Market Street. This isn’t your…
The Scottsdale Culinary Festival sounds monolithic, but the granddaddy among the Valley’s culinary festivals is surprisingly multifaceted — a dozen different events at 16 different restaurants and venues around town, ranging from casual tastings to semi-formal sit-down occasions…
Got a craving for Pizzeria Bianco lately? Better get yourself down there asap — like, probably tonight — before too many people start cracking open their brand-new copies of Martha Stewart Living. The place is notorious for its wait, but I’m betting it will soon be even longer. Phoenix’s celebrated pizza…
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: LocavoreAZ Dinner at Superstition Farm is an a-moozing experience…
Big changes are happening on Stetson Drive. According to Mari Markogianis of Spaghetti Western Productions — the umbrella for Old Town Scottsdale faves Cowboy Ciao, Sea Saw, Kazimierz, and Digestif — Cowboy Ciao chef Bernie Kantak is leaving the restaurant sometime in the next two or three months to “spearhead a new…
As we move into the season of relentless, broiling sunlight, several of our local farmers’ markets very sensibly take a break until people start wanting to hang around outdoors again. (It’s also a challenge to keep human beings — let alone produce, dairy, or meat — fresh in a little…
Chef Jared Porter tells me that he traded his apron for a tool belt in recent weeks, but now he’s finalizing his menu for The Parlor, the new pizza joint set to open later this month (tentatively April 27) in the old Salon de Venus on Camelback at 20th Street…
New Times writer Ray Stern has more to say about the arrest of Citrus Cafe owner Andrew Paparella Jr. on the Valley Fever blog today — check it out…
The concept of “rustic French cuisine” with a New Orleans edge has us salivating. In her latest Cafe column, Michele Laudig shares our gluttonous desires, though she points out Metro Brasserie & Bar still has a long way to go to live up to her expectations. Food Critic Michele Laudig…
Everything is relative. Compared to Foodbar, the restaurant that used to occupy the SouthBridge space next door to Digestif in Scottsdale, six-month-old Metro Brasserie is a welcome change. I thought Foodbar was a total dud, with an awkward atmosphere and unimpressive food. Honestly, anything would’ve been an improvement, so when…
CenPho is on a roll, yo. After a revolving door of restaurant concepts that have come and gone at the Clarendon Hotel since the departure of Camus almost two years ago, there’s news that chef Doug Robson will be the owner/operator of a new in-house eatery called Gallo Blanco Cafe,…
April Fool’s Day was a week ago, so I guess the news is no joke: Citrus Cafe’s current owner, Andrew Paparella Jr., was arrested by the Chandler P.D. for allegedly stealing customers’ credit card info to order things online and then re-sell them on eBay, reports The Trib. Un-freaking-believable! Hope you…
The Rainforest Cafe at Arizona Mills Mall failed its most recent county restaurant inspection — with violiations including one complaint we hadn’t seen before:…
If you live in the vicinity of 16th Street and Bethany Home, I already envy you for living so close to Richardson’s. And now I hear there’s something new on the very same corner: Luci’s Healthy Marketplace. The retro-modern market sells ready-to-eat meals to go, organic groceries, household necessities, beer…
While downtown continues to break ground on a whole slew of new developments, devotees of desserts will have to wave goodbye as Sweet Pea Bakery (www.sweetpeaaz.com, 209 W. Jackson Street, 602-296-4042) closes its doors at the end of April, just weeks after Danielle Librera, chef and owner, celebrated Sweet Pea’s…
Listening to chef Christopher Gross explain the mind- and palate-expanding sensation of eating “miracle fruit,” I can’t help but think of Willy Wonka waxing poetic about Everlasting Gobstoppers. “You can eat a lemon wedge, and it tastes just like a piece of candy!” he tells me. It’s called flavor tripping…
Six months after it closed unexpectedly, downtown Chandler’s 98 South wine bar has reopened under new ownership. It opened its doors last Friday night, just in time to get some attention from folks attending last weekend’s Chandler Jazz Festival. Chef Brian Ferguson tells me that the current menu is extremely…
You knew it couldn’t stay vacant for long. The historic Cavness House, which housed Palatte until about a month ago, is just too inviting a location. Now there’s word on the new place set to open there in the next month or so, Local Breeze, which will serve breakfast, lunch,…
Attention brew bros. and beauties: SanTan Brewing Company is hosting a craft beer tasting tonight at 6:30 p.m. This is the third craft beer tasting in SanTan’s “Tuesday Night Tasting” series which occurs on the second Tuesday of every month and kicked off in February of this year. Tonight, SanTan Brewing…
This past Saturday, Chef James Porter of Tapino Kitchen & Wine Bar took his popular series of Locavore Dinners one step further by moving from the restaurant kitchen into the great outdoors — specifically, Superstition Farm in East Mesa. When Chef Porter said he wanted to show Phoenix diners where…
Hospital cafeterias are renowned for serving food that’s not so tasty, but we thought such a place would at least follow the rules. And yet the Arizona Heart Hospital near 19th Street and Thomas hasn’t passed a county restaurant inspection since February 2007! The cafeteria has received failing marks…
