From now ’til we publish the 2012 edition of Best of Phoenix, New Times and Chow Bella present 100 Tastemakers — Valley residents who make the cut in our culinary scene. Some you’ll know; for others, it’ll be a first introduction (but likely not the last). While you’re here, check…
When a new spot opens in town, we can’t wait to check it out — and let you know our initial impressions, share a few photos, and dish about some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that…
Every week, there’s a cornucopia of new Phoenix food news, features, and reviews to report here at Chow Bella. If you’re like most people, you probably just don’t have the time to get to all of it. It’s kind of like those burgers at Old Town Whiskey; it just won’t…
“Shel Bourdon is the ‘ying’ to my ‘yang’,” says Stephen Jones, the 32-year-old executive chef of Blue Hound Kitchen & Cocktails of his lead bartender. “She has a complex understanding of flavors and can identify the different layers within each dish.” The 24-year old Bourdon, who moved to the Valley…
In an announcement that must have caused a collective gasp from restaurants in Arizona cities like Yuma, Show Low, and Flagstaff, Check, Please! Arizona, PBS’s popular restaurant review series where Arizonans share dining-out experiences roundtable-style with James Beard Award-winning chef and host Robert McGrath, has announced the program will expand…
Dessert isn’t supposed to be healthy, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be entirely bad for you, either. Pomegranate Café’s large selection of pastries and desserts expertly toes this line, bringing the best of both worlds: indulgence and health-consciousness. All desserts are made in-house from organic ingredients, all-natural…
Despite chef and restaurateur Aaron May’s contention that there had been a miscommunication when he was locked out of his taco shop in downtown’s Cityscape at the end of April after a landlord-tenant dispute regarding back rents, his restaurant, Vitamin T, opened for nearly a year and a half, has…
From now ’til we publish the 2012 edition of Best of Phoenix, New Times and Chow Bella present 100 Tastemakers — Valley residents who make the cut in our culinary scene. Some you’ll know; for others, it’ll be a first introduction (but likely not the last). While you’re here, check…
BBQ, beer, peaches — sounds like the makings of a spectacular time! This weekend is packed full of fun outdoor food events and you better get outside and take advantage of ’em before even just the though of stepping one foot outside gives you a sunburn. Here’s what’s on our…
You might be under the assumption that when the summer heat arrives, the farmers markets shut down. You’d only be partially right. Some crazy folks keep the veggies coming all summer long. Lucky us. Here are six spots in the Valley. Know of others? Please leave word in the comments…
Last time we talked with Micah Olson, he was mixing drinks and running the wine program at Jade Bar, Sanctuary on Camelback’s acclaimed cocktail lounge. He’s now part-owner of the new Italian eatery Crudo. What’s different about this place? Well, I’m the owner, so there’s that. Compared to Sanctuary and…
It’s time to build up an arsenal of tasty beverages to help get us through the summer. Horchata should definitely be on the list. Making your own horchata is the best way to go because you can tailor the drink just to your likings. Every recipe is different. Most use…
Chili. Cheddar. Chicken. Alone, these words are commonplace, but together they make a simple yet delicious sandwich that’s a bit of a tongue twister: the green chili cheddar chicken melt. We’re not talking fancy here, just good eats and great ingredients. Plus, roasted green chilis — is there anything they…
Of all the regions who have their own names for the Alsatian dish flammekueche, I enjoy the rest of France’s best: tarte flambée, which translates as “pie baked in the flames.” Mm, no wonder it’s so famous. Not flambéed, as the translation would suggest, it is cooked in an oven,…
Larry White Jr. (better known as Lo-Lo) has big plans for the original Lo-Lo’s Chicken & Waffles, the hugely successful business he opened in a tiny house in downtown Phoenix 10 years ago. By Labor Day weekend, the fried chicken king will have moved the original operation to a larger…
It’s soft-shell crab season now until the end of summer, which means we’re going to be seeing lots of it on local menus — usually served lightly battered and deep-fried, always eaten whole. The good news? No futzing around with crab-crackers. The bad news? Having to eat those beady little…
From now ’til we publish the 2012 edition of Best of Phoenix, New Times and Chow Bella present 100 Tastemakers — Valley residents who make the cut in our culinary scene. Some you’ll know; for others, it’ll be a first introduction (but likely not the last). While you’re here, check…
A week ago, I tasted my first sweet watermelon of the season. Every year I tell myself that I’ll use more watermelon as an ingredient, but I fall short. I have a curried watermelon recipe that I teach on occasion — it’s my dumbed-down version of a recipe I learned…
If you want to experience the French answer to pizza, you should order the flammekueche at La Petite France in Scottsdale, an Alsatian dish that seems to express everything that the region in northeastern France (not to mention this restaurant) is all about. Also called tarte flambée in the rest…
Restaurant: Coronado Café Location: 2201 North Seventh Street New Brunch Open: About two weeks Eats: Brunch favorites with a twist Price Point: Around $11 to $20 a person Around the beginning of April, Coronado Café, the charming little bungalow turned eatery near the theater and arts district in Central Phoenix,…
Arizona Spring Restaurant Week begins on Saturday, May 19, and ends the following Sunday, May 27, and my response to that supposedly good news is a great big whoop-de-do. If memory serves, we had another Restaurant Week in September. Do we really need two of these blowout tent sales in…
Editor’s Note: We have corrected Phoenix Food Truck Coalition to Phoenix Street Food Coalition. The business: White Eyes Fresh Fry Bread, not your average Indian fry bread, brought to you by Alice Roach and her husband, John. What you need to know: For the past six years, the Roaches have…
