This week we’re talking with Chef Lefty of Limelight Dipping Bar and Grill. Yesterday he shared how he got started in the culinary industry and today he’ll talk about his passion: people. Why did you choose the name Limelight? I had two ideas in my head. The first idea in…
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, some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that have just opened,…
Lately, in this In Season series, we’re taking a look at what I take home from Crooked Sky Farms each week and see what I’ve done with my CSA share, or part share. This week I’m using zucchini…
Holy oceans, that’s a lot of shellfish. Last week, Phoenix-based Eddie V’s Prime Seafood, a luxury chain of eight restaurants in Arizona, California, and Texas (with one location in the Scottsdale Quarter), and Wildfish Seafood Grille, Eddie’s sister chain of three restaurants in the same three states (with one location…
Looking for a way to walk off all those eats from the Phoenix Food Truck Festival? Why not peek into some cool spaces nearby courtesy of the First Annual Evans Churchill Interesting Interiors Tour — after all, the home of Valley legend and Barrio Cafe chef and owner Silvana Salcido…
After three years of attempting to give shoppers shoppers a quick place to buy prepared foods, a la Fresh & Easy, the retail giant Walmart is closing all four of its Marketside stores this Friday. The 16,000-square-foot stores, located in Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, and Tempe, offered, along with prepared foods,…
There’s plenty of room in the limelight at Scottsdale’s first dipping bar but you’ll have to share it with a pretty big character: Executive Chef Lefty Karropoulos. Chef Lefty, as he’s known to most, isn’t the reclusive, I’m-too-into-my-food-to-talk-to-you kind of chef you have to drag out of the kitchen. Most…
Big Earl’s BBQ got some mad TV love this weekend when Adam Richman and his 16-person crew of Travel Channel’s Man v. Food Nation, (the evolution of Man v. Food, in which Richman recruits locals to take on food challenges instead of doing them himself) paid a visit to the…
CityScape announced today that restaurant mogul Sam Fox will be adding a new gourmet market to his roster — and it just so happens to be in the exact same spot as CityScape’s recently opened Oakville Grocery. Sam Fox, of Fox Restaurant Concepts, and Ashley Young, owner of Chloe’s Corner at Kierland…
Those with memories like a steel trap will remember Brugos Pizza, the family-owned gourmet pizzeria with locations in Carson City and Reno, Nevada, made a brief and ultimately failed appearance in Central Phoenix at the Camelback Esplanade — opening in April then quickly closing in July. Now, it appears owners…
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Aztec Couscous Salad is one vegetarian dish that anyone can enjoy. It makes a great lunch, light dinner, or side dish, and it’s quick to toss together with roasted peppers, corn, black beans, and more.
Move over, Pumpkin — an often overlooked sugar bomb has taken over a vast majority of the foodie interwebs recently. The telltale white, orange, and yellow stripes of the Candy Corn have managed to make their way into everything from cupcakes to cocktails and even onto a pizza. Take a gander…
It would be sacrilegious to write about dessert in this town without mentioning Tracy Dempsey. With that in mind, we headed to Citizen Public House to see what happens when a bacon-obsessed restaurant meets up with a pastry chef who’s known for her Bacon Pecan Brittle.
The Arizona State Fair opens today, and it seems my Chow Bella chums thought it would be a good idea to have our very own fair food showdown to properly kick off this 18-day event of livestock, concerts, crazy-ass rides, and, most notably, crazy-ass foods. Each day this week, a…
we went on a little bit of a rant about a bacon wrapped matzoh ball. It was just too much and we couldn’t contain our disgust any longer. Of course we still love bacon, but we don’t want to write about bacon or even look at photos of bacon, we…
Tired of the same old tired orange chicken and California rolls? Want to venture beyond the standard suburban-stale take-out? Here comes Chop PHX, with the Valley’s rarer Asian offerings. This Week: Topokki from Paldo Market The Basics: Aggressively chewy rice cakes, tteok, thin pieces of Korean fish cake called eomuk,…
Did you know that there’s a whole community of individuals who source their meals at home from dumpsters? These are people who have homes, kids…cars. They just happen to find their steak and eggs from major food suppliers who can’t sell or keep the food in the stores for one…
In June, FnB went FnBYOB due to problems with its liquor license. And for the award-winning restaurant in Scottsdale known for pairing great food with the highest-quality Arizona wines, the summer must have seemed longer than usual. No more. As of today, the signs are coming down and things can…
If you’ve had quite enough, thank you, of hi-tech food manipulation techniques and long for simpler, perhaps more barbaric times when you might drown sparrows in brandy to prepare it for roasting or order a Mexican chicken tamale from a NYC street vendor made with ground veal, meet your newest…
With the Arizona State Fair headed our way tomorrow, we at Chow Bella decided on our latest challenge: Create a “fair food” that kicks it up a notch No one dared to cook with bugs, but we did have some creative entries. Check back later this week, when critic…
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, some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that have just opened,…
