Like canning, foraging is making a comeback in popular culture and in the rarified airs of gourmet cooking. Urban foragers, such as those featured last week in this New York Times article, are driven to use food that’s going to waste in foreclosed property. But here in Arizona, traditional foragers have been…
Cleverly designed blog aggrigators seem to be all the rage – you know, like Pinterest or Tastespotting. Well folks, we have another one for food blog porn, and it’s called Punchfork. Punchfork pre-selects popular food blogs to be on their searchable list. So far they only have 36 and it’s…
La Condesa, the stylish little eatery of Mexican fare in Phoenix, has just gotten an additional punch of panache — it’s added a bar. And not just any bar, this one was custom made in Mexico, is accompanied by cowhide-covered stools, and fits perfectly with La Condesa’s rustic interior and…
Think dining outside in the summer sun sans misters is a lost cause? You might want to read this. Hillstone, the Central Phoenix restaurant and part of the Hillstone Restaurant Group which includes Houston’s in its offerings (the old Houston’s just down the street closed and was reborn as Hillstone…
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. 29: Spam…
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. Jobot Coffee Shop Considering Adding Ramen or Nachos (Nachobot?)…
Phoenix-based artist William LeGoullon was recently featured on the national art/music/pop culture blog, Lost at E Minor for his micro-graph images of the most consumed beverages in the world (besides water): Coffee, Beer, Wine, Tea, and Coca-Cola. His still untitled series of beverage photographs are created using a microscope mounted…
The film is called Chocolate because the young girl at the center of the story, Zen, eats small candy coated chocolates (much like m&m’s) by bouncing them off of her wrist and catching them in her mouth. We added the candy Sixlets to a ginger butter popcorn, that really packs…
Ncounter, the new breakfast and lunch spot on Mill Avenue courtesy of Thom Coker and his wife, Kathy, owners of T.C. Eggington’s in Mesa, was bustling with activity when I recently popped by. It’s a hip but friendly place with a decidedly clean decór, a palette of grays, and pop…
Hooray, south Tempe finally has its very own Oregano’s. The “neighborhood pizza joint” (their words, not ours) has taken up residence in the freestanding building on the southeast corner of Elliot and Priest — a sad spot that has been empty for so long we can’t even remember what occupied it…
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. 30: Al…
It’s not over yet, folks. Cycle, the pop-up venue inside the Lexington Hotel in downtown Phoenix that’s shutting its doors on August 27th, when the restaurant and hotel will transform itself into a boutique, arts-driven hotel and restaurant, has added one more event to its expiring venue lineup. On Friday…
Hungry for Pakistani food? We thought so. If there’s one cuisine type that curries favor with us, it’s Pakistani cuisine. Well, in this week’s reviewed restaurant you get a little Indian and a little Pakistani cuisine as well. We speak, of course, of Curry Corner in Tempe. Food Critic Laura…
Ready for another funny franchise that you may or may not have ever heard of? Well get ready. The Louisiana-based chicken finger chain Raising Cane’s is about to bring its “perfect” box to Phoenix. (Insert “That’s what she said” joke here.) We’re talking boxes of crispy chicken fingers, crinkle cut…
And now we find ourselves smack dab in the middle of August. There is no amount of ice cream, skinny cocktails, or boozy popsicles that will make the tail end of the Arizona summer bearable. Your best bet – grab a cooler and hit the road. Take a drive up to…
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. 31: Egg…
In a small Tempe strip mall, frequented by those searching for a stiff drink or a tough tattoo, sits Curry Corner, one of a handful of Indo-Pakistani restaurants in the Valley. Twenty-something Pakistani students from ASU seem to use it as a regular meet-up joint, smoking cigarettes outside until their…
We ate a spring roll. A summer roll. A fresh roll and a salad roll. Kinda sounds like a verse to a Vietnamese version of Tubthumping by Chumbawamba. Luckily for us all, those are just the many guises of fresh herbs, lettuce, and shrimp (or pork or beef) wrapped in…
This week we talked life and shop with Phoenix food scene veteran Vincent Guerithault. Today he shares a classic Vincent on Camelback recipe. Lobster Chimichanga Ingredients¾ pound fresh lobster meat1 large leek, white part diced1/3 cup heavy creamSalt and white pepper4 flour tortillas, 7″ in diameter2 ounces goat cheese, cut…
Only in France will you find the public’s demand for a freshly baked baguette be so fierce that one of the 33,000 bakeries took advantage of the annual August holiday, where most will close up shop, to install a baguette vending machine. Jean-Louis Hecht’s wife was worried that they would…
Sheesh, not even a week after students are returning to campus at ASU and this headline shows up on the ASU Art Museum website: “Cleaning the meat wall (yes, that says “meat wall”)” Whoa, Sin Devils, how ’bout waiting until school’s in full swing before making us choke on our…
While nothing in the known universe can replace Carlos Santana, the Mexican-born rock guitarist whose band, Santana, broke new ground with its fusing of rock, salsa, and jazz sounds, it appears Maria Maria, the restaurant inspired by the musician, can be — by a beer-craving maned beast. Thirsty Lion Pub…
