We dropped by Chandler’s newest breakfast, lunch and dinner spot recently to get a look at Cork’s baby sister, BLD. The brightly lit space wasn’t exactly jumping for a Saturday night, but when your neighbors are Oregano’s and Rancho de Tia Rosa, competition for dinner patrons can get a little…
Changes are happening over at Sky Harbor International Airport, and we’re not just talking about the otherworldly metal arches that recently went up at 44th Street and Washington in preparation for the PHX Sky Train. The grub offered inside Terminal 4 is also headed for a major overhaul. Last year,…
Sometimes, along with great cinema comes great sandwiches. From Robert De Niro’s turkey on rye in Copland, to Gary Busey’s meatball sub in Point Break, to Clark Griswold’s picnic-sandwich-that-he-doesn’t-know-has-pee-on-it in National Lampoon’s Vacation, here’s a fun little montage honoring moviedom’s most memorable grinders. Follow Chow Bella on Facebook and Twitter. …
IHOP, the breakfast joint chain best visited following an evening of drunken debauchery, recently launched IHOP at Home, a new line of “premium frozen breakfast items that are inspired by the innovative and craveable flavors IHOP is known and loved for.” Huh? IHOP’s new frozen breakfast line includes Omelet Crispers…
Bacon, America’s meat candy, is already pretty amazing on its own. So a contest that challenges folks to make something from what some say is the most versatile meat on the planet truly raises the (bacon) bar. Instructables member and bacon-enthusiast, CopperTwist decided to take a porcine point of view…
If you’ve ever tried to photograph your food at home, you know that it’s tricky business. It looks and tastes so good but then you check the viewfinder of your digital camera and it looks like a yellow-tinted blob. Want to make your images look like what you see in…
If you happen to be in Tucson this weekend, you might want to stop by the Mercado San Agustin for “HotDish in the Old Pueblo,” a pop-up venture by Phoenix’s Lara Mulchay and Joel LaTondress. You might remember Mulchay from Petite Fromage, her (sadly) now-defunct Phoenix cheese shop. The self-described…
High unemployment, businesses tanking, Arnold and Maria splitting up after 25 years of marriage. Dammit, can’t we as human beings get just one shred of evidence that the universe isn’t going to shit on us today? That the recession isn’t causing one more good person to lose faith in themselves?…
They say living in Phoenix is like living in Chicago — only a lot hotter. There certainly are enough Windy City transplants here. And Chicago-style pizza. Now the Valley gets one more taste of Chicago in the form of Spinato’s fifth metro Phoenix location, which opened recently in Ahwatukee. Ken…
How much thought have you given to your plastic coffee cup lid? Not much, we’re guessing, unless you tipped it the wrong way and spilled impossibly hot liquid down your front. And definitely not as much thought as some folks, profiled in a fascinating piece in the Atlantic that includes lots and lots…
Less clown, more coffee shop. That seems to be the strategy surrounding McDonald’s biggest McMakeover in its fifty-plus year history. According to an article in USA Today (The Mickey Dee’s of newspapers!), the fast-food chain is spending over one billion McDollars to transform the majority of its 14,000 stores into…
Marketplace — the latest venture from the Arcadia Farms folks — is basically the restaurant’s original concept, only grab-and-go style. The aesthetic is pure Arcadia Farms: cutesy reclaimed decor like old milk carrying crates stuffed with gourmet crackers, apothecary jars lining the front window, chalkboard menus, and an old wooden wash bin…
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: Fennel When you pick up a fennel bulb at the market and give it a good once over, you nose might get…
Local foodies and chefs — from other cities — are anxiously awaiting tonight’s announcement of the 2011 James Beard award winners in the restaurant and chef categories. Arizona restaurants and chefs were shut out on the list of nominees. But Phoenix did have a brush with stardom at Friday Night’s awards gala,…
Middle Eastern Hummus, Italian Pasta e Fagioli, New Orleans Red Beans and Rice, even Hannibal Lecter’s Fava beans and Chianti transform the modest bean to a stellar ingredient. All beans are seeds that stem from the plant family leguminous. More importantly, beans deliver plant-based protein, are high in fiber, and…
When you’re filmmaker David Lynch and need to promote your new line of organic coffee, talking to a Barbie Doll is just what you do. After all, you’re David Lynch. Available in House Blend, Espresso, and Decaf French Roast. Points deducted for not calling them Wild at Heart House Blend,…
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. Five Tequila Cocktails for Grown Ups Eddie Matney Turns…
As human beings, we all have different goals in life: running a marathon, reading 1,000 books, memorizing the dialogue from The Lord of the Rings trilogy, etc. If, however, one of your life goals is to see your mug bobbling around in the nether regions of a large man in…
Beginning tonight, a new favorite in Old Town Scottsdale will be staying open late. Bernie Kantak’s Citizen Public House is planning regular late night hours Thursday — Saturday, til 1:30 a.m. This weekend’s menu will feature Berkshire spare ribs ($12) and pork tacos with pickled onion ($5) along with regular…
Lord knows Phoenix has various varieties of Mexican comida in spades. Need an Asian cuisine fix? We’ve got that too. Sushi? Check. BBQ? You know it. Pizza? Some would say we have the best in the country. Yet there’s one thing we really haven’t had until now: Cambodian food. Sekong…
Biltmore Fashion Park always seems like its own little self-contained universe. The upscale plaza offers shopping, community movie nights, and a dozen or so diverse restaurants, from national brands like Cheesecake Factory and California Pizza Kitchen to Dr. Andrew Weil’s True Food Kitchen concept and celebrated local chef Christopher Gross’…
Staying in? We’ve got you covered — both on the culinary and entertainment fronts. Now presenting Dinner and a Movie — a guide to a do it yourself evening of food and film. While the 1980’s produced gloss rock hair bands and Madonna, it also hosted an outsider jazz/punk/art scene in Downtown…
