Fellas: Do me a favor, please. Treat your lady to a romantic repast at Quiessence restaurant at Phoenix’s The Farm at South Mountain pronto. This season only lasts so long, and its a superb time to take in chef Greg LaPrad’s amazing farm-to-table, super seasonal cuisine.
Last week, my husband and I enjoyed the cool weather [...]

I find that lunch doesn’t get enough play. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and dinner, of course, if the real family affair. However, a good lunch can really make a pretty decent day into a wonderful day, I think. This is what happened when I went for a delicious midday meal [...]

I’m in love. And his name is Modern Steak. He’s has just enough flash, a sense of humor, dresses well and, best of all, he sure can cook. This just-opened addition to the new Scottsdale Fashion Square wing is the most recent offering from Valley restaurant maven, Sam Fox. If you’ve been living under a [...]

Included in all the excitement of the new wing opening at Scottsdale Fashion Square was the unveiling of Marcella’s Italian Kitchen. The restaurant was chock-full of folks on the wing’s opening day at lunch time (obviously, we weren’t the only ones  who couldn’t wait to get a table and dig in to some Italian eats). We were [...]

Next week is my wedding anniversary (I can already hear your “aww’s”). For this special day, these are a few of my favorite romantic Valley restaurants that I’ll be name-dropping around my husband this weekend.
Different Pointe of View This resort restaurant, at Phoenix’s Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs, is perched 1,800 feet above the Valley. Therefore, [...]

The holiday season is rapidly sneaking up on us. This weekend, I decked out my house in pumpkins and fall leaves, and the store shelves are full of Halloween candy. Before you know it, holiday jingles are going to fill the air. And with the holidays comes plenty of shopping for those special someones, including [...]

As the home of the “west’s most western town” (Scottsdale), Arizona is full of fun, western-style restaurants. This family-friendly crop of restaurants celebrates our state’s good old days–so don your cowboy hats and break out your boots!
Rawhide Steakhouse This steakhouse dishes up “cowboy-size” portions of hearty eats, like mesquite-grilled steaks, barbecue chicken, veal chops, lamb [...]

The Valley is full of amazing, sleek steakhouses. However, The Stockyards Restaurant & 1889 Saloon offers something a bit different. The Phoenix-area steakhouse doesn’t just pay homage to the wild, wild west. It actually was part of the wild, wild west. Stockyards, which is considered an Arizona landmark, was once located next-door to the largest feedlot [...]

Cardinals Training Camp is officially underway in Flagstaff as of last weekend (it ends on August 20). Because many of you faithful Cardinals fans with no doubt be headed north to see the football team prepare for the upcoming season–or perhaps just to get out of this ghastly heat–I’ve prepared a list of my favorite [...]

We all knew that chef Wade Moises knew his way around pasta, thanks to his stint at North Scottsdale’s Sassi. With his own restaurant, PastaBar in Phoenix, we know just how passionate Moises is about pasta–he devoted an entire restaurant to it, for Pete’s sake. And diets be darned, I enjoyed every last carb-filled morsel [...]