Phoenix Puerto Rican Festival: Tickets, food trucks and more

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 5/17 6:01A Melissa Parker

As the fifth largest city in the country, Phoenix is ripe with exciting events and delicacies from many cultures and parts of the world. This Sunday, the Stratus Event Center will welcome the 17th...

Phoenix restaurant team behind Otro Cafe, Gallo Blanco opens Tesota

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 5/17 5:30A Tirion Boan

Chef Doug Robson is known in the Valley for his Mexico City-style eats. The chef and restaurateur runs Gallo Blanco near downtown Phoenix, the ever-popular Otro Cafe and its sister coffee shop Otro...

Federal Pizza to open second restaurant in north Phoenix

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 5/17 5:00A Sara Crocker

Federal Pizza, the popular uptown Phoenix spot that serves wood-fired pies and craft beer, will open a second location at PV, the redevelopment at Paradise Valley Mall. Construction on the pizzeria...

Phoenix, Maricopa County health inspections: How they work

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 5/16 5:30A Tirion Boan

Restaurant customers are familiar with seeing dining rooms and servers. But what goes on behind closed doors in the kitchen?…

Spring Arizona Restaurant Week menus to try in Phoenix

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 5/16 5:00A Melissa Parker

As many locals know, Arizona has amazing Restaurant Week specials for 10 days twice a year. The weather is heating up and that means it's time to make your reservations…

Best BBQ restaurants in Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 5/15 6:02A Tirion Boan

No matter the region or style, when it comes to great barbecue, you can smell it from the parking lot. An aroma of burning mesquite or hickory hits you as soon as you get out of the car…

Former Bacanora chef brings Scandinavian menu to Phoenix with Nordborg

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 5/15 5:00A Sara Crocker

Longtime Arizona chef Derek Christensen is changing gears, in more ways than one. Christensen recently stepped away from working in some of Phoenix's buzziest restaurants…

Oliver's Modern American restaurant opens at Scottsdale Dairy Queen

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 5/14 7:16A Nikki Michelle Charnstrom

In the early 1960s, Don and Eleanor Voelz laid the foundation for their Polynesian Dairy Queen at 68th Street and McDowell Road. Little did they know, the A-frame structure designed by Ralph Haver's...

Food Network's 'Ciao House' features Phoenix chef Devan Cunningham

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 5/14 5:00A Sara Crocker

A Phoenix chef is one of 12 rising culinary stars who had their passports stamped for Food Network’s latest international cooking competition. CC’s on Central chef and co-owner Devan Cunningham will...

Best affordable restaurants in Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 5/13 6:46A Tirion Boan

Every year, we publish a list of the Top 100 Restaurants in Phoenix. And the list has plenty of high-end destinations to impress a date, treat a friend or spoil yourself with an excellent and...

Best Phoenix food courts and food halls

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 5/13 5:00A Tirion Boan

Food courts bring to mind fluorescent lighting, old-school chains and groups of giggling teenagers. But they can offer so much more than a stale slice of pizza at the mall…

What to expect at Cielo Rojo, a new Mexican restaurant in Phoenix

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 5/10 5:00A Natasha Yee

When a new spot opens in town, we're eager to check it out, 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...

New Valley Sweet Shop is “Not Your Typical Milk and Cookie Company”

ArizonaFoothillsMagazine.com 5/9 7:22A Mallory Gleich

What do you get when you combine graffiti, street art, hip-hop culture, and fresh, sweet ingredients? Cookie Plug, that s what! This fresh-baked cookie company recently opened two new locations in...

Phoenix restaurants raise money for Palestinian relief efforts

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 5/9 7:00A Sara Crocker

As Momen Abdelkarim watched the Israel-Hamas war unfold and a humanitarian crisis develop in Gaza late last year, he felt helpless half a world away in Chandler. Then, the 25-year-old software...

Scottsdale brunch spot Morning Would serves 6 courses to celebrate

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 5/9 6:07A Tirion Boan

While Morning Would is a high-end brunch experience in Scottsdale, the six-course tasting menu is so much more than your typical morning meal in Old Town. Yes, there is a giant Aperol spritz that...