If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that we should all day-drink more. So why limit it to weekends? If you’re playing hooky or taking PTO, head to Daily Dose for the weekend brunch treatment on a Wednesday. Spiked coffee, mimosas and sangria – along with select breakfast and lunch dishes – are all discounted from 12-3 p.m. Monday-Friday for Mid-Day Happy Hour.
As stores closed their doors during the pandemic, Metrocenter once again entered the local conversation as a punchline, since no one was going inside the once-relevant shopping center before Phoenix shoppers retreated to their homes. Lo and behold, the almost-50-year-old mall closed for good in late June. Which leaves one question: Will it be a megachurch or for-profit college in its next life?
Co-founders of coLAB Studio, a collective of talented multihyphenates, Matthew and Maria Salenger have made a name for themselves in the Valley as innovative architects, inspired artists and impassioned community advocates. Sustainable, responsible, eco-friendly design is at the forefront of each exciting custom project this creative couple takes on.
It’s hard to imagine putting mashed potatoes on pizza, but it turns out to be comfort food extraordinaire. PHX Beer Co. builds this pizza in a black iron pan by layering dough, mashed potatoes, three kinds of cheese and smoky bacon. While cooking, the cheese oozes down the side and forms a lasagna-like crust. It’s a carb lover’s fantasy fulfilled.
The soy bean curd known as tofu can assume textures from meat-firm to custard-soft. The fiery, classically Sichuan-style mapo tofu at Old Town Taste veers excitingly toward the latter. Jiggling, clean and vegetal, it’s barely there as your teeth glide through – a brief but exquisite sojourn on your way to its soulful sauce, loaded with garlic and chile heat.
Mango Skies founders Matty Steinkamp and Pita Juarez are passionate about social issues that affect underserved communities. Since launching in 2016, Mango Skies has released videos including the award-winning feature-length documentary You Racist, Sexist Bigot, the short Just for a Moment about Phoenix cancer survivor Kate Benjamin, and Playthedocumentary, on the importance of music education.
It’s not just the doves that are crying when viewing Keane’s beautiful 47-foot-wide tribute to The Purple One. It lovingly captures the many phases of the beloved singer’s career. And after you wipe your tears away, you might catch the reflection of a little red Corvette in the mural’s 36-inch mirrored sunglasses.
The three-time World Series champ – a rangy, left-handed starting pitcher with still-formidable stuff and the hitting ability to mash home runs of his own – inked a 5-year, $85 million deal with the D-backs this past offseason. If that wasn’t enough to fill his new bank account at Desert Schools, MadBum also won $25,000 in a Wickenburg rodeo, secretly competing under the name “Mason Saunders.” That should buy him a few new cowboy hats.
Her unmistakably Instagrammable interiors and her all-female design team of multi-talented aesthetes give us major #GirlBoss vibes. But looks aren’t everything for Collier, whose focus on sustainability and functionality give her portfolio of eclectic yet modern commercial and residential projects an earth-wise edge that makes her work so in-demand in stylish circles.
For many of us, breakfast for dinner isn’t a novelty, it’s a lifestyle. If you crave biscuits and gravy and home fries at 6 p.m. or could put away an omelet loaded with chicken, onions, bell peppers and cheese just before bed, Lo-Lo’s has your back with its all-day breakfast menu.
Following in the footsteps of Ansel Adams, photographer Liz Cohen was one of the prestigious winners of a cash prize to help move her project BODY/MAGIC forward. The exhibition, which is scheduled to open at ASU Art Museum in August, explores the ideas of self-expression and sexuality in lowrider culture.
After getting a belly full of authentic Vietnamese pho inside, guests can get an eyeful outside of a potted plant garden with a cracked vase fountain that makes water appear to levitate, complete with plastic goose.
After Scottsdale native Lindsey Reiser graduated from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication, she did a brief broadcasting stint in El Paso before returning to the Valley in 2011 to make her mark on local TV. The award-winning journalist’s passionate delivery of the news landed her a weekend anchor job at MSNBC this past January.
By “old school,” we don’t mean a bowling alley designed in a carefully curated trendy-retro style. Nope. Like your favorite dive bar, Let It Roll Bowl keeps it real – dirt-cheap bowling specials, die-hard regulars, arcade games in the back, and onion rings and mozzarella sticks on the menu.
Rated the No. 1 burger in Arizona by Buzzfeed, this unassuming drive-up wows audiences with umami-laden winners like the chorizo burger: Angus beef topped with a fried egg, tomato and chorizo aioli.
