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Desert Digest Food & Drink4 Late-Night Dining Options Around the Valley

Angel GonzalezSeptember 16, 2021

Casey Moore’s Oyster House | Photo by Brian Goddard Phoenix’s diverse culinary landscape provides plenty of ways to satisfy late-night food cravings beyond fast food or national chains. If you’re a night owl who wants to try out a new dining destination open until midnight or later, here are four options in each corner of the Valley. For even more options, check out our Ultimate Late-Night Eats Guide. Brenda’s Inferno (Phoenix) Open until midnight...

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Desert Digest Food & Drink6 Soups to Try This Fall

Leah LeMoineSeptember 16, 2021

Soup’s on! Order extra bread, chips or pita to dunk in these scratch-made slurries that smack of autumn in the Valley. Pozole Rojo Regulars at Arcadia’s CRUjiente Tacos impatiently await the autumnal return of chef Rich Hinojosa’s legendary pozole ($9). It’s rich with pork, red chile and hominy. crutacos.com Matzo Ball Soup Feeling a cold coming on? Fill your prescription for Jewish penicillin ($3/cup, $5/bowl) at Miracle Mile Deli in CenPho. miraclemiledeli.com Broccoli, Spinach &...

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Desert Digest Food & Drink5 New Dishes We Can’t Wait to Try This Fall

Madison RutherfordSeptember 15, 2021

T. Cook’s Burger | Photo courtesy J Lauren PR Fall is finally here and with it comes seasonal dishes! Here are five brand-new menu items from local restaurants that we can’t wait to try in the next few months. Smoked Salmon Avocado Toast from North Italia This healthy brunch dish won’t be available until October, but that won’t stop us from drooling over its decadence. It features avocado, smoked salmon, arugula, basil, watermelon radish...

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Desert Digest Food & DrinkBeer of the Month: Simple Machine Tap That Hazy IPA

Craig OuthierSeptember 15, 2021

Are you familiar with the humorous autumn adage “It’s decorative gourd season, motherf*&%ers”? In Arizona, we have our own version of the saying, in which the “decorative gourd” is simply replaced by “prickly pear.” Fighting past the cactus fruit’s famously nettlesome needles, food-oriented folk love turning the fruit’s viscous pulp into jellies, cocktail additives and – in the case of this collaboration between Simple Machine Brewing Co. and the Tap That AZ podcast – a...

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Desert Digest Food & DrinkCelebrate National Mezcal Week with These Smoky Sips

Madison RutherfordSeptember 14, 2021

Smoke Show | Photo courtesy Belle’s Nashville Kitchen It’s National Mezcal Week and to celebrate, we curated a list of local cocktails that contain the famously smoky agave spirit. Whether you prefer fruity, floral, spicy or sour flavor profiles, each of these tasty tipples beautifully showcases mezcal’s signature char. Smoke Show from Belle’s Nashville Kitchen Thanks to passion fruit puree, hibiscus-infused simple syrup and orgeat, this tangerine-hued drink features a fruity flavor profile...

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Desert Digest Food & DrinkFirst Dish: 36 Below

Madison RutherfordSeptember 14, 2021

When UnderTow, Phoenix’s premier underground cocktail lounge, moved from below Sip Coffee & Beer in Arcadia Lite to Century Grand next door, we’ve all been curious about what would occupy the intimate, 600-square-foot subterranean space. Would it be something equally as immersive? Would it offer similarly unique cocktails? Our questions were answered in early July when 36 Below, a Walipini greenhouse-inspired speakeasy officially opened. The new bar is the brainchild of Sip owners Josh Katz...

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Desert Digest Food & DrinkSanTan Spirits Launches SunSplash Canned Cocktails

Madison RutherfordSeptember 13, 2021

SanTan Spirits is making a splash in Arizona and beyond with a tasty trio of canned cocktails perfect for sipping in the sunshine. Aptly named SunSplash, these ready-to-drink vodka sodas came out in July and combine SanTan’s award-winning vodka with fun flavors – cherry lime, watermelon and white peach. SanTan’s sales manager, Alejandro Fontes, says the SunSplash concept has been years in the making. Fontes, who has been with the brewery and distillery for nearly...

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Desert Digest Food & DrinkLocal Coffee Spotlight: Pair Cupworks

Marilyn HawkesSeptember 13, 2021

When Kimhak Em and Eugenia Tai opened their brick-and-mortar coffee café, Pair Cupworks, in February 2020, they had no idea that three weeks later, they would be forced to close due to the pandemic. Rather than focusing on all the negative aspects surrounding the closure, Em turned it into a positive. During the shutdown, Em made in-person deliveries of whole coffee beans to customers in the area. “So when we reopened, we had already established...

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Desert Digest Food & Drink3 Best Things We Ate Last Week

Nikki BuchananSeptember 13, 2021

Photo by Nikki Buchanan Chaufa Combo at Taste of Peru If you’re thinking this Peruvian dish looks remarkably like good old fashioned Chinese fried rice — but with more meat — bingo! That’s exactly what it is. “Chaufa” is a loanword from Cantonese that means “fried rice.” The Peruvians co-opted this dish from the Chinese laborers who worked on plantations and built railroads in Peru in the late 19th Century and early 20th...

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Desert DigestThis Truffle Cheeseburger is One of The Best in the Valley

Matthew JohnsonSeptember 10, 2021

And it may be the best burger I’ve ever had in my life.

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Desert Digest podcastDesert Digest Ep. 16 with Chef Brian Peterson of Blue Hound Kitchen & Cocktails

Matthew JohnsonSeptember 9, 2021

Peterson offers advice on cooking techniques including sous vie and brining, a must listen for at-home chefs!

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Craft BeerPour Through This List of New Craft Beer Releases

Matthew JohnsonSeptember 9, 2021

Here are some of our favorite new finds around Phoenix.

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Desert Digest Food & DrinkAugust 2021 Restaurant Openings and Closings

Marilyn HawkesSeptember 3, 2021

Openings The Caspian Cup Gourmet shaved ice, popsicles, ice cream, handmade drinks and virgin Jell-O shots headline this San Tan Village sweet shop. 2268 E. Williams Field Rd., Gilbert, 623-401-2720, thecaspiancup.com Flaming Pig This Phoenix Filipino restaurant features barbecue on sticks and platters along with rice and noodle-based dishes, soup, appetizers and house specials. 1534 W. Camelback Rd., Phoenix, 623-999-7446, flaming-pig.com Fryd Bird Your one-stop shop for fried chicken is now open in Fiesta Commons...

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Desert Digest Food & DrinkCharacter Distinctive Dining Has Closed

Nikki BuchananSeptember 2, 2021

If you never quite got around to visiting Character — Peter Kasperski and Richie Moe’s cool New American in Roosevelt Row — it’s too late. You missed out. The restaurant, which opened late last November, has permanently closed. When I reached out to Kasperski about the news I’d heard, he sent me a text which said, “Despite the glowing reviews from food writers (thank you again), bloggers, Yelp, and local patrons, we couldn’t make the...

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Craft BeerThis Week in New Craft Beer Releases from Arizona Breweries

Matthew JohnsonSeptember 2, 2021

You do not want to sleep on the new craft beer releases in September.

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