PHOENIX magazine would like to thank all our guests, volunteers, restaurants, food trucks, breweries, distilleries, wineries and vendors for creating a wonderful and memorable Dish Fest 2025.
PHOENIX magazine would like to thank all our guests, volunteers, restaurants, food trucks, breweries, distilleries, wineries and vendors for creating a wonderful and memorable Dish Fest 2025.
A look back at the best dishes in the Valley served at Dish Fest.
Photography by Stella Subasic, PHOENIX magazine
5 of the best chefs in the Valley took turns showing off their culinary skills and food knowledge.
Topics include our reaction to Dish Fest and our favorite bites from that event; insight into the new Top Docs issue and the featured stories inside.
The third annual PHOENIX Dish Fest is coming to Scottsdale on March 17, bringing with it a parade of the Valley’s most respected chefs and delicious bites
More than 600 people flocked to Dish Fest at Clayton House in Scottsdale to sample bites from the Valley's best local restaurants.
Calling all cuisine connoisseurs: For the first time in three years, Devour Phoenix is back at Desert Botanical Garden! In the culinary extravaganza’s 14th year, guests will enjoy a multi-event experience filled with Arizona’s leading chefs, wineries and restaurants at what The New York Times called the Best Southwestern Culinary Festival. New participants this year include Sin Muerte (chef Vince Mellody), Carcara (chef Angy Dykstra), Rough Rider (chef Ian Herschberg), Sake Haus, Anoche Cantina and...
Fall events and a new fall seasonal beer are coming to SanTan Gardens in Chandler.
Pics so great you'll wish you could lick your screen and taste the food from Dish Fest.
Big changes are in store for the annual food and drink event this year.
Sample sliders for a good cause at Kierland Commons at the 2019 Slider Throwdown, which will take place on Sunday, November 17 from noon to 3 p.m. The burger battle, which features local food truck vendors competing for the coveted “Best Slider” title, will benefit the Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation (AFFCF), a nonprofit that provides programming and scholarships to foster children throughout the state. “Our mission is to help foster children navigate the...
Is there anything better than a festival overflowing with food? No, the answer is definitively no. For food lovers, tastemakers, and trend chasers, food festivals are our Mall of America; a near-endless shopping center chock full of treats, sweets and new eats. To be clear, festivals comes from the Latin festum which quite literally means feast; so, there is no better way to put on a festival than by placing the word "food" in front of it. Regardless of the season, Phoenix hosts several intriguing and uninhibited food festivals that serve the niche and general markets which categorize our various taste preferences. So, skim through our list below and check out the coolest food festivals that are arriving in the Valley soon.
Earlier this month, 14 chefs gathered at The Camby hotel in Central Phoenix for the Rock the Guac competition in honor of National Guacamole Day and benefitting Free Arts of Arizona. Their challenge? Creating different guacamoles designed to stand out.
I know taste testing 14 different guacamoles may seem like a dream, but let me tell you that guac has the tendency to taste more or less the same after a few scoops. But in the name of journalism, I persevered.
The sweetest (perhaps weirdest) take was from Tarbell’s in Phoenix that whipped up a chocolate mousse dessert topped with an avocado mousse/puree. It was tasty but let’s face it, couldn’t pass as guacamole. I can’t say there were any competitors that I flat out didn’t like at all, but my favorite was The Market by Jennifer’s. I loved that the chef used focaccia instead of the hackneyed tortilla chip and how she managed to seamlessly blend many different flavors and textures together.
Below are four guacamoles that stood out, both to me and the official judges, plus a recipe for the first prize winner.