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Executive chef Jorge Gomez takes great pride in all the recipes he’s crafted for Humble Pie and Humble Bistro, including his updated Caesar salad. “I wanted to create something a little different,” he says. Gomez’s recipe veers from the iconic Caesar with the addition of pickled jalapeños for a “little kick” in the dressing and fried Brussels sprout leaves and toasted panko bread crumbs in the salad. “I want every bite to have a crunch,...

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Just in time for fall, Arizona Restaurant Week returns September 16 through September 26. More than 100 restaurants are committed to this 10-day culinary event in which they’ll offer specific three-course menus at three price points – $33, $44 and $55. “Our Arizona Restaurant Week events are a fantastic deal for diners that want to explore Arizona’s culinary scene at a fraction of what they would pay on a normal visit,” says Arizona Restaurant Association...

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Celebrate National Rice Month this September with these local dishes. Chifa-Style Fried Rice  Chinese and Peruvian cuisines meld in the fried rice ($25) at Fairmont Scottsdale Princess resort’s Toro Latin Restaurant & Rum Bar. It’s chockablock with meat and veg. scottsdaleprincess.com/toro Uzbek Plov A mound of golden rice with carrots and peas is topped with succulent chunks of beef ($14) in this dish at Café Chenar in North Phoenix. cafechenar.com Arancini  How to improve upon...

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On her second trip to Nantucket, a small, isolated island just off Cape Cod in Massachusetts, publicist and Knife & Fork Media president Susie Timm zeroed in on the local restaurant scene. “My objective this time was to relax and dine in some of the places that I had not been to [yet],” Timm says. Instead of bringing her gal pals as she did on her first “girls’ trip” visit to Nantucket, this time she...

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As a wine buyer, one is exposed to a lot of wine. Over the last 13 years at my Valley restaurant, FnB, I’ve tasted thousands of new, strange wines. Two years ago, a distributor brought me a wine from Trentino-Alto-Adige, a wine region to the northeast of Italy. The grape was Teroldego from Azienda Agricola Foradori, and the wine was inky and deeply hued. It had the weight and gravitas of a burly Cabernet Sauvignon....