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Desert Digest Food & Drink3 Best Things We Ate Last Week

Nikki BuchananNovember 15, 2021

Photo by Nikki Buchanan Key Lime Pie at Lon’s at the Hermosa Inn The weather has been perfect for eating outdoors, and what better place to do that than Lon’s? I had a great lunch there the other day, one of the standouts being this key lime pie, topped with whipped cream, lime zest and toasted coconut. The graham cracker crust was especially buttery, and the tart custard filling, creamy with condensed milk, had...

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Desert Digest Food & DrinkFirst Dish: Beaut Burger

Nikki BuchananMarch 12, 2021

Beaut Burger exterior | Photo by Nikki Buchanan Everyone gets a hankering for a burger now and then — even vegetarians and vegans — which is the beauty of Beaut Burger, a Tucson-based vegan burger joint so successful that it’s recently opened a second location here in Phoenix. Housed in a crisp-looking refurbished shipping container on Indian School just east of 32nd Street, BB makes almost all of its fresh, plant-based food in-house —...

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Desert Digest Food & DrinkFirst Dish: The Vig

Craig OuthierMarch 9, 2021

The Vig Burger | Photo by Daniel Kim The Vig isn’t new,” you’re probably thinking, and you’d have a point. Fifteen years have passed since owners Tucker Woodbury and Jim Riley unveiled the first location of their eating-and-drinking empire (with an emphasis on “drinking”), which makes it an odd fit for First Dish. So why are we here? To taste the handiwork of celebrated Valley chef Jeremy Pacheco, late of Lon’s at the Hermosa,...

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Desert DigestAioli Burger is Not Your Average Fast-Casual Fare

Madison RutherfordSeptember 17, 2020

I should probably preface this by saying I am not a big fan of burgers. It’s been nearly a decade since I last ate meat, and even before my vow to be a vegetarian in my late teens, I didn’t particularly care for most protein. But when I was offered a hosted lunch at the new Aioli Burger on Bell Road, something intrigued me. Perhaps it was the fry flight. I had seen pictures of...

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Desert Digest ListsWhere to go for the Best Burger in the Valley

Matthew JohnsonMay 28, 2020

Thursday, May 28 is #NationalHamburgerDay according to the National Day Calendar and everyone using that hashtag across social media. That gives us an opportunity to look closer at the ten burger joints nominated for Best of the Valley 2020. (Voting ends May 31 at noon)

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RecipesRecipe Friday: Toscana’s Blended Burger Project Burger

Marilyn HawkesJune 15, 2017

For the past few years, The James Beard Foundation has sponsored a contest called The Blended Burger Project to entice chefs into making hamburgers by blending ground meat with chopped mushrooms. The result: burgers that are not only delicious, but also healthier and more sustainable for the planet.

RecipesRecipe Friday: Over Easy’s Loko Moko Hawaiian Breakfast Burger

Marilyn HawkesJune 2, 2017

According to chef Aaron May of Over Easy, too many items on Arizona’s breakfast menus are inundated with Southwestern flavors. “Everything is jalapeños and ranchero,” he says. “You make it spicy. You make it cheesy and then you put it under the broiler and melt the cheese and everybody loves it... It’s a cheap thrill.”