After a long day in the kitchen, even the most accomplished chefs can be forgiven for outsourcing. From guilty after-work pleasures to aspirational tasting menus, find out where the Valley’s top culinary creators love to dine when they get a minute.
Friends since 2006, chef Chris Bianco and his doctor Frank Agnone chat about finding the perfect doctor-patient relationship.
Locals in the national news cycle. Mike Watkiss The former 3TV journo is credited for pulling back the curtain on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the early aughts. Watkiss is once again on the world stage in the new Netflix docuseries Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, about the secretive polygamist sect. Chris Bianco Hot on the heels of his second James Beard Award, this time for Outstanding Restaurateur, the illustrious...
James Beard-Nominated Baker Mark Chacón spends a few moments discussing what he learned from Chris Bianco and why Phoenix is home.
When Tony Andiario left Tratto four-ish years ago, I worried that the place would not be the same without him. Then Cassie Shortino, who had been working for Cullen Campbell at Crudo before it closed, stepped in and filled those shoes like a boss. I remember arguing back then with a food-loving pal of mine about the virtues of Andiario’s elegant chicken liver mousse versus Shortino’s far more rustic seared chicken livers with strawberry jam...
The demise of her favorite Christmastime tradition puts our columnist in a holiday funk – and makes her fret over the future of local business.
Paradise Valley creator Shanna Israel considers herself somewhat of an artistic chameleon. She blends into each of her pieces to let the story behind them converse with the audience. “You’ll never know that my pieces come from the same person,” Israel says. One recurring theme is impossible to squander in all her artwork, though – the purpose behind it. Israel often collaborates with other people in the Phoenix community to produce story-based art and raise...
