Chef Stephen Jones stuns and delights with the latest, tasting-menu-driven incarnation of his beloved Southern eatery.
Warning: The following could be hazardous to your waistline. From tongue-tingling tiraditos to coal-fired Ibérico pork morsels that will make you weep, relive a singular year in Valley dining with our picks for the new restaurants most worthy of your immediate gastronomic attention. Because they won’t be new forever.
Have you been jonesing for the elevated Southern food that chef/owner Stephen Jones served at his original (but now shuttered) restaurant called the larder + the delta?
Rising restaurant rents cause some local haunts to close their doors – or change their business models.
“You don’t win friends with salad,” they sang on The Simpsons. Clearly, those Springfield silly billies never tried these enticing ensaladas. Chicken Panzanella Nothing wins over a salad skeptic like panzanella, Italy’s glorious salad of crusty bread soaking up vinaigrette and tomato juices. Federal Pizza adds chicken ($13.75). federalpizza.com Grilled Watermelon Salad No ho-hum fruit plate at the larder + the delta. Chef Stephen Jones grills his watermelon and playfully pairs it with watermelon radishes,...