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Category: Awards & Accolades

Arizona gets skunked again at James Beard Awards

For the ninth consecutive year, Arizona will not have a James Beard Award-winning chef or restaurant. Even worse, this year we don’t even have a finalist. The culinary world’s equivalent of the Oscars announced its three to five finalists in

Top 10 favorite new restaurants that opened in the East Valley in 2015

There’s a decidedly global flavor to my 2015 list of favorite new restaurants in Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert, and Mesa (restaurants listed in alphabetical order): BP Street Cafe What: Malaysian food, sorta where Chinese meets Indian. The menu is split between rice and rice dishes.

AZ Wilderness, Derek Osborne top 2015 ASHy Award winners

The Arizona Society of Homebrewers, the largest homebrewing club in the United States with more than 500 members, handed out its 2015 ASHy Awards over the weekend. The fourth annual awards, voted on by members, recognize not only club members’ accomplishments,

Chandler restaurant named third-best in entire country

Kai Restaurant at the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort in Chandler is the third-best restaurant in the entire country, according to OpenTable. The online restaurant-reservation service just released its annual list of the Top 100 restaurants in the United States, based on

Binkley, Badman, Fox & Pizzeria Bianco make Beard Awards semifinalists

Kevin Binkley from Binkley’s in Cave Creek and Charleen Badman from FnB in Scottsdale are among the semifinalists for Best Chef Southwest in the 2015 James Beard Awards, the culinary world’s version of the Oscars. In other categories, Sam Fox of

AZ Restaurant Association hands out Foodist Awards

The Arizona Restaurant Association unveiled its second annual Foodist Awards winners tonight at the Montelucia Scottsdale. The awards “honor the culinary minds that have helped shape Arizona’s vast culinary landscape.” Craig DeMarco and Lauren Bailey, the pair behind Postino and