Category: Awards & Accolades

Anthony Serrano, chef and owner of El Palacio Mexican Restaurant & Cantina in Chandler, won one of 10 category championships at the World Food Championships in Orange Beach, Ala., on Sunday. Nearly 400 professional and amateur chefs squared off at the

Barrio Cafe in Phoenix ranks No. 1 on a list of the 10 Best Mexican Restaurants in America compiled Tabelog, an online community of food lovers. Tabelog says of Barrio Cafe, which was the only Arizona restaurant to make the list: “Preparing some

The awards keep coming for Little Miss BBQ in Phoenix. Gayot is the latest to honor the two-year-old Phoenix ’cue joint. The website, which reviews restaurants and hotels, named Little Miss one of the top 10 barbecue spots in the U.S.

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

Time Out magazine has come out with a list of the ‘‘Best Chinese restaurants in America,’’ and it includes a Chandler restaurant. At No. 12, you’ll find the longtime House of Egg Roll, which got new owners last May and has become

Congrats to Craft 64 in Old Town Scottsdale for being named the top new restaurant and/or bar in Arizona in 2015. Nightclub & Bar magazine partnered with Yelp to choose the “Top-Rated New Hot Spots from 2015” – one in each

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.

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,

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

It’s food award season in the Valley, and local newspapers, magazines, and websites have been tripping over each other trying to tell you about the Best Place to Find Cronuts Before We Arbitrarily Decide Cronuts are No Longer Trendy. Not

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