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🍫 The annual Chocolate Affaire returns to the City of Glendale February 15-16 at the Glendale Civic Center from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Attendees can enjoy a variety of chocolatiers, confectioners, food truck vendors, live music, craft
🍺 The Southwest’s premier beer festival returns to Salt River Fields this February 15, 2025, with a bonus baseball game, and an expanded lineup featuring 500+ beers, ciders meads and more, including low-alcohol or even non-alcoholic brews. Hosted at Salt
🍖 For the 73rd year, the Laveen BBQ brings together neighbors, small businesses, artisans and more to celebrate the region’s rural roots and serve up some of Arizona’s very best barbecue. “We are one of the largest all-volunteer community festivals
🍽️ Three of the Valley’s top chefs will team up for a multi-course dinner at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 16, at the recently reopened The Larder & The Delta in midtown Phoenix. The chefs: Stephen Jones (Larder & Delta), Bernie
👨🍳 Deuki Hong, chef for The Sunday family of restaurants in San Francisco and author of the new ‘‘Koreaworld: A Cookbook,’’ will team up with Kembara chef Angelo Sosa for a family-style dinner inspired by his Korean-American heritage at 6
🍽️ Tickets for the 2025 Devour Culinary Classic, the Valley’s premier food and drink festival, are now on sale to the general public. The two-day, 21-and-over event takes place Feb. 22-23 at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. General admission is
🎵 Gilbert will launch a new event – the Sound Bites Music & Food Festival – to be held Saturday, Oct. 12, at Gilbert Regional Park. The Gin Blossoms will headline the music lineup. The Black Moods and cover band
🍕 Floridino’s Pizza & Pasta in Chandler will host another of its semi-annual pizza muffin dinners on Thursday, July 18 – this one pairing four new varieties of its signature menu item with four beers from Pizza Port Brewing. Because tickets typically sell
🍽 Ambrogio15, the modern Italian restaurant that recently opened at Biltmore Fashion Park in Phoenix, will host Michelin-starred chef Silvio Salmoiraghi (pictured) and World’s 50 Best mixologist Marco Russo for a one-of-a-kind, three-night dinner series May 2-4. The duo, traveling
👨🍳 A celebration of life for well-known Valley chef Romeo Taus will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 18, on the patio/terrace levels outside Romeo’s Euro Cafe in downtown Gilbert. Taus died Jan. 8 after a brief battle of
• Copper State Beer Festival: Jan. 13 at Riverview Park in Mesa. • A Taste of AZ Festival: Jan. 27 at Salt River Fields in Scottsdale. • Southwest Cajun Festival: Feb. 3 at Dr. AJ Chandler Park in Chandler. •
📅 A Taste of AZ, a quarterly magazine that’s been covering our state’s restaurant scene since 2021, will host its first A Taste of AZ Food & Drink Festival from 2:30-6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, at Salt River Fields in
🍹 Arizona Cocktail Weekend, the longest-running cocktail event in the Southwest, returns to the Valley for its 12th year from Feb. 16-20, 2024. The five-day schedule features brand-driven happy hours, tastings, seminars, and three signature events: The Cocktail Carnival: Enjoy
🎟 Tickets for the 15th annual Devour Culinary Classic, which will be held Feb. 24-25 at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, go on sale to the general public today. The Valley’s most prestigious food festival features samples from more
🍕 The eighth annual Phoenix Pizza Festival will take place Saturday, Nov. 11, and Sunday, Nov. 12, at Margaret T. Hance Park in downtown Phoenix. Approximately 7,000 people are expected to attend the event, which will feature 15 to 20
🥃 Urge Taphouse Kitchen in Scottsdale will host a ‘‘Meet the Maker’’ bourbon whiskey dinner with Charlie Garrison from Garrison Brothers on Thursday, Oct. 26. The Hye, Texas, distillery – the oldest legal bourbon distillery in Texas – was granted
🌶 Jalapeno Inferno Takeout Kitchen & Cantina in north Scottsdale will host a four-course ‘‘Howl at the Moon’’ Tequila Herradura pairing dinner at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28. Check out the food courses and Herradura pairings here. Cost is $75
🍺🍷 Attention, craft beer and wine aficionados! A unique event is headed to the Valley next month. This year’s Terroir Festival, a multi-brewery project created by Firestone Walker Brewing in 2019, will be hosted by Arizona Wilderness Brewing on Saturday,
🌱 The ninth annual Great American Seed Up, a pop-up bulk seed buying event, will take place Friday, Oct. 27, and Saturday, Oct. 28, at North Phoenix Baptist Church on the southeast corner of Central and Bethany Home in Phoenix.
🎶 The Hot Chick sports bar in Old Town Scottsdale will host at special Beyonce-themed version of its weekly Boogie Down Brunch Saturdays this weekend in the wake of the singer bringing her first solo tour in seven years to
🌶 La Ristra New Mexican Kitchen will hold its 11th annual Hatch Chiles Roast at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 8, and Saturday. Sept. 9. The chiles: You must pre-order chiles online or by phone through La Ristra’s Gilbert or Chandler
🧑🍳 Tempe bakery Tracy Dempsey Originals has returned from its summer hiatus and announced its next cooking class will be Sweet & Savory Galettes from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 2. What: Learn how to make galette dough (pâte brisée)
📆 🍽 The Arizona Restaurant Association has announced the fall edition of Arizona Restaurant Week will take place Friday, Sept. 8, through Sunday, Sept. 17. What: Participating restaurants offer three-course prix-fixe menus for $33, $44, or $55 per person (or
The Arizona Restaurant Association announced the spring edition of Arizona Restaurant Week will run Friday, May 21, through Sunday, May 30. Participating restaurants will offer three-course prix-fixe menus for just $33 or $44 per person. Wine pairings to enhance each
It looks like AZCentral.com, the digital co-op of the Arizona Republic and Channel 12, is getting into the food fest biz. The website announced this morning the first-ever AZCentral Food & Wine Experience will be held Nov. 7-8 at Scottsdale Fashion
Umami, the ramen spot in downtown Tempe, has a couple of upcoming events: At 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 16, Kelly Fletcher, formerly of The Revival and House of Tricks, will prepare a six-course menu in the tea room. The menu: Amuse Bouche: Pork and
The Arizona Restaurant Association, organizer of the twice-a-year Arizona Restaurant Week, is launching a new promotion: Arizona Breakfast Weekend. From Thursday, April 30, through Sunday, May 3, participating restaurants will offer one or more of three differently priced specials: Breakfast
You can tell summer is almost over by the number of upcoming fall events being announced this week, including: The fifth annual Chandler Chuck Wagon Cookoff will be held Nov. 7-9 at Tumbleweed Park. The first-ever Scottsdale Spice Culinary Event makes
