Four Peaks Will Host a Vegan Beer Dinner September 23

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 9/17 3:24A Niki D'Andrea

Four Peaks will host its first-ever Vegan Pumpkin Porter Beer Dinner on September 23. The first beer Sasha Raj ever had was Four Peaks Brewing Co.’s Peach Ale. When she was a student at Arizona State...

Liz Brinkman Wants You To Look at Food Differently

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 9/16 2:15A Bahar Anooshahr

Using Health at Every Size (HAES), Brinkman helps her clients listen to their body's cues and discover a new relationship to food. When people come to see Liz Brinkman, it's usually because they want...

Arizona Restaurant Week Fall 2021: Our Critic's Top 5 Choices

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 9/15 2:37A Chris Malloy

Out of many menus, we like these 5. The 10-day fall run of Arizona Restaurant Week is nearly here, September 17 to 26. The whole industry is still feeling the financial and emotional squeeze of the...

The Best Vegan Burgers in Phoenix

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 9/14 2:27A Niki D'Andrea

From bulging black bean sandwiches to portobello patties, here are ten of the best meatless burgers around Metro Phoenix. There’s a lot more to a good burger than meat. In fact, some of the best...

Air Guitar: A Most Excellent Convenience Store Opens in Gilbert

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 9/13 3:13A Allison Young

If Bill and Ted were to design a convenience store, this would be it. At first glance, the name Air Guitar doesn’t fit. It's a modern-day convenience store, minimalist and design-forward and flooded...

Shaking It Up at the Yard Milkshake Bar in Downtown Phoenix

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 9/10 3:47A Robrt L. Pela

The Yard Milkshake Bar piles other desserts on top of its already colossal ice cream treats. I chatted up a little boy at The Yard Milkshake Bar the other day.…

Magnificent Margs: In Search of Phoenix's Best Versions of the Legendary Tequila Cocktail

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 9/9 3:21A Chris Malloy

Where can you find this town’s greatest margarita? A Loose, Tequila-Soaked Quest Where can you find this town’s greatest margarita?…

Vanilla Gorilla, A Craft Beer Bar By a Top Scottsdale Chef, Has Softly Opened

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 9/8 3:00A Chris Malloy

The beer-and-food scene gets a leg up. Last Monday, a craft beer bar and bottle shop called the Vanilla Gorilla kicked off a soft opening that will run most of September. Another craft beer bar, you...

8 Fine-Dining Destinations for Vegan Meals in Phoenix

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 9/7 3:36A Niki D'Andrea

You can enjoy a highbrow plant-based meal, thanks to a handful of elevated eating experiences at restaurants around town. The words “fine dining” and “vegan” aren’t necessarily synonymous, and the...

15 Labor Day 2021 Drinking and Dining Deals in Phoenix

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 9/3 3:58A Rudri Patel

Celebrate summer's end with these Labor Day 2021 restaurant deals. The weather is cooling off (a bit) and the kids are back in some version of school. Football season is about to start, summer is...

The Nile Theater Is Celebrating Its 6th Anniversary With a Vegan Bash

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 9/3 3:47A Niki D'Andrea

For six years, The Nile Theater in Mesa has served punk and hardcore music with a side of coffee and vegan eats. On Saturday, September 4, all those components will converge in the venue’s birthday...

September Food and Drink Events in Greater Phoenix

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 9/2 3:08A Julie Levin

Everything you need to know about this month's food and drink events in the Valley. September's got a bit of everything.…

Here Are All the Phoenix Restaurants That Opened and Closed in August

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 9/1 3:09A Rudri Patel

Taco Boy's opens its second location, Tempe welcomes The Paleta Bar, and three pizza joints open across the Valley. Over the past month, the Valley food scene welcomed Ingo's Tasty Food, Inchin's...

Jenn Baluch's 'Tastes of AZ' TikTok Has Taken Off

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 8/31 3:03A Robrt L. Pela

Food influencer Jenn Baluch thinks video promos are replacing restaurant criticism. In the new world, Jenn Baluch believes, restaurant critics may well be replaced by food influencers.…

Cha Cha's Tea Lounge Felled by Storm

Phoenix News Times Food & Drink 8/30 2:51A Robrt L. Pela

A monsoon storm shut down the popular local tea lounge. For how long? Ashley Hoekstra has devoted her life to setting the record straight about tea.…