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Following his second James Beard Award win, famed Phoenix pizza chef Chris Bianco thinks about his legacy and what's next for restaurants like Pizzeria Bianco.

French cuisine is chic. These Phoenix and Scottsdale restaurants make it fun and trendy. Heres what to try at Francine, Sottise and Christophers.

Arizona locals share the faux pas they often see visitors committing.

Francine in Scottsdale serves Southern French cuisine from chef Laurent Halasz, the founder of Fig & Olive. It offers date night vibes and great food.

Restaurant Progress chef TJ Culp and Esther Noh are pairing up to bring French food and wine to downtown Phoenix. Heres what to know about Sottise.

Restaurant Progress chef TJ Culp and Esther Noh are pairing up to bring French food and wine to downtown Phoenix. Heres what to know about Sottise.

Melrose, known as Phoenix’s ‘gayborhood,’ might only be a mile-long, but its vibrance and cultural significance can’t be underestimated. Located on 7th Avenue between Indian School Road and Camelback Road, this neighborhood brings color, vitality, and a feeling of inclusivity to downtown Phoenix with its iconic Melrose arch, rainbow crosswalk, and LGBTQ+ friendly businesses. To help you enjoy the very best of this one-of-a-kind neighborhood, we talked Piper M’Shay, the first-ever Miss...

Chris Malloy Sauvage Bottle Shop 901 North First Street, #109 Sauvage Bottle Shop is Chris Linguas wine store inside The Churchill, and its great. It contains the most thrilling selection of wine and wine-adjacent bottles in town. Lingua sells low-intervention wines, meaning natural-leaning bottles. This is progressive stuff, the opposite of your sleepy industrial cab from Napa. Lingua stocks biodynamic ciders, orange wines from the Puglia avant-garde producer Valentina Passalacqua, and exper...

Jackie Mercandetti Photo Anhelo 628 East Adams Street One of the more romantic-looking spots in town is the 1900-built Silva House, home to  Anhelo. Ivan Jacobo is the executive chef at this contemporary restaurant at Heritage Square, and he seems to have a keen sense for the ol "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" mantra. As we reported after our first visit, “Rather than junking old wine, he uses it for braising. He trades carefully managed kitchen compost to Grace Farms in Chandler and gets microgre...

More than a dozen businesses will set up shop inside The Pemberton PHX, as it will be called, according to a December 10 announcement sent to Phoenix New Times, which describes the project as “a new outdoor playground.” Its set to open in January. The collective includes several culinary partners, including Bitch on the Run (Breakfast Bitch Express), Dino’s Pizza Napoletana (the operation that used to be behind Thunderbird Lounge and Restaurant Progress), and Saint Pasta (the Italian ea...