Food and Drink: Restaurants, Bars, Night Life and Recipes

These restaurants in the Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona area offer a fantastic scenic view along with your meal. If you are looking for a romantic restaurant in Arizona, choose from these restaurants with a view.

Sometimes you just need some meat. If you find yourself craving a filet mignon, a thick and juicy porterhouse or a prime rib, these Phoenix area steakhouses can satisfy that urge. Of course, you can find a steak at just about any fine restaurant in town, but these are known primarily as steakhouses. For each steakhouse listed I have indicated whether it is upscale or whether you can bring the kids.

Here are six places where you can satisfy your sweet tooth in the Phoenix area.

Here are some things you should know before you go out to eat on Father's Day in Phoenix and Scottsdale.

If you are really hungry or like a lot of variety when you go out to eat, these all-you-can-eat buffet restaurants in Phoenix will let you have lots of food for a very reasonable price.

Here are ten things you should know about Arizona Liquor Laws, including the legal drinking age, hours bars are open, and who can be served alcohol.

Vineyards were first planted in Arizona in the 17th century by Franciscan missionaries. Today there are several active wineries in the state, with over 650 acres of grapes being grown for the purpose of wine production.

Where is the best place to get a great margarita in the Greater Phoenix area? Check out the results of this poll, and vote for your own favorite.

Whether you have children of your own, or you have some young people visiting, you'll want to check out my top restaurant picks for dining out with the kids.

Each year AAA rates the best restaurants in the Phoenix area. Here are the picks for this year. These are the best restaurants in Phoenix and Scottsdale, according to AAA.

See which restaurants in the Greater Phoenix area have been featured on the Food Network TV show The Best Thing I Ever Ate.

There are quite a few fine restaurants in the valley that offer award winning wine lists. Here are the restaurants that received recognition from Wine Spectator magazine for excellence in their wine offerings.

Find books about salsas, chiles peppers, growing your own peppers, and recipes for salsas and other meals using chile peppers.

Casavino Winery is a business in Fountain Hills that assists you in making and bottling your own wine.

Find a good Chinese restaurant in the Phoenix area. There are more than 250 Chinese restaurants in Phoenix.

Find restaurants in Phoenix and Scottsdale that are open on Christmas day serving either Christmas Brunch, Christmas Dinner or both.

Find places in the Phoenix area where you can get a great cup of coffee and listen to live music at the same time.

Here are some of the best resources for getting online coupons or discounts for Arizona businesses and services: groceries, restaurants, attractions, golf and more.

Readers comment on their favorite neighborhood restaurant in the Greater Phoenix area. These our our reader choices for Best Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.

In an area of downtown Phoenix, away from sports complexes and most office buildings, there's an area developing a nice urban lifestyle feeling for young professionals, artists and locals who have embraced the developing urban Phoenix lifestyle.

See which restaurants Phoenix residents like the best. You can submit your favorites, too.

These Phoenix area neighborhood eateries were featured on the Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives television show.

See which restaurants in the Greater Phoenix area have been featured on the Food Network TV show FoodNation with Bobby Flay.

Find restaurants in the Phoenix area that serve Greek, Middle eastern, and/or Mediterranean food. These Greek restaurants are all independently owned businesses.

Here are descriptions and pictures of chile peppers that are commonly used in Southwestern cooking. Includes jalapeños, habaneros, manzanos and more.

Here are ten ice cream parlors in the Greater Phoenix area. There ice cream shops all over the Valley, including the popular Cold Stone Creamery.

This special feature about all things Irish in the Phoenix area includes a listing of Irish pubs.

Looking for corned beef and cabbage, shepherds pie, boxty or some Irish brews? Here are some places in the Phoenix, Arizona area that will satisfy those needs!

Find restaurants in the Greater Phoenix area where kids can eat for free, or for a very small charge. There are quite a few Kids Eat Free promotions in Phoenix.

Lucky Strike is a lounge, cafe, bar and bowling alley all rolled up into one in downtown Phoenix.

Here are restaurants in the Phoenix area that offer Mother's Day Brunch. These Phoenix and Scottsdale restaurants charge for less than $50 per adult for Mother's Day Brunch.

Do you get hungry in the middle of the night? Maybe you can't sleep. Or maybe you just got off from work and it's 3 a.m. Here are some places in the Phoenix area that can help you, 24 hours a day.

These restaurants in the Greater Phoenix area have been featured on the Food Network television show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives with Guy Fieri. These are all one-of-a kind eateries. Some of them might not look like anything special from the outside, but Guy Fieri found something tasty on the inside. They are listed here with the most recently...

I don't proclaim to have the final word on pizza, but I do know that there are many more choices if you are looking for a pizzeria than there used to be. Here are 10 pizza places in the Phoenix area.

Vote for the one of these ten Phoenix area pizza places that would get your top recommendation.

What does the phrase Prix Fixe mean? Here's the answer.

When you come to Phoenix, you have to eat Mexican food, but there are certain words that are tough to pronounce. If you say these correctly, everyone will surely think you're a native Arizonan, or at least that you eat like one!

Here are some restaurant in the greater Phoenix area that offer discount certificates that you can print from home. 15 nice restaurants to take family or a date.

If you became ill after eating at a Phoenix area restaurant, or if you noticed unclean or unhealthy conditions at a restaurant in metro Phoenix, here is how you file a complaint with the local health department.

Sometimes you just want a nice fresh piece of fish, or some raw oysters, or even a lobster. There are plenty of restaurants in Phoenix and Scottsdale that serve fresh fish, including just about every upscale restaurant, whether they specialize in Italian, Mediterranean or just steaks. These restaurants, though, are known specifically for their...

Read a review of Seattle Sutton in Phoenix, Arizona. Seattle Sutton is a food and diet program with distributors in Arizona.

Here are some great Southwestern cookbooks that have Arizona and Southwestern recipes.

Heed these Summer Food Safety Tips if you plan on eating ourdoors, or traveling with food, in the desert heat. If you plan a summer picnic, select the right foods that can take the heat.

See which Sunday brunches are the most elegant in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona.

A local Phoenix business offers classes about tea. Souvia Tea offers beginning, advanced and specialty classes to help people enhance their enjoyment of drinking tea.

It isn't hard to be vegan or vegetarian in Phoenix. Find out what the difference is between vegan and vegetarian.

Looking for a nice bottle of wine? Here are some great places in the Phoenix area where you can taste wines, and then pick up a few bottles to take home.

Where are the farmers markets in the Phoenix area? Where can you get fresh, locally grown produce in Phoenix and Scottsdale? Here is a listing of...

There are several farms in the Phoenix, Arizona area where you can purchase organic fruits and vegetables and have them delivered through their Community Supported Agriculture or CSA program. Find organic farms in Phoenix that deliver.

What does à la carte mean? If a menu says the price is à la carte, how much is it?