Arizona Restaurant week happens bi-annually and it’s a great way to sample extraordinary cuisine at restaurants you likely would never book for date night. Ten days to hit 100 participating restaurants in the Phoenix area is not doable, but if you eat out every evening you might be able to squeeze a short dozen in over the time period of September 15th through the 24th. There’s a restaurant list for every city but we’re just going to look at … [Read more...]
Discover Rioja Weekend is here and you do not want to miss this event!
The Discover Rioja Weekend in Scottsdale may well be the haute cuisine event of the fall season! Come out to the Omni Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Montelucia and discover the wine and culinary delights of Spain while experiencing up-close-and-personal celebrity chef cooking demonstrations, wine tasting with Wines of Rioja, wine seminars, a Rose’ brunch featuring Executive Chef Marcos Seville, tapas crawls, pool side wine sampling and wine … [Read more...]
Wine & Dine Scottsdale
If you live in Scottsdale and are looking for a great way to meet new people and support our Arizona wineries, The Winemaker Luncheon Series is the perfect venue! LDV Winery and Los Milics are slated for the month of August and party-goers will be introduced to some fabulous luncheons with exciting Arizona wine pairings. LDV, a 40-acre winery located in Southeastern Arizona has a tasting room in Scottsdale that retails their estate wines, … [Read more...]
Scottsdale Quarter, a cool place to cool off this summer
Temperatures are bumping up so if you are looking for a cool place to enjoy while you shop, check out the streets of Scottsdale Quarter. The misters are on high and there is so much cool mist floating around you will want to stay and shop for hours! So whether you’re headed out to shop at the chain stores like Apple Store, Nike, Kendra Scott, Calvin Klein Performance, Restoration Hardware, West Elm, Sephora, Gap or a handful of other high-end … [Read more...]
New Culinary Experiences come to North Scottsdale
The soft launch of Zen Culinary, a new Asian-inspired restaurant in North Scottsdale, took place in late November and the doors are officially open for business! Be prepared for spices and ingredients from the orient that will tease your taste buds and entice you to come back for more. The restaurant’s founder, Rachel McAuley, born and raised in Thailand is introducing Asian-infused dishes like smoked-tea bass, pineapple fried rice, and … [Read more...]
Fall is in full swing and Oktoberfest is here!
With temperatures in the high 90’s and low 70’s, it’s the perfect weather to head out to Oktoberfest and enjoy German food, music and dance. Oktoberfest celebrations take center stage in Scottsdale, Phoenix, Tempe and Fountain Hills, with some really fun after parties! You’ll definitely want to hit the Beer Garden at the Brat Haus in Old Town Scottsdale, Octoberfest at Salt River Fields in Scottsdale, Phoenix Oktoberfest at Margaret T. … [Read more...]
Scottsdale ranked one of nation’s best cities for a staycation
According to financial website WalletHub, Scottsdale is one of the best places in the nation to have a staycation. The site compared the 150 largest US cities across three key dimensions—recreation, food and entertainment, and rest and relaxation—to determine which offered the most enjoyable and wallet-friendly staycation in the nation. Scottsdale came in at No. 5 behind Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, and Salt Lake City (in that order). … [Read more...]
New luxury resort and retail development coming to Scottsdale
Scottsdale will soon have another luxury resort with a high-end retail and dining development next door. Construction begins this summer on what Scottsdale-based developer Five Star Development promises will be “one of the finest resorts ever built in the western United States,” The Ritz-Carlton Paradise Valley. It is anticipated to be completed, along with a master-planned community that includes villas and single-family homes, by … [Read more...]
7 best places for pizza in Scottsdale
Scottsdale—and the Valley as a whole—has a reputation for exceptional artisanal pizza. In fact, Pizzeria Bianco in downtown Phoenix is consistently ranked among the nation’s best. However, you don’t have to travel to downtown for an exceptional slice. You may not even need to leave your neighborhood. Many of Scottsdale’s pizzerias are just as good if not, by some accounts, better. Here are the seven best places for pizza in … [Read more...]
Scottsdale is a mecca for millennials
If you’re a millennial—someone born roughly between 1980 and 2000—Scottsdale may be an ideal place to live. Travel research website Gogobot recently named Scottsdale the No. 4 best mid-size city for millennials in the nation to visit or live in based on the city’s restaurants, nightlife, art scene, and outdoor activities, like hiking Cholla Trail on Camelback Mountain. “Old Town Scottsdale has a lot going on that is, decidedly, not old,” … [Read more...]
