Endia Fontanez
Food and Dining Reporter at AZCentral.com
Food and Dining Reporter at The Arizona Republic
Food & Dining reporter @azcentral • AZ born and raised 🌵 ASU 🎓• [email protected]
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3 days ago |
azcentral.com | Bahar Anooshahr |Ed Masley |Endia Fontanez |Bill Goodykoontz |Michael Salerno |Dina Kaur | +1 more
In February 2025, The Arizona Republic published 100 essential restaurants, and it included both relative newcomers and longtime favorites, including a few historic haunts that laid the foundation for the city's diverse and ever-evolving dining scene. These restaurants have stood the test of time — some for decades — serving everything from Sonoran birria and Japanese comfort food to New York-style deli sandwiches and fry bread tacos.
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1 week ago |
azcentral.com | Endia Fontanez
Yotaka Martin, chef of Lom Wong in Phoenix, won the 2025 James Beard Award for Best Chef — Southwest. Several Phoenix chefs congratulated Martin on social media. Yotaka Martin of Lom Wong restaurant in downtown Phoenix has won her first James Beard Award for Best Chef — Southwest. The James Beard Awards — the Oscars of the restaurant industry — were announced June 16 in Chicago. Martin grew up cooking alongside her mother in Thailand.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Endia Fontanez
Yotaka Martin of Lom Wong restaurant in downtown Phoenix has won her first James Beard Award for Best Chef — Southwest. The James Beard Awards — the Oscars of the restaurant industry — were announced June 16 in Chicago. Martin grew up cooking alongside her mother in Thailand. Since 2022, she has shared her family and hometown recipes as the chef at Lom Wong. In her acceptance speech, Martin mentioned the small Thai village of San Maket, Chiang Rai, where she grew up.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Endia Fontanez
Pizza is easy to love, whether it's a delivery dinner when you don't want to cook or party food to feed a crowd. It's great as a late-night snack or eaten cold for breakfast. Whether fancy, served at a sit-down Italian restaurant, paired with wine for a romantic date night or bought by the slice and eaten standing up on the street after a concert, pizza always hits the spot.
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1 week ago |
azcentral.com | Endia Fontanez
Three finalists, Il Bosco, Trevor's and Cibo, are competing to win best pizza in metro Phoenix. The final round of voting in the Phoenix Pizza Poll ends on June 22. The Arizona Republic will announce the winner on June 24. Pizza is easy to love, whether it's a delivery dinner when you don't want to cook or party food to feed a crowd. It's great as a late-night snack or eaten cold for breakfast.
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