Nikki Buchanan

2 weeks ago | phoenix.eater.com | Nikki Buchanan |Rudri Patel

Okay, let’s admit it. Nobody really loves spending time in the airport. But when an airplane is the best way to get from Point A to Point B — whether it’s for a business trip, a back-home visit, or a much-needed vacation — travelers could do a lot worse than spending time in the frequently renovated, ever-enlarging Sky Harbor, Phoenix’s airport where amenities abound. Need a coffee to wake up? A fancy cocktail to chill out?

3 weeks ago | phoenix.eater.com | McConnell Quinn |Nikki Buchanan

The Fancy burger from Capital Patty. Capital Patty Where to find burgers worth your bucks View as Map The Fancy burger from Capital Patty. | Capital Patty The burger, despite its purportedly German influence, is more American than apple pie.

1 month ago | phoenixmag.com | Nikki Buchanan

Yasmine Rubio recently opened her first restaurant, Casa de Julia, in Downtown Phoenix – a reasonable career move for a woman who grew up working in her family’s string of Filiberto’s here in the Valley. The shocker is that Rubio is 29 years old, and the restaurant, named for her paternal grandmother, is not a fast-food or even fast-casual operation, but a polished destination restaurant in the historicalLuhrs Building.

1 month ago | phoenixmag.com | Nikki Buchanan

Back in 2019, Racan Alhoch started turning out the Jersey-style Italian-American pizza and pasta of his youth from a food truck he dubbed Saint Pasta. Over the years, he’s garnered a small army of passionate followers and a reputation as a social media rabble-rouser, ready and willing to go off on Yelpers who leave critical comments. He’s extra, no doubt, but there’s something refreshing about his gumption to fight the tyranny of the uninformed.

1 month ago | phoenixmag.com | Nikki Buchanan

Elvira’s Restaurant has been around in one form or another – and in one place or another – for 98 years. That’s no small feat in the restaurant biz. The story of this iconic eatery begins way back in 1927, when founding restaurateur Elvira Rivera plated her first chile relleno in the tourist town of Nogales, Sonora.