The Aztecs believed our ability to love was a gift from the wind god Ehecatl, who fell for a human girl. Bar Louie returns the favor with a sexy mocha martini inspired by Aztec leader Montezuma’s favorite chocolate drink.
Legends surrounding the origin of the champagne toast are as plentiful as broken New Year’s resolutions.
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It’s local lore that Irving Berlin wrote the lyrics to “White Christmas” while lounging poolside at the Biltmore
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November usually marks the season when Phoenicians can finally turn off the A/C, turn on the oven and maybe do a bit of baking to get a jump on the holidays. But why heat things up again so soon?
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For folks who can’t decide between a frothy brew or frou-frou cocktail, the answer has arrived: beer cocktails. These combos are barreling onto on drinks lists Valleywide, hopping up already-enticing microbrews with a dose of hard alcohol. The recently renovated Iguana Mack’s in
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If you can’t spend your summer whiling away the days on an island paradise, Mastro’s City Hall Steakhouse mixes up a fleeting taste of the tropics with its Get Kraken cocktail. One sip, and you’ll be transported to a chaise lounge under a palm tree or palapa-roof hut, the waves lapping at the white shore while you’re spritzed by a salty sea breeze.
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Cream rises to the top, they say – as old adage that proves deliciously correct in the case of Windsor mixologist Matty Helland’s No. 9 cocktail, a milky-white concoction that beat out a bevy of contenders to win the critics’ pick at the Third Annual Devour Phoenix and Arroyo Vodka Bartending Competition in March. Helland starts with 1 ½ ounces of locally-made Arroyo Vodka infused with coriander seed,
Get a buzz off our Things to Do margarita-making primer in the July issue of PHOENIX magazine? The mixologists at haute-Mex-hotspot Mission in Scottsdale offer this avocado-boosted whistle-whetter.
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Midwestern transplants to Arizona certainly don’t wax nostalgic about shoveling driveway snow, but they may miss summertime memories like fields dappled with violets, bushes heavy with blackberries, and crazy things like going outside in the daytime. Thankfully, a Midwestern expat – the Downtown Phoenix location of Province, which first earned
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