The push to buy local and eat organic has spurred on a cottage industry in Arizona. A handful of companies in the state have jumped into the fray of home-delivery services, bringing the farm to the suburbs. “It’s wonderful seeing change,” said Kathyrn Porter, whose Vail-based Matt’s Organic Home Delivery Service has seen an increase…
Restaurants are starting to recognize a growing dining trend that might not be good for business. Folks sit down at the table and immediately pick up their cell phones. Many never put them down. “I don’t get it.” Said Raoul Villa, a manager at Flagstaff’s Dara Thai restaurant. “People are so taken by their phones, there’s…
Tucson holds a weekend-long celebration to remember its dead. Sedona has a small gathering in a shopping center for Día de los Muertos. And in Tubac for the first time they are celebrating at a town park, resurrecting a festival that has been largely absent for years. But no matter where they celebrate and how,…
It’s Friday night and you have a date. Drop your dinner reservations and forget buying tickets on Fandango because now you can visit one of Arizona’s dine-in theaters, instead. Dine-in theaters combine restaurants and movies. Instead of nibbling on popcorn and M&Ms in your stiff theater seating, you can sit back in a comfy recliner…
Fast-casual pizzerias, the kind that let you build your own pizza and have it ready to eat in three minutes or less, are popping up throughout Arizona. Tucson alone has seen three fast-casual restaurant open since early August — two of them located across the street from the University of Arizona campus and the third a…
