Eastern Dining

Bear Wallow Café

Wood-paneled, friendly and down-to-earth, Bear Wallow Café is just the kind of place you'd expect to find in Alpine, a tiny White Mountains community…
Western Dining

Chile Pepper

Many restaurants claim to serve home-cooked meals, but they don't. They order frozen or heavily processed foods, reheat them and serve them up — "…
Eastern Dining

TrailRiders

Back in the day, executive chef Tim Cluff worked in the kitchen for his granddad, former Apache County Sheriff Edgar Merrill, who owned a ’60s- and ’…
Western Dining

La Fonda

Rumor has it that firefighters know where to eat. See a firetruck parked outside a restaurant, and — absent an emergency inside — you can bet the…
Southern Dining

Bisbee Breakfast Club

I sit at the curvy Formica counter at the Bisbee Breakfast Club, watching three cooks labor over a packed griddle underneath a giant stainless-steel…
Southern Dining

Renee’s Organic Oven

Before “going green” was en vogue, organic was everywhere and buying local was de rigeur, there was Renee’s Organic Oven in Tucson. Owner and…
Southern Dining

The Hub Restaurant and Creamery

Sometimes, it's good to break the rules and maybe start your dinner with dessert. Walk into The Hub Restaurant and Creamery, and you'll be tempted to…
Central Dining

Cornerstone Bakery

If you want to know what’s happening in Yarnell, head for Cornerstone Bakery on a Saturday morning. It’s where the locals gather to catch up on…