Open just over a year, Cala is inside the Senna House, a boutique hotel in Scottsdale. The charming restaurant space, built in the spot that once housed Don & Charlie’s, is owned by Clive Collective, a Phoenix-based hospitality company. With celebrity chef Beau MacMillan at the helm and the young up-and-coming chef Peter McQuaid as…
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A Taste of Tucson
Tucson, Arizona, is only a short hour and a half drive from our home in Ahwatukee, and my parents gave us a great reason to spend an evening there. Pre-Covid, they had dinner at the Grill at Hacienda Del Sol during their visit in early 2020; they liked it so much that they bought us…
Texas Hill Wine Country
Our May 2020 trip to Spain/Portugal was canceled due to the world’s most apparent meanie, which is COVID. Like almost everybody, my husband and I spent the rest of the year hanging out at home with the dog. We were fortunate enough to get fully vaccinated relatively early in 2021 and were eager to get…
Casa Mia in Scottsdale Welcomes you to eat and drink at ‘their home’.
As most of my readers, friends, and colleagues know, I wallowed in my trip to Northern Italy last October. There’s no doubt I’ll go back to Italy. I must explore the central and southern regions at some point in this life. So, why would I choose now to write about the wines of Campania, a…