The Global Ambassador Hotel
The Global Ambassador Hotel Will Have a Huge Rooftop Restaurant
Sam Fox, the restaurateur behind Fox Restaurant Concepts (Culinary Dropout, Wildflower, Zinburger, etc.), is getting into the hotel business. The Global Ambassador will be a 141-room luxury hotel at 4455 East Camelback Road. But with lodging comes dining, and Global will offer five original dining venues, including an 18,000 square foot rooftop restaurant yielding killer views of Camelback Mountain. This will apparently be the largest rooftop restaurant in the state upon opening in fall 2023.
The Tacos Chiwas People Pop Off Cocina Chiwas
Tempe is awash in taco joints. But that doesn’t mean its residents aren’t stoked to hear about Cocina Chiwas opening in the east Valley city sometime in 2022. The owners of Chiwas Tacos, Nadia Holguin and Armando Hernandez, are opening the new concept, which focuses on entrees from Sonora, Chihuahua, and Sinaloa. Cocina Chiwas will be one of the dinin
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Culdesac Tempe, a car-free neighborhood opening in 2022, announced a new restaurant concept from Tacos Chiwas, a popular coffee shop from Flagstaff and an independently-owned grocery store are joining the community.
The $170 million project will consist of 761 residential units, plus retail businesses and amenities spread across 17 acres near the Smith-Martin/Apache Blvd light rail stop in Tempe, according to a recent press release.
As part of Culdesac’s development agreement with the city, Tempe waived its parking requirements, The Arizona Republic reported in 2019. While residents will not have private cars or parking spaces, the retail area will have parking spaces, according to the press release.
Imagine a neighborhood with no cars, no garages, and no streets. Instead, there will be scooters, bikes, public transit and courtyards with BBQ grills, water features, and hammocks, and walkways that lead to the neighborhood grocery store, coffee shop, and restaurant.
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It s decidedly different from the previous occupant, Chef Silvana Salcido Esparza s Barrio Cafe Gran Reserva, one of the first big pandemic casualties. Bacanora is making its own, less formal rules on eclectic Grand Avenue, starting with some damn good guacamole.
Chef Rene Andrade, formerly of Ghost Ranch, teamed up with Tacos Chiwas owners Nadia Holguin and Armando Hernandez (best known for slinging some of the best tacos in town from a shack with a drive-thru at 19th Street and McDowell Road), for the new project. I want to represent the Sonoran Desert, but I also want to take you home. I want it to be like you’re coming to my house and I’m cooking for you, Andrade recently told