Category food

Top Dog — Valley Magazine — April/May 2014

Before leaving Youngstown, a new restaurant opened in the downtown area that has the potential to be one of the coolest spots in the rebuilding city. Suzie’s Dogs & Drafts is more than a hot dog shop that serves beer. It’s a hot dog shop with a chef that carefully chooses each ingredient available, as […]

Hot, Hot Heat — Valley Magazine — Fall 2013

For this food story, I went and tasted the four hottest wing flavors at the Phoenix Fire Grill and Bar in Canfield, Ohio. Executive Chef Brant Newton was passionate about not only the flavor of the wings, but the combination of flavor and heat he could get from different combinations of ingredients. Reporting on this […]