Fly Bye is a casual order at the counter and take out restaurant located in North Phoenix Arizona in Desert Ridge and is soon to be in three locations in Metro Phoenix. This restaurant is one of eleven Fox Restaurant Concept Group restaurants that are in at least fourteen states. On the menu at Fly Bye are snacks like mozzarella sticks and crispy Brussels sprouts. They also offer chicken tenders, chicken wings, salads, a few hoagies, hand stretched pizzas, and Detroit Style pizzas. Bottles and cans of soft beverages, beer, and wine are available.

This is a small place but they do have a some tables inside and a few tables outside.

You order and pay at the counter.

Then you pick up your beverage from the beverage refrigerator and get your napkins, silverware and plates yourself. When your order is ready someone runs your food to you.

We ordered far more food than we could eat in one visit just to try as much as we could.

We started with the roasted buffalo cauliflower bowl.

This is a bowl of fried cauliflower, avocado seasoned with za’atar, tomato, arugula, cucumbers, onions, and creamy feta dressing is in the bottom of the bowl. It’s not bad but neither of taste any buffalo…maybe it was left off? The za’atar is good but it’s only on the avocado….? I wonder why they don’t add harissa here…It could pop with a little harissa.

Next we tried three chicken tenders. They come with a few crinkle fries, ketchup and your choice of sauce. I picked Nashville Hot sauce.

This was my favorite plate here today. The breading has a good texture and seems free of oil. It’s also a lot lighter than they look. Without sauce they do taste under seasoned. But the chicken inside is incredibly moist. I think that the Nashville Hot sauce is very good…..It’s so full of flavors and a little heat. Now I wish I had a pickle…..The crinkle fries are better than I expected them to be and are very fluffy inside and are seasoned nicely.

They offer hand stretched pizza in regular and large sizes and Detroit Style pizzas in regular and large sized. We ordered two pizzas to try and started with the classic cheese regular sized Detroit Style.

The pizza does have nice crispy edges but lacks that cheesy corner. The crust is MUCH lighter and fluffier than any other Detroit style pizza that I have tried. It taste just like Wonder Bread to me……The tomato is a rich tomato taste and the cheese is nicely melted.

We also tried a regular sized hand stretched Lebanese Mom Pizza.

This pizza is made of marinated tomatoes, roasted garlic, spinach, za’atar, and feta yogurt.

The crust also has that Wonder Bread Taste and it is stretched very thin so it’s not too heavy. It’s not a hard crisp bottom and is more like a party pizza bottom. The marinated tomatoes taste about the same as the regular tomato sauce today. You get the feta flavor from the feta yogurt. A little bit of za’atar was used to slightly season it………. It’s up to you to add salt, or a pepper.

That was a little taste of Fly Bye in Phoenix AZ

21001 N Tatum Blvd PHX AZ (next to Albertson’s at Desert Ridge Mall)

www.FlyByeto go.com

602-351-5150

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Chick A Dee is a small Thai Restaurant that serves a limited menu of mostly chicken and rice dishes in Phoenix Arizona. The chicken and rice dish (khaow sun kai) is a traditional comfort food dish that you would find being served on the streets in Thailand. Some of the things that you can get are……..steamed white meat chicken, steamed dark meat chicken, half white – half dark chicken, crispy fried chicken, a combo of fried and white meat, all with mild ginger garlic steamed rice, clear chicken soup, and a sauce. One plate is offered as a salad and they also offer a faux chicken served with purple rice that is vegan. They also offer a few sides. Some of the sides are chicken nuggets called “cluckets,”potstickers, wings, and fried bananas with coconut ice cream. Thai beverages and regular soft beverages are served here.

It’s very casual. You order and pay at the counter. You pick up your tray of food when it’s ready.

While you’re waiting you can read the story about their food.

The food is ready in reasonable time and share a variety of what they offer.

The cluckets (chicken nuggets) are very unique.

They are some sort of formed chicken with a coating that is dusted with a little sugar, flavors and HEAT. They are tasty but are NOT for children….or whimps.

Potstickers are fried and crisp to perfection but are not the main attraction here.

Crispy chicken taste exactly the way it looks. It has a nice crisp coating without any unusual seasonings….We tried the sweet black sauce and it was something very unusual to us and was far too sweet for us. The other sauces they offer are sweet chili, sweet & sour and Thai Traditional (That I liked).

For me the main dig was the dish called half and half (steamed white meat chicken and steamed dark meat chicken with mild ginger garlic rice, cucumbers, Thai traditional sauce and a black sweet Thai style iced tea.

The chicken was steamed but comes out the same as poached. It’s fresh tender and moist. You eat it with the clear soup. I think that the Thai Traditional sauce gives it all the flavors that it needs. My husband isn’t a fan of ginger so the sauce was too gingery for him. But I thought that it was just right.

Traditional Thai Chicken and Rice.

Chick A Dee – Give it a try!

49 West Thomas Rd Phoenix AZ

623-440-4750

www.ChickADeeAZ.com

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China Chili Restaurant is located in Central Phoenix Arizona. They offer a lot of the usual American Chinese and Hong Kong Style Chinese Foods (that means Cantonese inspired). They offer a variety of appetizers like boiled won tons, fried prawns, and crab puffs. They offer several varieties of soups, duck, and the usual chicken, beef, some tofu, and vegetarian dishes. They happen to offer many choices of seafood such as shrimp, calamari, flounder, scallops, mussels, striped bass, live seafood, and a surprise dish that I’ve found on their Grub Hub Menu but I didn’t find on their in-house menu. A dish called French Style Beef with macadamia nuts…..

It looks like a nice Chinese Restaurant when you walk in….. The take out and cashier area is up in front by the door.

Inside is a nice big dining room.

The tables are set with paper linen and lots of paper Chinese placemats. Tables also include condiments.

As soon as we were seated……Even before we ordered….Someone ran out two cups of soup to us.

The soup taste like egg drop soup and has kernels of fresh corn in it.

I looked at the menu and noticed that it differs slightly from on-line menus. I didn’t notice the hot pots or French Style beef on the menu but maybe it was my bad and maybe I just missed them?

I go with the flounder in white sauce with snow peas….accented with some carrots and scallions.

It’s a large portion of fish and vegetables. It’s in a mild chicken based sauce lightly accented with ginger. It’s very easy to eat because it’s so light in the stomach…Nothing heavy here. Steamed rice is on the side.

My husband went with the Szechwan beef.

It’s very good but not what either of us were expecting. The beef is very tender and has this very light fried coating that is UNIQUE and also easy to eat. The sauce is actually spicy hot but not too sweet and is sort of beef gravy flavored Asian sauce. No vegetables here but a few crisp noodles are in there. I would enjoy this more if I could add vegetables to this dish or order it as an appetizer for a larger table. We both think that it is very good but we like some vegetables with our meat dishes.

Not recently but I did previously enjoy take out from China Chili. This restaurant isn’t close to where I live or I would have been here more often.

I did enjoy the flounder in black bean sauce but I do like the flounder in white sauce more with the snow peas.

I do like the chicken tomato dish with egg flowers but it does run slightly sweeter than I like but the tomatoes did have a good tomato flavor and the chicken was tender.

Service was speedy and efficient.

That was a little taste of China Chili.

China Chili Phoenix AZ

302 E Flower St PHX AZ

602-266-4463

www.ChinaChiliRestaurant.com

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West Hut African Cuisine is located in the Midtown Area of Phoenix Arizona. It’s located across from Park Central.

It’s casual inside with wait service.

At the time of my visit only soft beverages are served but it appears that a liquor license is pending.

We started out by sharing the kelewele (spiced tasty plantains)

The entrees don’t have African Names.

I tried the dish called The West Hut with chicken with jollot rice (Ghana style). Most of the entrees are chicken, beef, or goat.

I received a skin on, bone-in chicken leg and part of breast covered in a tomato based sauce with a side of spicy pepper sauce. I also received plain plantains, a little salad garnish and the jollot rice. It’s all tasty. I think anyone would like it.

My husband got the I Love Spinach dish with chicken and Fufu.

He got either the same chicken or a very similar chicken but the spinach is tasty and flavored different. It’s also slightly spicy. Neither of us ever had fufu before. It’s really interesting. You pinch some off and make a tortilla to eat the food. The fufu almost taste like mashed potatoes but with little flavor.

Our server was helpful guiding us threw the menu and made suggestions.

West Hut African Cuisine Newly Opened in Phoenix AZ – Check it out!

West Hut Phoenix AZ

3110 N Central Ave PHX AZ

602-595-4279

www.West-Hut.com

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George Yang’s Chinese Cuisine is located in the west camelback area of Phoenix Arizona. They serve mostly American Chinese Food like noodle dishes, egg foo young, moo shu, and fried rice. They also offer some foods that are somewhat upscale STYLE for American Chinese restaurants like filet mignon, scallops with mushrooms and zucchini, and black truffle fried rice. They also offer a healthy menu if you need your food steamed, gluten free or low carb. You can also find an extensive wine list. While this is not a truly upscale restaurant the service was impeccable in an upscale style sort of way.

It’s formal and neat inside.

Interesting bottles of liquors accent the wall

They offer many of the usual starters like spring rolls and crab puffs.

We went with something different and tried the crispy dried sautéed taro.

Our server said that they are Chinese French Fries that are better than regular French Fries. They are kinda like potato sticks that are tossed with onions and scallions that are mixed with a little bit of Asian sauce. They also are a very generous serving….actually all the plates are very generous from what we tried.

Tonight we shared the spicy fish and the black truffle fried rice.

The spicy fish is a mild white fish that is more crispy than spicy…..actually it is so darn crispy that they could win a prize for crispiest fish ever. I do need to add that the fish inside the hard crust is astonishingly prepared to perfection……It’s served with tender crisp broccoli and is in a black bean sauce that taste kinda sweet like spicy duck sauce and also salty from soy sauce.

Here’s the black truffle fried rice.

It’s not the usual fried rice. It does have a really nice black truffle aroma. It’s made with some sort of ground up black truffle. Most of the rice seemed steamed but it also is studded with a little bit of crunchy rice and soft fried egg.

Service was very professional and efficient.

That was my trip to George Yang’s Chinese Cuisine in Phoenix AZ (This is a sister restaurant of the George and Sons restaurants….so if you are a fan of them then you will be a fan of George Yang’s Chinese Cuisine)

6048 N 16TH St PHX AZ

602-368-2688

www.GeorgeYangsChineseCuisine.com

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Mrs Whites Golden Rule Cafe is located in downtown Phoenix near to Chase Field in Arizona.This soul food restaurant is an institution to Phoenix and has been in business since 1964. They offer very good not fancy but a limited menu of HOMESTYLE southern style comfort foods like……. fried chicken, smothered pork chops, fried catfish, oxtails, chicken fried steak, macaroni and cheese, cabbage and rice, black eyed peas, sweet potatoes, soft beverages, and sometimes desserts. You also do need to keep in mind that you need to follow the golden rule here. You will not receive your bill and must go to the window to pay when you are done.

Celebrities have dined at Mrs Whites such as James Brown, Jesse Jackson, The Queen of Soul Herself Aretha Franklin, and according to AZCentral American Politician John McCane was a regular.

This isn’t a fancy place.

It’s a bit old and worn. It looks like a little old diner inside.

Inside is a shrine to Mrs White.

I had the humble golden brown Southern Fried Chicken with sweet potatoes and macaroni salad.

The chicken was perfectly crisp and perfectly seasoned and moist inside. Nothing fancy or different…..Just perfect delicious fried chicken with some crispy fried skin. The sweet potatoes were very creamy and sat in this slightly sweet buttery liquid…….The corn bread is slightly dry like cornbread is suppose to be…(it’s the Yankee style that is moist and sweet)… I liked dipping the corn bread into the sweet buttery sweet potato liquid. It’s a large portion so for some this might be more than one meal.

My husband tried the chicken fried steak with macaroni and cheese and also the black eyed peas.

He said that the chicken fried steak really was the best one that he remembers eating. He also like dunking his cornbread into my sweet potato liquid. He liked the macaroni and cheese and the black eyed peas.

I didn’t stuff myself silly….although I could have and saved room for dessert but none were available tonight.

That was my trip to Mrs White’s Golden Rule Cafe in Phoenix Arizona

Worth a Fork!

Mrs White’s Golden Rule Cafe

808 E Jefferson St PHX AZ

602-262-9256

I haven’t found a working website for Mrs White’s but they are on Facebook

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