Seoul BBQ & Sushi is an award wining restaurant from Colorado and Connecticut with one location in Phoenix Arizona. The Phoenix location offers a menu that changes slightly from time to time.

It’s a very large restaurant with multiple dining rooms. They have a long bar is on the left side of the photo. They do have an outside patio but it’s not in use.

Whatever you order they always start you off with complimentary side dishes called banchan.

The banchan usually differ some on every visit but always contain some fermented vegetables, kimchi, something fish, and usually one or two potato dishes.

They always offer a variety of Korean and Asian Foods. This restaurant is very well known for their Korean BBQ that is offered ala carte and also in an all-you-can-eat version. Dishes can be made at the table or from the kitchen. Spicy ketchup known as gochujang is served with the BBQ.

Bulgogi

Beef Rib and Tofu Vegetable soup

They also offer Korean and Japanese appetizers.

Korean Corn Cheese

Scallion pancake

Vegetable pancake

Jalapeno bombers

Crispy Rice sushi

Sushi with Fresh Wasabi

Sushi with Crispy Onions

Korean Fried Chicken Wings

A few of the other dishes they may offer are –

Spicy Dak (chicken) Bulgogi

Mackerel

Samgyetang – Chicken stuffed with sweet rice, garlic, ginger, dates, and Korean Ginseng

Broiled Yellow Croaker (didn’t notice on current menu)

Dol-pan Bibim-Bap with added Spam

Take Out

Seoul BBQ & Sushi – Good Korean Food and lots of choices.

Worth a Fork!

Seoul BBQ & Sushi 11025 N Black Canyon HWY PHX AZ

602-441-0900

www.SeoulPHX.com

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Limon Urban Kitchen is located in North Phoenix Arizona. They offer breakfast seven days a week. They also offer lunch, dinner, and a bar seven days a week. When you walk in you pass by a good sized patio but once inside it looks like a sports bar with lots of big screen TVs.

The food menus are mostly Mexican.

Off the all day menu they offer appetizers like wings, shrimp ceviche, carne asada fries, and nachos. They also offer salads, fajitas, burgers, burritos, street tacos, and entrees like pork carnitas, beef machaca, fish & chips, and chicken enchiladas.

They start you off with complimentary warm chips and salsa. We added on the house made roasted white poblano queso.

The salsa is tasty….It’s better than some. Maybe I am overly picky about queso….For my taste this could be more poblano and cheese forward…….

Anyways –

My husband gets a cup of Sops de Fideo.

It’s a chicken based soup with thin pasta threads.

My main arrives. The Lettuce Fajita Wraps…

Not what I was expecting. They aren’t wrapped and all the wet hot stuff is on top of the lettuce. It’s hard to tell by my photo but the romaine are also very small thin leaves. It’s next to impossible to eat this as lettuce wraps.*********BUT*****This chicken is UNUSUALLY GREAT! It’s marinated with delicious flavors and is melt in the mouth tender. Might be the very best fajita chicken that I have ever tasted. The plate also contains caramelized onions, bell pepper strips, pico de gallo, and lime wedges.

Here’s the Enjitomatada (carne asada, tomatoes, onions, jalapeños, chipotle adobo sauce, Spanish rice, pinto beans, flour tortillas.)

I taste a small piece of carne asada. It’s nicely flavored and is tender.

We both thought that the carne asada was good but both of thought that the fajita chicken was really great!

That was a little taste of Limon Urban Kitchen in Phoenix Arizona.

2750 W Dove Valley Rd PHX AZ

623-466-7500

www.LimonUrbanKitchen.com

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Tia Carmen is a high quality contemporary and sort of southwest restaurant located in the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort in North Phoenix Arizona. The kitchen is led by Michelin Star Chef, restauranteur, and Bravo Top Chef Master Chef Angelo Sosa.

The 2022 Tia Carmen Beautiful Life New Year’s Eve 2022 Dinner cost $135 per person and was 4 courses. They did offer an optional Beau Joie Champagne parings for $85.

First course for most people was seafood orchestra

This was beau soliel oysters dressed with garden grape mignonette + cara cara sabayon + oscietra caviar, nantucket bay scallops enrobed in fresh cara cara juice, hoja santa + cara cara koshu; king crab, salsa macha + yuzu & lemon aioli + hibiscus leaf.

A vegetarian alternative was offered. With the same sauces on amazing grapes, pineapple and jicama.

Next was pumpkin chawanmushi

It was a kabacha squash filled with steamed squash & shiitake mushroom custard + squash caramel + shaved black truffle

The main course was a mesquite grilled wagyu Denver steak.

All the steaks were seared and were rare- medium rare….almost blue in the center.

They came adorned with tepary bean aged mole negra + bone marrow croquettes + manchego cheese + shaved black truffle……Really amazing…….To amazing to even discribe.

Finished by an astonishing dessert flight garnished with incredible herbs grown by restaurant.

beet macarons

kumquat + cara cara carrot sorbet

goat cheese gel +chestnut mousse on hazelnut sable

cucumber + rosemary tarts

chocolate-aged mole negro bon bon

Every Plate was FORKING FANTABULOUS !!!! This was the best dinner I had in 2022 and I’ve been to Michelin Star and Michelin Guide Restaurants.

Tia Carmen

5350 E Marriott Dr PHX AZ

480-293-3636

www.TiaCarmenDesertRidge.com

Call Her Martina is a small modern Mexican Bar and Restaurant located near the Scottsdale Waterfront and is basically across the street from the Scottsdale Fashion Mall in Scottsdale Arizona. They offer an all day menu with some appetizers that you don’t come across very often like ribeye chicharron guacamole, mini street elotes, and charcoal ribeye aguachile with chicharron. They also offer salads, tuna ceviche, tacos, tostadas, and entrees like charred octopus with squid ink risotto, a short rib, ribeye, and a wagyu beef burger. Besides the all day menu they also offer a brunch menu.

It’s festive and formal looking inside.

They start you off with complimentary tostadas and a trio of salsas (charred tomato, tomatillo, and chipotle)

We started out by splitting the salad called beets in a cloud.

Nice light starter.

My husband made a better meal decision than me and had the cochinita cazuela.

The pork was braised nice. You can eat it like fajitas. It did need a little zip from the salsas.

I ordered the tuna fresco tostada.

I guess you order the tuna fresco tostada when you are not hungry. I didn’t remember that this was suppose to contain smashed avocado or I would have said something to my waiter……So they made me the EXTRA LIGHT version of the tuna fresco tostada withOUT avocado. To be honest it does taste good with the creamy mayo, crispy leeks and salsa negra…….But there isn’t much to it. The salsa negra is also very thin but spicy and kinda like a vinaigrette. It’s the wet stuff on the plate. It was under the fish soaking into the tostada making it soggy. It probably works out better if they give you avocado.

That TRULY was a little taste of Call Her Martina in Scottsdale AZ

7135 E Camelback Rd Scottsdale AZ

480-687-8592

www.CallHerMartina.com

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