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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Ingo’s Tasty Food is a casual American restaurant with two locations (Arcadia & DTPhoenix….) and a third location that is soon to open in Scottsdale Arizona. The Arcadia location in Phoenix is the original location and is a unique round building with dining inside.

And outside on the patio.

They also have a walk up take out window.

At the Arcadia location you can get things like deviled eggs made with German mustard, goat cheese, pickled beet.

shattered chips

Three kinds of salads.

You also have the option to add crispy or grilled chicken, whitefish, or grass fed patty to a salad. You also can add a wrap to a salad.

They also offer fish and chips, a brown rice bowl, sandwiches such as egg, fish, vegetable, crispy chicken, and 3 kinds of burgers and one bean burger. The burgers are very good. I was told that the domestic grass fed beef is ground at a sister restaurant and the just right size buns are also baked at the sister across the street.

A children’s grilled cheese is also offered.

Ingo’s Tasty Food offers soft beverages, wine, beer, and cocktails.

Ingo’s Tasty Food in Arcadia Phoenix AZ is still Worth a Fork!

Ingo’s Tasty Food – Arcadia Phoenix AZ

4502 N 40TH St PHX AZ

602-795-2884

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Carniceria Ponderosa Panaderia (bakery & cafe) have two locations in North Phoenix Arizona that are relatively close to each other (around 15 minutes apart). I went to the 2nd location that is close to the upper west side part of Phoenix on Bell Rd. Inside you will find a Mexican grocery store with some produce, dry goods, cold beverages, baked goods, meat cases, fish and cheese cases. They have signs out saying that they will cook certain meat purchases for free. They also have a Charcoal Grill Kitchen that offers street tacos, burros, quesadillas, tortas, and MORE!

The sign is hard to see as it blends in with the wall but below is the Charcoal Grill and Kitchen.

It’s casual. The employee didn’t speak English and the cashier (maybe manager) ran over and told the employee what we wanted in Spanish. If you order tacos they get topped up for you Chipotle style. You either take out and you can sit at the counter by the cashier. We picked up our order packed up a beverage at the beverage section and paid and sat at the counter.

I got three double shelled tacos that came fully stuffed so much so that they were very hard to pick up. Pico, guacamole, and green salsa were added to my tacos. I tried carne asada, pollo asada, and beef barbacoa All the meats I tried were very flavorful. My favorites were the chicken and beef barbacoa. The carne asada was very flavorful but lacked that bbq taste that I look for and also was slightly chewy.

My husband tried a birria queso taco.

He also had-

carne asada, beef barbacoa, and carnitas topped with red salsa and shredded cheese.

Our mutual favorites were the beef barbacoa and the pollo asada.

These tacos were very inexpensive. The birria queso taco was $3.99 but the over stuffed street tacos were only around $2. each.

Noticed the hard to find chiltepin peppers for sale at the counter…..cheap and fresh looking.

Yes I did.

Some great finds can be found at

Carniceria Ponderosa Panaderia

3510 W Bell Rd PHX AZ

602-296-5420

I haven’t found a website

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