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Founder Vinny Ferrara died in 2012, but venerable Vinny’s — a Sierra Vista standby for pizza and wings — is now in the capable hands of Chip Brown, the like-a-son employee who worked at Ferrara’s...

Owner Sherry Hunt is the “Nana” in question at this cute, cozy spot, specializing in big, beefy sandwiches (16 in all), salads, homemade soup, quiches, coffee drinks, green drinks and pies.

Huge picture windows overlooking the golf course offer spectacular views of the San Francisco Peaks, but that’s just one of many reasons tourists and locals flock to this cavernous-but-clubby hangout...

Owner Margarita “Maggie” Vindiola was a banker who always dreamed of owning her own restaurant. Stumbling upon an available historic building (a former ice plant, circa 1924) and falling in love with...

Like his Tokyo counterpart Jiro Ono (the fanatical sushi chef upon whom the 2011 mega-documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi was based), Hiroshi Horikawa also obsesses about fish, turning out artful and...