In February, Food Network and Guy Fieri visit Arizona restaurants La Piazza al Forno and Joe's Farm Grill; Cooking Channel checks out Phoenix Public Market Cafe. Here's the scoop on each show.
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Celebrity chef Guy Fieri just can't stay away from the Valley of the Sun.
In January, his new show "Triple D Nation" featured two prominent Phoenix-area restaurants.
In February, the show will shine a spotlight on two more. In it, the infamously spiky-haired TV host revisits restaurants that have already appeared on Food Network's "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives." The show will debut episodes that stop in Glendale and Gilbert. It's just two on a big list of Phoenix restaurants Fieri has visited over the years.
In addition, Cooking Channel will showcase a downtown Phoenix restaurant on "Best Thing I Ever Ate," with chef Beau MacMillan.
Here's when to tune in to see our local restaurants on the small screen. All shows air at 9 p.m., but check your local listings.
In a new episode airing Feb. 1 titled "Triple D Nation: Steak, Sausage and Salami," Fieri heads back to downtown Glendale to visit a restaurant where "a father-son team stays true to their Italian roots," according to Food Network. Fieri first visited La Piazza Al Forno and chef Justin Piazza in October 2008 and loved the restaurant's Italian Stallion, a meat-lover's pizza topped with sopressata, Parma prosciutto, Italian sausage and pepperoni.
The episode also features restaurants in Salt Lake City and Omaha.
Details: foodnetwork.com.
Joe's Farm Grill
Next up, Fieri heads south to "a joint pullin' all their ingredients from their own backyard and giving new meaning to the phrase 'farm to table.' " At Joe's Farm Grill, owner Joe Johnston shows off the restaurant's recent renovations and makes a special treat for the TV host. The restaurant first appeared in Season 3, when Fieri called the restaurant's ahi tuna burger "out-of-bounds ahi.''
The episode is titled "Triple D Nation: Where's the Beef?" It also includes a restaurants in San Antonio, Texas, and Marietta, Georgia. The network has rescheduled the original Feb. 15 air date; the new date has not been announced.
Debuting on Feb. 25 is a new episode of "Best Thing I Ever Ate" that's all about crust.
MacMillan, the Arizona-based celebrity chef of Elements at Sanctuary Camelback Mountain, puts forth his favorite pork chile verde pot pie at Phoenix Public Market Cafe against Duff Goldman's favorite seafood pot pie from Louisiana.
Phoenix Public Market Cafe is owned by chef Aaron Chamberlin.
"We're thrilled that somebody would choose this type of dish, and especially Beau Macmillan. He's like a local hero to us," the local restaurateur told The Republic before the episode's original Nov. 1 appearance on the Cooking Channel.
Created by accident, the pot pie has been on the menu since the downtown Phoenix restaurant opened in 2013. Chamberlin wanted to test pot pie dough recipes and decided to use a green chile stew he had on hand for filling. Since then, the Southwestern twist on an American classic has become one of the restaurant's signature dishes.
Details: cookingchanneltv.com.
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