Shift Kitchen & Bar – Flagstaff, Arizona

Shift Kitchen & Bar may just change your perspective on what fine dining is….at least fine dining in a burgeoning mountain town.  It will certainly demonstrate that a  Flagstaff eatery can serve the type of elevated cuisine you would expect in Scottsdale.  Shift is definitely a deviation from expectations, a cut above.  With menus that change with a shift in seasons, Shift is aptly named.  For all the reasons Shift is perfectly named, the one shift I might consider is a shift to a venue with a parking lot.  Unless you’re familiar with downtown Flagstaff, you might not find Shift easy…

Fat Olives – Flagstaff, Arizona

Several years and a couple of tons ago, my friend “Macho” Mike Moretti and I were the type of trenchermen that all-you-can-eat Chinese restaurants feared so much they established strict time limits.  When a German restaurant on San Mateo offered a free dessert to any diner who could finish a gargantuan combination plate, we easily surmounted the challenge and asked for seconds.  Perhaps our most impressive culinary conquest transpired when Pizza Inn offered a “order one pizza, get the next size free” deal.  We ordered an extra large pizza and a large pizza then polished them off.  That was the…