Adam Reeder has seen plenty of kitchens in his 26 years.
A culinary prodigy who graduated from the Art Institute of Phoenix at 19, Reeder has kitchen and management experience with several notable Valley restaurants, including La Grande Orange Pizzeria, Chelsea’s Kitchen, Rumbi Island Grill, Delux Burger, and Pei Wei.
His latest challenge is developing a breakfast and lunch menu at Cartel Coffee Lab (1st Street / Washington).
Beginning Monday (8/23), Cartel’s Downtown location will offer these Reeder creations:
BREAKFAST (served all day)
What’s a Burrito? – Onion, red bell pepper, potato, spinach, jalapeno, shredded cheese (with bacon, ham, sausage or chorizo options)
Digby Sandwich – Toasted MJ*** flatbread, hot house tomato, bacon, spinach, arugula, herb aioli, two sunny side up eggs (with bacon, ham, sausage or chorizo options)
Tart - Goat cheese creme fraiche, spinach, arugula, roasted red pepper (with bacon, ham, sausage or chorizo options)
SANDWICHES (served with chips or fruit)
Tuna – Toasted MJ flatbread, spinach, arugula, hot house tomato, artichoke heart
Turkey – MJ levain bread, spring mix greens, hot house tomato, havarti cheese, herb aioli
Ham - MJ levain bread, spring mix greens, hot house tomato, whole grain mustard, havarti cheese
SALADS
Beet – Spring mix greens, arugula, roasted red and yellow beets, candied walnuts, goat cheese, red onion, creamy balsamic dressing
In addition, Cartel will continue to offer take-and-go scones, MJ bagels and new yogurt parfaits.
***MJ Bread is a big, big deal. MJ is MJ Coe, husband of cake master Tammie Coe.
Cartel is open Monday – Friday 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
I know plenty of people who are fascinated by eight-legged critters and will rush over to see the spider exhibit from the ASU Spider Lab. I’ll be avoiding it like the terrified, overgrown child I really am. But, the rest of this event should make for spine-tingling fun, this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The 
Continuing their long tradition of charitable giving to the state of Arizona and Downtown Phoenix interests, the Virgina G. Piper Charitable Trust recently awarded the 
Civic Space Park 
Sept. 15 / Honda Civic Tour featuring Paramore with Tegan and Sara
Nov. 27 / Jim Gaffigan
As seen on Entourage
Five Guys Burgers
But in a welcome twist, a new version of Grease is opening this week with actors who are about the same age as the characters they play. From Aug. 13-29, 
building will be located on the parcel directly south of the existing Translational Genomics Institute (TGEN) and will join the Arizona Biomedical Collaborative (ABC1) and University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix.
A Reminder of Rose
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010The abundance of murals in Downtown Phoenix have been beckoning me lately. I have driven by this mural for years but never stopped until recently.
These murals are on the old Mercer Mortuary building on 16th Street, just south of Thomas; the newer part of the mortuary is around the corner. They were painted in 1998 by a Phoenix artist, Rose Johnson. She was born and educated in England and moved to the US when she was in her 20s, settling in Phoenix. Rose was well-known and respected in the local art community. In 1998, she moved to Bisbee, AZ, a small arts enclave in southern Arizona, but still had many ties to Phoenix. She was strongly influenced by Mexican art.
Tragically, a little over a year ago, she died in Bali, where she had recently relocated, from acute alcohol poisoning as a result of ingesting liquor that had been laced with methanol. It was the 23rd such fatality to occur in Bali in a 10-day span. She was 48.
This mural is one of her best-known works.
You can read more about Rose here or see an interview of her while she still lived in Bisbee, soon after first visiting Bali. An extensive article appears here. If you click to make the images larger, you can see more of the interesting detail.
We are fortunate that this mural survives as some of her local murals have been so extensively tagged that they have now been painted over.
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