About Michele.


Michele Laudig is a writer, artist and editor eating up New York City’s deliciously diverse food scene. Currently senior editor at Zagat in Manhattan, she was the staff restaurant critic and food blogger at Phoenix New Times since 2006, where she wrote cover stories, a weekly column and daily blog posts. Michele co-authored 100 Years, 100 Chefs, 100 Recipes, an Arizona Centennial Legacy Project published in February 2012, and has also written for Phoenix Magazine, Edible Phoenix, The Arizona Republic, Sommelier Journal and Hemispheres.

In previous lives, she served as New Times’ music editor, styled fashion shoots, toured with a rock ‘n roll band and lived in Tokyo. She has a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Columbia.

Passions.

Wine-drenched bistro afternoons
Serious sushi counter time
Pea shoots and oolong
Ice-cold oysters, ice-cold martinis
Pennsylvania hoagies
Moules frites and Trappist Tripel
Foie for dessert
Cheese for dinner
MacGuyver cooking

Always. . .

Hungry
100%
Curious
100%
Fearless
99%
Witty
67%

Chef Chris Curtiss says farewell to Noca

Big news! Noca executive chef Chris Curtiss, whose creative take on contemporary American cuisine earned the restaurant a James Beard Award nomination just months after its August 2008 debut, has left the restaurant to pursue other culinary options. A whiz with seafood and seasonal produce, Curtiss made skate wing a signature dish, dedicated tasting menus to such ingredients as McClendon tomatoes, and turned lobster from esteemed purveyor Ingrid Bengis into a ...

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