PostBoy, Southwest Michigan’s long-awaited chef-driven restaurant from Ben Holland and Chef James Galbraith (Anemel, Houndstooth), fresh off their November 1st opening. Now, they’re hitting the ground running by welcoming a star-studded lineup of the region’s best chefs through their doors, kicking the collaborative dinners off with Chicago’s James Beard Award-winning Chef Zachary Engel of MICHELIN-Starred Galit on Sunday, November 17th.
Chef Zachary Engel
Chef James and Chef Zachary will be combining their culinary talents through a multi-course wine dinner, featuring items like Galit’s beloved hummuswith roasted lamb bulgogi banchan, a cucumber and melon salad with ramps, and smoked turkey shawarma with sweet potato and medjool date. As Southwest Michigan continues to make a name for itself in the national culinary landscape, this ticketed dinner will be an exclusive chance to taste the work of one of Chicago’s most revered chefs and New Buffalo’s newest trailblazer all under one roof.
Full details of the dinner are below, and tickets can be purchased via Tock HERE.
DATE: Sunday, November 17
TIME: 6:30 p.m. ET
DETAILS: Guests will taste the collaboration between MICHELIN-starred Galit’s Zachary Engel and PostBoy’s James Galbraith during a multi-course wine dinner, with canapes, dueling dishes and delectable desserts. Items will include snacks like foie gras with toasty challah and last summer’s Michigan cherries, cucumber salad with melon and last year’s ramps, smoked turkey shawarma with sweet potato and Medjool date, and beyond.
TICKETS: $120 per person with a $50 wine supplement, prior to tax and gratuity. Tickets available via Tock HERE.
Detroit is America’s best city for pizza, with low prices and the highest online search activity for pizza. Jump to section👇
Americans think New York is the best pizza city, with 41% listing it among their top five pizza cities. Los Angeles (40%) ranks No. 2, and Chicago ranks No. 3 (35%). 👇
Americans are the least impressed with Oklahoma City, Providence, Rhode Island, and Columbus, Ohio — just 2% consider them top five pizza cities.
But here’s the surprise. Phoenix isthe 4th-best pizza city in the country, rising 38 spots up the rankings from 2022.
A large pepperoni pizza in Phoenix costs $19.33 — compared to New York City, where the average cost of a large pepperoni pizza is $35.08 — the most expensive out of all 50 cities studied.
Phoenix has a pizza passion score of 73 out of 100 based on 25 pizza-related Google search terms, compared to the national average pizza passion score of 65.
How the metrics work.
In all, listwithclever.com used multiple metrics, weighted in the following manner:
4x: Pizza reputation (survey of 1,000 Americans)
4x: Online search activity for 25 pizza-related terms (“pizza passion”)
2x: Average price of a large cheese pizza
1x: Average price of a large pepperoni pizza
1x: Average Yelp rating for pizza restaurants
1x: Rate of pizza restaurants per 100,000 residents
And what are the best pizza places in the Phoenix area. According to Top Pizza 52, an Italian organization that ranks the best pizza throughout the world, are;
