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Chandler club boasts creative drinks, fun times
BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI
GetOut Editor
When Chuck and Angela Fazio moved from a traditional real estate agency to a cloud-based international company, they were left with a beautiful building in Chandler.
So, the couple did what anyone would do. They opened a nightclub and a lounge.
TwentyThree01 Bar & Nightclub and The Forum Lounge are hidden gems in Chandler. The Instagram-worthy club marks a full-circle moment for Chuck, who worked with nightclubs in New York.
“The atmosphere is really great,” he said. “We have two patios, the bar and a dance floor. The front part of the building is The Forum Lounge. It will have live entertainment, great food and amazing ambience. It has a large event space that will also have entertainment and is available for private events.
“We want this to be a hub where people in the Valley know they can get
entertainment — whatever it is.” The music varies from Top 40 and EDM to Latin at TwentyThree01 Bar & Nightclub. Ladies Night is every Friday in December and January, while Saturdays see the kitchen open until midnight and hookah available all night. Soon we’ll even have cigars. On Ladies Night, women can enjoy drinks for $5 until midnight, while everyone can take advantage of happy hour starting at 4 p.m. Chuck and Angela Fazio have converted a Chandler building into the new East Valley hot spot for East Valley young people. (David Minton/GetOut Staff) The menu is elevated bar food, with Korean fried chicken, popcorn shrimp, tuna tataki, chicken pot stickers, pork and vegetable rolls, barbecue pork sliders and chicken yakatori. TwentyThree01 Bar & Nightclub also boasts spicy French fries, spicy tuna roll, California roll, Philly roll, bang bang shrimp roll and crunchy hidden spicy tuna roll.
The drinks are creative and range from a pecan old fashioned to banana espresso martini to tequila colada.
The Fazios say TwentyThree01 Bar & Nightclub and The Forum Lounge were born out of necessity, not a dream. Chuck moved here in 1998 and met Angela through real estate. He said they were both broke and almost exited the real estate business.
“By the grace of God, we went on to be one of the top agents in the country and the top teams in 2005,” he said.
“The next logical step was opening a brokerage. We slowly built and built and built. Then I had a vision of building the coolest real estate office. So, we started to look for spaces. I had a vision in my head.”
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Zoppe Family Circus now at Bell Bank Park in Mesa
SANTAN SUN NEWS STAFF
The Zoppe Family Circus has left Chandler with its annual holiday show and moved to Bell Bank Park, 1 Legacy Drive, Mesa.
The one-ring circus that honors the history of the old-world Italian circus tradition and runs through Jan. 1.
Liberta Zoppe welcomes guests into an intimate, 500-seat tent for a show that will star Nino the Clown and a circus that is propelled by a central story, as opposed to individual acts.
The circus features acrobatic feats, equestrian showmanship, canine capers, clowning and plenty of audience participation.
Tickets are on sale at BellBankPark.com, with general admission starting at $25, and VIP tickets at $45. For more information on the Zoppe Family visit www.Zoppe.net.
Show dates are: today, Dec. 18, at 1 p.m., 4 p.m., & 7 p.m.; 6 p.m. Dec. 21 and 23, 4 p.m. Dec. 24; 6 p.m. Dec. 26-30; 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dec. 31 and 1 p.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Jan. 1.
Meanwhile, Bell Bank Park also is hosting the Pratt Brothers Christmas Spectacular 6-10 p.m. through Jan. 1.
The display features more than six million lights and unique attractions.
Previous contestants of The Great Christmas Light Fight on ABC Television, brothers Sammy and Kyle Pratt have devoted their life’s work to construct a magical Christmas Town delivering an experience for all the senses.
The immersive visit delivers attractions for all ages, with twinkling Christmas lights, threestory gingerbread house, magical snowfall and thousands of bubbles, featuring the ultimate Santa Experience, Mrs. Claus Cookie Decorating, dazzling 360-degree light show with showstopping pyrotechnics, and a Miracle Market filled with simply merry gifts to bring home holiday cheer. Nino the Clown is one of the stars at the Zoppe Family Circus.
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With JAN D’ATRI
GetOut Columnist
Harvey Wallbanger Cake harkens to a bygone era in festive way
Could it be that it lost its popularity in just one generation? The cake that was one of our mother’s “no-fail-absolute-go-to” recipes?
The brilliant yellow moist miracle in a Bundt pan that was served during the holidays? I presented a group of millennials with a certain rich and flavorful cake in cooking class last week.
While they all gobbled it up in short order, they had never even heard of the classic Harvey Wallbanger Cake. It had been years since I’d thought of this delightful treat myself. And what a shame because it’s so easy to make!
The Harvey Wallbanger Cake grabs its rich flavor from the vodka, Galliano liqueur and orange juice that you find in the classic Harvey Wallbanger cocktail.
Add some eggs, cake mix and pudding, and this special treat bakes up like a brilliant yellow sunflower and absolutely melts in your mouth. A little sprinkling of powdered sugar, or better yet, a drizzle of glaze and that’s all you need to relive the kitchen memories from the 60’s and 70’s.
I was just a little girl when my Momma started giving the Harvey Wallbanger Cake equal time with her classic Italian rum cakes.
I remember the giant long, thin bottle coming out of the cabinet. My father was the bartender at our restaurant, and so his beverage suppliers would, during the holidays, gift him with the extra, extra giant bottle of the liqueur. Back then, from where I was standing, I estimated that bottle to be 500 feet tall and not an inch less!
I remember the flavor of the cake (whenever I could sneak some) was just as large. It’s such an easy cake to bake up that it would be a shame not to give it a try.
Who knows? Perhaps with the resurgence in popularity of the classic cocktails like the Side Car, Manhattan and Dirty Martini, the Harvey Wallbanger and its companion cake will find its sweet spot once again!
Ingredients:
For the cake: • 1 box yellow cake mix (with pudding in the mix is best) • 1 small box (approx. 3 oz) vanilla instant pudding • 1/2 cup vegetable oil • 4 large eggs • 1/4 cup vodka • 1/4 cup Galliano liqueur
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease one large bundt pan (9-10 inch) or two small bundt pans (7-8 inch). In a mixing bowl, combine cake mix, pudding, vegetable oil, eggs vodka, Galliano and orange juice. • 3/4 cup orange juice
For the glaze: • Mix together: • 1 cup powdered sugar • 1 tablespoon orange juice • 1 tablespoon vodka • 1 tablespoon Galliano • (Note: If you don’t want glaze, you can sprinkle cake with a bit of powdered sugar)
Mix until well blended, about 3-4 minutes. Pour into bundt pan. Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes for the large pan or 25-30 minutes for the smaller pans, or until toothpick comes up clean.
Let cake cool then glaze or dust with powdered sugar.
For the real estate office, Chuck obtained a class six liquor license and LGE, a commercial custom builder, put its touch on the building. The bar, café and kitchen were all part of the real estate office. A game room was also featured.
“We built it to be the No. 1 single-office, independent real estate brokerage in the world,” he said proudly.
“Out of this one location, we had 906 agents, and we did about $2 billion in production and sales. We are really well known in the industry, so we were approached by a cloud-based, forwardthinking company that’s international.” eXp wanted Chuck and Angela to work there, but, at first, neither wanted to give up the office. They prayed, looked at the options and closed the brokerage.
“The industry laughed at us because they thought we lost our minds,” he said. “It took me 16 years to go to 906 agents, and it took us three years to go to 8,000 agents worldwide. So, I have agents in India, Italy, Portugal, Canada, Mexico, France, Spain and, obviously, the United States.”
“The reason why we built up such a big brokerage is we believe in the community,” he said.
“We were into entertainment and that’s the reason why everybody loved us. We like to give back, so why not do something like this?”
TwentyThree01 Bar & Nightclub
2301 S. Stearman Drive, Chandler 480-722-9800 clubtwentythree01.com 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Fridays 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturdays theforumlounge.com Opens the last week in January 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesdays-Thursdays 4 p.m. to 12 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays
Contact Christina at 480-898-5631 or christina@ timeslocalmedia.com
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