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Birdcall’s 2025 firefighter calendar & other restaurant news

👨🏻‍🚒 Birdcall has teamed up with the Mesa Fire Department on a 2025 firefighter calendar to benefit Stop Our Stigma, a nonprofit committed to reducing suicide among paramedics, EMTs, and firefighters. The calendars, which have monthly promos and coupons, are $15 at Birdcalls in Phoenix, Scottsdale, or Gilbert.

🥙 Kasseri Chicken and Stuffed Gyros will be the entrees when Romeo’s Euro Cafe in downtown Gilbert holds its weekly ‘‘Taste of Romeo’s’’ dinner at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Cost is $44 per person plus tax and tip. You can add five wine tastes for $10. RSVP: 480-962-4224.

🐟 The Italiano in Scottsdale is offering a special Christmas menu featuring ‘‘The Feast of the Seven Fishes,’’ an Italian-American tradition. The five-course meal ($95 per person) is available through Dec. 30, including Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

🍪 Celebrate National Cookie Day by scoring a free snickerdoodle cookie with any purchase Wednesday at Eat Up Drive In in Arcadia. The snickerdoodle is the restaurant’s newest gluten-free option.

🍺 Maple House in downtown Chandler celebrates its one-year anniversary from 7 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday with $1 off coffee drinks, $2 off draft beers and glasses of wine, and $1 off cocktails.