Much-anticipated Duke’s Roadhouse soft-opens in Maricopa

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🍺 Duke’s Roadhouse, a much-anticipated restaurant, bar, and live-music concept from a co-owner of The Stillery, has soft-opened in Maricopa.

The newly constructed building takes over the site formerly home to A1 Pawn along the railroad tracks near the southwest corner of the John Wayne Parkway and the Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway.

The 7,800-square-foot venue boasts three bars, a stage and large dance floor, a patio, a balcony, and live country and western music Thursday through Sunday.

The menu focuses on steaks, barbecue, and burgers.

While Duke’s is still fine-tuning a few things, it’s open for reservations only and is not accepting walk-ins.

Hours are 4-11 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, 11 a.m.-midnight Thursday, 11 a.m.-1 a.m. Friday-Saturday, and 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday.

Little O’s Arcadia to become Mexican concept

🍺 Little O’s, a spinoff of OHSO Brewery, has closed its Arcadia location after three years. The concept offered coffee drinks, specialty doughnuts, breakfast items, grab-and-go salads and sandwiches, and a variety of retail items. OHSO plans to remodel the space next to its original nanobrewery and reopen it as a ‘‘Mexican-influenced concept’’ this fall.

Ice cream class, salad special & Swizzle Inn sale

🍨 Learn how to make traditional custard-based ice cream, vegan ice cream, fruit sorbet, chocolate sauce, and pizzelle ice cream bowls from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 14, at Tracy Dempey Originals in Tempe. Attendees will take home half-pint containers of frozen treats. The class is $95 per person and space is limited. The deadline to sign up is this Friday, June 6.

🥗 Citizen Public House in Scottsdale and sibling The Gladly in Phoenix are offering chef Bernie Kantak’s iconic Original Chopped Salad for just $15 every Monday through Aug. 25. The salad features rows of smoked salmon, couscous, arugula, freeze-dried corn, pepitas, asiago, black currants, and a creamy buttermilk dressing. The deal is good for dine-in, takeout, or delivery.

🍺 Swizzle Inn owner Beth Johnon has sold her popular neighborhood dive bar and grill in central Phoenix to Scottsdale-based POV Foods. The hospitality group – whose other Valley concepts include the Rusty Spur Saloon, 32 Shea, Lakeside Bar & Grill, and Red White & Brew – says it plans to make no changes to venue, which Johnson opened in 1996.

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