By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
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Downtown Mesa has launched a new Sunset Market at Main and Macdonald from 4-8 p.m. on the third Thursday of every month. The free event includes fresh grocery products, food vendors, demonstrations, artisan goods, live music, and more.
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🎃🍺 OHSO Brewery will tap more than 15 pumpkin-style beers at each of its locations at 11 a.m. Thursday. Each location will have a different beer lineup. The beers will be available until the kegs are empty. Samples will be
🍳 Thanks A Brunch, a mom-and-pop breakfast and lunch concept, has opened on the southwest corner of McQueen and Guadalupe in Gilbert. It takes over the strip-mall space formerly home to Geno’s Pizzeria & Cheesesteaks. Menu highlights include Prickly Pear
🧆 Laffa and Co., a new concept offering Mediterranean and Persian wraps and bowls, has opened at the Tempe Food Court on the northeast corner of Perry and Fifth Street. Brisket beef shawarma (pictured) is the signature menu item.
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🎉 Chandler-based fast-casual chain Someburros is celebrating its 37th anniversary Wednesday with $7 Pollo Fundido burritos (normally $10.95) at its 13 Valley locations. You must use the code FUNDIDO when ordering.
🥖 Tucson-based Barrio Bread officially opens its much-anticipated Gilbert location today at Hayden Flour Mills’ new kitchen on the northeast corner of Arizona and Guadalupe. Barrio owner Don Guerra, who was named the country’s outstanding baker at last year’s James
☕️ Spencer’s Place, a coffee shop that provides employment for individuals with developmental disabilities, has opened a second Surprise location on the southwest corner of Greenway and Cotton. Karin York, a former special education teacher, launched the original Spencer’s Place
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🥩🦞🐓 Angie’s Prime Grill, the new drive-through steakhouse concept from the founders of Salad and Go and Angie’s Lobster, opens today in north Phoenix. The latest concept from Tony and Roushan Christofellis offers USDA prime top sirloin steak, organic chicken, and Maine lobster
🍺 Mosiac Brewing, a new brand under the Serial Grillers Restaurant Group umbrella, is taking over Dillinger Brewing in Tucson. Dillinger’s owners announced last week they had sold the 7-year-old craft brewery and would cease operations Oct. 31. The Serial Grillers Restaurant Group
🍕 Starting today, Fire & Brimstone, the wood-fired pizzeria inside Barnone at Agritopia in Gilbert, will be closed for two to three weeks to remodel the kitchen. The kitchen will be expanded by taking over the former LetterCraft space next door.
🛑 The Larder + The Delta, chef Stephen Jones’ award-winning Southern restaurant, has closed after eight years in downtown Phoenix. ‘‘This decision wasn’t an easy decision but with so much change and unable to reach a deal on a new
🍺🌭🎸 The Four Peaks Oktoberfest – a three-day festival of food and drink, live music, games, carnival rides, dancing, and more – celebrates its 50th anniversary this weekend at Tempe Town Lake. New this year: The return of the local
🥣 Phoenix Empty Bowls, an annual fundraiser for local non-profit Waste Not, will be held 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Friday at the Arizona Center on the northeast corner of Third Street and Van Buren in downtown Phoenix. Colorful bowls created by members of
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🍺 Dillinger Brewing, a 7-year-old craft brewery in Tucson, has been sold and will cease operations on Tuesday, Oct. 31. In a social media post, Dillinger owners Eric Sipe and Aaron Long announced an unidentified ‘‘local business’’ is taking over the Oracle
☕️ Oregon-based Black Rock Coffee Bar will open its first Goodyear location Friday on the southwest corner of Cotton and Yuma. Per tradition, the new location will offer $2 medium drinks all day Friday. It’s Black Rock’s 32nd store in
🍕 High Stakes Pizza, a small shop that only offers delivery and carryout, has opened inside the former Old Country Buffet on the southwest corner of Southern and Power in east Mesa. Zac Dokouzian opened High Stakes ‘‘because I felt
