Author: Jess Harter

🍜 Silverlake Ramen,a very popular Los Angeles-based chain of fast-casual Asian restaurants, has soft-opened its first Arizona location at Cornerstone on the northeast corner of University and Rural in Tempe. What’s on the menu? Eight kinds of ramen ($17.99-$20.39), rice

🌮 Federico’s Mexican Food, a Phoenix-based chain of fast-casual restaurants, has opened its 29th Valley location on the southeast corner of Pebble Creek and Encanto in Goodyear. What’s on the menu? Burritos ($6.69-$14.49), tacos ($4.49-$6.69), enchiladas (two for $8.49), tortas

🌮 Taco Night & Tequila, a counter-service Mexican restaurant and bar, has opened in the former Chronic Tacos space on the southeast corner of Peoria and 31st Avenue in west Phoenix. What’s on the menu? Thirteen burritos ($6.99-$12.99), nine street

🍝 Mama Linda’s Italian Kitchen, a restaurant and bar offering classic Italian dishes and flatbread pizzas, has opened on the south side of Main Street, about halfway between Greenfield and Higley in east Mesa. What’s on the menu? Entrees such

🍸 Lola’s Liquors, a trendy cocktail bar with a small food menu, has opened next to Murphy’s Law Irish Pub near the northwest corner of San Marcos and Boston in downtown Chandler. It’s the latest concept from Liquid Sunshine Projects,

🌮 Pinche’s Tacos Al Carbon, a small counter-service taco shop, has opened in a strip mall on the northeast corner of Union Hills and Seventh Avenue in north Phoenix. What’s on the menu? Burritos ($10.99), tacos ($3.29), quesadillas ($2.99-$9.99), and

🎉 Backyard, an 8,000-square-foot indoor/outdoor bar and grill, opens today in the former Sandbar Mexican Grill building at Desert Ridge Marketplace in northeast Phoenix. Both Backyard and Sandbar are concepts from Scottsdale-based Evening Entertainment Group, which also includes Bottled Blonde,

🇻🇳 Pho Ngoc, a family-owned Vietnamese restaurant, has opened in the Safeway shopping center on the northwest corner of Alma School and Chandler Heights in south Chandler. What’s on the menu? Appetizers ($6.99-$9.99), pho ($14.99-$15.99), stir fry dishes ($14.99), broken

🏨 After a covid-induced four-year delay, the Caesars Republic Scottsdale hotel opens today on the northeast corner of Goldwater and Highland on the north side of Scottsdale Fashion Square. The 11-story hotel has three restaurants – Luna by Giada, Pronto

🐕 Scottsdale-based Echo Coffee opens its second location Wednesday inside the Arizona Humane Society’s new state-of-the-art Rob & Melani Walton Papago Park Campus on the southwest corner of Van Buren and 55th Street in east Phoenix. Echo Coffee owner Rob

🥪 C&C Fresh-N-Tasty Subs, a small independent sandwich shop that describes itself as ‘‘the best thing since sliced bread,’’ has opened in the former Wide Daddy’s strip-mall space on the northwest corner of Lindsay and University in east Mesa. What’s

🥂 Mon Cheri, a female-focused champagne café and charcuterie bar, has opened in the former Arcadia Farms Cafe space near the northeast corner of Goldwater and First Avenue in Old Town Scottsdale. Arcadia Farms sold the longtime property in 2022