By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
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🥧 Piefection celebrates the grand opening of its fourth location on the northeast corner of Queen Creek and Ellsworth in Queen Creek from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. The locally owned pie shop debuted in northeast Mesa in 2012 and later added
🍨 Latin dessert shop Frutilandia celebrates National Chocolate Day with a BOGO 50% off deal on any ice cream or milkshake Saturday at all eight of its Valley locations. 🌱 Sample local foods at ‘‘Seeding Our Harvest,’’ a free festival
⚾️ La Ristra New Mexican Grill in Gilbert and downtown Chandler is extending its happy hour specials during all World Series games: $3.50 domestic beers $4 craft beers/seltzers $4.50 imported beers $5 mixed drinks and shots $5 house wine $7
☕️🎨 Jarrod’s Coffee Tea & Gallery in downtown Mesa will hold a fundraiser Saturday in an attempt to save the business. Jarrod Martinez launched his Main Street gallery in 2012 and added a coffee shop in 2015. The venue regularly
🔥 Big Nate’s Family BBQ, a 3-year-old family-run smokehouse in northeast Mesa, has opened a second location on the northwest corner of Main and Power in east Mesa. Eric Solheim, brother-in-law Ray Dandridge, and their wives started the business as
🍕 The Italian eatery and grocer on the southeast corner of Higley and Brown is celebrating National Pizza Month. From 5-7 p.m. this Friday, diners can indulge in as many slices of pizza as they want. The $20 price does
🥧🍺 Pecan Pie Brown Ale, one of Arizona’s most popular seasonal beers, drops today at Arizona Wilderness Brewing. The beer, billed as ‘‘Thanksgiving dessert in a glass,’’ is brewed with locally grown pecans, milk sugar, vanilla beans, maple syrup –
🍕🍗 Fox Restaurant Concepts debuted Doughbird in Arcadia in 2016. The new location is at The Colony on Seventh Street between Monetbello and Missouri. Its menu focuses on hand-stretched pizzas and rotisserie chicken, and also includes a few staples from
🏨 The internationally inspired hotel, the first hotel from Valley restaurateur Sam Fox, is getting final touches on the northwest corner of 44th Street and Camelback in Phoenix. Four out of the five restaurants at The Global Ambassador also will
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🏀 Big Chicken, the Las Vegas-based fast-casual chain co-founded by former NBA star, made its Arizona debut at ASU’s Mullett Arena in 2022 and added a downtown Gilbert location earlier this year. Steve Christensen, one of the chain’s local franchise
🌯 You’ll find it on the southeast corner of Val Vista and Williams Field. (The other express location is in north Scottsdale.) Señor Taco Express offers pretty much the same menu as Señor Taco, including more than 20 burritos ranging
The celebrity chef’s second Phoenix location – which will feature burgers, sandwiches, and pizzas – was one of several leases approved by the Phoenix City Council. It will be located in the eighth concourse of Sky Harbor’s Terminal 4. Also
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The Canadian rapper and singer is celebrating his birthday Tuesday by gifting everyone a free Dave’s Hot Chicken slider (normally $6.69). All you have to do is show up at the Nashville-style hot chicken restaurant between 11 a.m. snd 9
💵 The owner of famed Phoenix soda fountain MacAlpine’s, which opened in 1929 but has been closed since 2020, has launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise $93,500 to reopen. The diner, located on the northeast corner of Seventh Street and
💵 The DraftKings Sportsbook at TPC Scottsdale – the first of its kind at a PGA Tour tournament location – has opened on the southeast corner of Greenway-Hayden and Bell, directly across from the Stadium Course Clubhouse. TPC Scottsdale, of course,
🪓 LumberjAxes – a restaurant, bar, and competitive axe-throwing venue – has moved its Tempe location to Tempe Marketplace. It takes over the 13,000-square-foot, second-floor space formerly home to Cadillac Ranch. The original location debuted in 2017 on the northeast
⚾️ The 10th annual Save Second Base pub crawl takes place in downtown Chandler today and Saturday. Your ticket gets you a drink at each of 11 bars participating on the tour, a T-shirt, and a swag bag. The money
🍧 Mexican dessert shop Frutilandia celebrates the one-year anniversary of its location on the southwest corner of Alma School and Baseline in Mesa today. Get a free 12-ounce raspado (pictured) from 2 to 5 p.m. or until supplies run out.
