By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
Please support the businesses that support MXSW:
Back East Bagels
Bar/Restaurant Insurance
Brooklyn V’s Pizza
Craft 64
Creative Strategies
Cuisine & Wine Bistro
Floridino’s Pizza & Pasta
La Ristra New Mexican
Laurshan Construction
Sal’s Gilbert Pizza
Serrano’s Restaurants
Sun Devil Hoods
Taqueria Factory
The Hart Experience
The Restaurant Brokers
Tott’s Asian Diner
Venezia’s Pizza
We Sell Restaurants
🌶 La Ristra New Mexican Kitchen is offering several October specials at its restaurants in Gilbert and downtown Chandler: Pizza blanca ($13.99, pictured on left) New Mexican chipotle meatloaf ($15.99) White green chile shrimp relleno ($16.99) Chocolate churros ($10.99, right)
🦂 Recreo Cantina in downtown Chandler has introduced a new item to its drinks menu: The Recreo Scorpion Shot featuring a real edible scorpion. ‘‘This unconventional shot is not for the faint of heart, but those who embrace the experience
🍕 Two Chicagoland favorites – Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria and Portillo’s – again have teamed up to offer a limited-time Italian Beef Deep Dish Pizza. The pizza features a buttery crust, plum tomatoes, and Wisconsin mozzarella, and is topped with Portillo’s
🌱 The ninth annual Great American Seed Up, a pop-up bulk seed buying event, will take place Friday, Oct. 27, and Saturday, Oct. 28, at North Phoenix Baptist Church on the southeast corner of Central and Bethany Home in Phoenix.
It’s not Taco Tuesday, but restaurants across the Valley are offering these taco deals today: 🌮 Mesquite Fresh Street Mex: Get any of its signature street tacos for 50% off at all nine Valley locations. 🌮 Joyride Taco House: Get
Sorry! While most of MouthBySouthwest.com is free to read, MXSW Insider articles are for paid subscribers only. Learn how to become an MXSW Insider. Username Password Remember Me Forgot Password
🍔🍺 Matty G’s Steakburgers & Lobsta’ Rolls has closed its year-old location in downtown Chandler. It had opened on Sept. 29, 2022, in the building formerly home to sports bar The Local Chandler on the southwest corner of Wall and
🇮🇹 Dolce Vita – an Italian eatery, grocer, and gelato shop on the southeast corner of Higley and Brown in northeast Mesa – has launched an aperitivo Italiano menu available 5-7 p.m. Thursdays. An aperitivo, sometimes called an apericena, is
☕️ Local roaster Press Coffee has teamed up with pastry chef Mark Chácon, owner of Cháconne Patisserie, to create a lineup of new pastries for four of its Valley locations. Chácon was a semifinalist for Outstanding Pastry Chef at last
🍳🧇 Brunch Snob, a local concept that debuted in Ahwatukee last year, has opened a second location on the northeast corner of Seventh Street and Missouri in uptown Phoenix. The space formerly was home to vegan restaurant Verdura, which closed
💝 Serrano’s Mexican Restaurants is offering a trio of October specials at all four East Valley locations: Pink Out Margarita Sampler: A flight with house raspberry, strawberry, passionfruit strawberry, and watermelon margaritas ($9.99). Stephanie’s Stacked Enchiladas: Corn tortillas, black beans,
Sorry! While most of MouthBySouthwest.com is free to read, MXSW Insider articles are for paid subscribers only. Learn how to become an MXSW Insider.
🐯 Khla, an Asian-inspired cocktail bar in downtown Phoenix, has closed after 18 months next to Thai restaurant Lom Wong near the northwest corner of Portland and Third Street. Earlier this year, Khla was named one of 10 semifinalists for
🥨🍔🍺 Wren Südhalle, the European-inspired beer hall that Wren House Brewing opened in Ahwatukee two weeks ago, has soft-launched its food menu: Haus frites: herb salt, haus saus, mustard ($6) Onion rings: roasted apple schmaltz, mustard ($8) Pretzel: brown butter,
🍞🥖 Don Guerra, the James Beard Award-winning baker from Barrio Bread in Tucson, has unveiled the first menu for his new store in Gilbert: Tibetan Purple Barley Queen Creek Olive Polenta Hayden Flour Mills Farm House Oat Loaf Desert Date
🥨🍺 SanTan Brewing and Pedal Haus Brewery will co-host the annual Downtown Chandler Oktoberfest from 1-10 p.m. Saturday and 1-8 p.m. Sunday at Dr. A.J. Chandler Park. The event will feature beer and food from both breweries, plus German fare
🍕 Mozzarella Pizzeria & Italian Kitchen, a small, family-owned business offering Neapolitan-style pizzas and other entrees, has opened on the northeast corner of Beardsley and 59th Avenue in Glendale. The cozy restaurant has a liquor license so beer and wine
🐟 Today is International Poke Day, and Scottsdale-based Koibito Poké is celebrating by offering 28% off entire orders placed today through its app. The concept, which has four Valley locations, also is in the midst of a ‘‘Win Poké for
🍺 Four Peaks Brewing will debut a new event – the Kilts & Kegs Kiltlifter Bar Crawl – from 3-8 p.m. Saturday in downtown Tempe. Thirteen restaurants and bars will participate in the self-guided bar crawl, offering specials on Kiltlifter,
The increasing popularity of cookies is among the top U.S. food trends of 2023, and it’s reflected in the number of cookie shops that recently have opened in the Valley, including: 🍪 CookieRush, a spinoff of local soda shop chain SodaRush, opened
