By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
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🎓 Downtown Phoenix fine-dining restaurant Anhelo, whose owner/chef Ivan Jacobo is an Estrella Mountain Community College alum, is hosting a wine dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday to raise money for four culinary arts scholarships to the school. Tickets are $600 per
🌮 Don Fito’s Taqueria, which has operated out of a pair of food trucks since 2020, has opened a bricks-and-mortar restaurant on the northeast corner of Power and Baseline in east Mesa. Besides tacos, burritos, tortas, and vampiros, the menu offers
Thursday is National Tamale Day, and all this week Macayo’s Mexican Food restaurants are selling take-home tamale kits for $15. The kits, available in red beef or green corn, include the ingredients and instructions to make six full-size tamales. They’re being
🏆 Congratulations to Delena Humble, a bartender at Sin Muerte in downtown Phoenix, who won Arizona Cocktail Weekend’s annual Last Slinger Standing competition at the Republic National Distributing Company headquarters in Phoenix. Humble defeated Mitch Lyons of Highball Cocktail Bar in Phoenix in the final.
🚴🏽♂️ Bike-themed bar and grill Spokes on Southern in Tempe celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a party from 9 a.m.-close Saturday. Highlights include a disc golf tournament, a brunch buffet, DJ and live music, and an art sale. Twenty percent of all
🍺 Desert Monks Brewing in Gilbert hosts its annual Desert Spring Fest tonight through Sunday. The event includes special beer releases, food trucks, live music, activities, games, and prize giveaways. Admission is free, but you can buy a $45 VIP package that
📱 Cafe Rio Mexican Grill, a Utah-based chain of fast-casual Mexican restaurants, has opened another of its ‘‘digital cafe’’ concepts – offering digital ordering options – near the southwest corner of Greenway and the Loop 303 in Surprise. It’s the 38th
🧑🏿🍳 Today is the kickoff of the Valley’s third annual Black Restaurant Week, meant to raise awareness and build support for Black-owned culinary businesses. Sweet Magnolia Smokehouse, Tempura Takeover (pictured), and Chic Chef 77 are just a few of local eateries and food trucks offering special menus
☘️ Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Hundreds of restaurants and bars Valleywide are offering specials today on everything from corned beef (pictured at Miracle Mile Deli in Phoenix) to Car Bombs. You can start your day with a $14 green Bloody Mary at Hash Kitchen, and wrap it up with
🍔 Scottsdale-based Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers opens its 14th location at 11 a.m. today at Sonoran Creek Marketplace near the southwest corner of John Wayne Parkway and Edison in Maricopa. The restaurant features a 2,000-square-foot patio, a 50-foot bar (the longest of
🏀 March Madness, aka the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, tips off in earnest today, and a new viewing option this year is The Park, which opened last August next to OHSO Brewery in downtown Gilbert. The outdoor venue will host several public watch
🎟 The 33rd annual Ostrich Festival runs today through Sunday at Tumbleweed Park in south Chandler. Besides dozens of shows and attractions (and roaming ostriches, of course), there will be plenty of traditional fair fare, from corn dogs to ice cream
🐓 Big Chicken, the Las Vegas-based fast-casual chain co-founded by former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal, opens its second Valley location at 11 a.m. today in the former Pomo Pizzeria space near the northwest corner of Gilbert and Vaughn in downtown Gilbert.
🥗 Salad and Go, the Gilbert-born drive-through concept that’s grown to more than 50 locations throughout Arizona in 10 years, opens its second in Surprise today on the southwest corner of Bell and the Loop 303. The menu offers chef-designed salads,
🍷 Kudos to Provision in uptown Phoenix for the idea of hosting a ‘‘Step Brothers’’-themed Catalina Wine Mixer from 6-10 p.m. Saturday. The event will feature live music, wine, snacks, a costume contest, an ’80s-themed photo booth, and, of course, a dinosaur. If you have
🍅 Sweet Tomatoes, a San Diego-based chain of soup and salad bars that permanently closed all 97 of its U.S. restaurants (including nine in Arizona) due to the coronavirus in 2020, is trying to make a comeback. New owner ST
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☕️ Just Love Coffee Cafe, a Tennessee-based chain of all-day restaurants, has made its Arizona debut near the southeast corner of Power and Elliot in southeast Mesa. The breakfast menu features a variety of waffles and ‘‘womelettes,’’ while lunch/dinner options include
🇮🇹 Dolce Vita, an Italian deli in east Mesa, kicks off a 20-week series of specials today. Each week, a different region of Italy will be highlighted with a dish. This week’s special, available through Sunday, is valdostana – pan-seared veal cutlets,
🥧 Today is Pie Day, aka Pi (3.14) Day, which OHSO Brewery celebrates with its annual pie social that pairs 10 pie-inspired beers with 10 pies from The Pie Snob. Beers go on tap at 11 a.m., and beers and pies will be available
