By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
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🍹 SanTan Spirits has partnered with Casa Maestri Tequila and Sun Orchard Beverages to create a new line of ready-to-drink canned margaritas. Two flavors – a traditional margarita and a mango margarita, both high-proof (10.5% ABV) – are available at SanTan’s locations in
Julie and Fabian Ocampo, owners of the award-winning Que Sazon food truck, have opened a bricks-and-mortar restaurant for their South American cuisine in the historic Teeter House at Heritage Square in downtown Phoenix. The menu features tacos, empanadas, arepas, and Colombian
🌮 Sr. Ozzy’s Tacos Y Mariscos, which debuted in south Phoenix in 2017 and recently began franchising, has opened its third location on the southeast corner of Kyrene and Ray in west Chandler. The expansive menu even includes sushi. Open for
🥩 SanTan Brewing will host a ‘‘Grain to Farm to Table’’ dinner at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at SanTan Gardens in Chandler. All four courses, which will be paired with a beer or cocktail, will feature locally sourced Moon River Beef fed with
🥐 Scottsdale-based Wildflower is spending $3 million to redesign seven of its Arizona restaurants with new booths, tables, chairs, and bakery displays. The Sonora Village location in north Scottsdale was the first to be renovated; others scheduled for 2023 are in Goodyear, Scottsdale
🐟 Twin Peaks, the Dallas-based chain of sports bars, is offering a $14 beer-battered fish and chips bundle every Friday during Lent, including Good Friday. Each basket includes the choice of a 22-ounce Coors Light or Miller Lite, and is
🇮🇹 The eight annual Italian Festival – featuring food, live music, art, exotic cars, kids activities, and more – will take place 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Sunday at Heritage Square in downtown Phoenix. Tickets are $10 in advance
🇯🇵 Japanese discount store chain Daiso, which has nearly 6,000 locations worldwide, makes its Arizona debut at 10 a.m. Saturday next to 99 Ranch Market on the northeast corner of Chandler and Dobson in Chandler. The store sells everything from
🎬 ‘‘Uncanny Valley,’’ a docuseries going behind the scenes of the local restaurant industry, launches online today with the first episode featuring Asian fusion restaurant Belly Kitchen & Bar. The episode won best documentary/short documentary at the Toronto Indie Shorts, Santa
🦀 Seafood restaurant Chesapeake Bay Bistro, which closed its 19-month-old bricks-and-mortar location in Ahwatukee in January, now has closed its Tempe ghost kitchen as well. Owners James and Yolanda Brown says they have been dealing with a family crisis since December, but will
🍕 Grand Avenue Pizza Co., which closed last June in downtown Phoenix and was replaced by SnapBack Pizzeria, reopens at 8 p.m. tonight in a new, much larger space about eight miles away near Glendale and Grand avenues in Glendale. The building
🍖 SanTan Brewing and Pedal Haus Brewery will co-host the inaugural Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival this weekend at A.J. Chandler Park in downtown Chandler. The family-friendly event starts at 4 p.m. Friday and ends at 11 p.m. Saturday. Presale tickets are $15 for Friday,
☕️ Oregon-based Black Rock Coffee Bar will celebrate the opening of its 31st Arizona store – and sixth in Scottsdale – by selling $2 medium drinks at the new store all day Friday. The store is in the Safeway shopping center on the
⛳️ Popstroke, a golf-entertainment venue designed by Tiger Woods’ TGR Design, opens today just west of Dave & Buster’s and the AMC theaters at Westgate in Glendale. In addition to two 18-hole putting courses, the not-just-for-golfers venue has a full-service open-air restaurant and an
🇯🇵 Matsuri Izakaya on Mill, a Japanese street food restaurant and tapas bar, has opened in the former La Bocca Urban Pizzeria & Wine Bar space near the northeast corner of Mill and Seventh Street in downtown Tempe. It’s part of
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🍝 Employee Appreciation Day is Friday, but Noodles & Company is celebrating a day early by inviting all restaurant workers for a free bowl of noodles from 1-5 p.m. Thursday. Workers just need to wear their uniform from any restaurant. Noodles &
🍨 Ohio-based Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams celebrates the grand opening of its first Arizona store at 7 p.m. tonight on the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Marshall Way in Old Town Scottsdale. The store will be giving out free scoops
🥪 California-born Mr. Pickle’s Sandwich Shops, which made its Arizona debut last month in central Scottsdale, has opened a second location on the west corner of Raintree and Frank Lloyd Wright in north Scottsdale. The menu features hot and cold sandwiches
🇲🇽 Tequila Cocina & Cantina – a restaurant and cocktail bar specializing in dishes from the town of Tequila in Mexico’s western state of Jalisco (known for its production of the famous spirit) – has opened on the southwest corner of Camelback and Seventh
