By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
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After 21 years in business, Floridino’s Pizza & Pasta in Chandler is hosting its first-ever wine dinner at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 30. Floridino’s is teaming up with Santa Margherita on a four-course menu with wine pairings: 1st course: Summer salad with walnuts
La Ristra New Mexican Kitchen in Gilbert holds its fifth annual Hatch Chile Roast and Sale this weekend. Restaurant staffers made their annual pilgrimage to Hatch, N.M., earlier this month to pick up their annual supply of chiles, which will be roasted
Gilbert Feastival, the town’s Friday night food truck roundup that has been bounced around various sites for the past year or two, may finally have found a new permanent home. The no-admission festival will make its debut this Friday in the
Attention, animal lovers: Snooze in Tempe will be raising money for the Arizona Animal Welfare League & SPCA by donating 10% of all sales Thursday. The AAWL is trying to raise $30,000 this month to expand its low-cost vet clinic.
Scarlett Overkill, an Imperial red that’s been double Simcoe dry-hopped in the cask, will be the featured beer for this week’s 3 p.m. Thursday cask tapping at The Perch in Chandler. Get a 10-ounce pour of Scarlett Overkill (8% ABV,
After 10 years, Amazing Jake’s entertainment center in Mesa is undergoing a massive renovation, including an upgrade of its food and beverage offerings and a new name – Jake’s Unlimited. Starting this week, Jake’s is closed for construction Mondays through Thursdays,
Romeo’s Euro Cafe in Gilbert holds its weekly ‘‘Taste of Romeo’s’’ dinner, hosted by chef Romeo Taus and his wife, Janice, in a private dinning room, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 24. The dinners typically feature five courses selected from the restaurant’s regular menu. This
SunUp Brewing in Phoenix celebrates its 16th anniversary today through Sunday with 16 house beers on tap, three special beer releases, live music, and prize giveaways. The craft brewery also will kick off the full release of its Sunna’s Nektar Braggot (bottle purchases
Tempe distillery Adventurous Stills releases the first cask of its Peralta Bourbon, which it’s billing as the only bourbon made exclusively in the Valley available for purchase, on Saturday. For those who didn’t pre-order, approximately 60 bottles will be for sale
The Casual Pint, a craft beer bar and store in south Chandler, celebrates its one-year anniversary with a party from 3-10 p.m. Saturday. Beer for a year will be just one of several raffle prizes. Another prize will be a New Belgium
You have to admire the creativity of Flancer’s customers. The restaurant recently asked for help in coming up with clever, tongue-in-cheek names for the items on its new breakfast menu. Here are the winning entries (which earned free gift certificates):
Scottsdale Beer Company, Arizona’s eighth-largest brew pub in terms of production volume, soon will be providing its beers to bars, restaurants, and stores throughout the state. Valley-based Quail Distributing will begin delivering SBC beers in mid-September. “It brings us great pride to team
Discussions about the Valley’s craft beer scene – especially questions about possible over-saturation – inevitably seem to lead to comparisons to San Diego. That’s not surprising. With roughly four million residents, Maricopa County is the fourth-largest in the U.S. With more
BottleShop 48 in Tempe will host its first Beer 101 class with The Perch Brewery from Chandler at 6:30 p.m. today. The Perch brewer Steene Routh will discuss how beer is made, beer terminology, and popular styles of beer. Cost is
Yesterday MXSW broke the news that the just-closed Riazzi’s Italian Garden in Tempe would be replaced by a new restaurant called Quartiere. Today we have details. Like Riazzi’s, which had operated for 72 years before closing earlier this week, Quartiere will
Although it’s been open for nearly a month, Pita Jungle in Queen Creek celebrates its ‘‘grand opening’’ today. The Mediterranean restaurant is giving away free hummus to the first 100 people when doors open at 10:30 a.m. It also will have live music
The good news: Little Miss BBQ, well-known for the best barbecue in Arizona and the long waits in line to get some of it – is opening a second location. The bad news, at least for East Valley residents: The new
Riazzi’s Italian Garden in Tempe has closed after 72 years in business. Mary Pacinelli moved from Pennsylvania to the Valley in 1945 and opened the restaurant with her youngest daughter, Emma Riazzi. The original location was at 15th Avenue and
The rollercoaster ride continues for Modern Grove. The restaurant-bar-grocery concept from developer Aaron Klusman, founder of Chandler-based Zoyo Yogurt, debuted in Flagstaff in 2013 and expanded quickly with locations in northeast Phoenix in 2014, Mesa in 2015, and north Scottsdale in 2016. Almost
It’s the annual Hatch green chile season at AZ Food Crafters, and the Chandler hand pie shop and cafe is offering a variety of chile-based empanadas, stews, soups, and other dishes. The items are available at the cafe, located on the southeast
