By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
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Queen Creek Olive Mill hosts its annual Pizza Party from 5-9 p.m. Tuesday, July 4. Admission is free, but entrance is limited to olive mill shoppers and diners, who are invited to bring lawns chairs or blankets. There are three food
Chef Yolanda “Yoliâ€Â Fernandez and husband Rick Scott have sold Yoli’s Cafe, their award-winning breakfast and lunch eatery in downtown Chandler. The cafe will close Saturday to begin renovations. The couple, who regularly closed in July for a monthlong sabbatical, made the
Jimmy & Joe’s Pizzeria is doing another of its $1 Eegee’s frozen fruit drink specials all day today at its Chandler and Mesa locations. Besides its year-round flavors, Eegee’s most popular seasonal flavor – watermelon – is the flavor of the
The Perch in Chandler will have a rare tapping of a cask of its Cafe Rodo Coffee Porter – a dark and creamery beer made with Scottsdale-based Passport Coffee, vanilla beans, and lactose – at 3 p.m. today. Cask-conditioned beers
Summer is a tough time for Valley restaurants, so it’s not surprising to see many of them rolling out summer specials to entice diners. The latest is Pier 54, an all-patio restaurant and bar on the shore of a south Tempe lake.
At a time when many Valley restaurants are struggling to survive, Sal’s Gilbert Pizza is expanding. The 11-year-old neighborhood favorite in Gilbert Town Square – on the west side of Gilbert Road halfway between Warner and Ray – is taking over
Acclaimed Valley chef Silvana Salcido Esparza is closing Barrio Urbano, her two-year-old restaurant at Sam Fox’s The Yard complex on Seventh Street and Montebello in north central Phoenix. Salcido Esparza made the announcement herself with a lengthy Facebook explanation, citing several factors, including a
While Chicago deep-dish pizza icons Lou Malnati’s, Gino’s East, and Giordano’s are slugging it out in Phoenix and the West Valley, Buddyz A Chicago Pizzeria is quickly taking over the East Valley. Buddyz, which kicked off the recent surge of Windy City pizza imports when it opened
Citing rising costs and Arizona’s minimum wage increase, Native Grill & Wings on the northeast corner of Alma School and Queen Creek in south Chandler has announced it will close its doors Saturday night. The first thing that came to my mind: I
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, June 29. The dinners typically feature five courses selected from
Blooming Beets Kitchen’s foray into the Arizona market has abruptly ended after less than seven months. The Boulder, Colo.-based concept, which focused on Paleo-centric eating, made its Arizona debut in December, taking over the former Fired Up Grill on the southwest corner
Thirty bucks will get you a dozen beer tastings at the third annual Summer Beer Fest from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, June 24, at Boulders on Southern in Mesa. A partial tap list: Elevation Vanilla Oil Man Council Beatitude Pineapple Tart Saison
Is Gilbert on its way to becoming the barbecue capitol of the East Valley? Earlier this week I broke the news longtime Mesa fave Waldo’s BBQ is making a second attempt at opening a location in Gilbert. Now comes word of another smokehouse opening in
Is pool dying as a sport? Scott ‘‘The Freezer’’ Frost doesn’t think so. The sport’s problem, he says, is aging, uninviting pool halls. That’s why the Valley resident – who’s considered one of the best one-pocket billiards players in the world – just opened
Buon Padre Pizza, a new pizzeria that just opened in Chandler, is perhaps most notable for what it is not. It is not another fast-casual, ready-in-3-minutes pizza concept. It is not a chain. It is not expensive. And it is
The Reef, a sports bar and grill that had operated for more than a decade on Warner just west of Arizona Avenue in Chandler, has moved to a new location about a quarter-mile away. Its new home is a 5,120-square-foot building on the
LJ’s Pizza was a Mesa institution, offering a popular all-you-can-eat lunch buffet for nearly four decades before closing in 2011. LJ’s later reopened in a smaller, cafe-like structure behind its original location – sorry, no more buffet – and its former space on Main Street west of
Queen Creek residents will have to wait a little longer for their Pita Jungle. The locally based chain of Mediterranean restaurants had been scheduled to open its 16th Valley location Monday near the Harkins Theatres at Ellsworth Loop and Rittenhouse. Now, the
Take a break from today’s high temperatures at Jimmy & Joe’s Pizzeria, which will be selling Eegee’s frozen fruit drinks for just $1 all day. You must be a member of Jimmy & Joe’s customer rewards program; if you aren’t, you
Cuisine & Wine Bistro is launched a new Tuesday special – dubbed Thirty Tuesdays – today. Get a meat and cheese board of your choice (charcuterie, fromage, or mixed) and two glasses of wine for $30. The special is available all
