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🍩 Congrats to two East Valley residents who won this year’s Donut Flavor Craze contest at Bashas’. Brian Vehon from Mesa won the adult category with his “What’s Up, Doc?” doughnut (a light cream cheese frosting with carrot cake crumbles) inspired
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🥙 I’ve gotten lots of emails from readers asking when Cava is going to open on the southwest corner of Arizona and Ocotillo in south Chandler. The Washington, D.C.-based Mediterranean fast-casual chain plans to open its latest Valley location this Friday, but
🎹 Two-year-old piano bar and art space Gallery Bar has closed at High Street near the northwest corner of 56th Street and the Loop 101 in northeast Phoenix. No reason was given for the closure, and the bar has deleted its website
🍣 Downtown Phoenix sushi eatery Kaizen has closed after four years, but owners Troy Watkins and Kyu Utsunomiya plan to open a ‘‘mini Kaizen’’ inside their other sushi concept, Silo in downtown Tempe, in mid-August. Besides sushi, Kaizen offered a Japanese-Latin American fusion menu
🍺 Cogburn’s Big Wings, an East Valley group of country-themed sports bars that just closed a location at Cooper and Warner in Gilbert, is back to four locations overall with the launch of a new one on the northwest corner of
🥙 The Green Olive, a Mediterranean counter-service restaurant and caterer, has opened in the former Supreme Shawarma space on the southwest corner of Country Club and Southern in central Mesa. The menu offers kabobs (steak, ground beef, chicken, shrimp, or salmon), gyros, falafel,
🍦 Artisan ice cream shop Sweet Republic, launched by Jan Wichayanuparp and Helen Yung in Scottsdale in 2008, celebrates its Sweet 16 anniversary by giving away free scoops from 8 p.m.-10 p.m. tonight. You can choose from 21 flavors and four
