By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
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The Brass Tap at Mesa Riverview and Huss Brewing are teaming up to celebrate this spring’s first Cactus League baseball game at Sloan Park on Friday. The Sloan Park Opening Day Tailgate will kick off at 10 a.m. with $2 hot
Please welcome MAD Greens, a Denver-based fast-casual salad-centric restaurant, as MXSW’s newest sponsor. Co-founders Marley Hodgson and Dan Long launched MAD Greens in 2004. Their focus is not only salads, but also wraps and paninis, all of which are made
Craft beer and wine drinkers are quite familar with the idea of flights. Now it looks like coffee lovers are getting in on the fun. Infusion Coffee & Tea in Tempe is introducing coffee flights. For $8, you get five 3-ounce
Today only, Jimmy & Joe’s Pizzeria is selling Eegee’s frozen fruit drinks for just $1. Previous: What’s the big deal about Eegee’s drinks? You must be a member of Jimmy & Joe’s customer rewards program; if not, you can sign
The Great Pho King, one of the Valley’s more popular food trucks, opens a bricks-and-mortar restaurant, Pho King Kitchen, today in south Scottsdale. It takes over the former La Fontana Italian restaurant on the northeast corner of Hayden and Thomas.
First we got the D-Bat Dog. Then the Churro Dog. Now the D-Backs are ushering in this baseball season with the MegaDog. The MegaDog is a foot-long hot dog smothered in pulled pork and Hatch green chile mac ’n’ cheese. Total
Oregano’s Pizza Bistro, which opened its 16th Arizona restaurant in Queen Creek in October, is setting its sights on east Mesa this year. The local chain is taking over the former Old Chicago Pizza that closed last June on the southeast corner of Superstition Springs
‘‘Extra Virgin Americana,’’ a Cooking Channel show chronicling a season-long family road trip by actress Debi Mazar and her chef/husband Gabriele Corcos (pictured), makes a couple of stops in Gilbert on Wednesday. In an episode entitled “Fear and Cooking in the
Chompie’s kicks off its annual Cactus League burger special today. After 3 p.m. daily, buy any burger and two drinks at the New York-style deli and you’ll get a second burger of equal or lesser value for free. All six
Binkley’s Restaurant, the 11-year-old Cave Creek restaurant considered by many to be the best in Arizona, will close its doors for good sometime this summer. Chef/owner Kevin Binkley also will close his three-year-old Bink’s Midtown in Phoenix, and reopen it this fall
Several East Valley restaurants are offering Leap Day specials today: Wimpy’s Paradise in downtown Chandler is selling 6-inch hot dogs for 29 cents. Limit one per person. Fired Pie in Tempe, Chandler, and Ahwatukee is giving away one pizza (pictured) or salad
Airport hotels usually aren’t known for their restaurants. Holiday Inn is hoping to change that. The chain began rolling out its own craft-burgers-and-beer concept last year. Dubbed Burger Theory, the eateries focus on house-made burgers blended from chuck, brisket, and short
For years, I wondered why Sam Fox hadn’t opened a restaurant in Gilbert. The town’s demographics seemed perfect for several of his numerous concepts, particularly Sauce Pizza & Wine and Zinburger Wine & Burger Bar. Now, Gilbert finally is about to
The Broken Yolk Cafe, a San Diego-based chain of breakfast eateries, celebrates the first birthday of its first Arizona location – on the northeast corner of Gilbert and Southern in Mesa – with $1 short stacks of pancakes all day today
Bobby Q’s Great Steaks and BBQ was just named one of the Top 100 Places to eat in the U.S. for 2016 by Yelp, and East Valley residents soon won’t have to journey to west Phoenix to enjoy its food. Bobby
El Palacio: $4 Cadillacs, $4 20-ounce margaritas, and $5 El Jimador La Ristra: $4 house margaritas, $6 Sauza Blue Cadillac margaritas, $6 Smokey Mezcal margarita, $4 Sauza Blue shots; also $3 carne asada, green chile chicken, or chipotle shrimp tacos. TQLA: $4 house margaritas, $8 ultimate
Shake Shack, the popular New York City-based chain that began as a single burger stand – has announced its first Arizona location will open at 11 a.m. next Friday, Feb. 26, at Scottsdale Fashion Square on the northwest corner of Scottsdale
The Living Room wine cafe & lounge is opening a fourth location. The new one will be right next to the AMC Ahwatukee 24 movie theaters on the southwest corner of I-10 and Ray. The owners are hoping to open
Bacus Bros. Hot Dogs & Beer opened Wednesday on the southwest corner of Mill and Fourth Street in downtown Tempe. It takes over the former Silver Mine Subs just off Hayden Square Amphitheater. Ironically, the eatery’s signature menu item isn’t
R.T. O’Sullivan’s Sports Grill, which had three active Mesa locations as recently as 2012, now is down to just one. The sports bar has shut down its location on the southwest corner of Stapley and U.S. 60. According to a sign
