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🍹 Congrats to several Phoenix bars and bartenders named among 10 finalists in their respective categories in Tales of the Cocktail Foundation’s 18th annual Spirited Awards, the Oscars of the bar industry: U.S. Bartender of the Year: Nicole Giampino of
🍛 Avasa, an Asian fusion restaurant whose menu ranges from Indian to Thai, has opened in the Changing Hands Bookstore plaza on the southwest corner of McClintock and Guadalupe in south Tempe. It takes over the longtime Mac’s Tap & Broiler
🐓 Sneakybird, a fast-casual oven-grilled chicken concept from former Native Grill & Wings CEO Daniel Chaon that debuted in Scottsdale in 2022, has launched a second location at Verde at Cooley Station on the southwest corner of Recker and Williams Field
🌮 Mexican restaurant Popo’s Fiesta del Sol has opened its third Valley location on the southwest corner of McDowell and the Estrella Parkway in Goodyear, joining others in west Phoenix (since 1964) and Glendale. House specialties include rolled quesadillas, green
🥌 Lane Park, believed to be the first restaurant or bar in the U.S. to have indoor “bar-style” ice curling, has opened on the northwest corner of First Street and Brown in Old Town Scottsdale. Besides four lanes of curling (pictured
🌮 Mexican restaurant Jalapeño Inferno is closing its location at Market Street at DC Ranch in north Scottsdale. ‘‘We worked hard to renew our lease with the landlord after our initial 10-year run and were simply unable to come to reasonable terms
🍺 Tempe-based Huss Brewing is giving away $500 in beer to someone getting married in the next 12 months. If you’re 21 or over (and planning to get hitched), you can enter here to win the brewery’s Happily Ever After wedding package. The drawing
🍹 Oliver’s Modern American, a new concept from the owners of The Eleanor and Fate Brewing, opens today near the northeast corner of Hayden and Thomas in south Scottsdale. The 1960s building, once the country’s only Polynesian Dairy Queen, was moved from
