Author: Jess Harter

🌮 Dos Victorias, a Mexican restaurant in Monterey, Calif., has opened a second location in the former Los Favoritos space on the southeast corner of Kyrene and Ray in west Chandler. The counter-service menu features 15 burritos (plus seven breakfast

🏠 The Pemberton, a popular outdoor food hall and entertainment venue in downtown Phoenix that closed last March, has reopened with a new look. The original concept, which opened in 2021, featured rotating food trucks, funky art displays and retail

⛹️‍♀️ Title 9 Sports Grill, Phoenix’s first women-focused sports bar, has opened near the northeast corner of Indian School and Seventh Avenue in central Phoenix. It takes over the former Short Leash Hotdogs & Taproom, which closed in December. Title 9’s menu

🍣 Blue Sushi Sake Grill, an Omaha, Neb.-based chain of Japanese restaurants focused on responsibly caught and humanely raised seafood, has opened its second Valley location at the Village at Prasada in Surprise. The concept from the Flagship Restaurant Group made

🍺 Dynamite Beer Company in Cave Creek has soft-opened a second location in uptown Phoenix. The taproom, bottle shop, and kitchen moved into the former Huss Brewing space on the northeast corner of Central and Camelback. Unlike Tempe-based Huss, Dynamite

🌮 Miel de Agave, a two-year-old modern Mexican restaurant in downtown Phoenix, has opened a second location in downtown Chandler. It’s taken over the former Buqui Bichi space on the southeast corner of Arizona and Frye roads. The Mexico brewery’s first

🍽️ George & Gather, an all-day New American restaurant, bar, and market, has soft-opened near the southwest corner of Washington and Frye in downtown Chandler. The 7,700-square-foot, Art Deco-inspired space includes an 80-seat dining room, an indoor-outdoor bar, and a

🌮 Torchy’s Tacos, which started as an Austin, Texas, food trailer in 2006, has opened its fifth Valley location at the Village at Prasada near the southeast corner of the Loop 303 and Waddell in Surprise. The menu includes 17

🥖 Cheba Hut, the Valley-born chain of cannabis-themed sub shops, opens its 11th Arizona location today on the northwest corner of Shea and the Loop 101 in central Scottsdale. The 3,000-square-foot-plus end-cap space features a custom mural by Colorado artist Joshua

🍳 Chilaquiles Modern Kitchen, an eight-year-old Mexican brunch eatery in west Mesa, has opened a second location in east Mesa. The family-operated restaurant’s new location is at the Superstition Gateway West shopping mall on the southwest corner of U.S. 60

🍦 Artisan ice cream shop Sweet Republic has opened its fourth location near the southwest corner of Scottsdale and Second Street in Old Town Scottsdale. It takes over the space formerly home to Tom’s Incredible Ice Cream and, before that,

🐖 Chicharron Shack, a restaurant offering Dominican and Puerto Rican dishes, has opened near the southeast corner of Glendale and 47th Avenue in Glendale. The streamlined menu offers both chicharrones de pollo (pieces of crispy fried chicken) or chicharrones de

🌮 Super Burrito, a family-operated Mexican eatery near the southeast corner of Scottsdale and Thomas in south Scottsdale, has rebranded itself as Checo’s Taco Shop. Under the same ownership, the huge menu offers a slightly revamped selection of taco, burritos,

🍽️ Lin’s Grand Buffet, an Albuquerque-based Asian-American concept, has opened its seventh Arizona restaurant in northwest Phoenix. It’s taken over the former Black Angus Steakhouse at the under-redevelopment Metrocenter Mall on the southwest corner of I-17 and Peoria. Diners can