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Author: Jess Harter

This weekend’s top food & drink events around the Valley

🍖 More than 40 top pitmasters fire up their smokers this weekend for the second annual Downtown Mesa BBQ Classic. The competition kicks off with dessert and appetizer categories from 5-9 p.m. today, followed by four meat categories from 11 a.m.-5

Cider Corps in Mesa celebrates anniversary & veterans

🪖 Cider Corps, the veteran-owned craft cidery in downtown Mesa, celebrates its seventh anniversary this weekend. Blueberry Brahma, the latest canned cider in Cider Corps’ Honor Series, will be released Friday. The collaboration with Meat Market Vintage Goods honors the Marine’s

BBQ Classic returns to downtown Mesa this weekend

🍖 More than 40 top pitmasters fire up their smokers this weekend for the second annual Downtown Mesa BBQ Classic. ‘‘There truly is no other event in metro Phoenix that comes close to what people can expect to see and taste,’’

King of Gyros expands with 2nd Valley location in south Chandler

🥙 King of Gyros, a nine-year-old Meditteranean eatery in south Tempe, has opened a second location on the southeast corner of Price and Willis in south Chandler. Besides gyros, the menu offers shawarma, souvlaki, kefta, and falafel. Open for lunch and