By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
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🍹 Industry Standard, a neighborhood small-plates restaurant and upscale craft cocktail lounge, officially opens today on the northwest corner of Second and Roosevelt streets in downtown Phoenix. The new concept from Scapegoat Beer & Wine owner Mike Cheathem, along with DashTrack founder
🍖 Rollin Smoke Barbeque, which has four restaurants in Las Vegas, has made its Arizona debut at Gateway Pavilions on the northwest corner of McDowell and 99th Avenue – just off I-10 – in Avondale. The menu features what it
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🍷 Postino WineCafé, the Valley’s pioneering wine bar concept, has opened its first West Valley location adjacent to the Peoria Sports Complex on the southeast corner of Bell and the Loop 101. A dozen kinds of bruschetta are the centerpiece of
🍕 Electric Pickle, a pickleball-themed entertainment complex from California-based Eureka Restaurant Group, has opened near the northeast corner of I-10 and Warner Road, just south of IKEA and Main Event, in south Tempe. The 4.5-acre venue soft-opened over the weekend
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In roughly chronological order: 🍝 Élephante: The upscale coastal Italian restaurant from Santa Monica, Calif., opens a second location in the former Crate & Barrel space at Scottsdale Fashion Square. (see story) 🍣 Three Thirty Three: The high-end Asian-inspired concept is the
Seating often is limited, so make your reservations early. Ambrogio15: A four-course prix-fixe Milanese menu from 11 a.m.-10 p.m. features filet Rossini and saffron prawn risotto for $169 per person. The Americano: A four-course prix-fixe menu is $150-$195 per person
🚫 Level 1 Arcade Bar is shutting down its five-year-old original location in downtown Gilbert on Jan. 18 after it was unable to reach agreement on a new lease. The two-story venue features arcade games, pinball machines, an eclectic food
🚫 Tempe Eats, a food hall featuring 10 concepts under one roof with a drive-through, a pickup window, and curbside service, is closing after just 10 months on the southeast corner of Mill and Southern. Its last day will be next
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🍔 Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers will open its 18th Arizona location at 3 p.m. Thursday at Gilbert Town Square on Gilbert Road between Warner and Ray. It replaces its recently closed sibling concept Famous 66 American Tavern. Besides 19 specialty burgers
🇻🇳 Pho Thien Long, a restaurant offering southeast Asian cuisine, has opened at the Cactus Crossing shopping center in Glendale. It takes over the space formerly home to China Rainbow on the northeast corner of Cactus and 67th Avenue. The
🚫 Holiday Toast & Tap, a 16-month-old gastropub, has closed on the southwest corner of Greenfield and Warner in Gilbert. ‘‘The reason for this unwanted closure is driven by the overall cost of operations and increasing property expenses,’’ owners Will
🚫 Belly Kitchen & Bar, the Southeast Asian-inspired concept that closed its Phoenix location in October, is closing its other location at Epicenter at Agritopia in Gilbert on Dec. 31. The Gilbert location opened in September 2022. The good news is
🍺 In another indication of the difficulties craft breweries currently are facing, Uncle Bear’s has shut down its six-year-old brewery and taproom near the northwest corner of Lindsay and Germann in Gilbert. The dog-themed brewery’s ales temporarily are being brewed at
🥩 Chicago-based steakhouse chain Morton’s has opened its third Valley restaurant at the new Desert Diamond Casino White Tanks on the Tohono O’odham Nation in the far West Valley. The high-end restaurant is located on the southeast corner of the Loop
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🤠 Not My First Rodeo, a country-western bar and restaurant, has opened in Old Town Scottsdale. It takes over the former Geisha a Go Go space near the northwest corner of Scottsdale and Sixth Avenue. The menu features burgers, sandwiches, canned
🍽️ Flour & Thyme, chef Ivan Jacobo’s sibling concept to his fine-dining Anhelo, has opened in Anhelo’s former space at the Orpheum Lofts on the northwest corner of First Avenue and Adams in downtown Phoenix. (Anhelo is in the process of moving
