By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
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🍦 Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, a Columbus, Ohio-based chain that made its Arizona debut last year in Old Town Scottsdale, celebrates the opening of its second Valley scoop shop at the Scottsdale Quarter from 7-11 p.m. today with free scoops
🍩 Randy’s Donuts, a famed Los Angeles doughnut shop that has appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows, has opened its third Valley shop – all in the past six months – near the southeast corner of Queen Creek
🌮 Fire & Braids, which has done Mexican food pop-ups at Pinnacle Brewing for several months, has set up a semi-permanent trailer next to the north Scottsdale brewery’s biergarten. The seasonal menu currently features corn masa sopes topped with Michoacán-style
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Shocking news this morning for Arizona’s food and drink community: Anthony Canecchia – the founder of SanTan Brewing & Distilling, Arizona’s largest craft brewery – passed away Saturday. He was 51. ‘‘We are deeply saddened to receive news of the
🍺 Skunked! For the first time in three decades, Arizona breweries failed to win a single medal at this year’s prestigious Great American Beer Festival in Denver. GABF, the world’s largest commercial beer competition, judged more than 9,200 beers from
🍺 The Four Peaks Oktoberfest runs 5 p.m.-midnight today, 10 a.m.-midnight Saturday, and 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday at Tempe Town Lake. General admission is $25 today and Saturday and free on Sunday. (Free all days for those under 21.) 🇬🇷
🇰🇷 Central BBQ House, a five-year-old Korean barbecue restaurant in south Phoenix, has opened a second location at The Lakes in south Tempe. It takes over the lakeside building formerly home to The Watershed (and, before that, Charlie Brown’s) on
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🍔 After nine months of construction delays, Badlands Bar & Grill finally has opened in Queen Creek. The American elevated comfort food restaurant closed its original Tempe location in January and planned to reopen that same month in the former
💐 Eighteen-year-old entrepreneur Dylan Capshaw has opened a third Valley location of Stemistry, his unique concept that’s part coffee shop and part flower bouquet bar. It’s located in the Road Runner apartments near the southwest corner of McDowell Road and 68th
🍖 Starlite BBQ & Whiskey Bar, an upscale ’cue joint in Old Town Scottsdale, has closed after six years. The smokehouse was launched on the northeast corner of Indian School and Miller roads by Walter Sterling, the restaurateur/chef behind Phoenix’s
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🍝 North Italia, the upscale-casual Italian restaurant that Fox Restaurant Concepts launched in 2002 in Tucson, opens its fourth Valley location today at The Park at 83 near the southeast corner of the Loop 101 and Bell Road in Peoria.
🍺 Mother Tucker’s Tavern, a vintage dive bar-style hangout, has opened in the former Bevvy space on the northwest corner of Saddlebag Trail and Shoeman Lane in Old Town Scottsdale. A streamlined menu offers burgers, sandwiches, tacos, and salads. Like
🍩 Creampuff Donuts, a pastry and coffee shop from Pretty Decent Concepts (Wren & Wolf, Chico Malo, Trophy Room), has opened on the southeast corner of Buchanan and First streets in downtown Phoenix. Chef Lucia Alferez’s menu features a rotating
🔥 Cielo Rojo, a Mexican restaurant that opened in March in Phoenix’s Coronado neighborhood, has closed temporarily after a small fire broke out in a storage area at 2 a.m. Monday. The building was unoccupied so no one was injured. The
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🍔 Scottsdale-based gastropub chain Thirsty Lion opens its fifth Valley restaurant today at the Westgate Entertainment District in Glendale. The two-story building – the Thirsty Lion’s largest in the Valley – has a dining area, bar, and patio on the ground
