By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
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🥙 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
🇮🇳 Curries Indian Cuisine & Bar, a very popular Yuma restaurant that opened in 2020, has made its Valley debut in central Scottsdale. It takes over the former Dos Familias Local Mexican space (previously Blue Adobe Grille) at Palo Verde
🌮 Oscar’s Taco Shop, a Tennessee-based chain, has opened its seventh Valley location in Chandler. It takes over the former Buon Padre Pizza space on the northeast corner of McQueen and Pecos roads. Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily. An
🎸 The Global Ambassador in Arcadia will host pop-ups (including open bar and live entertainment) by its sibling Nashville supper club Twelve Thirty Club on Nov. 15-16. Tables start at $850++ for two people. Get more info here. 🍕 Chicken
🥂 The Parlay Kitchen & Cocktails, a local gastropub concept that debuted in 2019, has opened its third location in south Chandler. It takes over the former Fat Willy’s space in the Bashas’ center on the northwest corner of Gilbert
🍽️ Tickets for the 2025 Devour Culinary Classic, the Valley’s premier food and drink festival, are now on sale to the general public. The two-day, 21-and-over event takes place Feb. 22-23 at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. General admission is
🍺 Throne Brewing & Pizza Kitchen, a spinoff of Glendale-based Throne Brewing, has closed after three years in downtown Phoenix. According to a notice on the door, the property near the southwest corner of Central Avenue and McDowell Road was
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🌮 Dallas-based Velvet Taco makes its much-anticipated Arizona debut at 11 a.m. today in Old Town Scottsdale. It takes over the former Second Story Restaurant & Liquor Bar building on the southwest corner of Scottsdale Road and Third Avenue. Velvet Taco
🚫 Seven, the high-end American restaurant and rooftop pool lounge that opened at the Caesars Republic Scottsdale hotel in March, will close in May. The announcement came as the hotel decided to dump the Caesars affiliation and rebrand as a Hilton
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🥣 Tru Bowl Superfood Bar celebrates the opening of its Chandler location on the northeast corner of Germann and Dobson on Saturday. The first 100 people in line at 8 a.m. get free small bowls; everyone else gets a BOGO deal
🦪 Humble Oysters & Bubbles, a new concept from the owners of Humble Bistro, has debuted at High Street in northeast Phoenix. The seafood parlor and bubbles bar is located next door to Humble Bistro near the southeast corner of
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🥗 Crave Protein Cafe, a health-food eatery and smoothie bar, has opened in south Gilbert. It takes over the space formerly home to Crave Cookies & Drinks (how’s that for a 180-degree turn?), which closed earlier this year near the
🌮 Starting today, Taco Bell brings back some iconic menu items from its first 50 years — the tostada ($2.19) from the 1960s, the green sauce burrito ($2.49) from the ’70s, the Meximelt ($2.99) from the ’80s, and the Gordita Supreme
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🥩 Origen Steakhouse – an elevated wood-fired grill from Mérida, the capitol of the southern Mexican state of Yucatán – has opened in Gilbert. It joins the restaurant lineup at Verde at Cooley Station on the southwest corner of Williams
🍦 Otro Cafecito, the Mexican-inspired coffee, juice, and pastry shop inside Phoenix’s Otro Café, introduces a menu of chef-crafted ice creams today. Pastry chef Amanda Hepler created half of the dozen selections (ranging from vegan toasted coconut to strawberry Nutella); the
🧋 Smoothie King, a Texas-based chain with a half-dozen locations in Phoenix and the East Valley, has launched a special GLP-1 Support Menu of no-added-sugar smoothies for customers taking Ozempic or Wegovy. 🔥 Renata’s Hearth, the Latin-inspired restaurant at the Arizona
