By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
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🫒 The Olive Farmer, a restaurant-market-bar hybrid from In Good Spirits Hospitality (the crew behind some of your favorite Valley watering holes) and Queen Creek Olive Mill, is taking over the former Santo Arcadia space at 44th Street and Osborn
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🍹 The Valley’s cocktail scene is getting some well-deserved national love. The Tales of the Cocktail Foundation has announced its 2026 Spirited Awards Regional Top 10 Honorees for the U.S. West – and five Phoenix spots made the cut, chosen
📝 If you’ve eaten at Worth Takeaway in downtown Mesa — and if you haven’t, please fix that immediately — you already know that Jim Bob and Kelsey Strothers run one of the finest sandwich shops in the Valley. The
🌮 Tempe, a city with approximately one taco spot per ASU student, just got another contender, and this one is actually worth your attention. Jalapeno’s Taco Spot has quietly opened inside the Tempe Market just north of the apartments on
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🍞 One of Phoenix’s most beloved institutions is baking its last batch. Old Heidelberg Bakery, the family-owned German gem that has been turning out handmade pretzels, strudel, dark breads, and hard rolls since 1969, will close its doors for good
🦉 After 13 years of cold beer, saucy wings, and orange shorts, the Hooters at Metro Center in Phoenix is calling last round. The location will close permanently on April 19. Franchise operator ROA Hooters cites a combination of rising
🍕 In the first three months of 2026, a remarkable wave of new pizzerias has crashed into the East Valley, ranging from a nostalgia-fueled comeback to a legitimate world champion planting his flag in Arizona. Whether you’re into wood-fired Neapolitan,
🎲 UnderTow, the Valley’s tiki bar staple, just added some swashbuckling stakes to happy hour: Pirates Dice is a game where guests at the Arcadia or Gilbert locations who order the featured monthly cocktail (pictured, $18 in April) can roll
🐐 When I first saw the news pop up on my feed Wednesday, I told myself it had to be an April Fool’s prank. Wendell Crow, the Valley’s most beloved artisan cheesemaker, putting his Buckeye goat dairy up for sale?
🌯 Today is National Burrito Day, and Mesquite Fresh Street Mex is celebrating with half-price burritos – chicken, beef, bean and cheese, or mixed veggies – all day at its 10 Valley locations. ⛽️ Through Friday, Snooze is giving dine-in
Spring has sprung in the Valley, and apparently every restaurateur from Dallas to San Diego decided that March was the moment to plant their flag in the desert. Here are seven that should be on your radar: Best Pizza &
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🥢 Pepper Lunch, a Japanese “fast-steak” chain that made its Arizona debut in Tempe in September, has opened a second location near the southeast corner of I-17 and Dove Valley in north Phoenix. This is the same franchise group behind
🍣 IX Sushi, the newest concept from Kaos Hospitality, officially opens its doors today at The Watermark near the southwest corner of the Loop 202 and Rural in Tempe. IX’s space was created by a remodeling of its year-old sibling,
