By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
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🍺 When Pedal Haus Brewery announced its new biergarten concept in downtown Mesa finally would open last Friday, it appeared to be the end of three-plus years of delays and false starts. Wrong. After holding a ‘‘friends and family’’ practice
🕊️ Mike Hegland, a musician and Elvis impersonator who opened Legends Showcase Bar & Grill in Chandler this summer with his wife, Sherry Chen, passed away last Wednesday. He was 68. Before opening Legends, he and Chen sold their popular
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🍺 Pedal Haus Brewery finally debuts its much-delayed biergarten concept today in downtown Mesa. The brewery’s fourth restaurant and taproom takes over the former Pit Stop auto body shop on the southwest corner of Main and Robson. The interior is just
🍷 Vineyards in the Valley, a three-day wine festival supporting healthcare initiatives in Haiti, runs through Saturday with wine tastings, food pairings, VIP dinners, and a charity auction at various Scottsdale locations. 🍺 Mesa brewery Beer Research Institute celebrates its
✈️ Carry On, the much-anticipated 1960s-era airplane-inspired cocktail bar adjacent to sibling Wren & Wolf, takes flight tonight on the northwest corner of Central and Washington in downtown Phoenix. Much like an actual flight, you’ll need to book a ticket
🍎 The Kolache Cafe, an Ahwatukee bakery specializing in its namesake Czech pastries, soft-opens a second location today in Mesa. It takes over the space formerly home to Ike’s Love & Sandwiches near the northwest corner of Gilbert and Southern.
🚫 Scottsdale-based Evening Entertainment Group has scrapped its controversial plan to open a Bottled Blonde, its pizzeria and nightclub concept, in downtown Gilbert. The move comes after the FBI arrested Utah developer Aaron Wagner, who had purchased the former Bergies Coffee
🥪 St. Louis-based Panera Bread opens its third Scottsdale cafe Thursday in the former Cousins Subs space in front ot the Hilton Home2 Suites near the southeast corner of Scottsdale and Thompson Peak. The first 100 customers after doors open at
🍝 Sorrento, a wood-fired Italian restaurant and bar, has opened in the Sprouts shopping plaza on the southeast corner of Scottsdale and Pinnacle Peak in north Scottsdale. It takes over the space formerly home to Copper Mule Kitchen & Bar.
🌮 Le Taco, a Mexican eatery and listening room, has opened in the former Little O’s space near the southeast corner of Seventh Avenue and McDowell in Phoenix. The menu offers 13 tacos, plus a few apps, salads, and desserts
🚫 Denver-based chain Teriyaki Madness has closed all of its Valley restaurants – including Scottsdale, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Ahwatukee, and Tolleson – without explanation. The Asian fast-casual restaurants are listed as ‘‘temporarily closed’’ or ‘‘permanently closed,’’ depending on where you
🚫 Disco Dragon, a two-year-old Asian-inspired cocktail bar on Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix, has closed. Its across-the-street sibling, upscale restaurant Pretty Penny, will move into the space on Dec. 4. Both concepts are owned by Sam Olguin and Brenon
🍕 Shy’s Pizza & Wings, a sports bar-ish pizzeria, has opened on the northeast corner of Gilbert and Guadalupe in Gilbert. It takes over the strip-mall space formerly home to Florigino’s Pizza & Pasta (which originally was named Floridino’s although
🏌️♂️The Fairmont Scottsdale Princess has reopened Toro, celebrity chef Richard Sandoval’s restaurant connected to the clubhouse at the TPC Scottsdale golf course. The resort had closed Toro over the summer for remodeling in an effort to attract more non-golfing diners.
🦃 Can’t wait for Thanksgiving? Dog Haus has unveiled its take on the iconic Turducken – a turkey, duck, and chicken sausage topped with warm turkey gravy, garlic aioli, onions, and scallions on King’s Hawaiian rolls ($11.99). There’s also a
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🍖 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
