Author: Jess Harter

🌮 The Guadalupe on Main, a modern Southwest restaurant with a focus on Jalisco-style dishes, has opened in central Mesa. It takes over the building formerly home to Casa Ramos Redux, which closed last month, on the north side of

🍕 Little Ray’s Pizzeria, a family-owned Italian restaurant, has opened on the northeast corner of Beardsley Road and 59th Avenue in Glendale. New York-style pizzas range from traditional thin-crust to Sicilian thick-crust (pictured). In addition to pizzas and calzones, the

🍛 Indian Curry Bowls – a restaurant with two co-owners, one from northern India and the other from southern India – has opened on the southwest corner of Estrella Parkway and Elwood Street in Goodyear. The co-owners have resided in

🥖 Paris Banh Mi Cafe & Bakery, a Florida-based chain of Vietnamese sandwich and coffee shops, opens its second Arizona location today in Chandler. It takes over the former Barro’s Pizza space on the northwest corner of Alma School and

🍣 Silo, a year-old pop-up from the team behind The Larry and the now-closed Kaizen in Phoenix, has moved into its permanent space at the Hayden Ferry Lakeside office campus on the northeast corner of Mill Avenue and Rio Salado

🍩 Randy’s Donuts, the iconic Los Angeles doughnut shop featured in dozens of movies and TV shows, has opened its second Arizona location in Chandler. It’s located inside the new Pilot Travel Center on the southwest corner of 40th Street and

🌮 The Taco Spot, a fast-growing local chain launched by brothers Jorge and Jesus Ruiz out of a Chandler barbershop in 2020, has opened its 11th Valley location in Gilbert. It takes over the short-lived Taco H space on the

🍜 Vietnamese restaurant Camelback Pho has taken over the former PT Pho Express space on the northwest corner of Camelback Road and Seventh Avenue in uptown Phoenix. Besides nine kinds of pho, the menu features banh mi, vermicelli bowls, and