By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
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🍦 Salt & Straw, the artisan ice cream shop at Agritopia in Gilbert, has launched its five seasonal Halloween flavors. The highlight is Don Bugito’s Creepy Crawly Critters – matcha ice cream with toffee-brittle mealworms and crunchy chocolate crickets (yes,
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🇮🇳 Sampurna, a family-owned Indian restaurant that offers a lunch buffet from 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily, has opened on the southwest corner of Dobson and Warner roads in Chandler. It takes over the space formerly home to Ruchi Vegetarian South
🍺 The Downtown Chandler Oktoberfest takes place 3-10 p.m. today and Saturday at Dr. A.J. Chandler Park. The event features beers from seven local breweries, German food, live music, and games. Tickets start at $20. 📺 Giuseppe’s on 28th, an
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🍔 Smash Grille, an elevated kosher eatery offering parve meals, has opened on the northwest corner of 16th Street and Bethany Home Road in north Phoenix. The menu includes nine smash burgers, chicken sandwiches and wings, and dinner platters (such
🥪 Lunch N Munch, a breakfast and lunch cafe, has opened on the northwest corner of University Drive and Power Road in northeast Mesa. (No relation to the similarly named breakfast and lunch cafe Munch A Lunch in Tempe.) Lunch
🍔 Paradise Valley Burger Co., which opened in north Phoenix in 2011, is moving to the southwest corner of Hayden Road and Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard in Scottsdale. The acclaimed burger eatery’s Phoenix location will close Oct. 24 and the
🌻 Flower Child, a fast-casual healthy concept, has opened its seventh Valley location at PV, the $2 billion redevelopment of the former Paradise Valley Mall near Cactus Road and Tatum Boulevard in Phoenix. The menu features salads, bowls, entrées, wraps,
🇹🇭 Phoenix Thai restaurant Mr. Baan’s Bar and Mookata (pictured), which opened last November behind sibling Lom Wong, has been named to the New York Times’ annual Restaurant List of its ‘‘50 favorite places in America right now.’’ 🍺 SanTan Brewing
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🎸 The Stillery, a Nashville-based restaurant and bar with Southern comfort food and live country music, has opened its third Valley location at Goodyear’s new downtown mixed-use development called GSQ. It’s located near the northwest corner of McDowell Road and
🍕 Sal’s Gilbert Pizza in Gilbert will hold a fundraiser today for the family of Phoenix police officer Zane Coolidge, who was shot snd killed in the line of duty earlier this month. Sal’s is donating 100% of today’s profits
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📺 Backyard, the newest concept from Scottsdale-based Evening Entertainment Group, has opened its second Valley location near SanTan Village in Gilbert. Backyard, which made its Arizona debut in March at Desert Ridge Marketplace in Phoenix, takes over the former Sandbar
🍝 Owners Brandon and Michele Gioffre have revamped their 11-year-old Italian restaurant The Blind Pig in Scottsdale. It now has an old-school New York Italian decor (pictured) and has changed its name to DiMaggio’s Italian Restaurant. 🍺 Litchfield Park gastropub
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🍽️ Arizona Restaurant Week kicks off its fall edition today and runs through next Sunday, Sept. 29. More than 230 participating restaurants are offering special three-course prix-fixe menus for $33, $44, or $55 per person. See the menus. 🌮 Loco
🇮🇹 The Italiano, the newest concept from restaurateur/chef Joey Maggiore (Hash Kitchen, The Sicilian Butcher, The Mexicano, The Rosticceria, etc.), opens today next to the Sprouts Farmers Market on the southeast corner of Shea Boulevard and 90th Street in central
🎲 Mox Boarding House, a Seattle-based restaurant and board games concept, opens with a 2 p.m. ribbon-cutting today in Chandler. It took over the former Social Box Neighborhood Eatery on Alma School Road between Warner and Ray roads in 2020,
