By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
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🍺💧 Eight Valley craft breweries will participate in the One Water Brewing Showcase, Arizona’s first festival dedicated to beers made with recycled water, today and Saturday at the Scottsdale Waterfront in Old Town Scottsdale. The event, which starts at 6
🎟 Tickets for the 15th annual Devour Culinary Classic, which will be held Feb. 24-25 at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, go on sale to the general public today. The Valley’s most prestigious food festival features samples from more
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🐟🐓 Bay Bay’s Fish & Chicken, a family-run Southern-style eatery specializing in fried catfish and chicken wings, has opened near the northeast corner of 48th Street and University in Tempe. Catfish dinners come with two or four pieces of hormone-free
👩🏽🍳 Local First Arizona, which has incubated more than 200 restaurants and food businesses since 2017 through its Good Food Boot Camp and community kitchens in Mesa and south Phoenix, has launched a third community kitchen in Maryvale. Twelve female
🦃 Floridino’s Pizza & Pasta in Chandler has unveiled its new pizza muffin of the month: Turkey Dinner. Pizza muffins are the signature menu item at Floridino’s, which offers seven varieties on its regular menu. It also has a pizza
☕️ The teams behind Mythic Goat Coffee and Rift Wine & Tap have partnered together to launch Grounds on 2nd on the southeast corner of Second and 69th streets in Old Town Scottsdale. The coffee shop, wine bar, and urban
🍖 The Downtown Mesa BBQ Classic, the only Kansas City Barbeque Society-sanctioned competition in Arizona, will take place 5-9 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at Main and McDonald. The event includes a one-meat challenge Friday and a four-meat
🌮 Taqueria Factory and sibling concept Frutilandia are offering Día de los Muertos specials today through Thursday. The family-run taqueria, which has two locations in Chandler, has a BOGO 50% off deal on carne asada, chicken, shrimp, birria, or al pastor
🥙 The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill, a Florida-based chain of counter-service restaurants, has opened its first Arizona location on the northwest corner of the Loop 101 and Via de Ventura in central Scottsdale. The menu offers salads, bowls, gyros, pitas,
🌮 Pita Jungle in downtown Phoenix is collaborating with Erick Pineda, the chef behind popular Mexican pop-up concept Requinto, for a one-night-only event during this week’s First Friday Art Walk. “In an effort to build on our tradition of rotating
🍺🍷 A few tickets still are available for the Terroir Festival hosted by Arizona Wilderness Brewing from 2-6 p.m. Saturday at Agritopia urban farm in Gilbert. Created by Firestone Walker Brewing in 2019, the unique event features 20 of the country’s top breweries
🥩🍤 Kona Grill, a Valley-born upscale-casual concept that filed for bankruptcy protection in 2019 but appears to be on the upswing, has opened a new location at Desert Ridge Marketplace in north Phoenix. It’s located on the west side of
🍺 Hop Central Brewing and Taproom in Chandler has tapped a Kōkua Project beer from Dark Sky Brewing in Flagstaff to benefit those impacted by the Maui wildfires. Kōkua, roughly translated, is the Hawaiian word for help. In the project
🥧 Fabrice Buschtetz, the French owner and chef of family-run Cuisine & Wine Bistro in south Chandler, has launched an online gourmet bakery called Quiches & Pies. The menu features 10 different quiches, from bacon and caramelized onions to mushroom
🥧 Piefection celebrates the grand opening of its fourth location on the northeast corner of Queen Creek and Ellsworth in Queen Creek from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. The locally owned pie shop debuted in northeast Mesa in 2012 and later added
🍨 Latin dessert shop Frutilandia celebrates National Chocolate Day with a BOGO 50% off deal on any ice cream or milkshake Saturday at all eight of its Valley locations. 🌱 Sample local foods at ‘‘Seeding Our Harvest,’’ a free festival
⚾️ La Ristra New Mexican Grill in Gilbert and downtown Chandler is extending its happy hour specials during all World Series games: $3.50 domestic beers $4 craft beers/seltzers $4.50 imported beers $5 mixed drinks and shots $5 house wine $7
☕️🎨 Jarrod’s Coffee Tea & Gallery in downtown Mesa will hold a fundraiser Saturday in an attempt to save the business. Jarrod Martinez launched his Main Street gallery in 2012 and added a coffee shop in 2015. The venue regularly
🔥 Big Nate’s Family BBQ, a 3-year-old family-run smokehouse in northeast Mesa, has opened a second location on the northwest corner of Main and Power in east Mesa. Eric Solheim, brother-in-law Ray Dandridge, and their wives started the business as
