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5 to try: Where to eat dinner before a show at the Mesa Arts Center

Nunthaporn’s Thai Cuisine In 2009, owner-chef Nunthaporn Treekamol moved her well-respected restaurant from just off U.S. 60 to downtown Mesa (map) in order to be near the arts center. Her menu features more than 60 traditional Thai dishes, including seven different curries and

5 to try: Hot dog eateries in the East Valley

Ted’s Hot Dogs A Tempe institution since the ’80s, Ted’s (map) is the sole outpost of a small, family-owned Buffalo, N.Y.-based chain. Skin-on dogs are shipped from Buffalo and cooked over a charcoal grill. There also are four grilled sausages,