Category: Coming soon

☕️ A Peoria coffee shop known for its organic beans and creative matcha menu is expanding to the east side of the Valley. Daniel and Sierra Medina, owners of The Brew Box Coffee Company, have purchased Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea

🌮 TPQ Foods, the team behind the beloved Tortas Paquimé, is opening its newest concept, Paquimex, on Friday, Aug. 28, on the southwest corner of 51st Avenue and Olive in Glendale. Owner Omar Alvarez first brought the flavors of Casas

🍣 Old Town Cottonwood is getting another reason to linger past dinner. The team behind Queen B Vinyl Café and Merkin Vineyards – musician Maynard James Keenan (pictured) and his wife, Jennifer – is opening a sister restaurant called Queen

🥩 Barrett Rinzler isn’t slowing down. The Scottsdale restaurateur behind local staples like Cold Beer & Cheeseburgers, Bourbon & Bones Chophouse, and Nook Kitchen is breaking ground on two new locations of his latest concept: an Italian steakhouse called Bistecca

🍺 Downtown Tempe’s newest beer-and-pizza pairing finally has an opening date. Phantom Fox Beer Co. and its in-house pizzeria Goat & Ram will hold their grand opening on Oct. 8 in the former Illegal Pete’s space just south of Fifth

🥗 If you’ve been mourning the loss of your regular Salad and Go run, there’s finally some good news. Angie’s, the fast-food concept from the husband-and-wife team behind Salad and Go, just announced nine new locations. Angie’s dropped the news

🥂 Porta Via, a Beverly Hills-born bistro and bar, is bringing its first Arizona restaurant to Scottsdale Fashion Square, taking over the former Zinqué space in the mall’s West Luxury Wing — a stretch near Camelback Road that’s already home

Add another name to the growing list of restaurants headed to The Switchyard: Postino, Arizona’s beloved all-day restaurant and wine bar, is set to open its doors in Queen Creek later this year. It’s the brand’s first foray into the

The wait is almost over. Harry & Izzy’s, the Indianapolis steakhouse chain that announced plans for a Valley debut back in April 2025, has set an opening date: Wednesday, Aug. 26. The upscale American grill is opening in a newly

🚧 If you’ve been sleeping on Flagstaff’s food scene, chef Rochelle Daniel is about to give you a very loud wake-up call. The two-time James Beard Award semifinalist – and the woman behind Atria, the modern-American restaurant that’s had food

🐟 Seafood City Supermarket, North America’s largest Filipino supermarket chain, is now hiring for its first Arizona location, a 65,000-square-foot store at Chandler Fashion Center. More than 100 positions are available across food service, seafood prep, store maintenance, cashiering, and

🌭 When I first reported Ted’s Hot Dogs had revived its long-stalled plans for a second Valley location back in early 2024, the Tempe institution was already seven years into trying to make Chandler happen. Plans originally announced in 2017

🌮 The cult taco pop-up that’s had festival-goers lining up in Aspen and Hollywood finally is planting roots in Phoenix. Poolboy Taco, from the Poolhouse Group team behind Gadzooks and The Green Woodpecker, opens its first permanent location on May

🦞 Starfish Scottsdale, the first Arizona outpost of Orange County, Calif.-based Starfish Hospitality Group, will open May 5 – with soft-opening reservations available May 1-4. It takes over the space formerly home to Mexican restaurants Agave del Scottsdale and then,

🫒 The Olive Farmer, a restaurant-market-bar hybrid from In Good Spirits Hospitality (the crew behind some of your favorite Valley watering holes) and Queen Creek Olive Mill, is taking over the former Santo Arcadia space at 44th Street and Osborn

⛽️ It was two years ago this week that I first reported Buc-ee’s, the Texas-based chain of large gas stations/convenience stores, was coming to Arizona. Now an opening date finally has been announced for the mega-store on Bullard Avenue just

🚧 Rene Andrade, the James Beard Award-winning chef behind acclaimed Phoenix restaurants Bacanora and Huarachis Taqueria, is opening a third Mexican restaurant in Phoenix. Lupe is under construction near the southwest corner of 16th Street and Thomas. If the location

 Din Tai Fung, a world-renowned Chinese restaurant whose original location in Taiwan has received multiple Michelin stars, has announced the date of its Arizona debut at Scottsdale Fashion Square. The restaurant will host a reservation-only soft opening beginning on March

🍕 After months of anticipation, one of the country’s most decorated pizza names is finally ready to make its Arizona debut. Slice House by Tony Gemignani – the fast-growing concept from the 13-time World Pizza Champion – officially will open

🚧 Glenrosa, a much-anticipated Sonoran wood-fired restaurant, will open Saturday, April 5, at Grass Clippings Rolling Hills Golf Course in north Tempe. But James Beard-nominated chef Samantha Sanz (Talavera, Virtú Honest Craft, Elements) no longer is partnering with the 5,800-square-foot