Category: Coming soon

🦞 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

🚫 Belly Kitchen & Bar, the Southeast Asian-inspired concept that closed its Phoenix location in October, is closing its other location at Epicenter at Agritopia in Gilbert on Dec. 31. The Gilbert location opened in September 2022. The good news is

🍷 Postino WineCafe will open its eighth Valley restaurant – and first in the West Valley – Saturday, Jan. 4, in Peoria. It will be located at The Park at 83 near the southeast corner of Loop 101 and Bell. As

🇪🇸 Telefèric Barcelona, a Spanish restaurant specializing in tapas and paella, will make its Arizona debut at Scottsdale Fashion Square in 2025. The restaurant debuted in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain, in 1992, and later added a location in nearby

🥗 Sweetgreen, a popular Los Angeles-based chain of salad eateries, has signed leases for its first two Arizona locations. One will be on the southeast corner of Camelback and 32nd Street in Phoenix, the other at the Scottsdale Quarter. Sweetgreen,

🍝 Saint Pasta, a popular Italian food truck that left its brick-and-mortar home at The Pemberton in 2022, will open a new bricks-and-mortar restaurant this fall in downtown Phoenix. It’s taking over The Larder & The Delta‘s former space on the

🍕 New York-based Prince Street Pizza will make its Arizona debut in the former Jimmy John’s space at Centerpoint on Mill Avenue in downtown Tempe. The pizzeria, famed for its slices of Sicilian-style square pies with cupped pepperoni, hopes to

🍩 Randy’s Donuts, the iconic Los Angeles doughnut shop featured in dozens of movies and TV shows, is opening its second Arizona location later this month in Chandler. The chain made its Arizona debut in April near the southeast corner of

🥟 Din Tai Fung, a Chinese restaurant whose original location in Taiwan has received multiple Michelin stars, is coming to Scottsdale Fashion Square. The restaurant has 17 locations in the U.S. Nine are in California, four in Washington, two in

🍺 The long-awaited grand opening of Pedal Haus Brewery‘s downtown Mesa location will be Thursday, Sept. 26. What to expect: The brewery’s new ‘‘biergarten’’ concept (artist rendering shown) will feature a massive 6,000-square-foot, dog-friendly patio with an indoor-outdoor bar, fire

🍦 We finally have an opening date for Portland-based artisan ice cream shop Salt & Straw, which will make its Arizona debut Friday, July 26, at Epicenter at Agritopia on the northwest corner of Higley and Ray in Gilbert. Since cousins