Category: Coming soon

🍔 Ohio-based White Castle announced it will build its third Arizona restaurant on the northwest corner of I-10 and Bullard in Goodyear. The iconic fast-food chain made its Arizona debut in Scottsdale in 2019 and added a south Tempe location

🍕 An update on the Crust Simply Italian under construction in downtown Mesa, which I first wrote about in September: The 8,000-square-foot-plus Italian restaurant will be the largest of owner Michael Merendino’s six Valley locations (which include two Crust Pizzerias,

🥩 Kasai Japanese Steakhouse, a five-year-old restaurant in north Scottsdale, will open a second location next month at the Park West shopping center in Peoria. The 7,500-square-foot space on the northwest corner of Northern and the Loop 101 formerly was

🍲 Haidilao, China’s largest chain of hot pot restaurants, will make its Arizona debut next year at the Mekong Plaza on the southwest corner of Dobson and Main in west Mesa. Founded in Sichuan province 1994, the chain operates 1,400

🦞🥩🍔 It’s getting hard to keep up with the fast-growing new drive-through empire of Tony and Roushan Christofellis, who sold their popular chain Salad and Go in 2020. The couple launched Angie’s Lobster, offering $9.99 lobster meals, in 2021 and

🔥 Roberto Centeno, the James Beard Award semifinalist chef at Espiritu, and Armando Hernandez, the owner of Tacos Chiwas and Cocina Chiwas, are teaming up to open a new concept in Arcadia. Santo Arcadia, a grill-focused Mexican restaurant, is expected

🍣 Uchi, a Texas-based modern Japanese concept from James Beard Award-winning chef Tyson Cole, is scheduled to open its seventh U.S. location in the former Bandera space in Old Town Scottsdale by the end of this month. It will hold

🍝 Here’s the news Fazoli’s fans have been waiting to hear: The Italian-American fast-casual chain’s Mesa Riverview location is scheduled to open next Tuesday, Dec. 12. After a 14-year absence from Arizona, Fazoli’s returned in February with a location in