Category: COVID-19

Valley restaurateur Paul Keeler – whose Keeler Hospitality Group operates Liberty Station and Market Street Kitchen in Scottsdale and Keeler’s Neighborhood Steakhouse in Carefree – died Saturday due to complications of covid-19. He was 73.

All Arizona bars can resume ‘‘normal operations’’ under a new executive order signed by Gov. Doug Ducey today. The order lifts all previous covid-19 restrictions on businesses. The order also rescinds a previous order allowing local governments to issue mask

Gov. Doug Ducey has announced a loosening of Arizona’s covid-19 restrictions to allow restaurants and bars to immediately return to 100% occupancy. The catch? They still must maintain at least 6 feet between tables for social distancing, require customers to

After closing for nearly a year due to the covid-19 pandemic, El Sol Mexican Cafe & Bakery near the southwest corner of Arizona and Ray in Chandler reopens its dining room today. Limited seating – with a maximum of four

Is Flix Brewhouse in downtown Chandler closed for good? It depends who you ask. After closing in March 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic, the brewpub-cinema concept reopened in August, as did rival Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and most traditional movie

Bella Gusto Urban Pizzeria in Chandler is mourning the loss of Juan Paz, a four-year employee who passed away Monday from covid-19. ‘‘He was a humble soul who did everything with immense pride and crazy work ethic,’’ pizzeria co-owner John

Gov. Doug Ducey announced another $1 million has been added to the state’s Safest Outside Restaurant Assistance Program, which gives locally owned restaurants and bars with fewer than 50 employees up to $10,000 to expand outdoor seating temporarily during the covid-19 pandemic.

A group of Tucson restaurants and bars has won a preliminary injunction overturning a 10 p.m. curfew enacted by Pima County on Dec. 15 to slow the spread of covid-19. A Superior Court judge ruled the curfew violated a Gov.