Category: Daily Newsletter

🍍 Rochelle Daniel of Atria in Flagstaff was named Top Chef and Mark Tarbell (pictured) of Tarbell’s in Phoenix received the Food Pioneer Award (aka lifetime achievement award) in the Arizona Restaurant Association’s 2023 Foodist Awards. The full list of this year’s winners, ‘‘as chosen by

🍺 Gilbert-based Arizona Wilderness Brewing will open a fourth location next year on the northwest corner of McDowell and 15th Street in Phoenix. The 10,000-square-foot building formerly was home to a commercial florist. The new location will be similar to the Gilbert

🇲🇽 Tulum Modern Mexican, a fine-dining restaurant inspired by the popular Mexican beach city of Tulum, has opened at the Westgate Entertainment District in Glendale. It’s located on the second level in WaterDance Plaza, next to Kabuki Japanese Restaurant. Tulum’s menu offers a

Award-winning Bryan’s Black Mountain Barbecue wraps up its 14-year run in Cave Creek with a Going Away Party from 4-9 p.m. Saturday. Owners Bryan and Donna Dooley announced the barbecue joint’s impending closure in February. Saturday’s celebration will feature a buffet with all of BBMB’s

💎 Quartz, the Valley’s newest ‘‘immersive cocktail experience,’’ opens at 4 p.m. today in a storefront space on the southeast corner of Van Buren and Fourth Avenue in downtown Phoenix. It’s the first standalone bar from Instrumental Hospitality (Belly Kitchen & Bar, Sin Muerte) in

🌮 After a long and unlikely journey, Casa Ramos has reopened on the north side of Main Street, between Stapley and Gilbert, in central Mesa after a six-year absence. Ben Ramos debuted Casa Ramos in Heber in 2006. His son, Kenny, opened a

🍔 Paradise Valley Burger Company, which has been serving up award-winning burgers in north Phoenix for the last 12 years, has opened a second location on the southwest corner of Rural and Baseline in south Tempe. The strip-mall space briefly was home

🍝 Old-school Italian restaurant Tomaso’s on Camelback, a Phoenix institution for nearly a half-century, announced it will close May 20. Tomaso Maggiore and his wife, Patricia, opened the restaurant on the southeast corner of Camelback and 32nd Street in 1977. Tomaso