Category: Deals & Freebies

Floridino’s Pizza & Pasta in Chandler celebrates its 26th anniversary with two-item calzones for just $6.99 from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. today. The popular menu item normally is $11.69. The special is good for both dine-in and takeout.

This Friday, Z’Tejas Southwest Grill in Scottsdale and Chandler will launch The Jug Club for those who want to buy the restaurant’s famed margaritas to go. For a $2,000 annual membership, you’ll be able to grab a gallon jug of

MIXT, a San Francisco-based chain offering salads and grain bowls, will be giving away free salads from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday at its Scottsdale Quarter location. In exchange, diners are encouraged to donate to Blue Watermelon Project, a local nonprofit founded

Friday is National Donut Day, created by The Salvation Army in 1938 to honor their members who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War I. To celebrate, many Valley doughnut shops will be offering free or discounted deals, including: Duck

The twice-a-year Arizona Restaurant Week begins its 10-day spring run Friday with more than 125 participating restaurants offering special three-course meals for either $33, $44 or $55. The $55 price is new this year, allowing high-end restaurants to create more expensive

Wisconsin-based Culver’s will be giving out free cheese curds (pictured) and frozen custard from its first-ever food truck from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday at the Phoenix Zoo. Attendees also will get to snap selfies with a dairy cow, see an

Krispy Kreme launches a new weekly special this week: Every Wednesday, it will offer a dozen glazed doughnuts for the price of a gallon of gas (national average). That means you can get your dozen, usually around $10, for just

La Fonda Mexican Restaurant & Cantina, which moved into its new building on the southwest corner of Chandler and Dobson in Chandler last month, holds its official grand opening party – plus its 55th anniversary celebration – this weekend. There’ll

Bottle & Bean Coffee House & Wine Shop, which had its soft opening late last month at the Downtown Ocotillo development in south Chandler, will hold its official grand opening party Saturday. You can get one free drip coffee and

Tuesday is IHOP National Pancake Day, meaning you can get a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes from 7 a.m.-10 p.m. at participating IHOP locations throughout the Valley. Diners are encouraged to make a donation of any amount to Phoenix

The twice-a-year Arizona Restaurant Week begins its 10-day fall edition today with more than 150 participating restaurants offering special three-course meals for either $33, $44, or – new this year – $55. The history: The promotion, which started in 2008, offers

AZ Women in Food, a group created earlier this year to support woman-led food businesses, is offering a discount deal during the dog days of summer. The deal: Visit any member business in August or September, check in on Facebook

IHOP, the national chain that started in 1958, celebrates its ‘‘panniversary’’ Tuesday with 58-cent short stacks from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at participating locations. The deal is for dine-in only, and there’s a limit of one short stack per

Floridino’s Pizza & Pasta in Chandler hosts its annual Muffin Madness promotion on the Fourth of July. You can get a dozen original or pepperoni pizza muffins – the restaurant’s signature menu item – for just $6 (normally $11.79) Sunday.

Fired Pie, a fast-casual pizza concept with 20 locations in the Valley, is giving away ‘‘free pizza for a year’’ to six lucky people. You can enter online here. No purchase is necessary, but entrants must be 21 and agree

As part of its 25th anniversary celebration, Floridino’s Pizza & Pasta in Chandler is offering  a Throwback Thursday special – a two-item calzone for just $6.99 – this Thursday, June 17, and next Thursday, June 24. The restaurant also will

With the covid-19 pandemic mostly behind us, I’m compiling a new list of Taco Tuesday specials. If you know of an East Valley restaurant to add to this list, please let me know. Baja Joe’s Mexican Cantina: $2.50 tacos. SanTan

Back before covid-19 (if you can remember that far back!) I used to run a weekly list of Taco Tuesday specials. Since that popular list was last published in March 2020, there has been a bunch of restaurant openings, restaurant

Serrano’s Mexican Restaurants is celebrating National Burrito Day on Thursday with $5 a la carte burritos all day. Diners can choose from shredded beef, shredded chicken, or bean and cheese burritos for in-house dining or curbside takeout. In addition, the

The Living Room at Downtown Ocotillo in Chandler has launched a new weekly theme night: Whiskey Wednesdays. Every Wednesday, whiskey is half-price starting at 4 p.m. The evening will feature live music by Al Ortiz, an Arizona native perhaps best-known