Category: Food & Drink News

Flying Basset Brewing has gone through a parade of kitchen staff in its four-year existence, but the Gilbert brewery seems to have found a somewhat novel solution: A partnership with Philadelphia Sandwich Company. The Scottsdale eatery has taken over operation

Downtown Gilbert’s Liberty Market, which temporarily closed in January for extensive remodeling, reopens at 8 a.m. Thursday for patio dining and to-go orders. The restaurant expects to reopen for inside dining – with new menus for breakfast, lunch, and dinner

Jimmie McBride and Julie Meeker, former co-owners of Mother Bunch Brewing in downtown Phoenix, have plead guilty to failure to pay state taxes from 2015 to 2020. The couple agreed to pay nearly $657,000 in back taxes and fines. Mother

The Arizona Restaurant Association has announced the dates of the state’s Spring Restaurant Week: Friday, May 20, through Sunday, May 29. Participating restaurants will offer special three-course menus for $33, $44 or $55 per person. Restaurants can register here.

Condolences to Bryan’s Black Mountain Barbecue owner and pitmaster Bryan Dooley, whose father, Joe, passed away unexpectedly last weekend. The Cave Creek restaurant will have limited hours this week: 3:30-8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Liberty Market in downtown Gilbert closed part of the restaurant’s interior for renovations this week, and it will close completely starting Monday, Jan. 24. It plans to reopen in March for outdoor dining only, with the return of inside dining

Randy Walters, the former owner of well-known Chandler restaurants Pittsburgh Willy’s and Wimpy’s Paradise, has published a book about his business and life experiences, ‘‘Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, and Hugs,’’ available on Amazon.

Condolences to the family and friends of Southwest Kettle Corn food truck owner Jolie Green-Darby, who died earlier this week after a month-long battle with covid-19. A GoFundMe page has been set up to help her husband, Pat, with medical expenses.