Category: Food & Drink News

Dilla Libre, formerly known as United Lunchadores Street Gourmet, will open its second bricks-and-mortar location in south Scottsdale next month. The quesadilla and street taco shop will take over the 2-year-old Pho King Asian-Mexican fusion restaurant on the northeast corner of Hayden and Thomas.

The Sleepy Whale, a craft beer bar and bottle shop, will hold its grand opening at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 4, on the northwest corner of Arizona and Frye in downtown Chandler. The 2,400-square-foot building with a 1,100-square-foot patio will

Tempe Public Market Café, which opened last August on the northeast corner of Rural and Warner in south Tempe, will close Monday, May 6, for several weeks of renovations. The changes, which will allow the order-at-the-counter restaurant and bar to

Brat Haus, a sausage-and-beer joint in Old Town Scottsdale, has applied for a liquor license for a north Phoenix location. Launched in July 2012 by restaurateur Dave Andrea and chef Payton Curry, the concept is loosely modeled on a German

It looks like Phoenix Ale Brewery Central Kitchen is opening a second location in Scottsdale. The gastropub, a partnership between Phoenix Ale Brewery (which doesn’t serve food) and former NYPD Pizza CEO Rich Stark, opened in uptown Phoenix in May

The Buffalo Spot, a California-based chicken and ribs chain, will open its second East Valley restaurant on the southeast corner of Val Vista and Williams Field in Gilbert. It’ll take over the building that formerly housed Bush’s Chicken, which closed

Craft 64 pizzeria and bar will hold three hiring fairs seeking managers, servers with bar shifts, bussers, and barbacks next week at its new downtown Chandler location: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday, April 23; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, April 25; 10

White Castle, which last August announced plans to expand to Arizona, finally has broken ground on its debut location just north of Salt River Fields at Talking Stick on the northwest corner of Via De Ventura and the Loop 101 in

Jimmy & Joe’s Pizzeria has announced its specials for April. The slice of the month is sausage, pineapple, ricotta and garlic on pesto crust (pictured). The Eegee’s frozen drink flavor of the month is Watermelon Pineapple Splash. Jimmy & Joe’s has locations

Last week, Cuisine & Wine Bistro in Gilbert added additional hours to accommodate a new lunch menu. Today, it adds a whole extra day. For the first time in four years, the family-run restaurant and wine bar on the northeast

Cuisine & Wine Bistro in Gilbert is expanding its hours in order to launch a new lunch menu Tuesday, March 26. The restaurant and bar had been opening at 3 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Starting Tuesday, it will open at 11:30 a.m.

A huge fire broke out around 6 a.m. today and destroyed longtime Tempe sports bar Doc & Eddy’s near the northeast corner of Rural and Baseline in Tempe. Fortunately, no injuries were reported. The cause of the fire is under investigation, but Charlotte

Shake Shack, the popular New York City-based chain of fast-casual burger eateries, finally is coming to the East Valley. The location will be built in the SanTan Village shopping center on the northeast corner of SanTan Village Parkway and Williams Field in

Buono’s Pizza, which recently reopened in southwest Mesa, is changing its name to Amici Pizza. According to the announcement: ‘‘‘Amici’ directly translates to ‘friends’ in Italian, a fitting name as Amici Pizza should be a place where friends and family alike

If you haven’t checked out Bella Gusto Urban Pizzeria in Chandler yet, here’s the perfect opportunity: The artisan pizzeria and Italian restaurant is celebrating its third anniversary with a week of specials: Today: Special muffuletta pizza and Italian ‘‘beignets’’ (zeppoles); Wednesday: Debut of

It’s Fat Tuesday, which means it’s time for paczki. The decadent Polish pastries, similar to doughnuts, traditionally were made to use up all of the fat, sugar, eggs, and fruit in a household before Lent. If you didn’t make your own this year,

Over the weekend, I got a peek at the construction progress at Craft 64, the acclaimed pizzeria and bar in Old Town Scottsdale that is taking over the former La Stalla Rustica Cucina space near the new Flix Brewhouse in downtown Chandler. The restaurant’s front windows

Big changes are in the works at Cider Corps in downtown Mesa. The craft cidery and taproom is expanding its production capacity, installing a bottling line, making room indoors for Myke’s Pizza, and adding a patio. It’s all possible because Cider

Kind Hospitality, the Mesa-based company that runs several restaurants at Valley airports, announced it has purchased six of the eight Macayo’s Mexican restaurants in the Valley. Woody and Victoria Johnson opened the first Macayo’s, then known as Woody’s El Nido, in Phoenix

The Chandler Craft Spirits Festival has a new name for its sixth year: The Arizona Craft Spirits & Cocktail Festival. The 21-and-over event, which promises ‘‘more spirit samples and entertainment opportunities’’ this year, will be held 3-9 p.m. Saturday, April 27,