Category: Food & Drink News

Bird Dog Produce, a new Valleywide produce delivery service, allows people to order customized boxes from a selection of 80-plus fruits and vegetables from farms across Arizona and beyond. Who’s behind it? The concept was launched by Andy Itule, the

Chandler-based Serrano’s Mexican Restaurants has temporarily closed its Tempe location at Rural and Guadalupe for a major renovation. The timeline: The restaurant is scheduled to reopen in early 2021. Try instead: The other four Serrano’s locations in the East Valley

A Taste of Greece, the twice-a-year Chandler festival sidelined by the pandemic, is selling some of its most popular Greek food items to go this week. Take-and-bake entrees: Pastitsio ($60 tray/$30 half-tray), moussaka ($60/$30), spanakopita ($36 for six portions), tsoureki

Cider Corps in downtown Mesa celebrates its third anniversary all week, starting with the reopening of its taproom Wednesday. Dine-in hours are 3-10 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, noon-10 p.m. Saturday, and noon-6 p.m. Sunday. This week’s anniversary festivities also will include the

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has struck down a pandemic-related exemption allowing Arizona restaurants to sell liquor to go. For the moment, however, restaurants still are allowed the exemption while waiting to see if Gov. Doug Ducey appeals the

Sad news for the Valley’s wine community: Greg Tresner, Arizona’s first master sommelier, has died. No cause of death was given. A Washington native, Tresner moved to Tucson in the 1990s and worked at the award-winning Cafe Terra Cotta. In

Four-year-old Match Restaurant and Lounge, connected to the FOUND:RE art boutique hotel in downtown Phoenix, has transformed into Match Market and Bar. In addition to lunch and dinner for dine-in or and take out, the expanded concept offers grab-and-go food

With large-scale events shut down by the pandemic, the twice-a-year A Taste of Greece festival in Chandler is going virtual this weekend. The fest is inviting people to visit its online store to order food items to be picked up