Category: Food & Drink News

Pedal Haus Brewery, the 4-year-old award-winning craft brewery in downtown Tempe, is opening a second location in downtown Chandler. It will take over the Boston Street space currently home to Las Palmas Cantina, which announced earlier this week it will

Las Palmas Cantina, scheduled to close last summer and then in October before getting last-minute reprieves, finally will close Dec. 31. The bigger news: Its replacement will not be the previously announced Chandler Yacht Club. Owner Julian Wright says the

Vito’s Pizza & Italian Ristorante, a popular east Mesa dining destination for 33 years, is expanding to Gilbert. Vito’s, which opened a location in Scottsdale in 2011, is preparing to add another on the southeast corner of Higley and Queen

West Alley BBQ, Obon Sushi, and The Creek Cookies & Cream are among the restaurants coming to Verde at Cooley Station, a mixed-used development on the southwest corner of Recker and Williams Field in Gilbert. Tennessee-based West Alley opened its

Koi Poke founder Sarah Bowers has sold six of the concept’s seven Valley locations to a private equity group headed up by former Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Todd Stottlemyre. The group intends to franchise the build-your-own-custom-poke-bowl concept nationally under a slightly

The Sicilian Butcher and The Sicilian Baker – originally scheduled to open in Chandler last December – appear to be almost ready. Barring any last-minute delays, the two Italian concepts are scheduled to open on the southwest corner of the

La Ristra New Mexican Kitchen, a 6-year-old restaurant and bar in Gilbert, will open a second location at Overstreet in downtown Chandler. It will take over a portion of a large space originally planned for a second location Camp Social

Charlie Balogh, a longtime organist at Organ Stop Pizza in Mesa, unexpectedly died Thursday, Nov. 21, from complications of a stroke. He was 68. Balogh, one of three staff organists for the pizzeria’s famed Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ, began his