Category: Food & Drink News

✋ Remember when Little Miss BBQ announced last year it would open its third Phoenix location in the former Honey Bear’s BBQ building near the southwest corner of Central and Thomas? It ain’t gonna happen. Owners Scott and Bekke Holmes

💵 Arizona Restaurant Week bills itself as a ‘‘statewide affair,’’ but someone apparently forgot to tell Tucson. More than 100 of the city’s best restaurants will participate in Sonoran Restaurant Week from Sept. 8-17 – the same dates as Arizona

🛠🚧 Downtown Chandler (see post) isn’t the only Valley city working on a food hall. Downtown Mesa also is planning one, although the concepts are significantly different. What: Mesa is partnering with non-profit Local First Arizona, which already has a

🛍🥤Nearly 20,000 people at two Valley outdoor shopping centers have taken advantage of Arizona’s new law allowing them to enjoy adult beverages in designated areas. The law: Phoenix-based Vestar’s pilot Sip & Stroll program, which allows shoppers 21 and over

A developer wants to build one of Arizona’s first ‘‘food halls‘‘ – a two-story structure that would house as many as 12 new restaurants – in downtown Chandler. What’s a food hall: More than just a food court, the food

🍞🥯🥖 Award-winning Tucson baker Don Guerra will working out of the Hayden Flour Mills’ new Gilbert kitchen on Tuesdays starting in September. The baker: Guerra, who launched Barrio Bread out of his garage in 2009, was named the country’s outstanding

🔥 The Tin Top Bar & Grill, a popular Western-themed destination in the West Valley community of Tonopah, was destroyed by a fire early today. What happened: Emergency responders were called just after midnight, but the building is thought to be a total

Carl’s Jr. in Buckeye is among the first restaurants in the country where parent company CKE Restaurants Holdings is using artificial intelligence to take drive-through orders. What is it: CKE partnered with Presto Automation last year to develop Presto Voice