Category: Food & Drink News

Taking advantage of the slow Arizona summer, Cuisine & Wine Bistro in south Chandler closes today for its annual two-week summer break. It will reopen Tuesday, July 13. While most of the staff will enjoy a two-week vacation, owners Fabrice

After eight years of explosive growth, Salad and Go, the Gilbert-born chain of healthy drive-throughs, is expanding beyond its 31 busy Valley locations. The first non-Valley location recently opened in the Dallas area, where four others will join it this

99 Ranch Market, a Taiwanese-American supermarket chain based in Buena Park, Calif., will hold a grand-opening ribbon-cutting at 9 a.m. Saturday for its first Arizona store, which anchors the newly renovated shopping center on the northeast corner of Chandler and Dobson in

Chandler-based SanTan Brewing not only is the state’s largest craft brewery, it’s now the first to employ some new technology to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon dioxide is a natural by-product of the fermentation process. SanTan produces about 1,000

At My Place Cafe, a 5-year-old Filipino restaurant in the southwest corner of Dobson and Guadalupe in southwest Mesa, is moving. It will close this Friday, May 28, for the summer, then reopen in September in its new home across

Celebrate the Memorial Day weekend with an Arizona-centric picnic courtesy of AZ Women in Food, a group created earlier this year to support woman-led food businesses. AZWIF’s first ventures were three-course takeout meals offered in March and April. Now, it’s

Arizona restaurants can return to selling to-go cocktails this fall under a new law passed Monday by the state Legislature. Gov. Doug Ducey extended the temporary privilege to restaurants last year to help them survive the covid-19 pandemic, but his

The Chandler City Council has voted to end its popular ‘‘On The Street’’ dining program, which let eight downtown restaurants replace curbside parking spaces with temporary patios during the covid-19 pandemic. The patios allowed restaurants to serve extra customers beyond

Chino Bandido, the Valley’s iconic Mexican-Chinese-Jamaiican fusion eatery, is moving this summer. After 31 years on the northwest corner of 19th Avenue and Greenway in Phoenix, the restaurant will moving to the northwest corner of Bell and Third Avenue. The

Tuck Shop, a well-regarded restaurant in Phoenix’s Coronado neighborhood that’s been closed for months due to the pandemic, will not be reopening. Phoenix vegan restaurant The Coronado will move into the space on the southeast corner of 12th Street and

If you were looking forward to today’s debut of Humble Bistro in northeast Phoenix, you’ll have to wait awhile longer. The new ‘‘neighborhood wine parlor’’ concept from the owners of Humble Pie abruptly canceled its grand opening at High Street

Kent Taylor, founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse, committed suicide last week after his ‘‘long-haul’’ symptoms of covid-19 became unbearable. He was 65. Taylor had been suffering from an ongoing case of severe tinnitus – a loud ringing or buzzing

Chef Aaron Chamberlin, who closed his Phoenix Public Market Cafe and Tempe Public Market Cafe last year, has a new venture: cannabis edibles. Chamberlin founded Good Things Coming, a line of edibles using local, gourmet, and chef-driven ingredients. ‘‘If you’re

Perhaps Donald Trump’s recent move to Florida – along with his disdain for face masks and his bombastic social media commentary – have rubbed off on Kavasutra Kava Bar. The Florida-based chain, which has a location near the southwest corner

You may have noticed several of the Valley’s 14 ATL Wings restaurants – winners of numerous Best Wings awards – have a new name: Sauced & Loaded Chicken Wings. D. Mike and Cianna Kirksey, founders of the original Chandler location,

Tempe-based Four Peaks Brewing has jumped into the fast-growing hard seltzer game with the release of Sun Day Solar Seltzers. The seltzers’ name references the clean, renewable energy used to brew the beverage. Last year, Four Peaks installed 500 solar

A huge fire destroyed two buildings, killing 165,000 chickens, Saturday afternoon at Hickman’s Family Farms west of Phoenix. The family owned and operated farm, which was founded in 1944, is the largest egg company in the U.S. Southwest. Besides the

Alamo Drafthouse, a Texas-based chain of brewpub theaters, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today, nearly 10 months after the owner of Alamo’s three Valley franchises filed. The covid-19 pandemic forced Alamo’s 18 company-owned locations and 23 franchises to close for

An update on the rebranding of popular Buddyz A Chicago Pizzeria: Back in November, MXSW broke the news that Buddyz would begin selling franchises with the name Vero Chicago Pizza, the first of which opening around Feb. 1 at Val

From the It’s-Hard-to-Believe Department: Brickyard Downtown beverage director Bobby Kramer wasn’t the only Valley food and drink industry member to be a victim of a wrong-way driver last Wednesday. On the same day Kramer was killed, Scott Selke, longtime co-owner