Category: For a good cause

🔪 Tempe bakery Tracy Dempsey Originals needs your unwanted kitchen gadgets for a Nov. 11 culinary rummage sale to benefit Blue Watermelon Project. Blue Watermelon Project is a group of chefs, restaurateurs, and community food advocates who work with students,

❤️ Six Valley chefs will compete in a Burger Battle Throwdown from 6-9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26, at Handlebar Diner in southeast Mesa to raise money for a local event planner’s fight against cancer. Lauren Wyckoff, owner of Lauren Allen

🍕 In honor of Hunger Awareness Month, Grimaldi’s Pizzeria is raising funds for No Kid Hungry, a Christian non-profit organization fighting to stop food waste and eliminate child hunger. Throughout September, diners at any of Grimaldi’s seven locations in the

🔥 Several Valley restaurants are helping to raise money this month for the victims of Maui’s wildfires: Streets of New York: Donating a portion of the sales from Hawaiian pizzas with Canadian bacon and pineapple, along with a $2,000 pledge.

👨‍🍳 An update on Romeo Taus, the owner and chef of Romeo’s Euro Cafe in downtown Gilbert. Taus underwent brain surgery Monday to remove two tumors (see previous post). What happened: According to friends and co-workers of Taus, doctors were

Romeo Taus – the owner and self-taught chef of Romeo’s Euro Cafe, an East Valley fixture for 32 years – is hospitalized in intensive care awaiting surgery at St Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix after doctors discovered two tumors in his

⚾️ Family-owned Babbo Italian Eatery is donating 100% of profits Thursday at all eight of its Valley restaurants – plus raffling off some rare baseball memorabilia – to help the Seena Magowitz Foundation fight pancreatic cancer. Why: Dubbed ‘‘Baseball for

Four Peaks Brewing in Tempe has kicked off its 13th annual Four Peaks for Teachers program, which includes: Teachers can sign up to receive a free school supply kit loaded with essential items like colorful dry erase markers, premium quality pens, pencils, and