Category: Menuism

🦂 Recreo Cantina in downtown Chandler has introduced a new item to its drinks menu: The Recreo Scorpion Shot featuring a real edible scorpion. ‘‘This unconventional shot is not for the faint of heart, but those who embrace the experience

🍕 Two Chicagoland favorites – Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria and Portillo’s – again have teamed up to offer a limited-time Italian Beef Deep Dish Pizza. The pizza features a buttery crust, plum tomatoes, and Wisconsin mozzarella, and is topped with Portillo’s

🇮🇹 Dolce Vita – an Italian eatery, grocer, and gelato shop on the southeast corner of Higley and Brown in northeast Mesa – has launched an aperitivo Italiano menu available 5-7 p.m. Thursdays. An aperitivo, sometimes called an apericena, is

☕️ Local roaster Press Coffee has teamed up with pastry chef Mark Chácon, owner of Cháconne Patisserie, to create a lineup of new pastries for four of its Valley locations. Chácon was a semifinalist for Outstanding Pastry Chef at last

💝 Serrano’s Mexican Restaurants is offering a trio of October specials at all four East Valley locations: Pink Out Margarita Sampler: A flight with house raspberry, strawberry, passionfruit strawberry, and watermelon margaritas ($9.99). Stephanie’s Stacked Enchiladas: Corn tortillas, black beans,

🥨🍔🍺 Wren Südhalle, the European-inspired beer hall that Wren House Brewing opened in Ahwatukee two weeks ago, has soft-launched its food menu: Haus frites: herb salt, haus saus, mustard ($6) Onion rings: roasted apple schmaltz, mustard ($8) Pretzel: brown butter,

🍞🥖 Don Guerra, the James Beard Award-winning baker from Barrio Bread in Tucson, has unveiled the first menu for his new store in Gilbert: Tibetan Purple Barley Queen Creek Olive Polenta Hayden Flour Mills Farm House Oat Loaf Desert Date

🥟🍔 Goodbye, Red Stripe curried shrimp. Hello (again), Dragon Dumpling Burger. Award-winning cocktail bar Bitter & Twisted in downtown Phoenix has revamped its food menu by bringing back original dishes from its 2014 opening and early days. Besides the Dragon

🌮🍗 Ghett Yo Taco, a 5-year-old taco shop in downtown Chandler, will expand its menu and change its name to Ghett Yo Taco & Wings on Saturday. The first 100 guests at 11 a.m. will win free wings for a

🇩🇪🍺 Wicked Brews, Bites & Spirits in Ahwatukee has launched a limited-time German-inspired menu to complement the release of its Oktoberfest Lager: Charcuterie board with spicy Polish sausage, kielbasa, bratwurst, cheese, fruit, nuts, German bread, and house-made apple sauce ($24,

🇩🇪🍻 A sure sign of fall: Chandler-based Pedal Haus Brewery has launched a limited-time Oktoberfest menu at its Chandler, Tempe, and Phoenix locations, including: Grilled, beer-braised brats with haus mustard, onions, sauerkraut, and fries ($12). Crispy pork schnitzel with mashed

⚾️🍔 A popular Phoenix eatery is rooting for a hit from Arizona Diamondbacks rookie outfielder Corbin Carroll, and not just on the baseball field. Eat Up Drive In has partnered with the Rookie of the Year candidate to launch a

🥓 Snooze A.M. Eatery is celebrating International Bacon Day (Saturday) with six specials: Graceland Pancakes Bacon & Eggs Pancakes Bacon But Different Maple and Black Pepper Glazed Bacon Habanero Pork Belly Benny Bloody with Bacon The specials are available today

🌶 Nando’s Mexican Cafe again is offering its seasonal Hatch chile cheese crisp (pictured) – plus, for the first time, an entire Hatch chile menu – through the end of September at all four of its East Valley restaurants. Hatch

It’s another Carnitas Week at Someburros, the family-run chain of fast-casual Mexican restaurants. All 14 Valley locations will be selling carnitas burros for $7.50 through Sunday, Aug. 20. (In a sign of inflation, the burros were only $6.50 during the

🌍 One of advantages to living in one of the country’s largest metro areas is you can find dishes from all over the world in the Valley, including at these places that have opened in the past few weeks: 🇭🇰

🍉🍔🍺 Arizona Wilderness Brewing, which has locations in Gilbert and Phoenix, celebrates Arizona’s watermelon season Thursday with special melon-infused beers and dishes. The beers: At 11 a.m., both locations will tap the brand-new Watermelon Shark IPA, made with 2,500 pounds

🧺❓🥩🍷 Looking for an unusual date night idea? The Peppermill, an intimate, husband-and-wife-run steakhouse in south Tempe, has begun offering takeout-only Mystery Picnic Dinners on weekends. What: Mystery Picnic Dinners include a three-course meal for two and a bartender’s choice

Atomic Muffins are the new pizza muffin of the month at Floridino’s Pizza & Pasta in Chandler. The background: Seven varieties of pizza muffins are featured on the everyday menu at Floridino’s, which has a pizza muffin food truck and

Chompies, a local chain of New York-style delis, is offering three ‘‘breakfast for dinner’’ specials – available all day – this summer: Fileto Benedict (pictured, $15.99): Tenderloin steak, caramelized grilled onions, grilled mushrooms, and poached eggs topped with a creamy