Category: New Restaurant Alert

The good news: Little Miss BBQ, well-known for the best barbecue in Arizona and the long waits in line to get some of it – is opening a second location. The bad news, at least for East Valley residents: The new

Tres Restaurant, a new East Valley eatery promising a blend of Mediterranean and Southwestern flavors, is coming to the Discovery Office Park on Price Road, just north of Elliott, in south Tempe. “We are combining traditional and familiar Southwestern and Mexican

The old Hooters space on Tempe’s Mill Avenue, which has sat empty since April 2015, is finally getting a new occupant. Varsity Tavern, a Texas sports bar and nightclub, will take over the second and third floors of the building

Frank & Lupe’s, an Old Town Scottsdale institution for more than a quarter-century, is expanding to southeast Valley. Specifically, the family-run, no-frills Mexican restaurant is taking over the former Brazilian Bull Steakhouse on the southwest corner of I-10 and Chandler in

Donut Worry, a year-old doughnut shop in east Mesa, will open a second location Friday, July 28, on the northeast corner of Gilbert and Guadalupe in Gilbert. A family-friendly grand opening celebration will be held from 7 a.m.-noon. They’ll be

Scottsdale-based Square One Concepts, best known for its Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers restaurants, will debut a new concept, Famous 48, in Old Town Scottsdale this fall. Described as a ‘‘casual yet sophisticated tavern-themed venue,’’ Famous 48 will offer classic American

Valley-based Press Coffee opens its second Tempe location Thursday, July 27, and will be giving away free cups of coffee for three days. The new location is at the Nexa Apartments on Apache, halfway between Rural and McClintock. Besides a

La Calabria Ristorante, a well-liked mom-and-pop Italian restaurant that closed nearly two years ago, reopens today on the southwest corner of Val Vista and Williams Field in Gilbert. Owners Giovanni and Clara Spataro closed their original location – which was located

Chicago-based Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria, which made its much-hyped Arizona debut in Phoenix in May 2016, has announced its second full-service location will open in north Scottsdale next summer. The new pizzeria will be located in the new Chauncey Lane development near

Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers, the fastest-growing brand of Arizona-based restaurant group Square One Concepts, is opening four new Valley locations by March 2018. The locations are: CBCB North Scottsdale, 18529 N. Scottsdale Road #121, Scottsdale CBCB Glendale: 6718 W. Deer Valley Road, Glendale CBCB Arcadia:

Arizona’s newest brewery – Old Ellsworth Brewing Company in Queen Creek – will open its doors to the public at 11 a.m. Monday, July 17. The brewpub is located on the southeast corner of Ellsworth and Ocotillo in a 5,500-square-foot building

The Brass Tap, a three-year-old craft beer bar at Mesa Riverview, will open a second location later this year in downtown Gilbert. It will be located on the ground floor of a new three-story building (artist’s rendering shown above) between Dierks Bentley’s

Is Gilbert on its way to becoming the barbecue capitol of the East Valley? Earlier this week I broke the news longtime Mesa fave Waldo’s BBQ is making a second attempt at opening a location in Gilbert. Now comes word of another smokehouse opening in

Is pool dying as a sport? Scott ‘‘The Freezer’’ Frost doesn’t think so. The sport’s problem, he says, is aging, uninviting pool halls. That’s why the Valley resident – who’s considered one of the best one-pocket billiards players in the world – just opened

Buon Padre Pizza, a new pizzeria that just opened in Chandler, is perhaps most notable for what it is not. It is not another fast-casual, ready-in-3-minutes pizza concept. It is not a chain. It is not expensive. And it is

The Reef, a sports bar and grill that had operated for more than a decade on Warner just west of Arizona Avenue in Chandler, has moved to a new location about a quarter-mile away. Its new home is a 5,120-square-foot building on the

LJ’s Pizza was a Mesa institution, offering a popular all-you-can-eat lunch buffet for nearly four decades before closing in 2011. LJ’s later reopened in a smaller, cafe-like structure behind its original location – sorry, no more buffet – and its former space on Main Street west of

Looks like we know what’s moving into the recently vacated Harvey American Public House in Gilbert. Waldo’s BBQ in east Mesa has applied for a liquor license for the building on the northwest corner of Val Vista and Williams Field. Waldo’s

LA Crab Shack – the LA stands for Louisiana, not Los Angeles – has opened at the year-old AZ International Marketplace on the northeast corner of Dobson and Broadway in west Mesa. The menu offers ‘‘all the flavors of the

Eddie’s House, chef Eddie Matney’s nine-year-old restaurant in Old Town Scottsdale, has closed and will be replaced by a new concept called Blue Clover. Matney, one of the Valley’s first “celebrity chefs” thanks to numerous TV and magazine appearances dating