Category: New Restaurant Alert

The Organic Bean Cafe, a family-owned coffee shop, has opened on the northwest corner of Macdonald and Pepper Place, a block north of Main Street, in downtown Mesa. OBC specializes in organic Fair Trade coffee and espresso drinks. The shop

Modern Market, a Colorado-based fast-casual chain focused on healthy dining, will open at 8 a.m. Saturday on the southwest corner of 50th Street and Ray in Ahwatukee. The 2,853-square-foot, 64-seat space is in a new building – also home to Noodles & Company and,

Sunny’s Diner, a family-operated breakfast-and-lunch restaurant in Tempe, has expanded with a second location – debuting a new name, Sunny’s Breakfast & Lunch – on the northwest corner of Alma School and Chandler Boulevard in Chandler. Like the original Sunny’s, which opened in

Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria is creeping ever closer to the East Valley. The legendary Chicago deep dish chain will open its second Arizona location this fall in Arcadia. The new location will offer delivery and carryout, but no dine-in option. It will share

Meridiem Kitchen & Lounge, a stylish restaurant with ‘‘a.m.’’ and ‘‘p.m.’’ sides, has opened on Price Road, just south of the Loop 202, in south Chandler. Earlier: New all-day restaurant Meridiem to open in south Chandler The menu offers breakfast,

After months of delays, Carolina’s Mexican Food finally has opened its much-anticipated first East Valley location on the northwest corner of Country Club and U.S. 60 (map) in Mesa. The iconic Mexican restaurant serves inexpensive burros, tacos, enchiladas, tamales, and

Looks like OHSO won’t be Gilbert’s second craft brewery after all. Don’t panic – OHSO hasn’t changed its plans to open its fifth location in downtown Gilbert next year. By then, though, another brewery will have jumped ahead of it

Last year, the East Valley seemed oversaturated with new fast-casual pizza concepts. This year, it’s apparently going to be poke bowl places. Hawaii’s favorite dish – at its most basic, cubed raw fish with seasoning – has become the mainland’s hottest food trend. The latest

Brooklyn V’s Pizza, a favorite of New York natives from all corners of the Valley since opening in Gilbert in 2013, opens a much-anticipated second location today in Queen Creek. It shares a new building with Dairy Queen on the southeast corner

In a round-about way, Cider Corps – Arizona’s first full-fledged cidery and taproom – can trace its origins to a Taliban prison in Afghanistan. That’s where Jason Duren, a heavy equipment operator in the U.S. Marines Corps, was helping to tear

In the ongoing effort to ensure every business in downtown Chandler is a restaurant or bar, Even Stevens sandwich shop is taking over the former bridal store on the southwest corner of Arizona and Boston. The Utah-based chain, which bills itself as “a sandwich shop

Steak and Stone, a steakhouse and BBQ restaurant that opened in December 2015 at Falcon Field in northeast Mesa, is opening a second location in Gilbert. It’s taking over the former American Taphouse building on Gilbert Road, south of Warner, in

Know a new restaurant coming to the East Valley that’s not on this list? Let me know at mxsw@cox.net. This month Brooklyn V’s Pizza: Family-run pizzeria, which debuted in Gilbert in 2014, is opening a second location on the southeast corner

The Raging Bull, a large sports bar and grill, opened Monday on Power Road, between Broadway and Main (map), in east Mesa. It takes over a building that began as Damon’s Grill more than a decade ago. It later became Fahrenheits and, most recently, was Conti’s

Ante meridiem – better known by the abbreviation a.m. – is Latin for ‘‘before midday.’’ Post meridiem, or p.m., is ‘‘after midday.’’ I mention this not as a language lesson, but an explanation for the name of Meridiem Kitchen & Lounge, a