Category: New Restaurant Alert

🍕 Vero’s Chicago Pizza has opened its second Chandler restaurant – its eighth overall in the Valley – in front of Whole Foods on the southeast corner of the Loop 101 and Ray. The local chain debuted in 2013 in Queen

🍕 Your Pie, a Georgia-based chain of fast-casual pizzerias, has made its Valley debut at Pecan Lake, the new 12-acre indoor/outdoor entertainment center near the northwest corner of Riggs and Ellsworth in Queen Creek. The only other Arizona location is in

🍺 When Pedal Haus Brewery announced its new biergarten concept in downtown Mesa finally would open last Friday, it appeared to be the end of three-plus years of delays and false starts. Wrong. After holding a ‘‘friends and family’’ practice

🍺 Pedal Haus Brewery finally debuts its much-delayed biergarten concept today in downtown Mesa. The brewery’s fourth restaurant and taproom takes over the former Pit Stop auto body shop on the southwest corner of Main and Robson. The interior is just

✈️ Carry On, the much-anticipated 1960s-era airplane-inspired cocktail bar adjacent to sibling Wren & Wolf, takes flight tonight on the northwest corner of Central and Washington in downtown Phoenix. Much like an actual flight, you’ll need to book a ticket

🍎 The Kolache Cafe, an Ahwatukee bakery specializing in its namesake Czech pastries, soft-opens a second location today in Mesa. It takes over the space formerly home to Ike’s Love & Sandwiches near the northwest corner of Gilbert and Southern.

🥪 St. Louis-based Panera Bread opens its third Scottsdale cafe Thursday in the former Cousins Subs space in front ot the Hilton Home2 Suites near the southeast corner of Scottsdale and Thompson Peak. The first 100 customers after doors open at

🍝 Sorrento, a wood-fired Italian restaurant and bar, has opened in the Sprouts shopping plaza on the southeast corner of Scottsdale and Pinnacle Peak in north Scottsdale. It takes over the space formerly home to Copper Mule Kitchen & Bar.

🌮 Le Taco, a Mexican eatery and listening room, has opened in the former Little O’s space near the southeast corner of Seventh Avenue and McDowell in Phoenix. The menu offers 13 tacos, plus a few apps, salads, and desserts

🍕 Shy’s Pizza & Wings, a sports bar-ish pizzeria, has opened on the northeast corner of Gilbert and Guadalupe in Gilbert. It takes over the strip-mall space formerly home to Florigino’s Pizza & Pasta (which originally was named Floridino’s although

🏌️‍♂️The Fairmont Scottsdale Princess has reopened Toro, celebrity chef Richard Sandoval’s restaurant connected to the clubhouse at the TPC Scottsdale golf course. The resort had closed Toro over the summer for remodeling in an effort to attract more non-golfing diners.

🥙 King of Gyros, a nine-year-old Meditteranean eatery in south Tempe, has opened a second location on the southeast corner of Price and Willis in south Chandler. Besides gyros, the menu offers shawarma, souvlaki, kefta, and falafel. Open for lunch and

🇮🇳 Curries Indian Cuisine & Bar, a very popular Yuma restaurant that opened in 2020, has made its Valley debut in central Scottsdale. It takes over the former Dos Familias Local Mexican space (previously Blue Adobe Grille) at Palo Verde

🌮 Oscar’s Taco Shop, a Tennessee-based chain, has opened its seventh Valley location in Chandler. It takes over the former Buon Padre Pizza space on the northeast corner of McQueen and Pecos roads. Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily. An

🥂 The Parlay Kitchen & Cocktails, a local gastropub concept that debuted in 2019, has opened its third location in south Chandler. It takes over the former Fat Willy’s space in the Bashas’ center on the northwest corner of Gilbert

🌮 Dallas-based Velvet Taco makes its much-anticipated Arizona debut at 11 a.m. today in Old Town Scottsdale. It takes over the former Second Story Restaurant & Liquor Bar building on the southwest corner of Scottsdale Road and Third Avenue. Velvet Taco

🦪 Humble Oysters & Bubbles, a new concept from the owners of Humble Bistro, has debuted at High Street in northeast Phoenix. The seafood parlor and bubbles bar is located next door to Humble Bistro near the southeast corner of

🥗 Crave Protein Cafe, a health-food eatery and smoothie bar, has opened in south Gilbert. It takes over the space formerly home to Crave Cookies & Drinks (how’s that for a 180-degree turn?), which closed earlier this year near the

🥩 Origen Steakhouse – an elevated wood-fired grill from Mérida, the capitol of the southern Mexican state of Yucatán – has opened in Gilbert. It joins the restaurant lineup at Verde at Cooley Station on the southwest corner of Williams

🍳 Brunch Snob, a local breakfast and lunch restaurant with a full bar, has opened its third Valley location in the former BLD space on the northeast corner of Germann and Dobson roads in Chandler. Menu highlights include chicken fried