Category: New Restaurant Alert

🍝 North Italia, the upscale-casual Italian restaurant that Fox Restaurant Concepts launched in 2002 in Tucson, opens its fourth Valley location today at The Park at 83 near the southeast corner of  the Loop 101 and Bell Road in Peoria.

🍺 Mother Tucker’s Tavern, a vintage dive bar-style hangout, has opened in the former Bevvy space on the northwest corner of Saddlebag Trail and Shoeman Lane in Old Town Scottsdale. A streamlined menu offers burgers, sandwiches, tacos, and salads. Like

🍩 Creampuff Donuts, a pastry and coffee shop from Pretty Decent Concepts (Wren & Wolf, Chico Malo, Trophy Room), has opened on the southeast corner of Buchanan and First streets in downtown Phoenix. Chef Lucia Alferez’s menu features a rotating

🍔 Scottsdale-based gastropub chain Thirsty Lion opens its fifth Valley restaurant today at the Westgate Entertainment District in Glendale. The two-story building – the Thirsty Lion’s largest in the Valley – has a dining area, bar, and patio on the ground

🥗 True Food Market, a fast-casual spinoff of True Food Kitchen, has opened at The Edge shopping center near the northeast corner of the Loop 101 and 90th Street in Scottsdale. True Food Market offers health-focused dine-in meals – breakfast

🥖 Cheba Hut, the Valley-born cannabis-themed sub shop, opens its ninth Arizona location – and first in Gilbert – on the southeast corner of Baseline and Higley roads today. The menu features more than 30 signature “toasted” subs and a variety

🍺 Mr Brews Taphouse, a Wisconsin-based chain of burger-and-beer eateries, opens its second Valley location today in northeast Mesa. It takes over the former B’s Fiesta Kitchen building in the Bashas’ plaza on the southeast corner of Ellsworth and Brown roads.

🇻🇳 KaĐa Vietnamese Coffee & Tea has taken over the former Boba Bliss space on the southeast corner of Gilbert and Williams Field roads in Gilbert. KaĐa serves a mix of classic Vietnamese iced coffee (cà phê sữa dá) with modern

🐓 Copper & Sage, a Southern-influenced gastropub that’s the newest concept from Westside Concepts (Haymaker, Cantina Gueros, Maple & Rye, etc.), has launched a second location at GSQ in downtown Goodyear. Copper & Sage made its debut in Phoenix in late

🔥 Etta, a two-year-old restaurant that closed for remodeling in July after being sold, has reopened at the Scottsdale Quarter. The revamped menu from chef Todd Mark Miller leans more Italian than the previous New American version but still focuses on

🥗 3Natives, a Florida-based chain of health-focused juice bars, has made its Arizona debut on the southeast corner of Tatum Boulevard and Thunderbird Road in east Phoenix. It takes over the space formerly home to Starbucks. The menu features acai

🥖 Taste of Philly, a Colorado-based sandwich delivery concept, has opened its first out-of-state location at the Tempe Food Court located a quarter-mile south of Tempe Marketplace. The menu offers nine varieties of Philly sandwiches, plus reubens, grinders, chicken tenders,

🇮🇳 Sampurna, a family-owned Indian restaurant that offers a lunch buffet from 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily, has opened on the southwest corner of Dobson and Warner roads in Chandler. It takes over the space formerly home to Ruchi Vegetarian South

🍔 Smash Grille, an elevated kosher eatery offering parve meals, has opened on the northwest corner of 16th Street and Bethany Home Road in north Phoenix. The menu includes nine smash burgers, chicken sandwiches and wings, and dinner platters (such

🥪 Lunch N Munch, a breakfast and lunch cafe, has opened on the northwest corner of University Drive and Power Road in northeast Mesa. (No relation to the similarly named breakfast and lunch cafe Munch A Lunch in Tempe.) Lunch

🌻 Flower Child, a fast-casual healthy concept, has opened its seventh Valley location at PV, the $2 billion redevelopment of the former Paradise Valley Mall near Cactus Road and Tatum Boulevard in Phoenix. The menu features salads, bowls, entrées, wraps,

🎸 The Stillery, a Nashville-based restaurant and bar with Southern comfort food and live country music, has opened its third Valley location at Goodyear’s new downtown mixed-use development called GSQ. It’s located near the northwest corner of McDowell Road and

📺 Backyard, the newest concept from Scottsdale-based Evening Entertainment Group, has opened its second Valley location near SanTan Village in Gilbert. Backyard, which made its Arizona debut in March at Desert Ridge Marketplace in Phoenix, takes over the former Sandbar

🇮🇹 The Italiano, the newest concept from restaurateur/chef Joey Maggiore (Hash Kitchen, The Sicilian Butcher, The Mexicano, The Rosticceria, etc.), opens today next to the Sprouts Farmers Market on the southeast corner of Shea Boulevard and 90th Street in central

🎲 Mox Boarding House, a Seattle-based restaurant and board games concept, opens with a 2 p.m. ribbon-cutting today in Chandler. It took over the former Social Box Neighborhood Eatery on Alma School Road between Warner and Ray roads in 2020,