Category: New Restaurant Alert

🥞 Cafe Hodgepodge, a quaint, family-run cafe, has opened in the Buckhorn Shopping Center on the northeast corner of Main Street and Recker Road in east Mesa. What’s on the menu? Comfort food such as omelets, pancakes, and biscuits and gravy for

🍨 Salt & Straw, a Portland-based artisan ice cream shop, makes its Arizona debut today with its first-ever scoop shop at Epicenter at Agritopia on the northwest corner of Higley and Ray in Gilbert. What’s on the menu? In addition to 13

🌮 Parachos Tacos y Tragos, an elevated taqueria and cocktail bar, has opened in the McDowell Mountain Marketplace on the southwest corner of Bell Road and Thompson Peak Parkway in north Scottsdale. What’s on the menu? Highlights include roasted sweet potato tacos, shrimp

🍜 One Pot, an Asian hot pot eatery where you can customize individual bowls, has opened on the southwest corner of Broadway and Dobson roads in west Mesa. What’s on the menu? The four soup options are sukiyaki (Japanese dashi, mirin, and soy

🥙 Arabella Grill & Wings, a fast-casual restaurant offering both Middle Eastern and American items, has opened on the northwest corner of  Chandler Boulevard and Kyrene Road in west Chandler. What’s on the menu? Chicken and beef shwarma, gyros, falafel, and build-your-own

🌮 El Carbon Mexican Eatery, a new open-fire concept from Valley restaurateur Danny Quinn, has opened at the Shops at Gainey Ranch on the northeast corner of Doubletree Ranch Road and Vaquero Drive in central Scottsdale. What’s on the menu? Seven kinds

🍔 The Spot Neighborhood Grill, a three-year-old American restaurant in north Scottsdale, has launched a second location on the northeast corner of Bell Road and 55th Avenue in Glendale. What’s on the menu? Burgers, sandwiches, and wings. Highlights include the Whiskey Bourbon

🌮 Just two weeks after closing its original location in Tempe, quick-casual concept Tacos & Craft has opened on the northwest corner of Northern and 91st avenues in Peoria. The background: The Tempe location near the northeast corner of Rural and Baseline

🌮 The Taco Spot, a fast-expanding local taqueria, has launched its 10th Valley location on the northeast corner of Central Avenue and Adams Street in downtown Phoenix. What’s on the menu? Birria tacos, birria quesadillas, birria vampiros, and birria ramen are the

🍖 Charlie’s Backyard BBQ has opened in the former Tom’s BBQ strip-mall space on the northwest corner of Country Club and Southern in Mesa. The menu features traditional smoked meats such as ribs, brisket, and pulled pork, as well as fried fish. Rotating Saturday

☕️ SW Grilled Coffee, a mobile coffee bar that launched in 2022 in a converted horse trailer, has opened a bricks-and-mortar cafe under a new name, Heat Coffee. It’s located inside the Sol Flower dispensary on the southwest corner of Thunderbird Boulevard

🥖 Oldies Subs & More, a sibling concept to Gold Canyon’s Oldies Ice Cream, has opened near the southwest corner of Apache Trail and Phelps Drive in Apache Junction. Build-your-own subs are served on bread baked fresh daily. You also can

🍜 Pho Anan, a small Vietnamese eatery offering pho, banh mi, and a variety of entrees, has opened at Westgate near the southwest corner of Glendale and 93rd avenues in Glendale. The owners also operate five-year-old Vietnamese restaurant Pho Vinh Long

🍗 Midwest Wings XL, an eatery offering chicken wings with a choice of 12 sauces and four rubs, has opened in the Collier Center near the southeast corner of Washington and Second Street in downtown Phoenix. The menu also offers chicken

🍕 Venezia’s New York Style Pizzeria launches a new concept, Presto, at 10:0 a.m. Wednesday at Sun Devil Marketplace on the northwest corner of College and Seventh Street in north Tempe. “As long-time partners with ASU Athletics, opening a location

🥞 Bisbee Breakfast Club, an Arizona chain known for its homestyle breakfasts and house-made pies, has opened its third East Valley location at the Rivulon center near the northeast corner of Gilbert and the Loop 202 in Gilbert. The building

🫐 Frutta Bowls, a New Jersey-based chain specializing in açai bowls and smoothies, makes its Arizona debut today on the northwest corner of Gilbert and Baseline in Mesa. The menu also offers six kinds of toasts and six different protein bites.

Arkansas-based fast-food chain Slim Chickens has opened its second Valley restaurant on the northwest corner of Happy Valley and 35th Avenue in Glendale. The menu offers chicken sandwiches, tenders, wraps, bowls, and a choice of 14 dipping sauces. Hours are 10 a.m.-10

🍐 Perfect Pear Bistro, a family-owned restaurant that offers a modern twist on American comfort food, opens its third East Valley location at 10:30 a.m. today in Chandler. It takes over the space formerly home to New Mexican restaurant Little Anita’s near the

🧃 Westy’s Organic Kitchen & Juice, which has holding pop-ups for two-plus years, has soft-opened a bricks-and-mortar location on the northeast corner of 83rd Avenue and Lake Pleasant Parkway in Peoria. In addition to its 10 signature juices, the menu features