Category: New Restaurant Alert

🇮🇹 A Gourmet, an Italian-inspired artisan sandwich shop, has opened on the southeast corner of Bell and Litchfield in Surprise. The menu consists of 10 sandwiches, including the Prosciutto (pictured, with aged Italian prosciutto, truffle pecorino spread, burrata. basil pesto, and

🍳 Scottsdale-based brunch concept Over Easy has launched its 13th Valley location on the southwest corner of Gantzel and Combs in Queen Creek. The restaurant, built by Laurshan Construction, offers popular dishes such as banana nut french toast (pictured), waffle-wrapped sausages on a stick,

🍔 I’ve lived in the Valley long enough to remember when we had A&W Restaurant drive-ins. Back in the ’80s, I drove past one at Stapley and Broadway in Mesa every day on my way to work. Eventually, though, all Valley

🍱 Pacific Rim & Bento, a counter-service Hawaiian BBQ restaurant from the owners of the two-year-old Pacific Rim & Sushi food truck, has opened near the northeast corner of Dobson and Southern in west Mesa. The menu features Hawaiian plates (such as BBQ

🍔 Iconic White Castle, which lays claim to being America’s first fast-food hamburger chain (started in 1921), opens its third Valley restaurant with a ribbon-cutting at 8 a.m. today near the northwest corner of I-10 and Bullard in Goodyear. The 3,220-square-foot

🍕 Vero Chicago Pizza, which made its Arizona debut in 2013 as Buddyz Chicago Pizzeria before changing its name in 2021, has opened its seventh Valley location near the northeast corner of Highway 347 and Honeycutt Road in Maricopa. In addition to its

🍷 Kid Sister, a European-inspired wine bar and bistro, has opened on the southwest corner of Camelback and Seventh Street in Phoenix. The building formerly was home to vegan restaurant and bakery Whyld Ass Cafe, which closed in 2022. Highlights of

🌎 The Ends, a restaurant inspired by the food-related travels of Anthony Bourdain, has opened in the former Kazimierz wine bar space on the northeast corner of Stetson and Sixth Avenue in Old Town Scottsdale. Owner Tommy Plato – who also owned Kazimierz,

🥙 Cava, a Washington, D.C.-based Mediterranean fast-casual chain, opens its fifth Valley location today on the southwest corner of Arizona and Ocotillo in south Chandler. The building formerly was home to Costa Vida Fresh Mexican Grill, which closed in 2022. Cava’s menu

☕️ Aruma Cafe, a Mexican coffee shop from the owners of Cocina Chiwas and Tacos Chiwas in partnership with former Arizona Cardinals wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins, has soft-opened next to Cocina Chiwas at Culdesac Tempe on the south side of Apache between McClintock and Price.

🥢 Kitchen 7 Asian Food & Sushi, a restaurant focusing mostly on sushi and traditional and Americanized Chinese dishes, has opened on the northeast corner of Bell and 51st Avenue in Glendale. The menu offers familiar items such as orange chicken

🍺 Cogburn’s Big Wings, an East Valley group of country-themed sports bars that just closed a location at Cooper and Warner in Gilbert, is back to four locations overall with the launch of a new one on the northwest corner of

🥙 The Green Olive, a Mediterranean counter-service restaurant and caterer, has opened in the former Supreme Shawarma space on the southwest corner of Country Club and Southern in central Mesa. The menu offers kabobs (steak, ground beef, chicken, shrimp, or salmon), gyros, falafel,

🌮 Taco Chelo, the popular taqueria on Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix, finally has opened its long-awaited Tempe location on the northeast corner of College Avenue and Sixth Street, just south across the street from Sun Devil Stadium. The menu focuses

🍛 Avasa, an Asian fusion restaurant whose menu ranges from Indian to Thai, has opened in the Changing Hands Bookstore plaza on the southwest corner of McClintock and Guadalupe in south Tempe. It takes over the longtime Mac’s Tap & Broiler

🐓 Sneakybird, a fast-casual oven-grilled chicken concept from former Native Grill & Wings CEO Daniel Chaon that debuted in Scottsdale in 2022, has launched a second location at Verde at Cooley Station on the southwest corner of Recker and Williams Field

🌮 Mexican restaurant Popo’s Fiesta del Sol has opened its third Valley location on the southwest corner of McDowell and the Estrella Parkway in Goodyear, joining others in west Phoenix (since 1964) and Glendale. House specialties include rolled quesadillas, green

🥌 Lane Park, believed to be the first restaurant or bar in the U.S. to have indoor “bar-style” ice curling, has opened on the northwest corner of First Street and Brown in Old Town Scottsdale. Besides four lanes of curling (pictured

🍹 Oliver’s Modern American, a new concept from the owners of The Eleanor and Fate Brewing, opens today near the northeast corner of Hayden and Thomas in south Scottsdale. The 1960s building, once the country’s only Polynesian Dairy Queen, was moved from

咽 Phoenix-based drive-through concept Angie’s Lobster has launched its sixth Valley location – this one also with inside ordering and dining – on the southeast corner of Rural and Ray in west Chandler. Maine lobster meals (warm or chilled lobster roll or