Category: New Restaurant Alert

🍹 Tell Your Friends, an underground cocktail and live music lounge from Creation Hospitality, owners of The Americano and Mora Italian, and Clive Collective, owners of Cala, opens tonight beneath The Americano on the southeast corner of Scottsdale and Chauncey Lane in

🇫🇷 The Crêpe Club, a concept that started as an ASU food cart in Tempe, has opened its third bricks-and-mortar location at ASU’s MIX Center on the southwest corner of Centennial and First Street in downtown Mesa. The eatery sells sweet and

🌭 California-based Dog Haus, which closed its CityScape restaurant on the southeast corner of Central and Washington in downtown Phoenix last year, has reopened it under new franchisees (who also own the locations in Gilbert and Chandler). Besides specialty hot dogs,

🌺 Tiki Star, a classic tiki bar and restaurant from West Valley restaurateur Mario Rana (Osteria Mia, The Stetson Social), has opened at Park West on the northwest corner of Northern and the Loop 101 in Peoria. Besides traditional tiki cocktails (and

🌯 Family-owned Mexican fast-casual chain Someburros has soft-opened its 16th location – and its first in San Tan Valley – on the northeast corner of Gantzel and Combs. The menu offers crispy and soft tacos, tostadas, enchiladas, quesadillas, and, of course, its

🍕 Curry N Crust, a pizzeria that bills itself as ‘‘where Indian spices meet Italian flair,’’ has opened in the small Starbucks strip mall on the southeast corner of the Loop 202 and Rural in north Tempe. The menu focuses on

🥙 Sasa Restaurant & Sweets, a Mediterranean fast-casual eatery and bakery, has opened in the former Lebanese restaurant Mijana Express space on the southwest corner of Thunderbird and 40th Street in north Phoenix. Sasa’s menu features beef and chicken shawarma, beef

🦞 If you like unusual brunch fare – chicken fried lobster tails, red velvet chicken sliders (top), taco pancakes, oxtail and grits (shown bottom left), doughnut smashburgers, deep-fried devil eggs, and a lot more – you might want to check

🍪 Cielito Rosa Bakery & Cafe – a Latina-owned bakery whose offerings include (clockwise from top left) churro cheesecake bars, mini conchas, couture doughnuts, quesadillas dorado, red chocolate chip cookies, and chocolate strawberries – has opened near the northeast corner of Southern

🌎 Doug Robson (pictured), the restaurateur and chef behind Gallo Blanco and Otro Cafe, has launched his latest concept, Tesota, in the former Southern Rail space at The Newton on the northwest corner of Camelback and Third Avenue in uptown Phoenix. The comfort-food menu –

🍷 Downtown Mesa’s once-maligned food and drink scene just keeps getting better and better. The latest addition is Rebel Wine Lounge, an elegant wine bar with a sidewalk patio and occasional live music, on the northwest corner of Main and Macdonald, just

🌭 The Valley’s collective appetite for Chicago fare seems endless. So it’s not much of a surprise that Illinois-based Portillo’s has opened a seventh Valley location (all since 2013) at Prasada North on the northeast corner of the Loop 303 and Waddell

🍓 On the heels of opening its second Valley store in Fountain Hills in March, Florida-based Graze Craze has launched a third on the southwest corner of Thunderbird and 32nd Street in north Phoenix. The stores specialize in grazing boards and boxes

🍺 Tempe brewery Catalyst Crafted Ales, which made its debut in October, has expanded by soft-opening a taproom in southeast Mesa. It takes over the former Cork Crush Wine & Beer House on the southeast corner of Ellsworth and Ray. Some remodeling

🇮🇹 Little Joe’s Italian Market, a bricks-and-mortar spinoff of the East Coast Joe’s food truck, has opened in the former Matcha Grove space on the southeast corner of McQueen and Elliot in Gilbert. The menu features pizzas, pastas, and sandwiches to go.

🍜 Cha Yen Pho & Boba, a strip-mall eatery offering Vietnamese and Thai food, has opened on the southeast corner of Seventh Street and Bell in north Phoenix. The menu includes 12 kinds of the namesake pho, plus rice vermicelli (bun),

🍲 BoSa Donuts, the local chain with 50-plus shops throughout the Valley, has launched its new concept, BoSa Kobe Hot Pot, near the northwest corner of University and Farmer in downtown Tempe. The restaurant, which takes over part of the former Dilly’s

The Sidewinder, a Southwestern-influenced diner concept from the team behind Progress and Sottise, has opened in the original Welcome Diner space on the northwest corner of Roosevelt and 10th Street in downtown Phoenix. What’s on the menu? Unlike its higher-end siblings, The Sidewinder offers a menu

Sibling zabiha halal concepts Papa Locos Tacos & Burgers and Jay’s Hot Chicken have opened a shared space on the southwest corner of Mesa and Brown in north Mesa. What’s on the menu? Papa Locos offers tacos, burritos, enchiladas, tortas, and seven specialty

⛳️ The Adobe Bar & Grille, a reimagined rendition of the Arizona Biltmore Golf Club’s former Adobe Restaurant, has opened in the club’s new 19,400-square-foot clubhouse northeast of Camelback and 24th Street in midtown Phoenix. What’s on the menu? Executive chef Richard Castricone’s menu