Category: New Restaurant Alert

🌮 Federico’s Mexican Food, a Phoenix-based chain of fast-casual restaurants, has opened its 29th Valley location on the southeast corner of Pebble Creek and Encanto in Goodyear. What’s on the menu? Burritos ($6.69-$14.49), tacos ($4.49-$6.69), enchiladas (two for $8.49), tortas

🌮 Taco Night & Tequila, a counter-service Mexican restaurant and bar, has opened in the former Chronic Tacos space on the southeast corner of Peoria and 31st Avenue in west Phoenix. What’s on the menu? Thirteen burritos ($6.99-$12.99), nine street

🍝 Mama Linda’s Italian Kitchen, a restaurant and bar offering classic Italian dishes and flatbread pizzas, has opened on the south side of Main Street, about halfway between Greenfield and Higley in east Mesa. What’s on the menu? Entrees such

🍸 Lola’s Liquors, a trendy cocktail bar with a small food menu, has opened next to Murphy’s Law Irish Pub near the northwest corner of San Marcos and Boston in downtown Chandler. It’s the latest concept from Liquid Sunshine Projects,

🌮 Pinche’s Tacos Al Carbon, a small counter-service taco shop, has opened in a strip mall on the northeast corner of Union Hills and Seventh Avenue in north Phoenix. What’s on the menu? Burritos ($10.99), tacos ($3.29), quesadillas ($2.99-$9.99), and

🎉 Backyard, an 8,000-square-foot indoor/outdoor bar and grill, opens today in the former Sandbar Mexican Grill building at Desert Ridge Marketplace in northeast Phoenix. Both Backyard and Sandbar are concepts from Scottsdale-based Evening Entertainment Group, which also includes Bottled Blonde,

🇻🇳 Pho Ngoc, a family-owned Vietnamese restaurant, has opened in the Safeway shopping center on the northwest corner of Alma School and Chandler Heights in south Chandler. What’s on the menu? Appetizers ($6.99-$9.99), pho ($14.99-$15.99), stir fry dishes ($14.99), broken

🏨 After a covid-induced four-year delay, the Caesars Republic Scottsdale hotel opens today on the northeast corner of Goldwater and Highland on the north side of Scottsdale Fashion Square. The 11-story hotel has three restaurants – Luna by Giada, Pronto

🐕 Scottsdale-based Echo Coffee opens its second location Wednesday inside the Arizona Humane Society’s new state-of-the-art Rob & Melani Walton Papago Park Campus on the southwest corner of Van Buren and 55th Street in east Phoenix. Echo Coffee owner Rob

🥪 C&C Fresh-N-Tasty Subs, a small independent sandwich shop that describes itself as ‘‘the best thing since sliced bread,’’ has opened in the former Wide Daddy’s strip-mall space on the northwest corner of Lindsay and University in east Mesa. What’s

🥂 Mon Cheri, a female-focused champagne café and charcuterie bar, has opened in the former Arcadia Farms Cafe space near the northeast corner of Goldwater and First Avenue in Old Town Scottsdale. Arcadia Farms sold the longtime property in 2022

🌺 Hawaiian Bros. Island Grill, a quick-service chain actually based in Kansas City, Mo., opens its third Valley restaurant at 11 a.m. today on the northwest corner of Bell and 73rd Avenue in northwest Phoenix. What’s on the menu? Plate

🍺 Barrio Brewing Co., Arizona’s oldest brewery, has opened its second licensed location in the Valley at the Deer Valley Airport at Seventh Avenue and Deer Valley Road in north Phoenix. The brewery, which debuted in Tucson in 1991, has

🥦 Early Bird Vegan, a 100% vegan brunch eatery that opened in south Phoenix in 2020, has launched a second location in the lobby of the Sonoran University of Health Sciences medical office building on the northwest corner of the

🥗 Cafe Zupas, a Utah-based chain of soup-and-sandwich eateries, has opened its 11th Valley location near the southeast corner of Peoria and 35th Avenue in west Phoenix. What’s on the menu? Sandwiches (each comes with a chocolate-dipped strawberry), bowls, salads,

🏎️ Andretti Indoor Karting & Games, a 95,000-square-foot family entertainment center with a restaurant and bar, opens today on the southwest corner of the Loop 202 and Cooper in south Chandler. What’s on the menu? Appetizers, salads, brick-oven pizzas, burgers,

🍔 Phoenix Sins, a ghost kitchen concept offering burgers named for the seven deadly sins, has opened at the Tempe Food Court on the northeast corner of Perry Lane and Fifth Street, just south of Tempe Marketplace. What’s on the

🥟 Lovesack Dumpling, a storefront offering boxes of Asian-style dumplings to go, has opened on the northwest corner of Roosevelt and Second streets on Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix. What’s on the menu? Customers choose one of three bases: Rice,

🥣 Nautical Bowls, a Minnesota-based chain specializing in açai and other superfood bowls, has opened its fourth Valley location at Novus Place near the northwest corner of Rural and University in Tempe. What’s on the menu? Twelve signature bowls, as

🍹 Pretty Penny, a neighborhood cocktail bar with a menu of elevated small plates, has opened in the former Pour Bastards space on the northeast corner of Roosevelt and Fifth streets in downtown Phoenix. Pour Bastard Hospitality is the parent