Category: New Restaurant Alert

🏨 The Global Ambassador, a luxury hotel from famed Arizona restaurateur Sam Fox, and four of its five restaurants open today on the northwest corner of 44th Street and Camelback in Phoenix. Fox, a 12-time James Beard Award nominee, sold Fox

🦞 Hooked Boil House, a counter-service seafood restaurant, has debuted in the former Crawfish Cafe building in front of the Mekong Supermarket on the southwest corner of Dobson and Main in west Mesa. The restaurant has rebranded but is still

☕️🍻🍹 Maple House, the fourth downtown Chandler concept from restaurateur Gavin Jacobs, has soft-opened in downtown Chandler. The coffee and cocktail bar is housed in a 1940s cottage built after World War II on the northeast corner of Boston and California

🥃 Arizona Distilling Co., the award-winning spirits maker that opened in Tempe in 2012, has launched a new production facility and tasting room in downtown Mesa. The century-old window-less building near the southeast corner of Main and Robson is double

🧀 I Heart Mac & Cheese, a Florida-based chain that offers build-your-own macaroni and cheese bowls and grilled cheese sandwiches, has opened on the northeast corner of Bell and 59th Avenue in Glendale. The concept made its Arizona debut in

🍺 Nearing its 10th anniversary in downtown Chandler, The Perch Pub & Brewery has soft-opened a second location, now dubbed Perch Brewing Company, on the northeast corner of Cooper and Ray in Gilbert. It takes over the building and brewing

🌮 Loco Patrõn, a locally owned group of Mexican restaurants, has opened its fourth location near the northwest corner of Seventh Street and Missouri in uptown Phoenix. It takes over the space formerly home to Revolu Modern Taqueria & Bar, which

🍔 Bad Jimmy’s, a restaurant I first wrote about in August, holds its grand opening at 10:30 a.m. today in the former Breadfruit & Rum Bar space on the northeast corner of First Avenue and Pierce  in downtown Phoenix. James Piazza,

🍳 Biscuits Cafe, an Oregon-based chain of breakfast and lunch eateries, has opened its seventh Valley location near the northeast corner of Glendale and 91st avenues at Westgate in Glendale. Menu highlights include strawberry-stuffed French toast, vegetable omelet, biscuits and

🐓 Twist Hot Chicken, which made its debut in Peoria last year, has opened a second location near the northwest corner of Mill and Fifth Street in downtown Tempe. The local fast-casual concept has taken over the space previously home

🍔 White Castle, generally considered the world’s first fast-food hamburger chain, opened its second Arizona restaurant at 8 a.m. today near the northeast corner of I-10 and Warner in south Tempe. The iconic chain is famous for its small, square burgers known

🌮 Taqueria Factory, a fast-casual Mexican restaurant that debuted in Chandler last year, has opened its third location next to Arizona Mills shopping mall in Tempe. It takes over the former 5 & Diner building near the northwest corner of Priest

🍖 Texas-based Rudy’s Country Store and Bar-B-Q has opened its fourth Valley location near the northwest corner of the 101 and Raintree in north Scottsdale. The location opens at 6:30 a.m. daily for build-your-own breakfast tacos. Rudy’s offers 13 kinds

🍕 Roma 23 Wood Fired Pizza & Beer has moved into the former Fuego Bar & Grill space on the northwest corner of Van Buren and 91st Avenue in Tolleson. Besides pizzas, Roma 23’s menu offers appetizers, salads, pastas, and

🧇 Chestnut, a New American restaurant in Arcadia that closed in May, has reopened in the former Over Easy space at the Biltmore on the northwest corner of Camelback and 24th Street in Phoenix. Owner Jennifer Steele launched Chestnut on

🐓 Dave’s Hot Chicken, a Los Angeles-based chain that made its Arizona debut in Gilbert last year, has launched its second Valley location on the southwest corner of Bell and Seventh Street in north Phoenix. Dave’s specializes in Nashville-style hot

⛳️ Social Birdie, an elevated breakfast and lunch restaurant, has opened at the Las Colinas Golf Course off Rittenhouse, south of Ocotillo, in Queen Creek. Owner Ken Danielson previously operated well-regarded Phoenix farm-to-table eatery Modern Harvest. Social Birdie’s breakfast highlights

🇹🇭 Mr. Baan’s Bar and Mookata, a new restaurant and bar from the owners of acclaimed Thai restaurant Lom Wong, has opened in downtown Phoenix. The Thai-style barbecue concept is located behind Lom Wong, a bungalow next to the Cambria

🍦 Crispý Cones, an Idaho-based chain that made its Arizona debut in downtown Chandler in August, has added a second location on the northwest corner of Mill and Fifth Street in downtown Tempe. The concept, which was featured on the business

🌮 Rili-B’s Taco Shop, a 24-hour taqueria in Maricopa and Casa Grande, has opened a third location near the northeast corner of Ellsworth and Heritage Loop in Queen Creek. The menu offers two dozen burritos, including seven breakfast burritos available