Category: New Restaurant Alert

🐟🐓 Bay Bay’s Fish & Chicken, a family-run Southern-style eatery specializing in fried catfish and chicken wings, has opened near the northeast corner of 48th Street and University in Tempe. Catfish dinners come with two or four pieces of hormone-free

☕️ The teams behind Mythic Goat Coffee and Rift Wine & Tap have partnered together to launch Grounds on 2nd on the southeast corner of Second and 69th streets in Old Town Scottsdale. The coffee shop, wine bar, and urban

🥙 The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill, a Florida-based chain of counter-service restaurants, has opened its first Arizona location on the northwest corner of the Loop 101 and Via de Ventura in central Scottsdale. The menu offers salads, bowls, gyros, pitas,

🥩🍤 Kona Grill, a Valley-born upscale-casual concept that filed for bankruptcy protection in 2019 but appears to be on the upswing, has opened a new location at Desert Ridge Marketplace in north Phoenix. It’s located on the west side of

🔥 Big Nate’s Family BBQ, a 3-year-old family-run smokehouse in northeast Mesa, has opened a second location on the northwest corner of Main and Power in east Mesa. Eric Solheim, brother-in-law Ray Dandridge, and their wives started the business as

🍕🍗 Fox Restaurant Concepts debuted Doughbird in Arcadia in 2016. The new location is at The Colony on Seventh Street between Monetbello and Missouri. Its menu focuses on hand-stretched pizzas and rotisserie chicken, and also includes a few staples from

🌯 You’ll find it on the southeast corner of Val Vista and Williams Field. (The other express location is in north Scottsdale.) Señor Taco Express offers pretty much the same menu as Señor Taco, including more than 20 burritos ranging

💵 The DraftKings Sportsbook at TPC Scottsdale – the first of its kind at a PGA Tour tournament location – has opened on the southeast corner of Greenway-Hayden and Bell, directly across from the Stadium Course Clubhouse. TPC Scottsdale, of course,

🪓 LumberjAxes – a restaurant, bar, and competitive axe-throwing venue – has moved its Tempe location to Tempe Marketplace. It takes over the 13,000-square-foot, second-floor space formerly home to Cadillac Ranch. The original location debuted in 2017 on the northeast

🦉 If you’ve spent much time in Flagstaff, you’re probably familiar with the Toasted Owl Cafe, the eccentric brunch eatery with two locations filled with mismatched furniture and owl-themed decorations. Now the popular restaurant has soft-opened a third location at

🍟 Mr Fries Man, a California-based fast-food concept that made its Arizona debut in Tempe in 2022 but closed earlier this year, has returned with a new location near the northeast corner of Beardsley and Lake Pleasant Parkway in Peoria.

🍳 Thanks A Brunch, a mom-and-pop breakfast and lunch concept, has opened on the southwest corner of McQueen and Guadalupe in Gilbert. It takes over the strip-mall space formerly home to Geno’s Pizzeria & Cheesesteaks. Menu highlights include Prickly Pear

🧆 Laffa and Co., a new concept offering Mediterranean and Persian wraps and bowls, has opened at the Tempe Food Court on the northeast corner of Perry and Fifth Street. Brisket beef shawarma (pictured) is the signature menu item.

☕️ Spencer’s Place, a coffee shop that provides employment for individuals with developmental disabilities, has opened a second Surprise location on the southwest corner of Greenway and Cotton. Karin York,  a former special education teacher, launched the original Spencer’s Place

🥩🦞🐓 Angie’s Prime Grill, the new drive-through steakhouse concept from the founders of Salad and Go and Angie’s Lobster, opens today in north Phoenix. The latest concept from Tony and Roushan Christofellis offers USDA prime top sirloin steak, organic chicken, and Maine lobster

☕️ Oregon-based Black Rock Coffee Bar will open its first Goodyear location Friday on the southwest corner of Cotton and Yuma. Per tradition, the new location will offer $2 medium drinks all day Friday. It’s Black Rock’s 32nd store in

🍕 High Stakes Pizza, a small shop that only offers delivery and carryout, has opened inside the former Old Country Buffet on the southwest corner of Southern and Power in east Mesa. Zac Dokouzian opened High Stakes ‘‘because I felt

🍕 Ohio-based Marco’s Pizza has opened its third Valley location on the southeast corner of Cooper and Ray in Gilbert. Last year, Marco’s announced a development agreement to open 46 Valley locations over the next six years. Like the other

🍳🧇 Brunch Snob, a local concept that debuted in Ahwatukee last year, has opened a second location on the northeast corner of Seventh Street and Missouri in uptown Phoenix. The space formerly was home to vegan restaurant Verdura, which closed

🍕 Mozzarella Pizzeria & Italian Kitchen, a small, family-owned business offering Neapolitan-style pizzas and other entrees, has opened on the northeast corner of Beardsley and 59th Avenue in Glendale. The cozy restaurant has a liquor license so beer and wine