Category: New Restaurant Alert

🍺🍕 Phantom Fox Beer Co., a new brewery and restaurant, has opened in the former Desert Eagle Brewing space near the northeast corner of Main and Robson in downtown Mesa. It’s the second downtown venture for owners Trent Smith and

🍺 Valley Taproom, a 20-month-old craft beer bar and store at the Rivulon center in Gilbert, has opened a second location on the northwest corner of Ellsworth and Riggs in Queen Creek. Like the original, owner Donald Greenberg’s new location

🥃 One Handsome Bastard – a distillery, bar, and restaurant – has opened in the former Blue Clover Distillery space on the northwest corner of Marshall Way and Indian School in Old Town Scottsdale. The name is a reference to

🍺 Catalyst Crafted Ales, a new brewery from the co-founders of the recently closed Ad Astra Brewing in Prescott, has opened on the southeast corner of McClintock and Broadway in Tempe. Rex Williamson and brewer Will Walthereson, who launched Ad Astra

🍳 San Diego-based breakfast-and-lunch concept Broken Yolk Cafe has opened its third Valley location on the northwest corner of Highland and 20th Street in Phoenix. The breakfast menu offers a dozen specialty omelets and a half-dozen types of eggs Benedict, as

🍔🍺🎸 Off 87 has soft-opened in the former Ginger Monkey building on the southwest corner of Arizona Avenue (aka Arizona State Route 87) and Ocotillo Road in south Chandler. It’s the latest venture from former Arizona Diamondbacks pitching coach Mike Butcher (pictured)

🍕 Pizzicata, a small, family-owned pizzeria in Carefree, has launched a second location at Painted Mountain Golf Course on the northeast corner of Recker and McKellips in northeast Mesa. Owner Federico Venturini and his wife, chef Viola Tagliaferri, moved from

☕️ Oregon-based Black Rock Coffee Bar will open its fourth Gilbert location Friday on the southeast corner of Gilbert and Warner. Per the chain’s tradition, the new location will offer $2 medium drinks all day Friday. It’s Black Rock’s 33nd store

🐓 Birdcall, a Denver-based fast-food chain specializing in fried chicken sandwiches, opens its third Valley location today at Santan Village shopping center in Gilbert. It will be located just north of Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant near the northwest corner of Williams Field

🔥 A Japanese-style bistro called Pyro hass opened at The Grove, a new $300 million mixed-use development on the northwest corner of 44th Street and Camelback in east Phoenix. It’s from the Nebraska-based Flagship Restaurant Group, which also operates Ghost

🇹🇭 Sala Thai, a well-regarded, family-owned restaurant with locations in north Phoenix and Peoria, has opened a third on the northwest corner of McClintock and Broadway in Tempe. The menu offers the soups, stir fry noodles, fried rice, and curries

☕️ Los Angeles-based coffee shop chain Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf opens its seventh Valley location today at the Shops at Town & Country on the southeast corner of Camelback and 20th Street in Phoenix. Anyone with the company’s app

🐟🐓 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,