Category: New Restaurant Alert

🐓🏓 Chicken N Pickle, a Kansas City-based indoor/outdoor entertainment concept that includes a chef-driven restaurant and a sports bar, makes its Arizona debut today on the southeast corner of Hanna and Sunrise at Westgate in Glendale. The food: Rotisserie chicken

🥪 San Francisco-based Ike’s Love & Sandwiches has soft-opened its 11th Valley location at the Crossroads Towne Center on the southeast corner of Gilbert and the Loop 202 in Gilbert. The food: More than 800 sandwiches, many named for Bay Area

🥩🐟🍣 Nelson’s Meat + Fish, a 6-year-old market that offers high-quality seafood and meats, has soft-opened a second location near the northeast corner of Scottsdale and Thunderbird in north Scottsdale. The space: The 1,100-square-foot, wood-paneled market (similar in size and

🌭🍺 Dog Haus Biergarten, a California-based chain of gourmet hot dog and sausage shops, has soft-opened its fifth Valley location on the northeast corner of Chandler and the Loop 101 in Chandler. The food: Hormone- and antibiotic-free hot dogs, sausages,

🥗 Drive-thru concept Salad and Go has opened its 50th and 51st Valley locations – on the southwest corner of Yuma and Cotton in Goodyear and the southwest corner of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Loop 101 in Scottsdale. The food:

🇩🇰☕️ The Coffee Builders, a breakfast and lunch cafe specializing in Danish-style sandwiches and European pastries, opens at 6 a.m. today near the northeast corner of Seventh Street and Buckeye in downtown Phoenix. The space: Designed by Thomas Porter, owner

🥭🍓🥤 Frutilandia, a Valley-born franchise concept offering Latin and Mexican frozen treats, has opened its ninth location on the northeast corner of Bethany Home and 27th Avenue in Phoenix. The space: The 4,200-square-foot space has a walk-up counter, an ice

🍗 Saturday is National Chicken Wing Day, and the new Ghett Yo Wings in Ahwatukee is celebrating by giving away free wings for a year. The background: Ghett Yo Wings is taking over the home of its former sibling Ghett Yo

🌯🍟 California-based fast-casual chain Burros & Fries has opened its second Valley location at the Village at Prasada on the southeast corner of the Loop 303 and Waddell in Surprise. The food: 21 different burros, 14 tacos, five tortas, six

🌮 Joe’s Tacos, a fast-casual Mexican eatery specializing in toasted tacos and vampiros, has opened its third Valley location on the southwest corner of Bell and Seventh Street in north Phoenix. The food: Tacos, toasted tacos, quesadillas, vampiros, and burritos.

🥩🍸⚾️ The Arizona Diamondbacks show off the latest addition to their roster – their roster of Chase Field food and drink offerings – with the game-day debut of Bourbon & Bones Cocktail Lounge tonight. The space: Scottsdale-based Square One Concepts

🍷🧆🥙 The Stetson Social – a new Mediterranean-influenced restaurant and wine bar from Mario Rana, owner of Italian eatery Osteria Mia – has opened at the 83 Marketplace on the southeast corner of Happy Valley and 83rd Avenue in Peoria.

🥗 Gilbert-born drive-through concept Salad and Go has launched its 49th Valley location on the southwest corner of Baseline and 36th Avenue in southwest Phoenix. The food: 10 chef-designed salads (also available as wraps), soup, and breakfast burritos. The drinks: Lemonades,

🌮🌯 Marely’s Mexican Kitchen, a family-run eatery that also serves burgers and wings, has opened on the northeast corner of 24th Street and Roeser in south Phoenix. The food: Breakfast combos, tacos, burritos, quesadillas, asada fries, nachos (pictured), burgers, and

🇻🇳🍲🐌 Vietnamese restaurant Goc Saigon has replaced Max Saigon, which closed earlier this month after six years in business, on the northwest corner of Arizona and Ray in Chandler. The food: Phở, mi, bún, rice dishes, hot pots, snails, and

🌮🌯🇲🇽 Macayo’s Mexican Food, a local chain that will celebrate its 77th anniversary in September, has opened its 11th Valley location on the southeast corner of Indian School and Jackrabbit in Litchfield Park. The background: Founded by Woody and Victoria

🍺🇲🇽🌮 Buqui Bichi Brewery, a Mexican craft brewer based in Hermosillo, Sonora, has opened its first U.S. taproom on the southeast corner of Arizona and Frye in downtown Chandler. The background: Buqui Bichi, founded in 2016, was named the country’s

🌮🌯 Cafe Rio Mexican Grill, a Utah-based chain of fast-casual Tex-Mex restaurants, has opened its 20th Valley location near the southwest corner of Scottsdale and Thomas in south Scottsdale. The space: The building, formerly a Boston Market, was the chain’s

🥤🍪🍔 JoJo’s Shake Bar, a Chicago-based concept known for over-the-top shakes, onion ring towers, and milk-and-cookie flights, opens at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Scottsdale Quarter on the northeast corner of Scottsdale and Greenway/Butherus in north Scottsdale. The concept: A

🍣 Island Fin Poke, a Florida-based fast-casual chain founded in 2017, makes its Arizona debut Monday at Verde at Cooley Station on the southwest corner of Williams Field and Recker in Gilbert. Free food: As a preview, Island Fin will