Category: New Restaurant Alert

Portillo’s, the Chicago-based fast-casual chain, has opened its fifth Valley location near the southeast corner of Williams Field and Santan Village Parkway in Gilbert. The grand opening officially is Friday, but the doors quietly opened Wednesday. The new 7,800-square-foot building

🥯 Bagel Daddies, an independent bagel shop that shares a storefront with Spce Coffee, has opened on the northwest corner of McDowell and 18th Street in Phoenix. Bagel Daddies has been a popular vendor at Valley farmers markets. Open 6 a.m.-noon

🥯 Panera Bread, the St. Louis-based chain of fast-casual bakery-cafes, has opened its 15th Valley location on the southeast corner of Power and the Loop 202 in southeast Mesa. It includes a drive-through lane – but only for orders placed through

🇯🇲 Island Grill AZ, a Caribbean restaurant and cocktail bar, has opened on the northwest corner of Indian School and Ninth Street in Phoenix. Entrees include Jamaica’s national dish, ackee and saltfish, as well as curry goat (pictured), brown stew chicken,

🥬 Lowdown Vegan, a late-night 100% vegan drive-through, has opened on the southwest corner of McDowell and 15th Street in Phoenix. The menu offers a half-dozen chicken sandwiches – pesto (pictured), Italian, buffalo, barbecue, Jamaican, and classic – made with Tindle

🍩 Mochidot, a locally owned shop specializing in mochi doughnuts made with Japanese rice flour, has opened on the northeast corner of Camelback and Ninth Street in Phoenix. The concept is not associated with similarly themed Mochinut, which has locations in

🥞 Brunch Kitchen & Cocktails has opened next to its sibling concept, Cowboy Pizza, in the former Binkley’s buildings on the northeast corner of Cave Creek and Vermeersch in Cave Creek. Menu highlights include bacon pancakes with maple bourbon ricotta, crab Benedict, pork

🍷 Sauvage, a natural wine shop that opened in a shipping container at The Churchill in 2018, has moved to the historic Helen Anderson House on the southeast corner of McDowell and Third Avenue in downtown Phoenix. A bar offers wines

🔥 Phoenix Hibachi House, a fast-casual Japanese grill offering burritos in roasted red pepper tortillas as well as hibachi entrees and combo plates, has launched on the northeast corner of Van Buren and 19th Avenue in Phoenix. Grilled meats include chicken,

🌮 Humble Torta & Taco, a new sibling of Humble Pie and Humble Bistro, has made its debut in Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport’s Terminal 3. Besides the namesake items, the Mexican street food menu offers four kinds of tortillas pies, bowls, salads, and more.

🌯 Titino’s Grill, an small counter-service eatery offering Mexican and American food, has opened inside the Northeast Market liquor store near the southeast corner of 32nd Street and Thomas in Phoenix. The Mexican side of the menu is represented by tacos,

🐓 Bird Talk Kitchen, a California-born fast-casual concept featuring various forms of chicken, has made its Arizona debut on the northeast corner of University and Hardy in west Tempe. Menu items include whole chickens, chicken tenders, chicken wings, fried chicken, grilled

🥪 San Francisco-based Ike’s Love & Sandwiches has opened its 10th Valley location on the northwest corner of Tatum and the Loop 101 in northeast Phoenix. The menu has more than 800 sandwiches, many named for Bay Area celebrities, made with

🥚 Freshly Laid, a fast-casual breakfast ‘‘eggsperience’’ that debuted in north Scottsdale last year, has opened a second location on the southeast corner of Indian School and 36th Street in east Phoenix. The menu offers cleverly named breakfast sandwiches, burritos, or

🥙 Hummus Republic, a California-based chain of modern Mediterranean eateries, has opened its first Arizona location at the Promenade Scottsdale on the southeast corner of Scottsdale and Bell in north Scottsdale. Build your own pita, wrap, or bowl by choosing a

🌯 Fiesta Mexicana, a Colorado-based chain of sit-down Mexican restaurants, has opened its second Valley location in the long-closed Fox & Hound building near the southwest corner of Baseline and Stapley in Gilbert. The family-owned concept made its Valley debut in

🌮 Don Fito’s Taqueria, which has operated out of a pair of food trucks since 2020, has opened a bricks-and-mortar restaurant on the northeast corner of Power and Baseline in east Mesa. Besides tacos, burritos, tortas, and vampiros, the menu offers

📱 Cafe Rio Mexican Grill, a Utah-based chain of fast-casual Mexican restaurants, has opened another of its ‘‘digital cafe’’ concepts – offering digital ordering options – near the southwest corner of Greenway and the Loop 303 in Surprise. It’s the 38th

🍔 Scottsdale-based Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers opens its 14th location at 11 a.m. today at Sonoran Creek Marketplace near the southwest corner of John Wayne Parkway and Edison in Maricopa. The restaurant features a 2,000-square-foot patio, a 50-foot bar (the longest of

🐓 Big Chicken, the Las Vegas-based fast-casual chain co-founded by former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal, opens its second Valley location at 11 a.m. today in the former Pomo Pizzeria space near the northwest corner of Gilbert and Vaughn in downtown Gilbert.