Category: New Restaurant Alert

🔥 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.

🥗 Salad and Go, the Gilbert-born drive-through concept that’s grown to more than 50 locations throughout Arizona in 10 years, opens its second in Surprise today on the southwest corner of Bell and the Loop 303. The menu offers chef-designed salads,

☕️ Just Love Coffee Cafe, a Tennessee-based chain of all-day restaurants, has made its Arizona debut near the southeast corner of Power and Elliot in southeast Mesa. The breakfast menu features a variety of waffles and ‘‘womelettes,’’ while lunch/dinner options include

🍛 Charcoal Grill, a Mediterranean counter-service restaurant, has opened in a former uniform shop on the northeast corner of Thunderbird and 59th Avenue, next to Banner Thunderbird Medical Center, in Glendale. The menu offers beef and chicken shawarma, beef kabobs, chicken

🦐 CC’s on Central, a mother-and-son-operated Cajun restaurant, has opened near the southwest corner of Central and Thomas in midtown Phoenix. Menu highlights include traditional fare such as po’boys, jambalaya, red beans and rice, and shrimp and grits. Open for breakfast

🥃 Trevor’s, a liquor store extraordinaire that opened in south Scottsdale in 2020, has added a second location on the northwest corner of Scottsdale and Mayo in northeast Phoenix. The store features a tasting booth, a pizza kitchen, two golf simulators,

☕️ Flagstaff-based FireCreek Coffee Company has launched its second Valley location in a former shipping container at City Square near the southwest corner of Indian School and Central in midtown Phoenix. Open 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m. weekdays. FireCreek plans to open a Phoenix roastery

The Parlay Kitchen & Cocktails, a modern American gastropub that opened in Chandler in 2019, opens a second location at 11 a.m. today on the northwest corner of the Loop 101 and Via de Ventura in central Scottsdale. Laurshan Construction did

🍱 Swan, an Asian restaurant specializing in sushi and seafood, has opened on the southwest corner of Alma School and Dynamite, not far from Troon North Golf Club, in north Scottsdale. It’s moved into the former Gatsby’s second-floor space above the Pony