Category: New Restaurant Alert

🍺 Hamburguesas Y Cervezas, a Mexican-inspired burger and beer restaurant, has opened on the ground floor of the Union @ Roosevelt apartments on the southwest corner of Roosevelt and First Avenue in downtown Phoenix. The menu also offers appetizers, salads, and tortas.

🍕 Pizza Factory, a California-based chain with Arizona locations in Williams, Payson, and Show Low, has opened a Valley location on the southeast corner of Gilbert and Southern in Mesa. The menu features hand-tossed pizzas, pastas, and sandwiches. An all-you-can-eat buffet

🐴 Desert Pony Tavern, a Southwest-inspired gastropub with open-air seating and views of the McDowell Mountains, has opened at the Hilton North on the northwest corner of Hayden and the 101 in north Scottsdale. A $25 breakfast buffet is offered from

🍳 Matt’s Big Breakfast, a downtown Phoenix institution since 2004, has opened its fifth Valley location (not counting a concession at Sky Harbor Airport) at Epicenter on the northwest corner of Higley and Ray in Gilbert. The no-frills menu features cage-free

🍕 Crust Brothers Pizza, a 2-year-old independent pizzeria in central Scottsdale, has opened a second location on the northwest corner of Baseline and McClintock in south Tempe. Ohio natives Eddie and Mark Miller make what they call ‘‘Midwest-style’’ square-cut pies that

🥞 Country Griddle, a family-run brunch restaurant, has opened in the former Samurai Asian Bistro space on the northwest corner of Van Buren and Dysart in Goodyear. The menu includes several Hawaiian breakfast faves, such as banana pancakes, loco moco

The Palms Mediterranean Kitchen, a fast-casual restaurant that makes its own pita in-house, has opened on the southeast corner of Northern and 12th Street in north central Phoenix. The menu offers the typical favorites like gyros 🥙, shawarma, falafel, and

🇮🇳 Traditional dishes such as chicken tikka masala, lamb vindaloo, dal makhani, and bone-in goat curry are menu highlights at Maya’s Kitchen, a small, family-run Indian restaurant that just opened on the northwest corner of Bell and 30th Street in north

Colorado-based chain Noodles & Company has opened its fourth Valley location in the former Five Guys space on the northeast corner of Scottsdale and Shea in central Scottsdale. 🍜 The fast-casual restaurant offers international and American noodle dishes – including its

Dino and Robert Brescia, the brothers who owned Our Gang Cafe for 25 years, have launched OG Pizza near the southwest corner of 32nd Street and Shea in Phoenix. All pizzas are 18 inches and for takeout only, and only cash is accepted. There

Attention, vegans! Dos Pink Tacos opens at 11 a.m. today in the space that was home to short-lived Mexican seafood restaurant Ay, Chebela near the southeast corner of Roosevelt and Seventh Street in downtown Phoenix. The concept, which operated out of the Tempe Food Court until

Brave KBBQ, an all-you-can-eat Korean barbecue restaurant, has  soft-opened on the southwest corner of McClintock and Broadway (map) in Tempe. 🥢 The menu: Appetizers, beef, pork, chicken, seafood, lamb, and sides. 💵 The price: $17.95 lunch from noon-3 p.m. weekdays. $27.95

Cocina Chiwas, a new concept from the owners of Chiwas Tacos, soft-opens at 5 p.m. today at Culdesac, a car-free neighborhood on Apache, between McClintock and Price, in Tempe. 🌮 The menu: Chihuahuan-style tacos, wood-fired quesadillas, and Mexican pizzas. Full menu still

If you think the new Dunkin’ Donuts on the southwest corner of Power and Baseline looks a little unusual, it’s not your imagination. The just-opened location is the first in Arizona built from a repurposed shipping container. The company says using the containers

Dirty Dough, founded by an ASU student who began baking cookies in his Tempe apartment, has opened its second Valley location next to the AMC Theatres at Desert Ridge Marketplace in north Phoenix. 🍪 The menu: A variety of gourmet cookies

Trophy Room, a new immersive cocktail bar that doesn’t allow cellphones or cameras, opened Monday night behind its big brother, fine-dining restaurant Wren & Wolf, in downtown Phoenix. 🐺 The concept: While Wren & Wolf is decorated with animal-themed paintings,

California-based Give Me Sum, a delivery-only dim sum concept, has expanded its Arizona footprint to Chandler and Goodyear. 🥢 The menu: Dim sum dishes of assorted steamed dumplings and bao buns, including non-traditional offerings such as loaded fries. The concept: Give Me

Chilte, a much-anticipated Mexican restaurant from Valley chef Lawrence “L.T.” Smith and his fiancée, Aseret Arroyo, soft-opens at 5 p.m. today at the just-restored Egyptian Motor Hotel on Grand Avenue in downtown Phoenix. Menu highlights: Chef’s choice tacos, chocolate aguachile,

Papago Brewing, one of Arizona’s most influential craft beer taprooms until its closure in 2017, begins its second life at 3 p.m. today at Mesa Riverview. The history: Papago was founded in 2001 as a bottle shop, home-brew supply store,

How much would you pay for a great burger? Then Burger, a speakeasy-style eatery with craft burgers and cocktails that just opened on the northwest corner of Glendale and 91st Avenue in Glendale, may test your limit. The highlight of