Category: Odds & Ends

🇩🇪🍻 Tickets are on sale for the Four Peaks Oktoberfest, which will celebrate its 50th year Oct. 13-15 at Tempe Town Lake. Early-bird tickets are just $16 for Friday or Saturday (Sunday admission is free). 🇩🇪🍻 Tickets also are on sale for the Gilbert Oktoberfest, which

🍺 Flagstaff’s Mother Road Brewing – makers of Tower Station, one of the top IPAs in Arizona – releases a new variation, Turbo Tower, a mango double IPA (9.1% ABV), on draft and in stores statewide Tuesday. 🎟 A Taste

🍺 Gilbert-based Arizona Wilderness Brewing releases its seasonal July 11th, a bright pink IPA brewed with dragonfruit, Tuesday in cans and on draft. The beer was inspired by 7-Eleven’s Free Slurpee Day. 🇲🇽 Chef Silvana Salcido Esparza’s award-winning Barrio Cafe

🍺 Sales director Ted Golden, who has been one of the public faces of Four Peaks Brewing in Tempe for 22 years, has jumped to rival SanTan Brewing in Chandler. (Pictured on left with SanTan’s new on-premises sales manager Greg Ross.) 🍕 Bring in two

🇨🇦 Myke’s Pizza in downtown Mesa is celebrating Canada Day by teaming up with Scottsdale-based Frites Street for a Poutine Pop-Up from 7-10 p.m. Saturday. Pizzeria owner/chef Myke Olsen, who lived in Canada, will be selling poutine (pictured) for $12.

🍸 Little Rituals at the Residence Inn/Courtyard by Marriott in downtown Phoenix, recently named one of four finalists for Best U.S. Hotel Bar in Tales of the Cocktail’s annual Spirited Awards, has introduced the most extensive overhaul of its cocktail menu

🥗 Gilbert-born drive-through concept Salad and Go launched its 48th Valley location Tuesday on the southeast corner of Cactus and Reems in Surprise. It’s now grown to 105 locations in four states since its 2013 debut. 🎡 Beer Research Institute

🍳 One day after announcing its seventh Arizona location would open June 28 at Verde at Cooley Station in Gilbert, brunch favorite Hash Kitchen (pictured) has pushed the date back to July 5, citing ‘‘an unexpected delay in construction.’’ ☕️