Category: Quick Bites

👨🏻‍🚒 Birdcall has teamed up with the Mesa Fire Department on a 2025 firefighter calendar to benefit Stop Our Stigma, a nonprofit committed to reducing suicide among paramedics, EMTs, and firefighters. The calendars, which have monthly promos and coupons, are

🦃 Can’t wait for Thanksgiving? Dog Haus has unveiled its take on the iconic Turducken – a turkey, duck, and chicken sausage topped with warm turkey gravy, garlic aioli, onions, and scallions on King’s Hawaiian rolls ($11.99). There’s also a

🎸 The Global Ambassador in Arcadia will host pop-ups (including open bar and live entertainment) by its sibling Nashville supper club Twelve Thirty Club on Nov. 15-16. Tables start at $850++ for two people. Get more info here. 🍕 Chicken

🧋 Smoothie King, a Texas-based chain with a half-dozen locations in Phoenix and the East Valley, has launched a special GLP-1 Support Menu of no-added-sugar smoothies for customers taking Ozempic or Wegovy. 🔥 Renata’s Hearth, the Latin-inspired restaurant at the Arizona

🥒 Attention, pickle lovers! Jimmy John’s has launched a limited-time ‘‘Picklewich’’ – a sandwich made with a giant kosher dill pickle instead of bread. The Picklewich (pictured) will be available through Nov. 14. 🐓 Raising Cane’s opens its newest restaurant Tuesday on the northeast

🆓 In celebration of his birthday today, rapper Drake is hooking everyone up with a free Dave’s Hot Chicken slider at any of the restaurant’s 230 locations, including Phoenix and Gilbert. Just scan the reward in the restaurant’s app. 👮‍♂️

🎟️ Tickets for the 17th annual Devour Culinary Classic, the state’s premier food festival Feb. 22-23 at Desert Botanical Garden, have gone on pre-sale to Local First and garden members. Tickets go on sale to the general public Nov. 4.

🍕 Craft 64 in downtown Chandler and Old Town Scottsdale has introduced two new menu items: baked pomodoro ziti and a Crafty Bianca pizza (alfredo bechamel sauce, pecan-smoked bacon, red peppers, and red onions). 🍣 Kona Grill in Phoenix and

🛥️ After 16 years, Lakeside Bar & Grill in Peoria has remodeled. The space has been opened up by removing walls, new flooring has been installed, and more tables and booths have been added. The menu also has been revamped.

🔥 Dave’s Hot Chicken, which requires diners to sign a waiver when ordering its Reaper chicken tenders or sliders, has reformulated its spice blend to make the Reaper 50% hotter. Dave’s has locations in Gilbert and Phoenix. 🍕 Beer brat

🇹🇭 Phoenix Thai restaurant Mr. Baan’s Bar and Mookata (pictured), which opened last November behind sibling Lom Wong, has been named to the New York Times’ annual Restaurant List of its ‘‘50 favorite places in America right now.’’ 🍺 SanTan Brewing

🍕 Sal’s Gilbert Pizza in Gilbert will hold a fundraiser today for the family of Phoenix police officer Zane Coolidge, who was shot snd killed in the line of duty earlier this month. Sal’s is donating 100% of today’s profits

🍝 Owners Brandon and Michele Gioffre have revamped their 11-year-old Italian restaurant The Blind Pig in Scottsdale. It now has an old-school New York Italian decor (pictured) and has changed its name to DiMaggio’s Italian Restaurant. 🍺 Litchfield Park gastropub

🍔 Rosati’s Pizza ran out of pies at many of its 10 Valley locations during Tuesday’s 60th anniversary special – large two-item pizzas for just $3.50 – but the company has promised to ‘‘resume’’ the promotion Oct. 15. 📕 ‘‘Brunch

🍔 Aioli Burger in Phoenix celebrates National Cheeseburger Day today with a deal: Buy one cheeseburger and get a second free. (Also available 10:30 a.m-2 p.m. at its food truck at ASU.) One lucky diner will win free burgers for

🍕 Rosati’s Pizza celebrates its 60th anniversary today with throwback 1964 pricing – get a 14-inch two-item thin-crust carryout-only pizza for just $3.50. There’s a limit of one pizza per person per visit. See more details here. 🍕 Get $1

🥑 Today is National Guacamole Day, and Los Sombreros in Scottsdale and Mesa is offering a $30 all-you-can-eat special on its freshly made guac (pictured). In Old Town Scottsdale, Diego Pops has 50% off its guac today. 🍷 Board &

👨‍🍳 Chilte co-owner Lawrence ‘‘LT’’ Smith (pictured) has been named one of the 13 Best New Chefs in the U.S. by Food and Wine. His Mexican restaurant, which opened at the Egyptian Motor Hotel in downtown Phoenix last year, was

🍹 Congrats to The Montauk bartender Barrymore ‘‘Bud’’ Shaw (pictured), who beat out 950 other bartenders to win the 2024 Coramino Cup, sponsored by Gran Coramino Tequila, in Las Vegas. Shaw won $10,000 and will appear with comedian/actor Kevin Hart

🍺 September is National Suicide Prevention Month, and OHSO Brewery has just canned its seasonal 988, an IPA it launched in 2017 to raise awareness of the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Last year, more than 90 breweries from 30 states joined

🌭 Dog Haus, which has locations in Phoenix, Tempe, Chandler, and Gilbert, introduces its first-ever Oktoberfest menu today. It features a bratwurst with caramelized onions and sauerkraut, a beer cheese sausage burrito, King’s Hawaiian pretzel bites, and drink specials. Available