Category: Restaurant Scouting

Someburros, the local chain of family-run fast-casual Mexican restaurants, will open its 12th location later this year on the southwest corner of Signal Butte and Guadalupe in southeast Mesa. The Tempe-born concept offers 15 types of burritos, as well as

A pair of well-regarded Valley chefs – Rochelle Daniel and Cassie Shortino – will launch small restaurants this summer. Daniel, chef at Scottsdale’s Fat Ox, will venture north to open her own restaurant, Atria, in historic downtown Flagstaff. Atria (pictured)

Chicago-based Lou Malnati’s is hiring staff for its fifth Valley location, which will be located at Dana Park on the northwest corner of Val Vista and Baseline in Mesa. The location, which will be the first in the southeast Valley,

Tiger Sugar, a worldwide chain of Taiwanese dessert shops best-known for its brown sugar boba milk, will make its Arizona debut in Mesa. It will be located in the Safeway shopping center on the northeast corner of Dobson and Main.

A new sports bar and grill hopes to open in northeast Mesa in time for the NBA Finals. Starz American Bar & Grill is wrapping up construction on the northwest corner of Lindsay and University. The 5,400-square-foot space previously was

Frenchie Pizza, a new fast-casual concept featuring thin-crust American pizzas as well as European flatbreads called flammekueche, is opening in south Gilbert next month. It will be the fourth member of the Buschtetz Family Restaurant Group, which includes Cuisine &

Vero Chicago Pizzeria – formerly (and, by many, still) known as Buddyz Chicago Pizzeria – hoped to open its first franchise around Feb. 1 in Gilbert. More than four months past that target, things are, um, progressing at the former

Florida-based Another Broken Egg Cafe will make its Arizona debut near the southwest corner of Williams Field and Santan Village Parkway in Gilbert. The restaurant will be located between Black Rock Coffee Bar and Jersey Mike’s Subs. The French-countryside-meets-the-Deep-South concept

Tucson-based Eegee’s return to the Valley will happen next month, and the company is looking to hire 60 people to work at the Gilbert restaurant. The chain, which unsuccessfully tried to establish a foothold in the Valley in the 1980s,

Illinois-based Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurants, a chain of Napa-inspired ‘‘upscale casual’’ wine bars that made its Arizona debut in north Scottsdale last fall, is preparing to launch another restaurant in front of Chandler Fashion Center. The 16-year-old concept’s 41 locations

Huss Brewing, the third-largest brewery in the state, finally has begun construction on its third location – a two-story, indoor-outdoor space on the north facade of the Phoenix Convention Center. The new location (pictured in an artist’s rendering) on Monroe

As breweries nationwide and around the world wrestle with high-profile issues of gender disparity, Gilbert will welcome a new female-owned craft beer bar this summer. Tap Dragon Craft Beer & Wine Bar is scheduled to open on the southeast corner

LGO Hospitality announced it will open a third location of Ingo’s Tasty Food on the southeast corner of Scottsdale Road and Mayo Boulevard in north Scottsdale. It will be located adjacent to the recently announced Buck & Rider, also part

After a delay of more than a year due to the covid-19 pandemic, IHOP finally will launch its fast-casual spinoff, Flip’d by IHOP, in July. Ordering at a counter or kiosk, diners can choose from pancake bowls, customizable egg sandwiches,

The owners of Chiwas Tacos are working on a new concept – a Mexican restaurant called Cocina Chiwas – to debut in Tempe next year. The restaurant’s wood-fired oven and grill will produce an expanded menu of regional dishes from

Oregano’s, one of the Valley’s most popular locally born restaurant concepts, is launching a takeout-only concept in Tempe next month. Oregano’s Takeout Kitchen will debut Wednesday, June 2, near the southeast corner of University and 52nd Street. It will offer

Rough Rider, a new restaurant and cocktail bar from the owners of The Whining Pig chain, is coming to Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix this summer. It will be located in the basement of the Ten-O-One building, a former hotel

Brooklyn V’s Pizza announced its fourth East Valley restaurant – which is taking over the former Amalfi Pizza space on the northeast corner of Alma School and Chandler Heights in south Chandler – will open next Monday, May 24. MXSW

D’Vine Gourmet – a south Chandler shop specializing in Arizona food products, wines, and other gifts – is taking over the Sibley’s West gift shop space in downtown Chandler. Sibley’s owners John and Michelle Wolfe announced last month they would

Syracuse, N.Y.-based CoreLife Eatery, a fast-casual healthy eating concept that made its Arizona debut in south Tempe last October, is opening a second restaurant in Gilbert. It will be located next to the new Farmer Boys on the southeast corner