Category: Restaurant Scouting

PokiLuv Poke & Sushiritto, a food court eatery offering poke bowls and ‘‘sushi burritos’’ at Chandler Fashion Center and Glendale’s Arrowhead Towne Center, will open its first stand-alone location in March at the Watermark on the southeast corner of Rural

Scottsdale-based Hash Kitchen, the breakfast-and-lunch concept with five Valley locations, has signed deals to open two more this fall. One will be in the new Verde at Cooley Station development at Williams Field and Recker in Gilbert, the other in

The Buzzed Goat, a 3-year-old locally owned coffee bar and taphouse that’s become an Ahwatukee favorite, is launching a second location on the southeast corner of McClintock and Southern (behind Boston Market) in Tempe. Owner Gabe Von Weimer says the

After years of promises, teases, and false starts, it looks like Los Angeles is finally getting a Pizzeria Bianco. Valley restaurateur and chef Chris Bianco, who has a home in Hermosa Beach, Calif., has inked a deal to launch one

San Diego chef Angelo Sosa, best known for his three seasons on TV’s ‘‘Top Chef,’’ will open a new upscale Southwestern restaurant called Tia Carmen this spring in the former Stone Grill space at the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge

Food Network personality Guy Fieri, who launched three delivery-only ghost kitchens called Flavortown Kitchen in the Valley last year, will open a bricks-and-mortar Flavortown this spring at the new Caesars Sportsbook at Chase Field in downtown Phoenix. The space previously

Tucson-based Eegee’s announced it will officially open its third Valley location on the southwest corner of Val Vista and Willis – kitty-corner from Mercy Gilbert Medical Center – on Thursday, March 3. (A soft opening will be held 4-8 p.m. Wednesday,

Mr Fries Man, a California-based concept selling build-your-own plates and boxes of fries topped with a choice of meat (including shrimp and crab), will make its Arizona debut this spring on the southwest corner of Fifth Street and College –

Hawaii-based fast-casual seafood chain Coconut’s Fish Cafe, which closed its south Chandler location in late 2020 due to lack of business, is finding better luck in Scottsdale, where it plans to open its third location in the city near the

California Fish Grill, a Los Angeles-based chain of fast-casual seafood restaurants that made its Arizona debut in Mesa in December 2020, will open a second location in the former IHOP at the Camelback Colonnade on the southeast corner of the Piestewa

Rio Rico Mexican Grill, a 17-year-old Sonoran-style sit-down restaurant on the southeast corner of Val Vista and Guadalupe in Gilbert, is moving across its parking lot to the former Casanova Bros. Pizza & Pasta building. The pizzeria closed last October.

Pork on a Fork, the north Phoenix barbecue joint that planned to open a second location in Chandler last May, has been beset by construction delays, but work continues on the long-closed Carl’s Jr. building near the southwest corner of

Mokas Cafe, a pair of popular breakfast-and-lunch eateries in Kansas, will make its Arizona debut with Mokas Bakery & Bistro just south of the Fry’s Marketplace on the southwest corner of Higley and Baseline in Gilbert. The cafe, which offers

Ab Lattouf and Nichole Morris, who bought The Horny Toad in Cave Creek in a couple years ago, are turning another of their restaurants – Desert Rose Pizzeria Gastropub & Steaks near the southeast corner of Glendale and 59th Avenue

The Hub Grill & Bar, a local sports bar chain that opened its third East Valley location in Ahwatukee last month, is working on a fourth in the short-lived GOAT Sports Grill space on the southwest corner of Power and

Carolina’s Mexican Food, a Valley favorite for more than 50 years, will open its sixth location this July near the northwest corner of 59th Avenue and Greenway Road in Glendale. The no-frills restaurant is best-known for its award-winning tortillas, which

Hundred Mile Brewing, a 8,200-square-foot brewery and restaurant, is under construction in the former Looks Good printing and sign building on the southwest corner of Rural and the 202 – just across Tempe Town Lake from ASU. Demo work is

Macayo’s Mexican Food, a chain of sit-down restaurants founded in Phoenix in 1946, will open its ninth Valley location near the northeast corner of Alma School and Queen Creek in south Chandler. The building formerly was home to Carrabba’s Italian

Benny Blanco Tortillas, a favorite at the Gilbert Farmers Market and other markets around the Valley, will open a bricks-and-mortar storefront next month on the southwest corner of Idaho and the Apache Trail in Apache Junction. It sells 17 different

The Bar, a 4-year-old Arcadia tavern with a ‘‘The Big Lebowski’’ theme, will open a second location – this one with a ‘‘Pulp Fiction’’ theme – in the just-closed Copper 48 space near the northwest corner of Gilbert and Vaughn