Category: Things to Do

The sixth annual Rockin’ Taco Street Fest – featuring creative tacos from two dozen local restaurants – will take place noon-9 p.m. Saturday in downtown Chandler. Activities will live music, wrestling, taco eating competitions, a salsa competition, a low rider

Tempe craft distillery Adventurous Stills will host a release party for its Fossil Creek Whiskey from 5-10 p.m. today. Its tasting room will offer $5 cocktails, and the Wandering Donkey food truck will be on site from 6-9 p.m. tonight. The smoky whiskey

Slow-cooked beef short ribs with spinach-red pepper Israeli couscous will be the featured entree for this month’s ‘‘3rd Tuesday’’ dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Romeo’s Euro Cafe in downtown Gilbert. The three-course dinners feature three new dishes from chef Romeo Taus’

Upslope Brewing will be the featured brewery when The Hungry Monk in Chandler hosts its monthly Beer & Bacon Night from 5-9 p.m. today. Beers on tap from the Boulder, Colo., brewery will include: Craft Lager Brown Ale Citra Pale Ale Thai White

Greka, Balsamic Steak Salad, Chicken Ziti (pictured), Goat Shrimp, and German’s Chocolate Brownies (see descriptions) are the courses at this week’s ‘‘Taste of Romeo’s Euro Cafe’’ dinner, hosted by chef Romeo Taus in a private room, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Cost is $30 per

Brooklyn V’s Pizza will be raising money for Hurricane Harvey victims today. The pizzeria will be donating 30 percent of all sales at both its Gilbert and Queen Creek locations to the Harvey Relief Fund. It also will be accepting

Sassi, the Italian fine-dining restaurant in north Scottsdale, is giving customers plenty of notice of its impending closure. According to its Facebook page: After more than fourteen years as Scottsdale’s most notable Italian dining, wine and wedding venue Sassi will

Romeo’s Euro Cafe in Gilbert holds its weekly ‘‘Taste of Romeo’s’’ dinner, hosted by chef Romeo Taus and his wife, Janice, in a private dinning room, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31. The dinners typically feature five courses selected from the restaurant’s regular menu. This

The Hungry Monk in Chandler celebrates its seventh anniversary – also its annual Customer Appreciation Day – from 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday with a special beer tapping, food and drink specials, and prize raffles. The restaurant and bar actually opened

After 21 years in business, Floridino’s Pizza & Pasta in Chandler is hosting its first-ever wine dinner at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 30. Floridino’s is teaming up with Santa Margherita on a four-course menu with wine pairings: 1st course: Summer salad with walnuts

La Ristra New Mexican Kitchen in Gilbert holds its fifth annual Hatch Chile Roast and Sale this weekend. Restaurant staffers made their annual pilgrimage to Hatch, N.M., earlier this month to pick up their annual supply of chiles, which will be roasted

Attention, animal lovers: Snooze in Tempe will be raising money for the Arizona Animal Welfare League & SPCA by donating 10% of all sales Thursday. The AAWL is trying to raise $30,000 this month to expand its low-cost vet clinic.

Scarlett Overkill, an Imperial red that’s been double Simcoe dry-hopped in the cask, will be the featured beer for this week’s 3 p.m. Thursday cask tapping at The Perch in Chandler. Get a 10-ounce pour of Scarlett Overkill (8% ABV,

Romeo’s Euro Cafe in Gilbert holds its weekly ‘‘Taste of Romeo’s’’ dinner, hosted by chef Romeo Taus and his wife, Janice, in a private dinning room, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 24. The dinners typically feature five courses selected from the restaurant’s regular menu. This

SunUp Brewing in Phoenix celebrates its 16th anniversary today through Sunday with 16 house beers on tap, three special beer releases, live music, and prize giveaways. The craft brewery also will kick off the full release of its Sunna’s Nektar Braggot (bottle purchases

Tempe distillery Adventurous Stills releases the first cask of its Peralta Bourbon, which it’s billing as the only bourbon made exclusively in the Valley available for purchase, on Saturday. For those who didn’t pre-order, approximately 60 bottles will be for sale

The Casual Pint, a craft beer bar and store in south Chandler, celebrates its one-year anniversary with a party from 3-10 p.m. Saturday. Beer for a year will be just one of several raffle prizes. Another prize will be a New Belgium

Discussions about the Valley’s craft beer scene – especially questions about possible over-saturation – inevitably seem to lead to comparisons to San Diego. That’s not surprising. With roughly four million residents, Maricopa County is the fourth-largest in the U.S. With more

BottleShop 48 in Tempe will host its first Beer 101 class with The Perch Brewery from Chandler at 6:30 p.m. today. The Perch brewer Steene Routh will discuss how beer is made, beer terminology, and popular styles of beer. Cost is

Although it’s been open for nearly a month, Pita Jungle in Queen Creek celebrates its ‘‘grand opening’’ today. The Mediterranean restaurant is giving away free hummus to the first 100 people when doors open at 10:30 a.m. It also will have live music