Category: Things to Do

🇮🇹 The eight annual Italian Festival – featuring food, live music, art, exotic cars, kids activities, and more – will take place 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Sunday at Heritage Square in downtown Phoenix. Tickets are $10 in advance

🍖 SanTan Brewing and Pedal Haus Brewery will co-host the inaugural Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival this weekend at A.J. Chandler Park in downtown Chandler. The family-friendly event starts at 4 p.m. Friday and ends at 11 p.m. Saturday. Presale tickets are $15 for Friday,

👩‍🍳 AZ Women in Food, a group created in 2021 to support woman-led local food businesses, has changed the location of ‘‘Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.’’ The event featuring tasting stations, wine, cocktails, a DJ, and burlesque entertainment will take place 5-9 p.m.

🍖 The 71st annual Laveen BBQ Festival, the community’s largest event, takes place 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at Caesar Chavez Park (map). Besides a variety of smoked meats, there will be live entertainment, games and activities, and more than 100 vendors. Admission

💪 One of the funnest events of Arizona Beer Week – the Pink Boots Arm Wrestling Throwdown – takes place at 6 p.m. tonight at QuartHaus in downtown Chandler. The top women in Arizona’s beer industry will compete for this year’s championship belt. There

Pedal Haus Brewery will host a Mardi Gras celebration from 2 p.m.-midnight Saturday on the rooftop of its downtown Phoenix location. Festivities will include spicy jambalaya, shrimp po’boys, and Hurricane drink specials, as well as live music and, of course, plenty

Queen Creek Olive Mill celebrates its ninth annual Canada Week 🇨🇦 today through Sunday, Feb. 26, with a Canadian-inspired menu (including poutine, beavertails, and Molson beer), an arts festival on Saturday, a sangria social on Feb. 25, and the launch of the mill’s

With Valentine’s Day looming next week, Downtown Mesa is hosting a fun-loving Pal-entine Besties Booze Crawl for you and your friends from 4-9 p.m. Thursday. 🗺 What: For $10 per person ($15 at the door), you get a map of seven

SanTan Brewing and Pedal Haus Brewery in downtown Chandler are teaming up to launch a new event – the Beer, Bourbon, Barbeque & Bands Festival – on March 3 and 4. What: The event will feature food Valley barbecue restaurants,

Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto will make two Valley appearances on Friday, Feb. 3, to promote his new premium sake collaboration Junmai Daiginjo. Stop #1: Morimoto will greet fans at the Costco at 15255 N. Hayden Road, Scottsdale, from 10:30 a.m.-12:30

Jan. 14: Copperstate Beer Festival at Riverview Park in Mesa. Jan. 27-29: Arizona Wine Festival at Heritage Square in downtown Phoenix. Jan. 28-29: Street Eat Food Truck Festival at alt River Fields in Scottsdale. Feb. 4: Southwest Cajun Fest at

Mingle & Graze in downtown Chandler will host Holiday Cheese & Wine Tastings at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, and Thursday, Dec. 15. What: Participants will enjoy six cheeses, four Spanish wines to pair with them, and some other goodies.

Downtown Phoenix’s Found:Re boutique hotel, which has a long history of creative theme dinners, will host a ‘‘Die Hard’’-themed holiday dinner at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17. In an homage to the 1988 cult classic starring Bruce Willis, the hotel’s

The third annual AZ Barrels, Bottles & Brews – a festival featuring local craft brews, spirits and wines – takes place 2-5 p.m. Saturday on the centerfield concourse at Salt River Fields in Scottsdale. Participants: More than 25 of the

Beer N’ Bones, one of the Valley’s more unusual craft beer events, will take place 6-10 p.m. Friday  at the Arizona Museum of Natural History in downtown Mesa. What: The 21-and-over fundraising event features craft beers 🍺, food trucks 🚚,

The seventh annual Phoenix Pizza Festival will take place Saturday, Nov. 12, and Sunday, Nov. 13, at Margaret T. Hance Park in downtown Phoenix. What: Approximately 15 to 20 pizza makers, dessert food trucks, and related food vendors will be

As a precursor to its one-year anniversary celebration Saturday, Patent 139 Brewing in Chandler will host a Hot Wing Throwdown involving eight Valley chefs Friday. What: All day, you can get eight wings (each with a different sauce by a

After a successful launch last year, Phoenix Vegan Restaurant Week will return Sept. 11-18. The event raises awareness for all things vegan and gives diners an affordable opportunity to explore the growing plant-based food scene in the Valley. What: Breakfast,

The 11th annual Rockin’ Taco Street Fest, featuring creative tacos from more than 20 local restaurants and food trucks, will return to downtown Chandler from noon to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24. Ozomatli and Everclear will be this year’s music stage

Queen Creek Olive Mill will host its ninth annual Garlic Festival from Friday, Sept. 16, through Sunday, Sept. 25. The event will feature a variety of organic garlic, cooking demos, fun and games in the grove, a beer and wine garden, Garlic 101 classes,