Arizona
This Food Network star is opening a fast-casual restaurant in Arizona
Cory Oppold, Meals Community “Chopped” champion and proprietor of Course, a nice eating restaurant opening in Phoenix within the fall, has a brand new challenge opening even sooner.
Oppold partnered with Kyrie McRoy from Tanque Verde ranch to open The Foyer in Tucson. The announcement was posted on each cooks’ social media accounts on Aug. 31. The fast-casual spot is a departure from Oppold’s standard nice eating bent.
“I like doing high-end eating. Nevertheless, I like making burgers and grilled cheese, too,” Oppold stated in an announcement to The Arizona Republic.
He’s additionally excited to be a part of “Tucson’s wonderful meals scene.”
“Unbelievable. Tucson is so lucky,” commented Phoenix chef Mark Tarbell on the Instagram put up.
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Different star cooks are concerned
A pupil of Oppold’s in culinary college in 2015, McRoy got here extremely really useful by different Tucson cooks when he was in search of a companion.
McRoy, additionally the winner of the 2021 Tucson Knife Combat, will spearhead the challenge. Now in its fifth season, Tucson Knife Combat is a Southern Arizona culinary battle created for cooks and run by cooks.
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What to anticipate at The Foyer
Situated at The Seasons at 811 E. Westmore Rd., the restaurant will provide lunch and dinner at inexpensive value factors for school college students and companies within the space.
“This can be a actually enjoyable challenge,” stated Oppold. “It’s been enjoyable to do issues apart from sear foie gras and poach lobster.”
The menu, designed by each cooks, consists of burgers, grilled cheese, sandwiches and tacos “however every of these things will probably be completed in a strategy to make them a contact completely different and enjoyable for us to make as cooks,” stated Oppold.
Desserts consist of fashionable milkshakes, bread puddings and even a rice crispy deal with with vanilla milk semifreddo that the cooks playfully name “milk and cereal.”
Costs vary from $7 for snacks and desserts to $17 for entrees.
Their beverage menu will quickly embody native beers, combined drinks in addition to seize and go choices.
A tender opening is scheduled for Sep. 7.
Particulars: 811 E. Westmore Street, Tucson. thelobbytucson.com.
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TEMPE — The 2025 Arizona State Sun Devils have officially joined the ranks of confounding sports teams based in the Phoenix area following a 24-16 loss to the Houston Cougars.
The third season of the Kenny Dillingham era began with such promise – as the team was ranked 11th in the AP preseason poll and many expected the team to be improved on both sides of the ball – at least as the season progressed.
Now the season is officially at an inflection point following a performance that screamed regression in response to one of the program’s biggest wins in years over Texas Tech.
While many will put the brunt of responsibility for the loss on uneven officiating or the absence of Jordyn Tyson, Dillingham ultimately doesn’t subscribe to it – stating that the team simply did not play well enough as a whole to secure a victory.
“Yeah. I mean, you’re losing the number one pick in his position in the college football so that’s obviously, you know, pretty critical for your football team when you’re losing. You know him, is that an excuse? Heck no, we didn’t play good enough to win. You know, maybe, if he played, maybe we have survived not playing good enough to win. But that doesn’t mean we played good enough to win.
You know, you got to look at the facts, and the facts are, we lost turnover battle. We had too many penalties. We lost field position. We couldn’t stop the plus one run game. And does have nothing to do with Jordyn and but, yes, not having Jordyn Tyson 100% is going to have an effect on the football game, right? But that’s not an excuse to why we lost the football game.”
The Sun Devil program now has to re-calibrate ahead of a road game against their 2024 Big 12 title game opponent in Iowa State – several areas of the squad have to be cleaned up in the week ahead, from special teams in lieu of another subpar showing, to the run defense – who ceded 111 yards on the ground to Houston QB Conner Weigman after getting torched by Utah QB Devon Dampier just two weeks prior.
The Sun Devils no longer have the ability to control their own destiny in the Big 12 – they now need Cincinnati and BYU to drop at least two games, as well as Utah to lose another game, Houston to drop one of their remaining four games, and potentially even more to have a shot at defending their Big 12 title. This is truly a crossroads in their season – but should this season be considered a failure if the team falls short? It remains to be seen, but stay tuned with Arizona State on SI in the meantime over the final four games of the regular season.
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Two hikers were rescued from the peak of a mountain in northern Arizona after being struck by lightning on Tuesday.
The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the rescue, saying the hikers were saved from the summit of Humphreys Peak.
On Tuesday, the sheriff’s deputies received a call from two male hikers who told officers they had been struck by lightning.
Surprisingly, the two stranded hikers didn’t know each other and were from Flagstaff and Canada.
They were taking photos while at the summit of the mountain when they were hit by lightning, the sheriff’s office confirmed.
Search-and-rescue teams were immediately deployed to the trailhead.
Officials state they requested aircraft support but were denied due to severe weather, including lightning, hail, and heavy rain.
According to the sheriff’s office, rescue teams used two UTV vehicles to reach the victims before completing the rest of the rescue on foot.
“He reported that the other injured hiker had been unable to continue and had stopped near the saddle between Humphreys and Agassiz Peaks, roughly 0.7 miles farther up the trail at 11,800 feet,” read a press release from the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office.
First responders had to use a litter carry-out to extract the second victim since he was unable to walk due to the steep terrain and his physical condition.
Both hikers were successfully taken to the Incident Command Post in the area, where an ambulance then drove them both to Flagstaff Medical Center for treatment and observation.
According to the National Weather Service, lightning kills about 20 people in the U.S. each year, and hundreds more are severely injured.
Lightning strikes occur about 25 million times a year in the U.S.
PHOENIX — State Route 74 was closed in both directions near Lake Pleasant in Peoria on Thursday afternoon due to a crash that killed a woman.
The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) said the highway closed at about 1:15 p.m.
The closure was put into place at Lake Pleasant Parkway for the westbound lanes and 87th Avenue for the eastbound lanes.
ADOT did not say when SR74 is expected to reopen.
UPDATE: SR 74 is closed in both directions (WB: Lake Pleasant Pkwy, EB: 87th Avenue) with no estimated reopening time. For current road conditions, check the following:
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The Peoria Police Department told KTAR News 92.3 FM that two vehicles collided and a woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
No other details were released.
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