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A little faded since its 1954 debut, the "Face on the Barroom Floor" mural again looms grandly over patrons hoisting Jack Daniels-spiked root beer floats at the 1889 Saloon in The Stockyards Restaurant.

Restaurant picks on the East side of town.

Tribune’s dining critic reviews restaurant picks on our side of town.

Mesa police are warning the public to be on the lookout for “hooded bandits” who are robbing stores and restaurants in East Mesa.

MINNEAPOLIS - Steven Schussler, the brash entrepreneur who founded Rainforest Café, has not had a winning restaurant concept in more than a decade.

These are the worst East Valley offenders from restaurant health inspections reviewed Nov. 17-23. For more details, or to search for any restaurant in Maricopa County, click here.

Many Orange County, Calif., residents visit Scottsdale in the winter for the city’s luxury golf resorts and balmy spas. Conversely, Scottsdale residents often escape the summer desert heat by heading to the beaches of Orange County, where some own second homes.

Many Orange County, Calif., residents visit Scottsdale in the winter for the city’s luxury golf resorts and balmy spas. Conversely, Scottsdale residents often escape the summer desert heat by heading to the beaches of Orange County.

A Get Out food critic has dined at each of the places listed in our Top 100. It's a continually updated list of our favorite places to dine in the East Valley.

A Get Out food critic has dined at each of the places listed in our Top 100. It's a continually updated list of our favorite places to dine in the East Valley.

BEIJING - Plunging exports. Factory closures. More than 20 million people thrown out of work. Official data showing that China's economy is cooling but still growing strongly obscure what economists say is a sharp recent decline that has inflicted obvious pain.

The Mesa Arts Center will step onto the international stage this weekend with a Chinese harvest celebration that will link performers from all over the world with television viewers in China.

The Mesa Arts Center will step onto the international stage this weekend with a Chinese harvest celebration that will link performers from all over the world with television viewers in China.

A new, pocket-sized glossary created by a Tempe linguist is a “word road map” for business people overcoming language barriers in China.

P.F. Chang’s, the East Valley company that grew a small Scottsdale Fashion Square restaurant into a 168-eatery empire in 12 years, is working on another restaurant concept.

Scottsdale-based P.F. Chang’s China Bistro is the third most profitable U.S. restaurant chain, an industry watcher said Tuesday.

Rib lovers will have to wait a little longer for Famous Dave’s Pit Bar-B-Que at 3250 W. Frye Road in Chandler.

Jody Duda is living a secret life her friends back in Oregon don’t know about yet — one that has the 55-year-old wearing her college cheerleader’s uniform to a sock hop in the ballroom of a Mesa RV park for winter residents.

Jody Duda is living a secret life her friends back in Oregon don’t know about yet — one that has the 55-year-old wearing her college cheerleader’s uniform to a sock hop in the ballroom of a Mesa RV park for winter residents.

Mesa is going upscale.

CLEVELAND - Michael Starr was laid off in midcareer from his factory job and found himself back in the classroom to upgrade his skills — for a new high-tech manufacturing environment struggling to find workers.