Los Sombreros Mexican Café & Cantina in Scottsdale has started a reverse happy hour from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays with $5 menu items, such as black bean queso fundido with chips, two quesadillas de rajas, a shrimp cocktail with chunks of mango or a jicama and orange salad with chile-lime dressing.
Drinks specials include $5 margaritas, mojitos, Cuba libres, sangria and wine. Pints of Dos Equis are $2. Info: (480) 994-1799 or lossombreros.com.
• Foodbar (pictured at left), the first eatery to open last summer at Old Town Scottsdale’s SouthBridge complex, has closed for renovations, including the addition of more indoor seating. Look for it to reopen this fall.
• Estate House, the mansion-inspired dinner-house at SouthBridge, is passing around free happy hour appetizers in its upstairs lounge from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Info: (480) 970-4099 or estatehouseaz.com.
• La Bocca Urban Pizzeria in downtown Tempe is hosting a five-course fundraising dinner featuring salad, three pizzas and dessert Thursday. Cost is $40 per person, $25 of which goes to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Info: (480) 967-5244 or laboccapizzeria.com.
• Scottsdale’s 3 Tomatoes & a Mozzarella is celebrating its eighth anniversary with two summer specials: two salads, two pastas (or a 16-inch pizza) and a bottle of wine for $40, or a to-go deal of a 12-inch pizza and two salads for $20. Info: (480) 585-6555 or 3tomatoes.com.
• Staffers in the Tribune’s Gilbert office are excited that In-N-Out Burger has opened across the street on the southwest corner of Gilbert Road and the Santan Freeway. Info: in-n-out.com.
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Hopefully Foodbar can figure out their identity and make this concept work. Something about food being reheated in the back from a cold case just doesn’t appeal to me. When the food is fresh its pretty amazing! The tuna noodle casserole reminded me of mom.