New Restaurants on North Scottsdale Road Near Frank Lloyd Wright

This fall, three restaurants opened along Scottsdale Road just north of Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard, and a fourth set a target quarter. All four are going into existing buildings. Kuza moved into what was Chauncey Social. The Breakfast Table took over the old OEB Breakfast Co. space. Quiriego Cocina Rústica rebuilt the former Carrabba's Italian Grill. Stone & Vine Urban Italian is getting ready next door to Quiriego. If you've driven this stretch for years, you already know the parking lots. The kitchens behind the doors are what changed.

Four addresses and what used to be there

The sources for each row are in the sections below. Three of the four new arrivals took over former restaurant spaces, and the fourth is moving in right beside one of them, on corners that already had their own driveways and parking.

Chauncey Lane, seven years in, gets its second round of tenants

Chauncey Lane Marketplace is newer than it feels. YourValley reported in 2021 that the three-story office and retail property, at 34,963 square feet, was developed in 2019 by Creation and local investors Mike and Bret Anderson. The same report described the center's early mix as breakfast dining, a cocktail lounge and a salon and spa.

Seven years later, the dining categories are the same. The breakfast space still serves breakfast, and the evening building is still where people go for dinner and drinks. What changed is who runs them.

The evening building has a paper trail. City of Scottsdale case 11-UP-2019 approved a conditional use permit for bar use in an approximately 6,500-square-foot restaurant building, Building C, Suite 100, at 17767 N. Scottsdale Road. The case was filed under the name Chauncey Social, and the Planning Commission recommended approval 6-0 on Jan. 8, 2020.

Kuza now occupies that building. Phoenix New Times listed it as opening the Wednesday after its Sept. 15 story ran. The paper called it the first of several restaurants and bars that hospitality group Clive Collective announced last year. The same group runs Cala, The Americano and Tell Your Friends. PHOENIX magazine later included Kuza in its September 2026 openings. The kitchen centers on a robata grill. Executive chef Erik Davila's menu includes Chutoro Tataki, Iberico Pork Dumplings, grilled lion's mane mushrooms, A5 Wagyu and a prawn roll made with robata shrimp, scallion, cucumber and radish sprout. The restaurant's menu highlights binchōtan charcoal cooking, with Chicken Negima, Spanish Octopus and New Caledonia Prawns.

The Breakfast Table is a few doors away at 17757 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 103. PHOENIX magazine described it as filling the former OEB Breakfast Co. spot, with waffles, pancakes, burritos, omelets, skillets, burgers and wraps. According to Forking Scottsdale, Ken Vondra and his son own and run it, and it's the fourth restaurant they've operated together. The grand opening was Monday, Sept. 28, and the weekend brunch menu includes mimosa flights.

Together, the two tenants keep Chauncey Lane's two-shift pattern, breakfast in the morning and dinner and drinks at night, under new operators.

At Frank Lloyd Wright, the old Carrabba's was completely reimagined

The second cluster is a short drive south, and the changes there go deeper. The Arizona Republic placed Quiriego at 17007 N. Scottsdale Road, on the northeast corner of Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard and just north of the Central Arizona Project canal, in the closed Carrabba's Italian Grill.

The building is 9,200 gross square feet. That's about 40 percent larger than the roughly 6,500-square-foot building Kuza took over at Chauncey Lane, and the team gave it far more work than a refresh. In its first look on Oct. 6, Forking Scottsdale reported that Merge Architectural Group designed the project and Katz Design Group handled the interiors. Interior designer Beth Katz spent nearly two years on it with Merge and Laurshan Construction. The outlet described a room built from wood, black architectural details, ceramics and custom lighting, with the floor broken into smaller zones so it doesn't read as one big hall.

The operators have come a long way to get here. Forking Scottsdale reports that Mario Abeyta leads the family project and that chef Carlos Abeyta is part of the team. The restaurant opened in Hermosillo in 2019, expanded to Mexicali, and chose Scottsdale for its first U.S. location. The name comes from El Quiriego, Sonora, where the family's grandmother was from. In the same report, the menu describes the restaurant like this:

"a contemporary expression of Sonora, shaped by live fire, bold flavors and the generous hospitality of Northern Mexico."

Forking Scottsdale highlighted Pulpo a las Brasas, which is slow-braised octopus finished over live fire, and Cocido Sonorense al Fuego, a braised short rib with fire-roasted vegetables. It also called out a Sonoran Pizza made with naturally fermented dough, Sonoran cheese, grilled Snake River Farms skirt steak, roasted green chile and chiltepín. To move plates across the large room, the restaurant uses an autonomous indoor food-delivery robot. Forking Scottsdale says the robot supports the servers and doesn't replace them.

The corner is getting a new Italian restaurant right next door

Carrabba's was the corner's Italian restaurant, and an Italian restaurant is on its way back to the same corner. Stone & Vine Urban Italian lists 17001 N. Scottsdale Road, at the northeast corner of Scottsdale Road and Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard, as its upcoming Scottsdale location on its own site. Forking Scottsdale reported on Sept. 24 that it comes from the ownership group behind Sophia's Kitchen on Thompson Peak Parkway. The group is aiming for a casual Italian restaurant that feels "comfortable, familiar, and elevated," with an opening planned for the fourth quarter of 2026.

None of the sources reviewed say what was at 17001 before or name the property. Once Stone & Vine opens, the corner will have Sonoran live-fire cooking at one address and Italian at the one beside it, both run by operators with existing restaurants of their own.

What you can book this week, and what hasn't opened yet

The four restaurants are at different stages, so here's where each stands as of Oct. 11:

1. Kuza is open Wednesday and Thursday 4 to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday 4 to 11 p.m., and Sunday 4 to 10 p.m. It's closed Monday and Tuesday. Reservations go through OpenTable.
2. The Breakfast Table is open 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. seven days a week. It's the only one of the four with published morning hours.
3. Quiriego is in soft opening. Forking Scottsdale's Oct. 6 visit found the kitchen serving about 70 percent of its planned menu, with OpenTable reservations still to come. No hours or grand-opening date had been published in the sources reviewed, and the restaurant's own website still showed an opening-soon message.
4. Stone & Vine has announced a fourth-quarter 2026 target and no exact date.

If you're planning a Sunday on this stretch, The Breakfast Table and Kuza already cover both ends of the day, since one closes at 2 p.m. and the other opens at 4 p.m. Quiriego's soft opening is an early look at the full menu.

Sue Shapiro has been selling homes around Scottsdale since 1984, and she has seen a lot of change along Scottsdale Road. If you'd like to talk about how this stretch of Scottsdale Road is changing, or what nearby homes look like these days, Sue Shapiro would be glad to hear from you. Let's Connect.