A man held up a downtown Chandler restaurant Monday at gunpoint.

When people go on vacation, it's the unique restaurants, not the large chains, that they remember, said Chris Mackay, Chandler's economic development director.

Virakon Vongphachanh, a sushi chef at Blue Wasabi in Gilbert, plans to combine two recently vacated spaces in downtown Chandler and open an Asian fusion restaurant next month.

Chandler’s restaurants will take center stage this fall at the first-ever Taste Chandler culinary festival, which will be held Oct. 3. Here are my picks for 20 uniquely Chandler eateries that represent some of the best the city has to offer.

After spending the first 21 years of his life in Pittsburgh and the past 34 in the East Valley, football fan Randy Walters was hoping for a longshot: Steelers vs. Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII.

Chandler police scoured a restaurant parking lot and interviewed employees for hours Monday after an early morning shooting left a 25-year-old man dead and officers with little information about the shooter.

All Chandler restaurants will be smoke-free by October, but bars will be allowed to keep their ashtrays, the Chandler City Council decided late Thursday.

Chandler police say a male victim was shot inside a Serrano's Mexican Food restaurant near Arizona Avenue and Frye Road Saturday evening.

Genghis Grill will bring its self-serve Mongolian grill concept to Chandler and two other locations across the Valley next month.

Miss work, get fired. That's what happened to 12 workers at a Chandler Pei Wei (pay way) restaurant after they failed to show up May 29.

Cork, the award-winning restaurant in south Chandler, is celebrating its second anniversary March 27 by giving away a $500 dinner for four, complete with wine pairings.

Four Diamond status is quite an honor for any restaurant, but especially so for Chandler's Cork. Just 18 Valley restaurants got Four Diamond status for 2010. None were located in the East Valley, and only one of the 18 was a non-resort restaurant like Cork.

Chandler restaurateur Ron Wojcicki abruptly closed all three of his restaurants - 98 South Wine Bar & Kitchen, 56 East Bar & Kitchen and just-opened KiZake Sushi & Martinis - Tuesday.

The entrance to Chandler's South Price Road corridor is getting its third and final piece in the form of a 100-acre mixed-use development at the southeast corner of the interchange of loops 101 and 202.

A TGI Friday's restaurant in Chandler may have extensive damage after a grease fire in the kitchen engulfed most of the building in flame Saturday night.