On March 31, 2021 Jersey Mike’s in Laveen joins with the other 44 Valley locations to donate 100% of proceeds that day to Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

The day of giving is part of Jersey Mike’s 11th annual month of giving in March and is supported by local valley owners Duane Layton, Bill Mapes, and Josh Barton.

Throughout the month, all are invited into their local Jersey Mike’s restaurant to grab an authentic fresh-sliced or grilled sub and donate to the Phoenix Children’s cause.

The restaurant is hoping to raise a record-breaking amount for charity this March. Mark your calendars to get your hands on a sub, signature wrap, kid’s meal, or anything else on the delicious menu to support the sick and injured children at Phoenix Children’s.

Phoenix Children’s Hospital is Arizona’s only children’s hospital recognized by U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospitals. For 35 years, Phoenix Children’s has provided world-class inpatient, outpatient, trauma, emergency and urgent care to children and families in Arizona and throughout the Southwest.

As one of the largest children’s hospitals in the country, Phoenix Children’s delivers care across more than 75 pediatric specialties.

Jersey Mike’s is a fast-casual sub sandwich franchise with more than 2,000 locations open and under development nationwide. The Laveen store is at  5130 W Baseline Rd Ste. 104, Laveen Village, AZ 85339

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By Ryann Checchi

Evolve PR & Marketing

LAVEEN VILLAGE – Locally owned and operated Angry Crab Shack, a restaurant specializing in seafood boils with Asian-Cajun flavors and signature sauces, has opened a new location in Laveen at 35th & Southern avenues.

The restaurant is open 3-9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturday for takeout and delivery only. Angry Crab Shack operates 13 stores with 12 in Arizona, one in Orange Beach, Alabama, and a 14th location opening in Henderson, Nevada this month.

 “Angry Crab Shack has been growing and evolving quickly in Arizona and we’re excited to be able to open our 13^th location in Laveen,” said Ron Lou, founder of Angry Crab Shack. 

Angry Crab Shack’s features a menu of Cajun seafood boils as well as seafood-focused appetizers, sandwiches, soups and salads with its interactive, all hands-on deck dining experience where butcher paper covers tables, no plates are used and hands serve as utensils with cutlery available upon request. 

The restaurant offers a variety of new holiday seafood packages to-go including: a boil for two, family feast, neighborhood block party, and much more! Additionally, Angry Crab Shack is running a holiday gift card promotion through December 31 that could make for a great stocking stuffer, purchase a $25 gift card and receive a free $5 bonus card. In order to receive the free bounce back card, guests must purchase them in store. Gift cards are also available to purchase online without the complimentary bonus card option. 

Angry Crab Shack is experiencing rapid growth and is hiring at all locations throughout Arizona, in addition to Laveen. The seafood restaurant focuses on providing fresh, top quality taste at an affordable price point, sourcing lobster from the East Coast, Dungeness Crab from the Pacific Northwest, King and Snow Crab from Alaska, and crawfish from the Gulf of Mexico. 

The family-friendly Laveen restaurant will present a similar look and feel to the other Angry Crab Shack locations, incorporating its well-known, vibrant décor elements including live fish tanks, ocean life decorations and wood-boarded walls that guests can sign. 

Located at 6360 S. 35^th Avenue, the restaurant is open Sunday through Thursday 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday through Saturday 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. To place an order for pick-up, call the restaurant at 602-975-1065 or order online at the Laveen location HERE. To place a delivery order via DoorDash click HERE.  Normal hours of operation are Sunday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and will resume at a later date. For more information about Angry Crab Shack and to stay up-to-date on business hours, dine-in service and new locations, visit angrycrabshack.com or follow on Facebook.

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Combining the perfect ingredients to create a made-from-scratch pie doesn’t require knowing the mathematical value of pi. But celebrating Pi Day on March 14 is the perfect equation for great-tasting dessert.

“We make a wide variety of pies from scratch,” says Eric Amadio, who owns and runs Amadio Ranch with his wife, Christina, and their young adult son and daughter. “If there’s a holiday called Pi Day, then it’s definitely an occasion to celebrate with pie.”

Amadio Ranch offers mouth-watering pies year-round including Apple, Peach, Cherry, Blueberry, Caramel Apple and Strawberry Rhubarb. For the holiday, the ovens will be baking some specialty pies, including Rhubarb, Very Berry, Buttermilk, Pecan, Bourbon Pecan, Buttermilk, Pumpkin, Chocolate Chess Pie and more. They have recently added a delicious Chicken Pot Pie to their lineup. 

Pi Day originated more than 30 years ago to pay tribute to pi, the infinite mathematical number that represents the ratio of the circumference of any circle to the diameter of that circle. (Pies are circles – another reason to eat pie on Pi Day!)

Physicist Larry Shaw started the celebration in 1988. He chose March 14 because the numerical date (3.14) represents the first three digits of pi. The date also happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday.

Where and when to get your pies

Eric, Christina and everyone at Amadio Ranch are busily baking and getting pies ready in advance for the March pie date. Orders (which can be made online) will be delivered on or near March 14. Here’s the schedule for where to pick up your pre-ordered pie:

• Ahwatukee — 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 13 at 3930 E. Chandler Blvd.
• Uptown Farmers Market – 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, March 14 at 5757 N. Central Ave.
• Gilbert – 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 14, Made with Love Market, 388 N. Gilbert Road
• Chandler location – to be announced.
• Laveen – 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., 7 days a week, Amadio Ranch Farm Store, 4701 W. Dobbins Road

Christina said that all pies are made with simple ingredients such as flour, oil, milk and salt. Fillings include fruit with sugar, flour, lemon juice and wholesome spices.

Even if you can’t make it to the Laveen location, you can still get their fresh produce and pies around the Valley. The Amadios bring the ranch to you with their mobile farm trucks at several area farmers’ markets in Phoenix, Tempe and Ahwatukee.

Find them every Friday in Ahwatukee from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in front of the Century 21 offices at 3930 E. Chandler Blvd, Phoenix; Saturdays at Uptown Farmers Market, 5757 N. Central Ave. from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m.; and in Gilbert – 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Made with Love Market, 388 N. Gilbert Road; or every Sunday at the 6th Street Market in Tempe from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.

Established nearly a decade ago, the ranch is a heritage farming venture, employing a traditional, small-family farm approach, emphasizing sustainability and all-natural farming techniques.

The farm produces heirloom vegetables, including vine ripe tomatoes, zucchini, summer squash, cucumbers, eggplant, okra, peppers, non-GMO sweet corn, carrots, beets, gourmet onions and garlic.

There are also apricots, apples, pears, plums, figs, grapes, and peaches, of course. Enough produce, in fact, to supply nearly 80 percent of the family’s needs and offer true farm-fresh produce at the family farm stand.

ABOUT AMADIO RANCH

Amadio Ranch is owned by Eric and Christina Amadio in Laveen, AZ. The family has rural roots in the Midwest, but are now firmly planted in Arizona. With a deep love of the farming life, the couple and their family have grown a local treasure in the Southwest Valley. Learn more at amadioranch.com

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LAVEEN, Ariz. – If you’re craving a taste of down-home comfort food, make a stop by Charlie Mae’s Soul Food in Laveen Village.

 The restaurant at the southeast corner of Southern and 51^st avenues officially opened on Aug. 27 with the intention of delivering the joy of a home-cooked meal without all the hassle of actually having to cook it. And the taste? Just like Grandma used to make.

 “I named the restaurant after my late grandmother, Charlie Mae,” said co-founder Marcus Moody. “She was a real inspiration to me and on of the best cooks.”

One of eight children, Charlie Mae grew up on a farm in Boswell, Okla. While her siblings helped run the farm, Charlie Mae spent her time in the kitchen cooking food to feed the family, and making sure it tasted good, too. Even as her health made it impossible for her to remain standing in front of a stove, she’d sit in the corner reminding everyone that “a good cook is a clean cook, and that’s good clean eating.”

 Moody and his fiancéco-founder Brittany Doheny partnered with Chef LaTonya Weaver to create a menu combining Charlie Mae’s influence and that of Weaver’s native Mississippi. Specialties include fried chicken, smoked pork chops, catfish ribs, meatloaf shrimp, collard greens, yams, black-eyed peas, fried cabbage, fried okra, desserts, macaroni and cheese for the little ones (and big ones, too) and much more.

 Weaver has degrees in Culinary Arts and Food Service Management, as well as 15 years of experience in a variety of successful restaurants. She says her specialty is Southern Cuisine and all food that feeds the soul.

 Moody, now an Avondale resident but formerly from Laveen, has been in the restaurant business for over 25 years and marketing manager for a National Brand for many years, and currently owns and operates Smoothie Run. Charlie Mae’s is adjacent to the familiar Laveen café.

 ABOUT CHARLIE MAE’S SOUL FOOD

Specializing in southern dishes and soul food, Charlie Mae’s is located at 6116 S. 51^st Ave., #204, Laveen, Ariz., 85339.Headed by Executive Chef LaTonya, Charlie Mae’s brings home to you with food to feed the soul. Learn more at www.charliemaesoulfood.com, or contact us at (602) 675-0865 by phone or email at info@charliemaesoulfood.com.

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