"We wanted to create something immersive and energetic, an experience built around the theater of live fire, exceptional ingredients and a dining room that evolves as the night goes on." Mikis Troyan, co-founder and managing partner of Clive Collective, gave that description of KUZA to the Phoenix Business Journal, in a story ABC15 republished in early September.
Less than two weeks after KUZA opened, a family restaurant from Sonora started serving its own mesquite-fired food a short drive south, at Scottsdale Road and Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard. KUZA is the sixth concept from a Scottsdale restaurant group, and Quiriego is a Hermosillo family's first restaurant in the United States. Both put fire at the center of the kitchen, and together they give this stretch of North Scottsdale Road a live grill going every night of the week.
One group from Scottsdale, one family from Sonora
KUZA opened September 16 at 17767 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 100. It is the sixth concept from Clive Collective, the group behind Cala and The Americano. It sits near two of its sister restaurants, The Americano and Tell Your Friends. The menu is Clive's take on Japanese and Asian food, with a raw bar, a sushi program, and a robata grill, which means meats cooked over live fire.
Quiriego Cocina Rústica began in Hermosillo in 2019 and later expanded to Mexicali, Baja California. Scottsdale is its first U.S. location. The Abeyta family runs it. Mario Abeyta leads the project, and chef Carlos Abeyta and other relatives help run the kitchen and dining room. The name comes from the family's grandmother, who was from El Quiriego, Sonora. Forking Scottsdale's first look describes cooking built on Sonoran tradition: grilled meats, roasted chiles, handmade tortillas, and mesquite wood. The restaurant's own story page lists its Mexican locations as Marsella 45 in Hermosillo and Plaza Punta Este in Mexicali.
At KUZA, the robata is the show, the "theater" Troyan described, set beside raw fish and a room built to change as the night goes on. At Quiriego, mesquite is a way to cook home food from the Sonoran desert, served a few hours' drive north of where the family got its start.
The hours run in a relay
The two dinner rooms don't keep the same schedule, and neither does the breakfast spot that opened next door to KUZA. Here is how the stretch lines up as of each restaurant's most recent published hours:
| Restaurant | Address | Published hours | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Breakfast Table | 17757 N. Scottsdale Rd, Suite 103 | 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., daily | Grand opening Sept. 28 |
| Quiriego Cocina Rústica | 17007 N. Scottsdale Rd | Sun to Thu 4 to 9 p.m.; Fri and Sat 4 to 10 p.m. | Soft opening as of early October |
| KUZA | 17767 N. Scottsdale Rd, Suite 100 | Wed, Thu and Sun 5 to 10 p.m.; Fri and Sat 5 to 11 p.m.; closed Mon and Tue | Opened Sept. 16 |
| Stone & Vine Urban Italian | 17001 N. Scottsdale Rd | Not yet open | Planned for Q4 2026 |
Read the table by day of the week and a pattern shows up. KUZA is dark on Mondays and Tuesdays. Quiriego's site lists service seven nights a week, so early in the week the grill on this stretch is mesquite, starting at 4 p.m. From Wednesday through Sunday, both kitchens are lit, and KUZA runs latest, until 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. On the five nights both are open, Quiriego starts serving an hour before KUZA, which matters for anyone who wants an earlier dinner.
The Breakfast Table covers the other end of the day. It serves breakfast and lunch from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., seven days a week, with cocktails, mimosas, and mimosa flights for the weekend brunch crowd. Ken Vondra and his son own and run it, and it is the fourth restaurant the two have owned and run together. Mouth by Southwest listed it as open in a September 28 roundup of new breakfast spots.
The only stretch of the day with nothing new open runs from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Familiar buildings, new kitchens
Two of these openings moved into buildings that already housed restaurants.
The Breakfast Table took over the space at 17757 N. Scottsdale Road where OEB Breakfast Co. served for six years before closing. The address stayed a breakfast spot, and a family team that had run three restaurants before now runs it. KUZA and The Breakfast Table share Chauncey Lane Marketplace, the mixed-use property at 17757 and 17767 N. Scottsdale Road.
Quiriego made the bigger move. It took over the former Carrabba's Italian Grill building on the corner of Scottsdale Road and Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard, and the project's architectural team puts the restaurant at 9,200 gross square feet. That is a lot of room for a family restaurant making its first move across the border, and it puts the Sonoran grill in one of the most visible buildings at the intersection.
The corner's next fire is Italian
The northeast corner of Scottsdale Road and Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard still has one more opening coming. Stone & Vine Urban Italian is headed to 17001 N. Scottsdale Road, right next to Quiriego. Its ownership group also runs Sophia's Kitchen on Thompson Peak Parkway, and this will be Stone & Vine's first Scottsdale location. The owners describe the goal as casual Italian dining that feels "comfortable, familiar, and elevated." In late September, Forking Scottsdale reported a fourth-quarter 2026 opening window. As of late October, Stone & Vine's website still lists the Scottsdale location as coming soon.
The quarter ends in December, so the restaurant has about two months left to hit its own target. Once it opens, this corner will have a family Sonoran grill and a casual Italian room next door to each other at Frank Lloyd Wright, with KUZA and The Breakfast Table up the road at Chauncey Lane Marketplace.
Before you go
Two of these restaurants are only weeks old, and their published hours are early-season numbers. A few practical notes for this fall:
- Quiriego is still settling in. On October 6, Forking Scottsdale described it as being in its soft-opening phase and still finding its rhythm. Check the hours on the restaurant's site before you head out, since soft-opening schedules can shift.
- KUZA is closed Monday and Tuesday. It handles reservations through links on its Scottsdale page. Forking Scottsdale's first look predicted the room would get busy once the robata was "firing, and Scottsdale has discovered it."
- The Breakfast Table closes at 2 p.m. That includes weekends, when the mimosa flights are on the table.
- Stone & Vine is not open yet. Plan around a fourth-quarter target, not a set date.
If you only come down from the north end for errands, it's worth a look. The Scottsdale Road improvements between Jomax Road and Dixileta Drive, including the redesign of the Dynamite Boulevard intersection from a roundabout to a signal, were still scheduled to wrap up in late 2026 as of the City of Scottsdale's project page. Lane reductions and turn restrictions are possible along that segment until the work is done. Hikers heading the other way can find updates on the north-side trailheads in our Brown's Ranch parking guide. For a downtown comparison, see our look at Old Town Scottsdale's new restaurant row.
I keep an eye on which corners are filling empty buildings and which addresses are turning over, because it says a lot about how a part of town is changing. If you have a favorite on this stretch or want to talk about what's happening around North Scottsdale, reach out to Wendy O Real Estate. Let's Connect.
