Over the last few years, Postino wine bars have popped up in every cool neighborhood around the Phoenix area. Valley residents flock to the chain because it has a keen eye for design and an approachable menu with local wines and Italian bites.  And now, the restaurant group behind the stylish wine bar is planning to open a Tucson outpost on Grant Road, across the street from another Phoenix chain Culinary Dropout. Postino is slated to open spring 2020 at 2500 E. Grant Road.   

The new development will turn an historic midtown corner into a restaurant strip that you might see in Central Phoenix. The project is headed up by Valley development group Common Bond, who also built Culinary Dropout in the old Grant Road Lumber across the street. When the project is finished, Postino will be located in the same building as breakfast chain Snooze: an A.M. Eatery (which is based in Denver but also has several locations across the Phoenix area).