One of the city’s oldest and most beloved eateries will move into a new home — hopefully in time for its 80th anniversary.
The owners of Pete’s Fish & Chips plan to break ground on a new restaurant and drive-thru across the street from one of the chain’s longest-running eateries on South Central Avenue. The project, decades in the making, took a step forward with approval from a Phoenix zoning board last month.
The English-style fish-and-chips shack began in 1947, when World War II veteran Peter Grant and his wife, Ruth, arrived in the Valley. The no-frills “chip house” quickly took off, offering a piece of fried fish and chips for 35 cents or two burgers for 25 cents…