What was Breakfast Kitchen Bar?
Breakfast Kitchen Bar was a homegrown brunch concept that spent nine years in Scottsdale in two rooms. The last was at 15600 N Hayden Road, Building B, in the YAM Circle center at the Hayden Road and Northsight Boulevard traffic circle, in the Scottsdale Airpark. The first was at Scottsdale Quarter, where Fabulous Arizona called it the center’s newest restaurant on January 31, 2017.
The partners were Sam Ashek and Samer Alkhairi. Their pitch was right there in the name: breakfast and lunch from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with a full bar. Ashek called it “a gathering spot where friends and family come for breakfast,” not quite breakfast and not quite lunch. The Quarter room was bright and open to its patio. The menu ran to shrimp scampi omelets, croissant French toast, churro waffles, grilled cheese bacon French toast and avocado fries. It also carried something few Scottsdale brunch rooms bothered with: a real keto menu, from protein chocolate pancakes to breakfast pizzas on keto crust. In January 2020 a second store opened at Desert Ridge Marketplace in Phoenix.
The Quarter lease ended in late April 2023, and the company moved north rather than out. In May What Now Phoenix reported the new location, BKB Northsight, a larger room with weekend DJs and drink flights. By the time it was unveiled late that year it could hold up to 270 people and groups of 30, with free weekday Wi-Fi for the Airpark’s laptop crowd. In Business Magazine pitched it in 2024 as a haven for busy professionals.
It lasted a little over two years there. HappyCow reported the Northsight store closed in February 2026, and Uber Eats listed it closed by March 16. No announcement or reason was published, and listings now show a Craft Kitchen Cafe at the address. Our verdict: a well-liked, practical brunch room that served the office crowd as faithfully as the mimosa crowd, and whose second Scottsdale act ended without anyone saying why.
What the menu and the room were
The hours never changed. Both Scottsdale rooms ran 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily; Desert Ridge opened half an hour earlier. That made it a weekday business-breakfast stop as much as a weekend brunch, and the company leaned into it with free Wi-Fi on weekdays, a pet-friendly patio, ezCater office lunches and private rentals at both stores.
The plates. The brunch side was the draw: the shrimp scampi omelet, croissant French toast, churro waffle, the chicken and waffle sandwich, waffle fries breakfast nachos, huevos rancheros, buttermilk pancakes, a breakfast burrito and an egg-white wrap. Avocado fries were the house’s fan favorite. In 2018 a reviewer noted you could swap bread for broccoli or cauliflower cakes. At lunch, In Business listed a fried chicken sandwich at $15.75, an avocado, quinoa and chicken bowl at $16.25 and a pesto shrimp lunch pizza at $15 in 2024, plus a blackened salmon quinoa spinach bowl. Those are the only prices the record preserves.
Keto was the differentiator. The menu offered keto dishes from at least 2019. The summer 2024 keto menu added keto churro pancakes, cannoli cream pancakes with sugar-free filling, a spicy breakfast cheeseburger on keto pizza crust, a Philly steak breakfast pizza, a portobello pesto pizza, a Cajun chicken scramble and a pistachio mousse fruit bowl. The Northsight opening menu had a Philly steak breakfast bowl and a blackened salmon coleslaw bowl. A kids menu followed in July 2024: s’mores mini waffle, PB&J-stuffed French toast, a junior cheeseburger and a cheese crisp.
The bar. The signature drink was the raspberry mimosa: sorbet, champagne, honey and a raw-sugar rim. Northsight added mimosa flights, Bloody Mary flights and shareable drinks, plus honey lavender, almond cream and pistachio lattes. Fall brought caramel apple mimosas. Weekend DJs were part of the Northsight plan.
The regulars’ moves. Bring the office, since a 30-person group fit without fuss. Show a Dutch Bros or Costco receipt for 10 percent off. Sit on the patio with the dog. For the brunch rooms that carried on, see Hash Kitchen, SugarJam a mile south on Hayden Road, and our guide to the best brunch in Scottsdale.
The brunch bar that moved north and went quiet
Breakfast Kitchen Bar belonged to the wave of daytime restaurants that remade Scottsdale brunch in the late 2010s, when a bar and a DJ became as important as the eggs. It opened at Scottsdale Quarter at about the same time Snooze was filling its patio across the road at Kierland Commons, and its angle was practical rather than theatrical: keto, Wi-Fi, a big patio and a full bar, all closed by mid-afternoon. It grew carefully. Ashek announced Desert Ridge in June 2019; the Vestar leasing chief praised its “extraordinary chef-driven cuisines,” and it opened in January 2020, weeks before the pandemic.
Its Scottsdale Quarter years ended with a lease, not a failure. The company’s April 2023 Instagram said only that the lease had ended and it would move on to another opportunity in Scottsdale. It went to the Airpark, a part of the city where weekday breakfast trade is guaranteed and parking is free. YAM Properties’ 17,800-square-foot YAM Circle center, at the traffic circle where Hayden meets Northsight, already had State 48 Barrel & Lager House and Caliente Mexican Grill. The target was mid to late summer 2023; the press releases announcing the room arrived in late November. Ashek said it was “meticulously designed to capture the essence of our original spot.” Alkhairi called it a new chapter.
That chapter was short. Follow-up press in 2024 covered a keto menu and a kids menu, and then the record goes thin. Tripadvisor’s last review dates to November 2025. HappyCow reported the store closed in February 2026, and Uber Eats listed it closed as of March 16. Yelp now marks it closed, and one reviewer describes a new owner in a room that still looks like BKB, now listed as Craft Kitchen Cafe. The brand’s own website still announces the Northsight store as “now open,” which is how restaurants usually go quiet in the 2020s: no farewell post, just a delivery app that stops taking orders.
What the record does not say: the exact Northsight opening day, the reason for the closing, whether the partners sold the room or simply left it, and whether Desert Ridge is still trading. We could not confirm the last point and do not assert it.
Honest assessment: Breakfast Kitchen Bar was never a destination. It was a dependable, slightly upmarket brunch room that took dietary restrictions seriously before most of its neighbors did, and it got the Airpark’s needs right. Moving from the Quarter to a 270-person room at a traffic circle was a bigger bet than the first one, and the listings suggest it did not pay. It deserves a footnote in the city’s brunch history as the keto-friendly one.