July/August 2024

Best of the Valley is no longer just one of our yearly cover stories. It resides in multiple dimensions.

Do you think California wine country and our own high-desert vino regions have nothing in common? Think again – and drink again.

Get up close and personal with the Valley’s best dental professionals.

These dynamic Valley leaders and philanthropists are worth knowing.

At The CORE Institute, we make a point to educate our patients about lower extremity health and function.

For more information on the Escape Series and to purchase tickets, visit escapeseries.com

Her new half-hour show, Arizona’s Family Original, offers long-form interviews with what she calls “interesting people doing interesting things.”

In a new memoir, Bill Sassenberger considers punk music and lost love.

He’s created everything from creative coffee tables to dramatic entry doors to striking display cabinets.

Corbin Chamberlin may be a witch, but he’s not grabbing a broomstick on his way out the door – he’s summoning Birkins and Kellys.

With the opening of The Abbey on Monroe, Phoenix statesman Terry Goddard completes a project 40 years in the making.

Staking out a private piece of oceanfront heaven in Ventura County.

Do you think California wine country and our own high-desert vino regions have nothing in common? Think again – and drink again.

4 must-visit vineyards in the Napa Valley

Eat your way up - or down – wine country with this handy planner.

Set in a 19th-century “Second Empire”-style stone manor, Francis is a true unicorn in the Napa Valley, marrying the élan and amenities of a resort with the, well, amazing breakfasts of a B&B.

All-new James Beard-caliber pastries, small-batch kombucha and artisanal vanillas are worth checking out to support local.

Chef Angelo Sosa takes Valley diners on a long overdue culinary tour of Malaysia, Indonesia and other Far East climes at his instantly essential new resort restaurant.

This all-day diner in Old Town from chef Bernie Kantak does everything well – and breakfast perfectly.

Exit Barrio Café, enter this excellent new Guanajuato-style restaurant on fabled Calle 16.

Wallpapered and shabby-chic, multi-flowered and chandeliered, Little Snitch is an ultra-feminine haven specializing in elaborate coffee drinks, pretty cocktails, baked goods and brunch.

This spacious, modern-looking taco shop, specializing in charcoal-grilled meats, has one of those noun-plus-noun names that, for once, conveys its intent, given that al carbon means “cooking over coal” in Spanish.

The third and latest location of the growing Trevor’s bottle shop chain has a full-service bar and pizza-centric kitchen – but many of its new fans were certainly oblivious to that fact until Barstool Sports influencer Dave Portnoy showed up in April to live-stream one of his hokey One-Bite Pizza Reviews.

Part of the brand’s overall transformation was the recent opening of this Gilbert eatery, a more izakaya-esque, lunch-focused version of the mothership, with upscale cocktails and a lively wine and beer list.

Cooling, crave-worthy Dungeness crab is the little black dress of salads.

Each of the roughly 20 new cocktails at Platform 18 is inspired by Prohibition-era New York City. The view from the train windows now depicts the Manhattan skyline – and the drinks are just as transportive.

Get up close and personal with the Valley’s best dental professionals.

These dynamic Valley leaders and philanthropists are worth knowing.

At The CORE Institute, we make a point to educate our patients about lower extremity health and function.