Best of the Valley 2025

Our editorial staff picks for the best places to enjoy an activity away from home.

Our editorial staff picks for the best dining specials in the Valley in 2025.

Imbibe in this roundup of our editorial staff's favorite drinking spots around the Valley in 2025.

Much of what we love about the Valley are those pieces of it we can sip, nibble or otherwise devour, from fusion Indian cuisine to primo falafel to cloudy IPAs. Salut!

Our editorial picks for the best in fine dining around the Valley in 2025.

Much of what we love about the Valley are those pieces of it we can sip, nibble or otherwise devour, from fusion Indian cuisine to primo falafel to cloudy IPAs. Salut!

A city-by-city breakdown of our editorial favorites that have been around forever and their newer counterparts making waves.

Locally handcrafted food products remain one of the most popular categories on our Readers' Choice ballot every year. These are some of the best we've sampled.

The Valley’s wellspring of cultural diversions – festivals, the arts, fitness, et al. – has never been deeper or more diverse. Grab your swimsuit and dive in!

We're here to pump you up with our best ways to get in shape in 2025.

From murals to stadiums to people-watching places, here's our catch-all list to live your best life here in the Valley in 2025.

He doesn’t offer it on the menus at his Italian restaurants Virtù Honest Craft or Pizzeria Virtù, but chef Gio Osso knows a thing or two about that most classic of Italian American entrées: chicken Parm.

¿Cual es el más picante? And, for that matter, the más delicioso? These were the questions we placed in front of Reina Torres, along with eight of Arizona’s most esteemed hot sauces.

At PHOENIX, we’re proudly prejudiced in favor of local. However, we’re not so dogmatic that we fail to see the appeal in the occasional carpetbagger. Our favorites in 2025.

Our editorial picks for local personalities and media consumables. 

Our editorial picks to pamper your pets.

Find everything from handmade bracelets to secondhand threads in the top-shelf roundup of Valley products and practitioners.

Find everything from handmade bracelets to secondhand threads in the top-shelf roundup of Valley products and practitioners.

Winners will be published here on June 24

Camelback Moving has completed nearly 80,000 moves and has won our Readers’ Pick for Best Movers every year since we launched the category in 2016, a distinction Olsen attributes to the company’s integrity, transparency and concierge-level client experience.

Launched in 1939 by engineer-socialite odd couple Gustaf Starck and Gertrude Divine Webster to preserve and celebrate desert flora, Desert Botanical Garden has since blossomed into a 150-acre living museum housing more than 50,000 plants.

The proof is in the readers’ polls: He’s been voted Best Columnist (or Best Political Blog) every year we’ve included the category since the inaugural Best of the Valley issue in 2000.

One of the Valley’s most beloved and enduring restaurant chains was born from a trio of Arizona State University students searching for a healthy place to eat near campus.

Our staff picks for the best places around the Valley in 2025 to take the shorties.

Sometimes it's more the people and places that make the food experience better. This is our editorial roundup of those favorites.

Our editorial staff picks for the best places to enjoy an activity away from home.

Our editorial staff picks for the best dining specials in the Valley in 2025.

Imbibe in this roundup of our editorial staff's favorite drinking spots around the Valley in 2025.

Much of what we love about the Valley are those pieces of it we can sip, nibble or otherwise devour, from fusion Indian cuisine to primo falafel to cloudy IPAs. Salut!

Our editorial picks for the best in fine dining around the Valley in 2025.

Much of what we love about the Valley are those pieces of it we can sip, nibble or otherwise devour, from fusion Indian cuisine to primo falafel to cloudy IPAs. Salut!

A city-by-city breakdown of our editorial favorites that have been around forever and their newer counterparts making waves.

Locally handcrafted food products remain one of the most popular categories on our Readers' Choice ballot every year. These are some of the best we've sampled.

The Valley’s wellspring of cultural diversions – festivals, the arts, fitness, et al. – has never been deeper or more diverse. Grab your swimsuit and dive in!

We're here to pump you up with our best ways to get in shape in 2025.

From murals to stadiums to people-watching places, here's our catch-all list to live your best life here in the Valley in 2025.

He doesn’t offer it on the menus at his Italian restaurants Virtù Honest Craft or Pizzeria Virtù, but chef Gio Osso knows a thing or two about that most classic of Italian American entrées: chicken Parm.

¿Cual es el más picante? And, for that matter, the más delicioso? These were the questions we placed in front of Reina Torres, along with eight of Arizona’s most esteemed hot sauces.

At PHOENIX, we’re proudly prejudiced in favor of local. However, we’re not so dogmatic that we fail to see the appeal in the occasional carpetbagger. Our favorites in 2025.

Our editorial picks for local personalities and media consumables. 

Our editorial picks to pamper your pets.

Find everything from handmade bracelets to secondhand threads in the top-shelf roundup of Valley products and practitioners.

Find everything from handmade bracelets to secondhand threads in the top-shelf roundup of Valley products and practitioners.

Winners will be published here on June 24

Camelback Moving has completed nearly 80,000 moves and has won our Readers’ Pick for Best Movers every year since we launched the category in 2016, a distinction Olsen attributes to the company’s integrity, transparency and concierge-level client experience.

Launched in 1939 by engineer-socialite odd couple Gustaf Starck and Gertrude Divine Webster to preserve and celebrate desert flora, Desert Botanical Garden has since blossomed into a 150-acre living museum housing more than 50,000 plants.

The proof is in the readers’ polls: He’s been voted Best Columnist (or Best Political Blog) every year we’ve included the category since the inaugural Best of the Valley issue in 2000.

One of the Valley’s most beloved and enduring restaurant chains was born from a trio of Arizona State University students searching for a healthy place to eat near campus.

Our staff picks for the best places around the Valley in 2025 to take the shorties.

Sometimes it's more the people and places that make the food experience better. This is our editorial roundup of those favorites.