In a tiny stand-alone on Van Buren Street, Ana Bautista and Javier Perez helm a standout Mexican-leaning restaurant that has run criminally under the radar. Breakfast and lunch are plated in the warm nook until early in the afternoon: crêpes, chilaquiles, challah breakfast sandwiches and some of the tastiest fish tacos in town.

Celebrate your dog with a Puppy Party in the shaded beer garden. Includes Goldwater Brewing Co. spent grain dog treats, brats made for canines, nonalcoholic Good Boy Dog Beer and party hats. “$10 per tail,” by reservation only.

Have you ever eaten a snow cone as an adult? Wouldn’t it have been better with a jigger of hooch splashed onto it? The fine folks at Blue Clover get it, and they’re making grownup summer dreams come true with $5 boozy snow cones on Thursdays. We love the house-infused blood orange and prickly pear gins.

For years, this soft-spoken agrarian has been a kindly fixture at both the Old Town Farmers Market and Uptown Phoenix Farmers Market, where he chats with loyal customers between rainbow rows of crops from the family farm. He expounds on disappearing farmland and water issues, a cordial presence seemingly from a better, vanished age.

Looking for something to cut that homemade cheese with? (Yes, yes, laugh it up, all you seventh graders.) Forge a cheese slicer during a blacksmithing class at Grizzly Iron, a welding and fabrication center in Phoenix that’s been schooling would-be Vulcans since 1987.

Booths bedecked with duct tape, kitschy art, a weathered pool table and cheap pitchers of Pabst Blue Ribbon – the gang’s all here at this timeless tiki bar, which has been serving stiff drinks to rowdy regulars since the late 1940s. Ask for an atomic cherry and drink in your surroundings, a symphony of Polynesian-inspired décor bathed in a dull glow of neon signs and electric tiki torches.

Bicycle Cellar founder John Romero heads up CycleHop/Grid Bike Share, and his employees know their way around a crankset. Services offered include flat tire repairs, custom builds, drive train and brake system upgrades, derailer adjustments and powder coating. And if the team at Bicycle Cellar can’t do it, they’ll outsource to a factory-authorized service center.

Too often, food allergies take the sweetness out of celebrations for sufferers. Not on Genesis Israel’s watch. Inspired by her own childhood egg allergy, the Mesa home baker creates delectable vegan cookies and cakes, many of which are also available sans gluten. After one bite of s’mores cookie or funfetti cake, you’ll be like, “Dairy, who?”

There’s a chance you won’t recognize many of the down-shelf vacuum brands at this family-owned business, but they’ll repair your model even if you didn’t buy it there. And if you have allergies or COVID concerns – and who doesn’t? – they sell CDC-approved filtration vacuum bags that can also be used for mask-making.

The words “fine dining” and “bargain” seldom belong in the same sentence – except at this winsome BYOB, where executive chef Cory Oppold and managing partner Todd Sawyer offer the elegance of the genre – white tablecloths, polished service, amuse bouche, artfully composed plates and classic yet creative food – without the hefty price or pretense. Sixty-five bucks for a three-course prix fixe meal + retail-priced wine from the shop next door helps you save a bundle.

Sun Devil Stadium is turning into 365 Community Union, a campus hub that hosts events from concerts to outdoor movies. Its most popular wellness offering is the free ASU Virtual Stadium Yoga Series, taking place on Zoom at noon on Tuesdays and 9:30 a.m. on Saturdays. Classes are taught by instructors from local yoga studios.

Phoenix has several muralists whose work is instantly recognizable. Macias is surely one. Her paintings and prints tend to feature an entrancing welter of rogue eyeballs, jagged animal mouths, feathers and leaves. Macias, a true surrealist, draws inspiration from the natural world, but also psychedelia, death and “cosmic dreams.”

Italianate murals, Bobby Darin and Frank Sinatra on the loudspeaker, crowds of Jersey-native diners at other tables – it all combines to convince you you’re at a mom-and-pop ristorante back East. Taste the chicken Parm or the cheese ravioli, and you might start worrying that you’ll have to scrape ice off the windshield after dinner.

Culinary prodigy Ivan Jacobo, best known for his pop-up dinners under the Hidden Kitchen moniker, took over the Rose & Crown Pub in Heritage Square in 2019. Out: pool tables and pop art. In: refined décor and fresh takes on fine dining. Anhelo means “desire” or “longing” in Spanish, symbolizing Jacobo’s propensity for showcasing locally sourced, seasonal ingredients and bringing people together through thoughtful meals. Amid the pandemic, we’ve had a longing for his sea...

Aliberto’s is proof that good things come in small packages. Blink and you might miss it, but this tiny taqueria slings a sensational vegetarian burrito featuring velvety refried beans, piquant pico de gallo, guacamole, sour cream, lettuce, rice and cheese swaddled in a soft, chewy tortilla. Pro tip: Wash it down with the taco shop’s heavenly horchata and save room for a strawberry churro.