Desert DigestHappy HourHappy Hour: Mix Up Bar at Royal Palms Resort & Spa
Try the new seasonal cocktails at Mix Up Bar at Royal Palms Resort & Spa.
Try the new seasonal cocktails at Mix Up Bar at Royal Palms Resort & Spa.
This art-adorned bar and restaurant at Andaz Scottsdale Resort & Bungalows serves up unique dishes in upscale environs.
Classified on Tommy Bahama’s menu as a martini, this frothy, feminine cocktail bears little resemblance to James Bond’s macho cocktail of choice.
The Scookie Bar offers build-your-own deep-dish skillet cookies out of a food truck.
With the new school semester comes a fresh batch of student-appetite-friendly eateries.
Another high-end Valley steakhouse? Don’t scoff – this swank Scottsdale newcomer is genuinely the bomb.
Cibo Urban Pizzeria may be known for its glorious, crusty pies and quaint 1913 bungalow, but it also deserves a shoutout for its mixed vegetable antipasto.
CenPho’s newest Mexican gem invites diners to get their goat... along with many other delightful permutations of Jalisco-style cuisine.
Crunchy, cooling elote is a Mexican summer meal unto itself.
Parked at the end of the historic building that also houses Melrose Pharmacy and Restaurant Progress, Thunderbird Lounge is a quirky time capsule.
A new locally owned eatery is welcomed at Westgate.
Happy hour highlights at Hush Public House include $2 off drinks and a small but satisfying food menu.
THE SCENE Like the phrase “meltingly tender,” the term “upscale gastropub” has become a tired cliché in food writing, and yet here I am invoking it to describe Pig & Pickle. I just can’t think of a better way to sum up what it’s serving its lucky South Scottsdale neighborhood: scratch-made comfort food with fancy flourishes (full disclosure: my favorite kind of food) and a well-stocked bar with familiar favorites and fun surprises, all in...
Triple-digit heat getting you down? There’s an Arizona craft brew for that.
THE SCENE The Roosevelt Row location of Keith Shanks and Patty Gii’s Uptown Phoenix wine bar Rott n’ Grapes is a dreamy urban bistro: cool exposed brick walls, antique-y mirrors, non-cheesy wine bottle displays, chic low-top tables and chairs abutting plush magenta seating running the length of the restaurant, an open-window bar, a second-story loft and even a subterranean “speakeasy.” Fleetwood Mac, The Mamas and the Papas, Wings and Billy Joel play on the sound...