📍 Arcadia, Phoenix

Inside the Royal Palms Resort — a Tuscan-villa dining room with 30+ years of uninterrupted Phoenix fine-dining credibility. Spit-roasted chicken, handmade pastas, a spit-and-fire c...

Mark Tarbell's Phoenix anchor since 1994 — the chef-owned restaurant that taught the Valley what a chef-owned restaurant could look like. Chopped salad made tableside, wood-oven ch...

Chef Vincent Guerithault's French-Southwestern dining room since 1986 — a James Beard Best Chef Southwest winner (1993) and one of the most influential Phoenix chefs of the last 40...

Chris Nelson runs what most chefs in town will quietly tell you is the best fish counter in Phoenix — an Arcadia retail case sourcing from around the world, plus a tight rotation o...

Enter through the coffee shop upstairs (Sip Coffee & Beer), descend into a ship's-hold tiki bar that feels like the galley of a 19th-century Pacific vessel. Award-winning rum p...

Chef Cullen Campbell's Italian-leaning contemporary restaurant on Indian School since 2012 — a crudo bar as the opening act, handmade pastas, and a natural-wine list that has consi...

Chef Justin Nasralla slow-spins chickens over smoky Marabu charcoal at this Arcadia Peruvian spot, a technique he landed on after a two-year research stretch. Peruvian rotisserie c...

Bernie Kantak took over a glassy, ceramic-tiled space in Arcadia and built an all-day Japanese cafe around it. The menu runs from morning coffee through evening. Different bet than...

Buck and Rider is a seafood-forward Arcadia restaurant that also sends out serious steakhouse cuts, including a 32-ounce bone-in ribeye. A dual-threat kitchen that doesn't phone in...

Chef Justin Beckett's Arcadia anchor since 2010 — a contemporary-American room with the pot roast every regular orders, a chop salad among Phoenix's most-copied dishes, and a dinin...