📍 Arcadia, Phoenix

Chef Kevin Binkley's chef-counter tasting menu — 20+ courses over three hours, 12 seats, and a kitchen you watch work throughout the meal. Phoenix's most-decorated tasting-menu des...

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...

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...