📍 Central City, Phoenix
6 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 6 Restaurants
Grand Avenue's arts corridor mixes Sonoran Mexican and a classic diner with a brewery, Mexican cafes, and Ethiopian coffee.
Top 6 in Central City
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The Coffee Builders
The Coffee Builders sits in Phoenix's Warehouse District, where the owner built out the space himself using skills from his own woodworking business — every counter and touchpoint ...
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2
Grand Avenue Brewing Company
Grand Avenue Brewing Company occupies a converted 1940s warehouse in Phoenix's Lower Grand Avenue Arts corridor, with the original exposed wood trusses still overhead and a 3,000-s...
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3
Mis Raices Cafe
Mis Raices Cafe — the name means "my roots" — sits in the Grand Avenue Arts District, a family-run coffee shop built around Mexican heritage drinks. The menu translates M...
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4
El Norteño
El Norteño has served Mexican food from this 7th Avenue storefront since 1981, and the restaurant's own site pegs it at over 40 years in business, family owned and operated the who...
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5
Mel's Diner
Mel's Diner on Grand Avenue is the real-life exterior — sign, giant coffee cup and all — used in the opening credits of the CBS sitcom Alice, which ran from 1976 to 1985 and was ba...
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A.T. Oasis Coffee & Tea Shop
A.T. Oasis is a Phoenix coffee and tea shop built around owner Aisha Tedros's Ethiopian coffee, which she imports directly from the Sidamo and Yirgacheffe growing regions — beans g...
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