📍 Chandler, Phoenix

Vikas Rana's Chandler dining room treats modern Indian cooking with composed-plate precision, sourcing seafood from Chula and produce from Steadfast Farm. Spinach saag with paneer,...

Larry Warren White and Rasheeda White (Monroe's Hot Chicken, Lo-Lo's) revived the midcentury Black supper club tradition — steakhouse structure with Southern influence, post oak sm...

Julia Peixoto Peters' Brazilian farm-to-cup roastery in downtown Chandler — the beans come off her family's farm in Minas Gerais, and the downtown-Chandler cafe is where the best o...

El Sol Mexican Cafe & Bakery is a Chandler mainstay on North Arizona Avenue, known for breakfast burritos led by its Super Bueno. The kitchen covers the Sonoran-Mexican standar...

A subterranean speakeasy below Crust Pizza in a 1920s basement space next to the San Marcos Hotel — original cocktails in a funky, crowded room. One of Arizona's most specific spea...

Downtown Chandler's flagship brewery-and-brewpub since 2007 — Devil's Ale and HopShock IPA are AZ mainstays, and the brewpub dining room anchors the Chandler weekend scene. Multipl...

Playful downtown Chandler cocktail bar with an expansive drink list and food that rivals its bigger-name peers. Patio on Boston Street, a drinks menu that leans whiskey and agave, ...

Downtown Chandler brewpub set around a two-story aviary of rescued exotic birds — no other format quite like it in AZ. In-house beer program, pub-grub menu, and a patio that fills ...

A Chandler Chinese seafood-and-dim-sum house — live-tank seafood pulled fresh-killed to the wok, cart dim sum on weekends, and a Cantonese menu the East Valley's Asian-food obsessi...

Upscale wine café in Chandler with glass-and-bottle service paired with lunch, dinner, and weekend brunch. The format the East Valley had been missing: a serious wine bar that work...