Bakery / Coffee · Downtown Phoenix · James Beard Nominated (Mark Chacón) | Eater Phoenix Best New Fall 2025
Mark Chacón (James Beard-nominated, Chacónne Patisserie) and Julia Peixoto (Peixoto Coffee) collaborating inside ASU's Bioscience Center — some of the cleanest pastry and coffee work in Phoenix. Pastr...
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Minnow
Japanese / All-Day Cafe · Arcadia · Eater Phoenix Best New Fall 2025
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 his other Phoenix r...
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Peixoto Coffee Roasters
Coffee · Chandler
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 of them get poured. S...
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Cartel Coffee Lab (Tempe Original)
Coffee · Tempe
The original 2008 Cartel Coffee Lab on University Drive in Tempe — the room that effectively launched the Phoenix-metro third-wave coffee wave. Single-origin program, a serious espresso bar, and a Tem...
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Spencer's Place
Coffee / Cafe · Surprise
A coffee bistro on Waddell Rd that provides work opportunities for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. A Surprise community anchor — the kind of neighborhood café that earns its r...
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Essence Bakery Cafe
Bakery / Cafe · Tempe
Eugenia Theodosopoulos's Tempe French bakery/cafe since 2009 — almond croissants the Valley-pastry-critics default to, macaron program, and quiches that have kept the morning line steady for 15 years....
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Berdena's
Coffee / Cafe / Bakery · Old Town Scottsdale
Old Town Scottsdale's prettiest café and one of the Valley's best pastry programs. Midcentury design that looks like a Nancy Meyers kitchen had a baby with a Danish design studio, croissants laminated...
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Harlem Coffee House
Coffee / Cafe · Roosevelt Row
Started as a pop-up, landed at McDowell with a mission: elevate Black narrative and artistry alongside a coffee program that can actually compete with the Old Town crowd. The drinks are excellent, the...
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La Grande Orange Grocery
Cafe / Grocery / American · Arcadia
Arcadia's café-grocery-bakery hybrid that spawned the Upward Projects empire (Postino, Windsor, Federal). Morning coffee at the counter, lunch sandwiches, evening wine on the patio, and one of the mos...
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The Farm Kitchen at South Mountain
Farm-to-Table / Café · South Phoenix
Part of the 10-acre working farm at the base of South Mountain — the Farm Kitchen serves seasonal breakfast and lunch from produce grown 50 yards away. Pecan-tree-shaded picnic tables, kid-friendly gr...