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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Sweet Republic
Ice Cream / Dessert · Scottsdale
Jan Wichayanuparp and Helen Yung's artisan ice-cream counter since 2008 — scratch-made bases, seasonal flavor rotation, and the kind of care that has earned national best-of lists. Salted butter caram...
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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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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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Liberty Market
American / Cafe · Gilbert
Joe Johnston's Gilbert café-market-bakery — same family as Joe's Real BBQ next door and Joe's Farm Grill down the road. Wood-fired pizza, in-house bakery program, and a dining room in a converted 1935...
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The Sicilian Baker
Italian / Bakery / Cannoli · North Phoenix
The Maggiore family's Sicilian bakery right next to The Sicilian Butcher — a build-your-own-cannoli format, in-house biscotti program, and a retail case of imported Italian groceries. The dessert-and-...
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Futuro
Coffee / Cafe / Bakery · Downtown Phoenix
The downtown café that looks like an art gallery because it actually is one. Futuro pairs strong coffee with wildly good pastries (the pastel de nata has a following) and rotates menus seasonally. One...
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Ollie Vaughn's
Cafe / Bakery / Brunch · Miracle Mile
The low-key, high-reward brunch spot that Phoenix locals recommend when they don't want to give up their actual secret. Coffee that stands on its own, laminated croissants, and a breakfast sandwich th...