📍 Melrose, Phoenix

Blaise Faber and Chad Price's modern Southwestern room in Melrose, with Nico Zades running the line and James Beard semifinalist Crystal Kass on pastry — the rare neighborhood rest...

Lori Hashimoto's family-style Japanese spot in Melrose covers a wide spread — sushi, cooked dishes, the works. The kind of neighborhood place where regulars trust the kitchen to ha...

A quintessentially Phoenix cocktail bar tucked behind a restaurant inside an old dry cleaners — local ingredients, house-made tinctures, and a casual desert vibe. The bar bar — the...

Phoenix's dive-tiki-lounge inside a converted mid-century hotel bar — bamboo-and-neon interior, tropical drinks that take the Don-the-Beachcomber playbook seriously, and a DJ sched...

A 1930s gas-station-turned-coffee-shop in Melrose — one of Phoenix's best-adapted vintage buildings, with a coffee program that treats the shop-mechanic-bay layout as an asset, not...

A small Melrose taqueria — tacos al pastor, a bracing pico-de-gallo salsa program, and a late-night counter crowd that puts this on the Phoenix after-last-call shortlist. The 7th A...

A 7th Avenue institution since 2004, Boycott Bar is the Melrose District's LGBTQ+ anchor — lesbian-owned, community-built, and still the most reliable room on the block two decades...

Phoenix's first women-focused sports bar opened on 7th Ave in the Melrose District in March 2025 — every screen runs women's games, the menu reads like a sports-legend roll call, a...

Thirty-five years on Camelback and still the place to be in the Melrose District — Charlie's is a country-themed LGBTQ+ institution where line dancing lessons share the calendar wi...