📍 Midtown, Phoenix
5 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 5 Restaurants
Phoenix's connector zone between Uptown and Downtown with a tight cluster of classic cocktail bars, historic American rooms, and Chinese comfort food.
Top 5 in Midtown
1
Highball
Old-school classy, dimly lit cocktail room with some of the most precisely made drinks in town — annual Spirited Award nominations tell the story. 7th Ave in the Willo neighborhood...
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2
St. Francis
Aaron Chamberlin's Central-and-Camelback Mediterranean-American restaurant since 2009 — wood-fired, seasonal, a natural-wine list, and a setting that put the northern-Central corri...
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3
Ocotillo Restaurant
Upward Projects' Midtown Phoenix restaurant — a restored 1930s home with a sprawling courtyard patio that turns into the single-best brunch room in the neighborhood. Modern America...
85
4
China Chili
A Midtown Phoenix Szechuan anchor running since 1983 — a Flower Street corner where the Central Avenue office crowd has been ordering the hot-and-sour and the Chengdu chicken for f...
85
5
Sauvage Wine Bar
Natural wine in the historic Helen Anderson House on McDowell — small-production pours that rotate constantly, bar snacks to slow things down, and a room that earns its Esquire 42 ...
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