Thai / Northern · James Beard Best Chef Southwest 2025 | Eater Phoenix 38
A converted Roosevelt Row bungalow turned out one of the most consequential Thai restaurants in the country — Sunny Martin's 2025 James Beard Best Chef Southwest win confirmed what...
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Pretty Penny
New American / Cocktail Bar · Eater Phoenix Best New Fall 2025
Sam Olguin, Brenon Stuart, and chef Marcelino Ramos on the high end of downtown — a 44-ounce $185 ribeye, lamb ragu with paccheri, braised octopus tostada, and a cocktail-first pro...
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Alden
New American · Eater Phoenix Best New Fall 2025
At the Phoenix Art Museum via CS Hospitality and Monica X. Castillo (Chelsea's Kitchen, La Grande Orange) — chef-driven plates from burrata with beefsteak tomatoes to steak frites ...
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Mr. Baan's Bar and Mookata
Thai / Mookata Hot Pot-BBQ · Eater Phoenix Best New Fall 2025
From Alex and Yotaka Martin (Lom Wong) in the former Khla space behind Lom Wong's bungalow — charcoal-grilled ping yaang skewers and mookata (a communal hot-pot-and-barbecue mash-u...
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Cibo
Italian / Pizza
A 1913 downtown Phoenix bungalow turned Neapolitan pizzeria in 2007 — pizzas from a wood oven, a bufala mozzarella program, and savory/sweet crepes that close out a long summer din...
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Harlem Coffee House
Coffee / Cafe
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 drink...
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FYPM
Cocktail Bar
Pink-neon futurism cocktail bar hidden inside Disco Dragon from the Killer Whale Sex Club and Pretty Penny team. Clarified cocktails — a technique-heavy format that filters drinks ...
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Cartel Roasting Co. Roosevelt Row
Coffee
The Roosevelt Row arm of the Tempe-born AZ coffee roaster — single-origin espresso, pour-over program, and the exact third-wave-Tempe coffee culture extended into downtown. Rooseve...
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Roosevelt Tavern
American / Bar
A Roosevelt Row corner bar running since 2010 — classic cocktails, pub bites, a courtyard patio that fills for First Friday. The neighborhood bar Roosevelt Row uses as a commons; p...
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Carly's Bistro
American / Sandwiches
The Roosevelt Row brunch-and-sandwich room that's been open since 2008 — a First-Friday staple, a coffee-through-lunch program that quietly holds the neighborhood together, and a p...