📍 Tempe, Phoenix
62 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 62 Restaurants
Mill Avenue and ASU-adjacent blocks: craft brewery flagships, Ethiopian plates, late-night Mexican, and coffee labs pulling serious espresso.
Top 10 in Tempe
1
Glenrosa
Two-time James Beard semifinalist Samantha Sanz, working with Victor Davila, turned a Tempe golf course room into one of the more thoughtful Mexican restaurants in the metro — pueb...
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2
Honey2aBee
Honey2aBee is a counter-service crepe and coffee shop on Apache Blvd in Tempe, tucked into the corridor near ASU. The menu centers on sweet and savory crepes alongside espresso dri...
91
3
Theo's Kitchen To Go
Theo's Kitchen To Go operates out of a food-truck setup behind a gas station on Broadway Road in Tempe, running an all-day menu of smashed double and triple patty burgers, bone-in ...
91
4
The Chill Room
The Chill Room is a non-alcoholic bar and lounge in Tempe, a short walk from ASU, run by brothers Vincent and Anthony Cartagine. In place of alcohol, the drink menu leans on spirit...
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5
Experiment Coffee and Pastry
Experiment Coffee and Pastry is a small coffee and bakery counter on Geneva Drive in Tempe, run by Brandy Jackson and Jonathan Robins, with a second location in Scottsdale. Bakers ...
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6
Restaurant Huauchinango
Restaurant Huauchinango serves Pueblan cooking inside the Tempe Farmers Market building, run by Alex Bonilla, his wife Flor, and their five children off recipes passed down from Bo...
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7
ADEN Coffee House
ADEN Coffee House is a Yemeni coffee house near Apache Boulevard in Tempe, built around kettle-brewed coffee made in the traditional Yemeni style. The menu runs beyond straight esp...
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8
Cafe Lalibela Ethiopian Cuisine
Phoenix's longest-running Ethiopian restaurant in Tempe with tangy injera, slow-simmered stews, and a traditional clay pot coffee service. The vegetable combo is the entry point, t...
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9
Four Peaks Brewing Company
Arizona's defining brewery since 1996 — a former ice plant on 8th Street turned into the brewpub that helped define the AZ craft-beer movement. Kilt Lifter is the Scottish-ale clas...
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10
Cartel Coffee Lab (Tempe Original)
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 esp...
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All 62 Restaurants in Tempe
Old Town Taste
88
Shaghf Cafe
88
Infusion Coffee & Tea Crafters
88
Steve's Espresso
88
The Hudson Eatery & Bar
88
King Coffee
88
Laymoon Cafe
88
Cocina Chiwas
87
Ghost Ranch: Modern Southwest Cuisine
87
Essence Bakery Cafe
87
Haji-Baba
86
Filthy Animal
86
Cornish Pasty Co
86
Bar Capri
86
Zu Izakaya
86
Freely Taproom & Kitchen
86
Postino Annex
86
Perfect Pear Bistro
86
The Dhaba Indian Cuisine
85
Rúla Búla Irish Pub
85
Caffe Boa
85
The Shop Beer Co
85
Pedal Haus Brewery Tempe
85
Taco Chelo
84
The Chuckbox
84
Tempe Improv
84
Time Out Lounge
84
Mandi House
83
Harlow's Cafe
83
NiMarco's Pizza
83
Culinary Dropout Tempe
83
Little Szechuan
82
Cafetal
82
Kungfu Noodles
82
Gadzooks Enchiladas + Soup
82
Thirsty Lion
82
Top of the Rock
82
Xtreme Bean Coffee
82
Final Round Sports Bar & Grill
82
Alter Ego
82
Skyluxx Coffee & Salon Suites
82
Regroup Coffee
80
Casey Moore's Oyster House
80
Drop Dead Gorgeous
80
Mill's Modern Social
80
Neon Spur
80
Yucca Tap Room
79
El Jardin Chiwas
79
Lush Café and Lounge
78
Idle Hands
77
Hot N Juicy Crawfish
76
Devil's Hideaway
72
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