📍 Tempe, Phoenix

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...

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...

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...

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...

The chefs behind Cartel Coffee Lab turned their attention to regional Mexican and Chiwas is the result. A modern dining room anchored by chile rellenos done correctly, duck carnita...

Chef Aaron Chamberlin's modern-Southwestern dining room in Tempe — Georgia O'Keeffe-era color palette, wood-fired grill, menu that treats the Sonoran Desert as a pantry rather than...

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 ...

The only AAA Five Diamond and Forbes Five Star restaurant in Arizona, on the Gila River Indian Community at Wild Horse Pass. Kai means 'seed' in the Akimel O'otham language, and th...

A 2025 opening that gave Mill Avenue something it did not have: a serious wood-fired steakhouse. Ribeye and paella in the dining room, cocktail lounge for the before-or-after, and ...

A Tempe pub kitchen specializing in the regional British hand pie — traditional Cornish pasty with the beef-and-turnip filling, a dozen rotating variations (chicken tikka, lamb and...