Devil's Martini Locations Closing This Weekend

Have sympathy for Devil's Martini. Both locations of the nightlife chain (one's in Old Town, the other is near the Scottsdale Airpark) will be closing for good after this coming Saturday. I spoke with a few employees at the Old Town location who chalk the closures up to both locations...

By Benjamin Leatherman

February 15, 2011

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Have sympathy for Devil's Martini. Both locations of the nightlife chain (one's in Old Town, the other is near the Scottsdale Airpark) will be closing for good after this coming Saturday.

I spoke with a few employees at the Old Town location who chalk the closures up to both locations experiencing a downturn in business and losing their patronage to other nearby clubs.

Both Devil's Martinis toughed it out for the better part of a decade. Canadian entrepreneurs Richard and Delania Geddes opened the Old Town location in 2001 after operating the original Devil's Martini in Toronto. The North Scottsdale DM followed in 2003 and became a notorious haven for cougars on the prowl in the last five years.

If you're looking for another nightspot featuring "devil" in its name, there's still Devil's Advocate and Devil's Hideaway in Tempe, as well as Mesa's Sun Devil Liquors (which features a quaint drinkery on premesis).

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Benjamin Leatherman is a staff writer for Phoenix New Times where he focuses primarily on arts, culture, music, and nightlife. He began writing for New Times in 2003 and joined the staff full-time in 2005. Prior to that, he contributed to magazines such as Tips & Tricks and The Wrestler. Benjamin has earned multiple awards from the Arizona Press Club including an award for sports enterprise reporting in 2009 and an award for statewide arts reporting in 2014. He holds a bachelor’s of arts in journalism from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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