Hotel San Carlos

Bonjour Vietnam in Downtown Phoenix: Happy Hour Report Card

The Spot: Bonjour Vietnam 202 North Central Avenue 602-252-1223 www.hotelsancarlos.com/dining See Also: - La Condesa in Phoenix: Happy Hour Report Card - Pallets, a Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese Restaurant, Opens on Roosevelt Row - 10 Favorite Vietnamese Restaurants in Greater Phoenix The Hou ... More >>

Chow Bella's Top Phoenix Food Stories of the Week

Every week, there's a cornucopia of Phoenix food news, features, and reviews to report here at Chow Bella. If you're like most people, you probably just don't have the time to get to all of it. It's kind of like those burgers at Old Town Whiskey; it just won't all fit in your mouth ... or in this ca ... More >>

Rice Paper Owners to Open New Restaurant in Hotel San Carlos

Bistro 202, the cafe inside the Hotel San Carlos, downtown's historic boutique hotel, hasn't exactly been destination dining for the city set, but San Diego sisters Lan and Hue Tran are hoping to change that. The owners of Rice Paper, the Vietnamese restaurant in midtown which opened last summer, a ... More >>

Amusement

Aim High

Mob Mentality

Cookies & Cream @ Hotel San Carlos

Edifice Elegy

Author conjures forgotten Phoenix

Adult Swim's Labor Day Massive

Adult Swim

Azúl Phoenix

Azúl Phoenix

Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing

Azúl Phoenix

Alkemé Talks She-Jays, Carl Jung, Outkast, Sade, Fuse Fridays, Tom Novy, and More

​Name: Elizabeth Quintanilla AKA: Alkemé Current club nights: Thursdays: Azúl at San Carlos, Fridays: Fuse at Bar Smith, Saturdays: Z Girl Club. Guest spots at other venues such as Cream Stereo Lounge. Genres spun: All that encompasses sexy...mmm, I love me some sexy. Yet, I love what gets ... More >>

Club Candids: White Rabbit at Hotel San Carlos' Ghost Lounge

Adriane GoetzComedians and Baseball fans and hip kids, oh my!.​A lot of folks fell down the rabbit hole Saturday night at Hotel San Carlos, but that's what happens when you offer $3 cocktails.... See what transpired in our slideshow.

Adult Swim Gets a Permanent Home at Hotel San Carlos, Despite Getting Visited By the Cops

Benjamin LeathermanSome of the fashionable attendees at Adult Swim's kickoff party last month. Click here to revisit our slideshow. ​How did Adult Swim's Memorial Day edition at the Hotel San Carlos fare? To hear co-promoter Jen Deveroux describe things, it started sounding like déjà vu all ... More >>

June 2 In Blogs: Silly Bandz, Adult Swim, MacAlpine's, and Jan Brewer

​​​​​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Ray Stevens' Dumb, Anti-Immigrant Song "Come To the U.S.A." Jackalope ... More >>

Dive In Move

Adult Swim Finds A Temporary Home For Memorial Day Weekend

Adult Swim Finds A Temporary Home For Memorial Day Weekend

Benjamin Leatherman Adult Swim's launch party from earlier this month, which pretty much turned into a one-off.​After a few weeks of searching for a new home, the promoters of Adult Swim have finally found a new location to host their popular hipster pool party this weekend. And in a huge ... More >>

Ghost Lounge at Hotel San Carlos Opens on Friday

​Downtown Phoenix's music scene might (or might not) be "ovah," but at least its club scene is continuing to thrive. For instance, the Hotel San Carlos is opening its new Ghost Lounge tonight with a boffo benefit and party. The bar/club is located in the lobby of the vintage hotel, replacing ... More >>

Chocolate Stout, Jane's Walk, and the Bundt Cake Fairy

​There is a fairy godmother at work in Phoenix, and like all fairy godmothers she often works behind the scenes and outside of the spotlight. Yet her presence can be felt by the sparkle she adds to the places she goes, or in this case, by the bundt cakes she brings. For this fairy godmother, w ... More >>

Heartbreak Hotel

Famed Phoenix haunt capitalizes on its phantoms

Robert A. Melikian

Coming Soon: Via Roma Ristorante

​Listen up, downtown watchers. A brand-new, independently owned restaurant is in the works for a Phoenix landmark. It's an Italian eatery called Via Roma Ristorante, set to take over the space inside the historic Hotel San Carlos that used to house the often-dead-seeming Copper Door ... More >>

Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing

Club Candids at Tune in Tokyo

Fake girl-on-girl action...HOT, HOT, HOT!We've been to Star Swim and we've been to Cheap Thrills. So our Saturday nights seemed pretty packed with options already. But now, we've got one more to add to the list. It's called Tune in Tokyo, it's at the Hotel San Carlos' Copper Door Bar and it's the la ... More >>

Summer Guide: Phoenix Pool Parties

Star Swim

Club Candids: Adult Swim and Star Swim Kick Off Wyndham Hotel Pool Parties

Adriane GoetzChillin' pool side. See more shots in our Club Candids slide show. Star Swim and Adult Swim, two of the most popular pool parties from last summer have really amped up their game. Walk into the lobby of the Wyndham Hotel where they are both booked for the rest of the summer and prepare ... More >>

Star Swim Returns This Saturday

Jonathan McNamaraThe scene at last summer's Star Swim. Last summer, one of the coolest (and indeed, hottest) places to be seen was at the Hotel San Carlos for the weekly Star Swim party. An absolute throng of hundreds of hepcats and kittens crowded the tiny pool area at the vintage auberge in down ... More >>

Prep School

New Downtown Coffee Projects

Things are starting to perk up downtown. Randall Denton, who managed the Willow House for three years, has a two-month-old coffee roasting business called Xanadu Coffee Co., located behind the former "new" Willow House space on Van Buren (call 480-220-8779 for info). His clients include the Hotel Sa ... More >>

Night Train: The Ultimate Light Rail Pub Crawl

Night Train: Central/Washington (Stop # 13)

Where: Copper Door Restaurant and Bar at The Hotel San Carlos (202 N. Central Avenue). Jump off the train and head East on Central toward the historic Hotel San Carlos. It should take you about two minutes on foot. Drink: The Humphrey's Palm Room Mojito. Bacardi Razz combined with fresh black rasp ... More >>

The Phoenix Fire Marshal Stops Pool Parties at the Hotel San Carlos

The Wizards of Time and Black Carl explore the life aquatic at Hotel San Carlos' Star Swim

Over the Weekend: Star Swim, One DJ Night, and Street Fighter II

Potty Crashers

Relief is in sight, my friend

Can’t Miss Show: William Reed’s Birthday Party

Who’s performing at tonight’s First Friday art walk

Club Wet

Bust out the bikinis at San Carlos

This Weekend: An Independence Day First Friday and the Dark Lotus Invasion

Seven nights of DJs and dancing

The Bod Squad

Skeletons come out of the closet for poolside affair

Seven nights of DJs and dancing

Summer Guide: Stay at one of the Valley’s luxest resorts for a fraction of the scratch

Got Spirit?

Hotel is hardly haunted

Cursed . . .

. . . and put a stake in it!