An inside look at the latest at the eclectic Old Town Scottsdale bar.

Rum Bar in Phoenix has debuted a new winter menu, complete with house-made rum cream and drinks accompanied by smoking sage.

Tonight Counter Intuitive, the Old Town Scottsdale bar with a rotating theme, will open back up with a mysterious new theme and expanded hours.

Ice, ice, baby.

A sherry list wouldn’t be such a radical thing in modern day Spain. Up until recently, though, it had fallen out of favor elsewhere.

Being Phoenix’s slowest season, summer is a time for Valley chefs and bartenders to try things out, a time to experiment with ingredients, themes, and personnel — to go off-brand a tad, like The Parlor did. The Biltmore-area restaurant and bar is going on eight years in business, and last…

Maybe you got too caught up in colorful cans of LaCroix to notice, but over the summer, at cafes al over the country, Instagram snaps of what might have otherwise have been latte art were replaced, now and again, by some … bubbly, layered beverage in a plastic cup. Yeah,…

Since opening, Little Cleo’s Seafood Legend has held onto its title as the most chef-driven concept within the Fox Restaurant Concepts fleet.  As for their cocktails? Until recently, they’ve been passively positioned behind freshly shucked oysters and, understandably, behind Arizona’s largest selection of absinthes — a point of pride for…

Brandon Casey may be busy peeling back decades worth of grease and good times from his new dive bar in Tempe, but fall is already just a few weeks away — and with the new season comes new cocktail menus. Casey’s Chandler craft cocktail bar, The Ostrich, is already a little…

Travis Nass has been busy. In addition to his role developing drinks and working with wholesale clients for Caskwerks Distilling Co., he’s been consulting with standalone bars and restaurants looking to improve their cocktail game. Nass just finished up the menu at Joe’s Midnight Run, the new late-night restaurant in uptown Phoenix, and…

The Ostrich, Chandler’s fist craft cocktail bar, opened nearly a year ago, which made the bar’s head honcho, Brandon Casey, a pretty happy man. His long-time goal, he says, has been to spend his 30th birthday at his own bar. “And now I have two,” Casey says. He turned 30…

Whether you’re a connoisseur or just beginning to dip your toe in the world of tiki drinks, we’ve got good news for fans of pina coladas, painkillers, and more. If you know where to look, you’ll be thrilled by the sheer volume of options for creative, rum-filled tiki-style drinks in…

Excitement runs high when Micah Olson launches new seasonal cocktail menus at either the well-loved Crudo or its newer sister restaurant, Okra. But while Crudo has experience at the summer menu game, Okra hasn’t yet reached the one-year-mark and so the summer menu released this week is only the restaurant’s second…

Don’t wait for trade winds to sweep you across town to visit Market Street Kitchen in North Scottsdale.  Beginning August 4 at a special event co-hosted by famed local bartender Travis Nass, Market Street Kitchen will begin a weekly happy hour dubbed Tiki Thursdays. Each Thursday from 5 p.m. to closing…

Downtown Phoenix’s Blue Hound Kitchen & Cocktails has welcomed a new head bartender, Noah Momyer. Momyer made his way to the Valley from Seattle — where he worked at spots including Vessel, Monsoon, and Mistral Kitchen — in February. He spent a brief period working in Old Town Scottsdale before…

Lately it seems Phoenix’s craft cocktail spots have been racing to fold as much tiki influence into their menus as possible. Because, while a few traditional renderings of the nearly 100-year-old subculture do exist around town — Hula’s may be as close as things get or the lo-fi experience at…

Despite a recent emphasis on armchair-destined, Mad Men-era drinks, cocktail bars aiming for casually modern and sleek atmospheres have largely ditched any form of comfort that resembles a cushioned seat. Fortunately, that isn’t the case at Honor Amongst Thieves, the Valley’s newest cocktail destination located at uptown Phoenix’s The Colony.  Here,…

In case you haven’t already heard, Tucson has a lot more to offer than drunk college students and mouthwatering border cuisine. In fact, our neighbors to the south are fostering an impressively compelling restaurant scene and, with it, a stage for captivating cocktails. Here are five places where you’ll want…

In mid-May, The Breadfruit and Rum Bar debuted a new summer food and drink menu. As anyone who’s even visited the downtown eatery knows, the bar is calm, steady, and refreshing — just like summer drinking — which makes it an ideal destination for exactly that. Inside, you’ll find ice-cold classics, excellent daiquiris, decadent piña…