Bars & Breweries

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

While they may lack the sexiness of highly hopped, supersour beers, brown ales represent a tried-and-true style with a historic flavor profile.

Jewel’s Bakery and Cafe has been a favorite destination of gluten-free diners for a while now, but their recent addition of a dinner and happy hour menu is exciting news for those who are seeking GF options.

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

Each week, we venture to a new restaurant to check out what the spot has to offer during our favorite time of day — happy hour. Whether it’s affordable appetizers, delicious drinks, jaw-dropping deals, or none of the above, we’ll check out the situation and report back. The Spot: Pasta…

You’ll find some hits and some misses at this Midwest-based brewery.

Check out the drink specials and discounted food at Los Dos Molinos Uptown Tuesday through Friday, 3-6 p.m.

Ice, ice, baby.

Each week we venture to a new restaurant to check out what the spot has to offer during our favorite time of day — happy hour. Whether it’s affordable appetizers, delicious drinks, jaw-dropping deals, or none of the above, we’ll check out the situation and report back. The Spot: Christopher’s Restaurant…

Night owls, rejoice!

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.

The Beer: Anchor Porter The Brewery: Anchor Brewing Company, San Francisco The Stats: 5.6% ABV, made with blend of two-row pale, caramel, black and chocolate malts The History: A San Francisco original since 1896, Anchor Brewing Company gained notoriety when appliance company heir apparent Fritz Maytag purchased the foundering brewery in…

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…

Each week we venture to a new restaurant to check out what the spot has to offer during our favorite time of day — happy hour. Whether it’s affordable appetizers, delicious drinks, jaw-dropping deals, or none of the above, we’ll check out the situation and report back. The Spot: Sushiholic…

We’re just about a month away from New Times’ third annual NovemBEER festival, which is going down on November 12 at the Arizona Center in downtown Phoenix this year. As always, we’ve rounded up dozens of local and national breweries for the event — and that means you can expect more than 120…

The Beer: Connection Saison The Brewery: Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company  The Stats: 5.9% ABV Since opening about three years ago, Arizona Wilderness Brewery has established itself as one of the best, most interesting breweries in the state. Often known for using nontraditional and locally grown ingredients, the Gilbert brewery has…

Each week, we venture to a new restaurant to check out what the spot has to offer during our favorite time of day — happy hour. Whether it’s affordable appetizers, delicious drinks, jaw-dropping deals, or none of the above, we’ll check out the situation and report back. The Spot: McFate’s…

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,…

The Beer: The Lost Viking The Brewery: O.H.S.O., North Scottsdale The Style: Baltic Porter The Stats: 7.6% ABV The Story: O.H.S.O. stands for Outrageous Homebrewer’s Social Outpost. This happening center of activity likes to refer to themselves as a local restaurant and dog-friendly hangout. All this and they make their own beer,…

The Brewery: 8-Bit Aleworks, Avondale The Beer: Hopsassin’s Creed Session IPA ABV: 4.3% Background:  Located in Avondale, 8-Bit Aleworks is a craft microbrewery with a retro-gaming theme. The brewery, the first within the Avondale city limits, was founded by husband-and-wife team Ryan and Krystina Whitten, and opened last May as a production-style facility located in…

The Beer: Roggenbier The Brewery: Scottsdale Beer Company The Stats: 5.3% ABV, 15 IBU  The Story: “Roggen” is the German word for”‘rye,” and this beer serves as a showcase for this lesser-known brewing grain. In fact, roggenbiers are quite rare to find in the United States. When you search the…

Each week we venture to a new restaurant to check out what the spot has to offer during our favorite time of day — happy hour. Whether it’s affordable appetizers, delicious drinks, jaw-dropping deals, or none of the above, we’ll check out the situation and report back. The Spot: Paul…