Persepshen

After building a following at the Uptown Farmers Market, Jason and Katherine Dwight, a married chef-butcher and baker, opened a restaurant in late 2019 that is intimately driven by local farms and ranches. Reclaimed wood slabs gleam in the Central Avenue restaurant. Fitting the rustic dining room, much of the small plates and a few […]

Persian Garden Cafe

This is the place to go for stunning Persian, Mediterranean, vegetarian, and vegan cuisine. Herbs and spices take center stage, adding spark, and sometimes shock, to stir-fries, stews, pastas, and chicken, fish and lamb dishes. Fresh and healthful is king at this low-cost cafe.

Pho 43

At this unassuming Vietnamese restaurant with a quick-service slant on the city’s west side, we received some good advice on how to best enjoy a bánh xéo ($4.35), or Vietnamese savory crepe: Wrap pieces of the crispy, fried creation — made of rice flour and filled with pork, shrimp, and bean sprouts — in lettuce […]

Pho A.V.

It’s easy to appreciate this no-frills Vietnamese restaurant in North Phoenix as much for its mostly satisfying food as for its owners, Phat Pham Tan and his wife, Hien. With the initials standing for America and Vietnam, Tan’s two loves, Pho A.V. offers a small menu of traditional Vietnamese dishes that are simple in their […]

Pho House

This Vietnamese restaurant is a very welcome addition to a stretch of McDowell Road better known for a multitude of Mexican eateries. The must-try on what is an unusually manageable menu (for a Vietnamese restaurant, that is) is the banh mi ($2.95) sandwich, perhaps the best of its kind in town, featuring a juicy barbecued […]

Pho Thanh Restaurant

Pho Thanh Restaurant started off as a one-room show. (True heads still brag about slurping pho and chowing banh mi in those modest early days of the place; bigger props if you dined at Pho Bang.) Then it became two rooms. Then three. At some point, a connecting boba spot materialized. In a way, the […]

Phoenix Airport Museum

If you’re a responsible traveler you probably arrive at Sky Harbor Airport more than two hours before your flight. Good for you, you won’t have to run to your gate. That also means you have time to check out the Phoenix Airport Museum before you board your plane. The airport’s collection of art includes almost […]

Phoenix Ale Brewery

2013, the 44-year-old brewer lost his battle with cancer, leaving brewers and beer lovers saddened by his passing. Stop by the taphouse, located off 30th and Washington streets in Phoenix and crack open aFretzy in his honor. It’s guys like Greg Fretz who make Phoenix a tastier, happier place for all of us beer aficionados […]

Phoenix Art Museum

Located on the Central Avenue Corridor, a historic strip of Downtown Phoenix, the Phoenix Art Museum offers plenty to see for art aficionados and amateurs alike. It’s the largest museum for visual art in the Southwest and offers 285,000-square-foot of collections that include more than 17,000 works of American, Asian, European, Latin American, Western American, […]