Central Scottsdale in Phoenix
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Inspired in part by the notorious ’90s-era local music venue of the same name, the Electric Ballroom mashes up rock ‘n’ roll verve with heavy riffs of Scottsdale glam and boozy decadence into its cozy club setting. Photos of guitar gods like Lemmy and Joe Strummer dot the velvet-flecked walls, concert posters and band stickers […]
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Famous 48 Local Kitchen & Bar offers a menu of items with an Arizonan nod, like the Sun Deviled Eggs and Four Peaks Nachos, but we want to talk about the hefty Havasu Hot Chicken Sandwich. This is a major slab of crispy fried chicken doused with house-made hot sauce. The handheld also holds lettuce, […]
Farm & Craft is an ultra-stylish Scottsdale restaurant with a sprawling menu focused on health-centric food and drink, including whole-grain bowls, salads, and wraps. The menu mostly fails to live up to the restaurant’s name, though – while most dishes feature ostensibly farm-fresh veggies, evidence of craft mostly runs short. Wraps and salads are straightforward […]
Chances are you will have to make reservations to get a spot at Fat Ox. This fine dining experience is curated with special attention to the drinks, appetizers and, of course, entrees. The cocktail (or “oxtail”) menu includes creations such as the Desert Rain, made with mezcal, sotol, blood orange, fig leaf and lime, and […]
Fate is kind of like all of Phoenix’s bigger brewpubs shrunk down to a miniature. While that means it isn’t supplying its beer all over town just yet, it does mean that Fate is constantly brewing new and different beers to sample every day. It also means you have a front row seat to the […]
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Movie posters are more than just the way that Hollywood hot shots get us to spend out hard earned money on tickets. They’re art and they represent the films that preserve the history of humankind of film. At least that’s what some people say. At Femmes Fatales and Fantasies in Scottsdale vintage movie posters are […]
The luxurious lounge-like lobby of the FireSky in Scottsdale makes for one of Old Town’s best people-watching spots. Dames are dressed to the nines, relaxing on high-backed ivory couches while other well-heeled ladies in Christian Louboutin shoes slip past, schlepping shopping bags from the nearby Barneys. Meanwhile, the men and women behind the glowing bar […]
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We probably don’t need to tell you about FnB, the Scottsdale kitchen helmed by culinary sage Charleen Badman. You probably already know she scours local markets for common and arcane ingredients from our state’s popular and marginal family farms, about how she plates food braiding gastronomic threads from the Sonoran Desert to South America to the […]