The Craft Retreat

The Craft Retreat is your neighborhood crafting, scrapbooking, pottery painting and mosaics studio in Glendale, Arizona.

Cuff

Chef Tom Harvey, late of Eddie V’s in Scottsdale, has brought cuisine to downtown Glendale. Harvey’s a Georgia native, and his menu is crammed with Southern influences and ingredients. Meat is often smoked or pulled; grits and po-boys are featured. He’s partnered with chef Matteo Cataldo, whose Italian touches are apparent in the eggplant Parmesan […]

Dazzo’s Dog House

We don’t know what a Dazzo is, but we do know good, meaty hotdogs, and this place has them. We order ours with everything: mustard, onions, relish, and sport peppers-and always want more, even when we’re full. Also available: yummy Fire Dogs, spicy hot and juicy as heck, and an Italian beef dog which, eaten […]

Deer Valley Rock Art Center

Arizona State University operates this exhibit and research facility in a natural desert preserve. A walking trail guides visitors through the Hedgpeth Hills petroglyph site, the largest concentration of ancient rock drawings in the Phoenix area.

Desert Diamond Arena

It’s gone by a lot of different names during its lifespan, but this magnificent sports and entertainment arena in Glendale has quickly become one of the most popular local places to see big-name arena acts (Van Halen, anyone? How about the Who?) as well as hockey, lacrosse, and basketball games. Its state-of-the-art, $220 million facility […]

Desert Eagle Coffee

Desert Eagle is a high-octane, double drive-thru coffee spot off Bell Road that serves Cardi B jams alongside shots of espresso 24 hours a day. Desert Eagle has double-the-caffeine nitro cold brew as well as Nitro Freeze, a standout sipper that comes with a special frap blend of milk and sugar to lock in the […]

Dillon’s Restaurant

The friendly folks at this charming northwest Valley eatery aren’t kidding when they say that barbecue is their specialty. The pork ribs and tangy-sweet chicken are perfect. The rest of the menu is given over to basic appetizers like wings, onion rings and shrimp cocktail, and entrées like steak, fish and salads. Desserts are strong, […]

Easy Tiger

Easy Tiger is what you might call a modern dive bar. It’s relatively young in the tooth yet feels like its own little time capsule. That’s intentional. The owners of Peoria’s Driftwood Coffee, Lance Linderman and Luke Bentley, set out to create a comfortable neighborhood spot on the west side of town that was reminiscent […]

Epic Wings

Though a couple of dozen locations of Epic Wings has been kicking around California since 1982, the west Valley has hosted one location since 2019. This quick-service eatery in Glendale offers standard wings (original Buffalo wings means the bone-in kind) in garlic Parmesan, and honey, they are good. The garlic is not overpowering, while the […]

European Bakery and Cafe

The bakery cases or Armenian natives David and Rose Kouyoumijan feature a colorful display of tiered cakes, fruity strudels, cookies, and fresh-baked bread. If you’re dining in, the Kouyoumijans will pack premium ingredients into one of the 10 kinds of massive sandwiches on the menu.

Fajardo’s Cafe

We love an old-timey Mexican restaurant, tucked into a residential neighborhood-an old-fashioned, unpretentious place that’s more about good frijoles than it is about “concept.” We love us some real, tummy-filling Mexican grub-tacos, burros, enchiladas, rellenos, and tamales made like our mom would have made them if she’d had the decency to be from Guadalajara. And […]

Fe La Cubana

Fe La Cubana is a classic Cuban American-style cafeteria that deviates little from many of the best-known dishes of the island just south of Florida. Though there are Cuban sandwiches and fried foods, Fe La Cubana is all about the steam table offerings. These are soupy, stewy, and beautiful – ageless preparations like ropa vieja […]