Paradise Valley in Phoenix
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When you enter the Valley’s scattered hotel-and-resort enclave of finer dining, you enter a different world. One of the great fixtures and masters of resort cooking in Arizona, Charles Wiley, has traveled this side of our restaurant culture for decades. These days, he captains the kitchen in Mountain Shadows: Hearth ’61. The beauty of Hearth […]
There are bars that claim they have extraordinary views, and then there’s Jade Bar. This luxe lounge is located inside Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort & Spa, which is perched at the base of Phoenix’s most famous mountain. Just about every booth, club chair and plush leather bar stool is oriented to look out at the […]
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Serving a menu of reasonably priced regional specialties from France, including scrumptious dishes of traditional Alsatian cuisine influenced by next-door Germany, this unpresumptuous restaurant, featuring breakfast, lunch, and dinner in Scottsdale’s Seville Shopping Center, seems to have gathered all the charms of its homeland and gathered them into a single, neighborhood French bistro plopped down […]
There aren’t many white-tablecloth Southwestern restaurants quite like Lon’s, a Paradise Valley haven that delivers the total package: ruddy mountain views, a stellar bar, a broad patio sweeping out from a small brown inn accented with turquoise and, most of all, thoughtful food with deep roots in the Valley and its greater region. The menus […]
If you live in Phoenix, it’s imperative that you take advantage of the desert climate, which often means finding an ideal outdoor happy hour spot to soak in the gentle sunshine. Many bars can serviceably accommodate this desire, but none beats LON’s Last Drop. Even the drive there is scenic, as it’s located on the […]
You haven’t eaten Asian until you’ve had a Tottie Roll, a fried pork roll wrapped in lettuce and mint leaves, and the house specialty at this extra-popular Asian Fusion restaurant. Named for Chef Tottie Kaya, who trained as a professional chef in childhood, these rolls are the talk of culinary circles and the reason that […]
Mediterranean with a Sonoran flair; the small menu doesn’t give the chef much room to maneuver, but there’s some talent in this hotel kitchen. Check out the prosciutto-wrapped pork tenderloin or the tasty Spanish tapas. You can also get Prime-grade steaks at Choice-grade prices. Read our review.
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Since 1987, New York Bagels ‘N Bialys in Scottsdale has been serving some of the Valley’s best real-deal New York bagels. How? First, they boil the dough before baking, which gives it a sturdy crust and doughy middle. Ah, perfection. The sandwiches are huge and delicious, and there’s even a bar here, so you can […]
Run by Long Island’s Ziegler brothers, this place proves that your name doesn’t have to end in a vowel to run a first-class pizzeria. Excellent thin-crust pizza (try the NYPD Blue, heaped with ricotta, eggplant and roasted peppers) and one of the town’s best calzones. If you can handle dessert after a few oversized slices, […]
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