Pita Jungle

Funky, popular spot that features local art on the walls, a healthful, vegetarian-friendly menu, and more dreadlocks and doo-rags (at least at the Tempe location) than you may ever see in one place. Well-known as a cheap-date restaurant with price points set for an ASU student’s wallet. Still, you don’t have to be a starving […]

Pita Jungle

Funky, popular spot that features local art on the walls, a healthful, vegetarian-friendly menu, and more dreadlocks and doo-rags (at least at the Tempe location) than you may ever see in one place. Well-known as a cheap-date restaurant with price points set for an ASU student’s wallet. Still, you don’t have to be a starving […]

Pita Jungle

Where else can one find both an allergen chart and a nutritionist’s bio on the menu, for those who are so health conscious they have to know what’s in everything they eat? We love Pita Jungle for this, and for a whole lot more: its eclectic blend of fresh ingredients; creative way with wraps and […]

Pitic Restaurant

This tiny, airport-adjacent Mexican restaurant offers solid, inexpensive, and fresh food choices-although most everyone comes here for the tortillas, light and fluffy and flour-y good! We like that we get one as a side with combinations that feature tasty chile rellenos, beef or chicken tacos, and cheese enchiladas that are out of this world. Sides […]

Pizza A Metro

A scrumptious menu, cute atmosphere, and shockingly reasonable prices are what make tiny, 20-seat Pizza A Metro – practically hidden in plain view, next to a Circle K – one of the best budget gourmet finds in the Valley. Owner Maurizio Benforte, a native of Sorrento, Italy, serves up top-notch grilled calamari, homemade pastas, and […]

Pizza Mart

The name Pizza Mart might not sound too appetizing, but we promise it isn’t the K-Mart of pizza. We admit this Mesa relic looks pretty dive-y, probably hasn’t been updated since the ’80s, and peddles cheap food. But c’mon, it’s a blast from the past – like a stop along the way to the video […]

Pizza People

Longtime Phoenicians MaryBeth and Tim Scanlon offer pies on the fly with their food truck, which features personal-size artisan pizzas all under 10 bucks. With dough made from scratch and nearly everything else locally sourced, specialties like the Popeye and the Fun Guy (made with mushrooms — get it?) are delectable, plus there are vegan […]

Pizzeria Bianco

Chris Bianco, one of Phoenix’s best-known chefs and restaurateurs, has expanded his local empire with this cozy bistro in the Town and Country Shopping Center. A small, rotating menu of Italian standards and signature Italian-American creations uses the fresh, locally grown ingredients and hits its mark every time with flavor-packed salads, pasta dishes, and entrées […]

Pizzeria Bianco

Somehow, Phoenix is a pizza town, known far and wide for its innovative pies. Actually, we know how, and why: It’s because of Chris Bianco, the passionate Bronx-born proprietor of his eponymous pizzeria. Bianco’s pizzas date back to 1988, but since 1996 he’s been in his Heritage Square location, serving Neapolitan-style pies to ever-longer lines […]

Pizzeria Virtu

While much of Old Town Scottsdale leans into the glitz and glamor of the area and its clientele, it’s still possible to find cozy, warm and welcoming spaces to enjoy an expertly crafted meal in this East Valley city. Pizzeria Virtu is proof. This little spot inhabits a house, complete with a backyard patio. There, […]

Platform 18 at Century Grand

Modeled after a Presidential Pullman train car, Platform 18 at Century Grand transports you to the glamorous world of the early 20th century. The wood-paneled walls and digital window screens that display stunning natural landscapes make it easy to forget you never actually left Phoenix. Named one of North America’s 50 best bars in 2023, […]

Plazma

A video bar, drinkery, and nightspot all rolled into one, Plazma is a quaint hangout for the LGBT community, tucked away just off 16th Street, providing a cool haven to shoot pool, chat over drinks, and even suck down colorful Jello shots from plastic syringes. When the jukebox isn’t bumping out techno or pop diva […]