Mastro’s City Hall Steakhouse

Another offering from the Mastro’s Group, with the same USDA Prime steak, chops and seafood menu, but a more modern decor. Meat portions are huge (33-ounce rib chop) and slathered in sizzling butter. Everything is à la carte, with one-pound baked potatoes and vats of creamed corn swimming in half-and-half. It’s not healthful, but it […]

Mastro’s Ocean Club

High style, high prices. Ocean does for seafood what Ruth’s Chris has done for steaks. Everything is à la carte and served in big portions from white-jacketed, black-bow-tied servers. First-class fish isn’t entirely different from many other good seafood shops around town (at half the price), but for a place to impress on an expense […]

Mastro’s Steakhouse

A smart-looking, high-end steak house, featuring USDA Prime-grade beef. The 22-ounce bone-in rib eye is a thing of beauty, a marvel of taste and texture. The New York strip and T-bone are just about as powerful. Excellent appetizers and desserts (not to mention well-trained waiters) add to Mastro’s charms. Read our review.

Matador Coffee Roasting Company

In a North Phoenix strip mall you’ll find freshly roasted coffee beans at Matador Coffee Roasting Company. They strive to achieve the highest quality of coffee beans and espresso drinks every day and also serve house made pastries. If you’re hungry for something more they offer a menu of sandwiches and salads as well as […]

Matt’s Big Breakfast

Never again will we see the days of the old Matt’s Big Breakfast, with the wraparound line of hungry breakfasters at the original 800-square-foot red brick building at First and McKinley streets. The breakfast was simply too good, and the deserved accolades sent Matt’s to a bigger location a block north, then on to additional […]

Maverick Saloon

With slats on the windows allowing air to blow in and cigarette smoke to blow out, the Maverick Saloon is considered a patio. At least that’s the technical term, and how owner Alfonso Larriva sidestepped state regulations after an 18-month renovation to allow smoking inside this North Phoenix bar. At first, newcomers may feel a […]

Max’s Restaurant & Sports Bar

One of the first things you notice when you walk into Max’s — other than the collection of more than 250 football helmets — is a wall of photos featuring some of its more well-known patrons. Everyone from former Arizona governor Rose Mofford to late basketball legend Manute Bol has shared a few spirits here […]

Maya

Either by design or happenstance, the cluster of bars and clubs making up Scottsdale’s most popular portion of its downtown entertainment district on Saddlebag Trail is centered around Maya. It makes sense, considering that come the weekend, most clubgoers are likely heading to the combination dayclub and nightclub. Aimed squarely at the young-and-beautiful crowd, it’s […]

McDonald’s

The world’s largest fast food chain, McDonald’s does business on an almost unimaginably massive scale: 1.7 million employees serve nearly 60 million customers daily at more than 34,000 locations in 119 countries, including plenty in Phoenix. Founded as a single drive-in in San Bernadino, California in 1940, the mega-corporation represented by the Golden Arches has […]

McDowell Mountain Ranch Aquatic & Fitness Center

We’re not sure what we like more about this place: the pools, the views, or the architecture (considering we spent more time admiring Phil Weddle’s rusted steel and glass aquatic center building than we spent actually swimming). Not only does this place feature myriad aquatic options – including an eight-lane lap pool, a diving well […]