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Phoenix
Grand Avenue
Working studios, vintage, and the diagonal street that ignores the grid
Grand cuts southeast to northwest across the Phoenix grid, and everything on it feels slightly off-axis in the best way. Fewer condos than RoRo, more people actually making things.
Best day to go
Saturday afternoon, then stay for dinner
Eat
- Bacanora
- Ollie Vaughn's
- Sunset-hour tacos on Van Buren
Shop
- Antique Sugar
- Zombie Sugar
- Grand Arthaus studios
See
- Open roll-up studio doors
- Grand Ave mural stretch
- Chartreuse gallery
Walk it
- 1Antique Sugar
The anchor. Budget an hour.
- 2Grand Arthaus
Studios open erratically — knock
- 3Bacanora
Line forms before 5pm on cool nights
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