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Kai
Arizona's only Forbes Five-Star dining room. Indigenous ingredients, ceremonial pacing.
Chandler
$$$Indoors
Luxury
Tasting menus, cabanas, and the valet you don't argue with.
August · Survive It
Late August in Phoenix is an indoor sport. Everything below is cooled, shaded, or scheduled after sundown.
Eat
FnB
Arizona wine list, vegetable-forward plates, still the chef's-chef room after all these years.
Old Town Scottsdale
$$$Indoors
Eat
ShinBay
Omakase counter, reservations released in batches, no phones at the bar.
Old Town Scottsdale
$$$Indoors
Date to confirm
Stay
Arizona Biltmore
Wright-inspired blocks, eight pools, and a lobby bar that's been eavesdropped on since 1929.
Biltmore
$$$Indoor + out
Stay
The Global Ambassador
Sam Fox's maximalist hotel — five restaurants, a rooftop, and the valet line as theater.
Arcadia
$$$Indoors
Stay
Royal Palms Resort & Spa
Mediterranean courtyards at the base of Camelback. The anniversary default for a reason.
Arcadia
$$$Indoor + out
Stay
Mountain Shadows
Midcentury lines, a short course you can walk in sandals, and the best Camelback view in a lounger.
Paradise Valley
$$$Outdoors
Eat
Pizzeria Bianco
The pizza that put Phoenix on the national map. Still the answer for out-of-towners.
Heritage Square
$$Indoor + out
Eat
Valentine
Midcentury room, tight menu, cocktails that punch above the price.
Uptown Phoenix
$$Indoors
Eat
Tratto
Chris Bianco's pasta room. Small, loud in the right way, worth the wait.
Uptown Phoenix
$$Indoors
Eat
Barrio Café
Silvana Salcido Esparza's cochinita pibil and the mural district that grew around it.
16th Street
$$Indoors
Eat
Lom Wong
Regional Thai cooking in a converted bungalow. Order the whole fish.
Garfield
$$Indoors