6 splurge places in Phoenix, editor-picked. Tasting menus and the full big-night-out treatment in Phoenix. All Phoenix food.
6 places
Order The grilled tribal buffalo tenderloin with smoked corn puree, cholla buds and scarlet runner bean chile.
Kai at the Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass is Arizona's only AAA Five Diamond restaurant, cooking Pima and Maricopa ingredients from the Gila River land.
Order The braised leeks with mozzarella, mustard and a sunny-side egg, a Food and Wine top-ten dish.
FnB in Scottsdale is Charleen Badman's vegetable-forward room in Craftsman Court, where the chef won the 2019 James Beard Best Chef Southwest award.
Order The weekly tasting menu, built around whatever the garden cut that morning.
Quiessence at The Farm at South Mountain is Dustin Christofolo's seasonal tasting room, plating produce picked hours earlier from the on-site garden.
Order A dry-aged prime cut and a tower from the raw bar to start.
Steak 44 on North 44th Street is the Mastro brothers' modern Phoenix steakhouse, a high-energy room of prime cuts, raw-bar seafood and a deep wine list.
Order The chef's eight-course tasting, the deepest version of the kitchen's seasonal cooking.
Cafe Monarch in Old Town Scottsdale is a family-owned room serving four-course prix-fixe dinners and a chef's eight-course tasting, with a deep wine list.
Order The multi-course tasting with wine pairings, timed for sunset over the city lights.
Different Pointe of View sits 1,800 feet up at the Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort, a AAA Four Diamond room pairing American cooking with a wide skyline view.
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