The Top 19 Places to Eat in Chandler
The best places to eat in Chandler, by the professional record: Forbes Travel Guide, AAA, and Phoenix New Times have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Kai comes out on top.
Feringhee Modern Indian Cuisine and Shimogamo hold the next two places. Foodist Awards shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with AZ Central next.
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Rank 1. Kai
American
Saguaro fruit, tepary beans, and wild sumac foraged from Gila River Community land anchor the tasting menu at this fine-dining room on tribal grounds. The team turns those Sonoran Desert ingredients through a global fine-dining lens, so cactus lime pie and buffalo with saguaro syrup land somewhere genuinely unexpected. It holds a Forbes Five Star and AAA Five Diamonds, a combination that signals dress-up territory before you've even looked at the menu.
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
- AAA Five Diamonds
- Phoenix New Times 2025 · Best Service · Best of Phoenix
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Rank 2. Feringhee Modern Indian Cuisine
Modern Indian
The name means "foreigner," which sets the tone for a modern Indian restaurant that treats the cuisine as a starting point rather than a finish line. Tucked into a Chandler strip mall, it runs cocktails spiked with masala chai vodka or ghee-washed whiskey alongside small plates, large plates, and pani puri worth sharing around the table. The room skews upscale without being stiff about it.
- Foodist Awards 2024 · Finalist · Best World Flavor
- Phoenix New Times The top 50 restaurants in Phoenix right now
- Phoenix New Times 2024 · Best Upscale Indian Restaurant · Best of Phoenix
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Rank 3. Shimogamo
Sushi
The sushi counter is the point here, not the parade of sauce-heavy rolls that crowds the competition. This upscale Chandler sushi restaurant leans traditional, pulling in harder-to-find cuts like escolar and sea urchin alongside the usual nigiri and sashimi spread. A few hot dishes and tempura round things out, but the kitchen knows where its priorities lie. Phoenix New Times has named it the area's top Japanese restaurant.
- Foodist Awards 2023 · Finalist · Best World Flavors
- Phoenix New Times The top 50 restaurants in Phoenix right now
- Phoenix New Times 2024 · Best Sushi · Best of Phoenix
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Rank 4. Peixoto Coffee
Brazilian Coffee
The roaster works in plain sight at the back of this Brazilian crop-to-cup coffee shop, which pulls beans from the Peters family farm in Minas Gerais. No flavored syrups, no blenders, just coffee, milk, and water in various combinations, which sounds austere until you taste it. Pastries come from a local bakery and empanadas round out the food side. A second location sits inside Epicenter at Agritopia.
- Phoenix New Times 2024 · Best Coffee Roasters · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times 2025 · Best Coffee Roasters · Best of Phoenix
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Rank 6. Supreme Shawarma
Spit-roasted Middle Eastern
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Rank 6. The Hidden House
New American
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Rank 11. Chou's Kitchen - Chandler
Northeast Chinese
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Rank 19. Maple House
Cocktail Bar
A low-ABV cocktail bar tucked inside an actual house in downtown Chandler, where the default is a sherry or vermouth base rather than something that'll flatten you by nine. The menu runs from a gentle negroni to a spritzy Cappelletti situation to a vermouth margarita with heat, and coffee rounds things out if you'd rather not drink at all. The nooks and the porch invite lingering, which seems to be the whole point.