The 51 Best Places in Chandler
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The best places in Chandler, according to the experts: AAA, the Forbes Travel Guide, and the Phoenix New Times have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Kai comes out on top.
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Feringhee and Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass hold the next two places. AAA shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with the Phoenix New Times next.
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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.
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- AAA AAA: Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Five Star
- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: 2025 · Best Service · Best of Phoenix
- AAA Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
- Phoenix New Times 2025 · Best Service · Best of Phoenix
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Rank 2. Feringhee
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.
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- Foodist Awards Foodist Awards: 2024 · Finalist · Best World Flavor
- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: The top 50 restaurants in Phoenix right now
- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: 2024 · Best Upscale Indian Restaurant · Best of Phoenix
- 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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Sitting on Gila River Indian Community land about twenty miles outside Phoenix, this resort takes its setting as a design brief rather than a backdrop. The Pima and Maricopa tribes shape everything from the spa treatments to the restaurant menus, two Troon-managed golf courses look out over the Sierra Estrella Mountains, and an equestrian center will put you on a horse if the pools and wildlife trails haven't already claimed your afternoon.
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- AAA AAA: Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Recommended
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Rank 4. 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.
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- Foodist Awards Foodist Awards: 2023 · Finalist · Best World Flavors
- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: The top 50 restaurants in Phoenix right now
- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: 2024 · Best Sushi · Best of Phoenix
- 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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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.
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- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: 2024 · Best Coffee Roasters · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: 2025 · Best Coffee Roasters · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: The 10 Best Coffee Shops in Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times 2024 · Best Coffee Roasters · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times 2025 · Best Coffee Roasters · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times The 10 Best Coffee Shops in Phoenix
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Rank 28. Chou's Kitchen
Sichuan
This is a small, family-run Northeast Chinese spot in a Chandler strip mall, where one wall is so thickly framed with press clippings that the decor doubles as a reading list. The dumplings are handmade in assorted shapes and sizes, and the soup dumplings arrive with chewy skins and scalding broth, so patience is a skill here. Order at a casual counter pace, wear whatever, and bring someone who'll split the cumin lamb.
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- Phoenix New Times Steamed, boiled or fried: Where to find the best dumplings in Phoenix
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Phoenix
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- AAA AAA: Approved
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Rank 30. George & Gather
American
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- Foodist Awards 2024 · Finalist: Day Drinker · Favorite Local Craft Beer
- Phoenix New Times 10 winning Phoenix sports bars to catch the game
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Rank 34. Supreme Shawarma
Spit-roasted Middle Eastern
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Rank 34. The 480 Bar
Dive Bar
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- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: The Top 100 Bars in Phoenix
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Rank 34. The Brickyard Downtown
Cocktail Bar
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- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: The Top 100 Bars in Phoenix
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Rank 34. The Ostrich
Cocktail Bar
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- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: The Top 100 Bars in Phoenix
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Rank 34. Tom Ryan's
Dive Bar
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- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: The Top 100 Bars in Phoenix
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- Foodist Awards Foodist Awards: 2023 · Finalist · Brunch With a Punch
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- Phoenix Magazine Phoenix Magazine: Honey Bee Pizza · Top 100 Dishes of Arizona
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Rank 51. 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.
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