The Best Places to Eat in Scottsdale
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Rank 96. Pescada
Coastal Mediterranean
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The pepper grinder is a yard long and bright red, which tells you everything you need to know about the vibe here. Sexy Roman is a hotel restaurant inside the W Scottsdale that has fully committed to the bit: espresso martinis arrive with gold-dusted beans, the seafood tower exhales cold smoke, and a drink cart appears when you flip your table light from white to red. It's theatrical on purpose, and the room plays along.
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- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: 2025 · Best Pepper Grinder · Best of Phoenix
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Rank 96. Sugar Bowl
Ice Cream Shop
Pink booths, a soda fountain counter, and ice cream sodas that have been drawing Scottsdale families for what feels like forever. This old-school ice cream parlor is better known for sundaes than sandwiches, but the lunch menu holds its own: turkey salad with avocado, tea sandwiches, chili with cheese. The kind of place where saving room for dessert isn't advice so much as the whole point of showing up.
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- Phoenix Magazine Phoenix Magazine: 2025 · Ice Cream · Best of the Valley
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- Phoenix Magazine Phoenix Magazine: 2025 · Ice Cream · Best of the Valley
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Rank 96. Tapas Papa Frita
Spanish
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A second-floor patio perched over an active runway, with the McDowell Mountains catching the changing light behind it. Volanti is a casually chic restaurant inside the Scottsdale Airport, drawing both departing travelers and locals with no particular gate to catch. Lunch, dinner, happy hour, and weekend brunch are all on offer, but the real argument for coming is a table outside, where you'll stop mid-conversation to watch a small plane land.
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Rank 96. Wine Girl
Wine Bar
Roses in vases, white wicker chairs, and a playlist parked somewhere between Britney and Beyoncé set the tone at this wine bar in Scottsdale's Old Town. The menu runs through tasting flights, wine cocktails, and frosés, with flatbreads and avocado toast for ballast. The New York Times once named Scottsdale the second-most-popular bachelorette destination in the country, and Wine Girl is doing its part to keep that ranking intact.
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Rank 115. Diego Pops
Mexican
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Rank 115. Franco's Italian Caffe
Old-School Italian
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- Phoenix Magazine Phoenix Magazine: Meringata · Top 100 Dishes of Arizona
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Rank 115. Marcellino Ristorante
Classic Italian
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Rank 115. Virtù Honest Craft
Pizzeria
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- Phoenix Magazine Phoenix Magazine: Octopus · Top 100 Dishes of Arizona
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Rank 119. Berdena's
Coffee
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- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: 2024 · Best Breakfast Sandwich · Best of Phoenix
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Rank 119. Call Her Martina
Modern Mexican
A black-and-white dining room tucked into the Scottsdale Waterfront strip mall, where the guacamole arrives studded with pomegranate seeds and warm steak cubes, which sounds like a gimmick until it doesn't. This modern Mexican restaurant runs from quesabirria tacos to charred octopus, and the cocktails come dressed with flower petals and charred cinnamon sticks, because subtlety is apparently optional. The flan, cracked with caramel shards, lands the ending.
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- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: 2024 · Best Guacamole · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: 2023 · Best Guacamole · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times 2024 · Best Guacamole · Best of Phoenix
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Rank 119. Cool Gelato Italiano
Italian Ice Cream Shop
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- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: 2024 · Best Gelato · Best of Phoenix
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Rank 119. Goldman's Deli
Jewish American
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- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: 2024 · Best Jewish Deli · Best of Phoenix
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A wing shop that keeps the menu short by design, Valley Wings puts its energy into texture: the skin cracks, the meat stays juicy, and the honey hot flavor threads sweet and heat together without either one winning. The Phoenix New Times named it Best Chicken Wings in 2024. Three metro Phoenix locations means it's rarely far away, which is convenient, because once you know the order, the craving has a very specific address.
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- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: 2024 · Best Chicken Wings · Best of Phoenix