Restaurants in Central Arizona
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Josephine’s
Josephine’s features a casual yet upscale atmosphere in a 1911 Arts and Crafts bungalow with an outdoor patio and two fireplaces. It’s run by siblings Tony and Jill (and named in honor of their mother) and offers a menu that mixes and matches culinary influences from around the world – from Mexico to the Mediterranean. Crab cakes and chipotle barbecue beef sandwiches are among the standout lunch choices.
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Oak Creek Brewing Company
- Sedona, USA
- Restaurants › Pub
Beer-lovers will want to make the pilgrimage to this microbrewery, which has been racking up the medals at various beer festivals for ages. The nutty brown ale packs a punch, while the Hefeweizen is a fabulous post-trail refresher. They pair well with the gastropub fare, including delicious spicy wings. There’s a more upscale (and touristed) outpost at Tlaquepaque village.
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Beaver Street Brewery
Perfect on a chilly night, grab a pint of hoppy Rail Head Red and plan your next day’s adventure by the pot-bellied stove. Grub is burger, pizza and sandwiches kicked into high gear – margarita chicken anyone? The attached billiard room with its heavy wooden bar stays open till 1am (2am on weekends). Cool beer garden with mountain views in summer.
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Shugrue’s Hillside Grill
With panoramic views and an outdoor deck to enjoy them, this restaurant is perfect if you want top-drawer food but don’t feel like dressing up. Fresh fish prepared in umpteen ways is just one reason this place is perennially packed to the gills. At lunchtime, the spinach and wild mushroom quiche is so feistily flavored, even manly men will love it.
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L’Auberge Restaurant
The chef at this romantic dining shrine overlooking Oak Creek knows his lexicon of world cuisine but seems to be especially fond of French classics such as sautéed foie gras, roast pheasant and the lunch staple croque monsieur (grilled ham and cheese sandwich). For the full survey, go for the six- or eight-course tasting menu. Dress nicely.
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Pasto
Italian food gets a contemporary twist at this candlelit cove with its copper ceiling and exposed brick walls. There are some interesting pasta dishes, but the chef’s talent truly shines when it comes to more complex mains, such as squab (young pigeon) with roast apples and spaghetti squash. The six-course tasting menu for two is a steal at $60.
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Javelina Cantina
Perennially popular with both locals and tourists, this fun, feel-good place does respectable Mexican and Southwestern food, including tasty grilled fish tacos and unusual but good enchiladas stuffed with potato, cheese and spinach. Depending on your point of view, the tropical sunset mural complements or clashes with the fantastic rock panorama.
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Mountain Oasis
[ourpick] Mountain Oasis Come in your mountain-biking shorts for lunch and nice jeans for dinner - the class factor rises when the sun sets. More than an oasis of good food and drink, this place is a UN of flavors: dishes range from Mediterranean to Japanese to Thai, with weekend-only cuts of prime rib cooked just right.
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Macy’s
Students, outdoorsy types and caffeine-lovers hunker down at wooden tables in this been-there-forever hangout owned by an opera aficionado. Pies, cakes, brownies and other sweet treats are homemade and taste it, while the small menu features wheat-, meat- and dairy-free dishes but without sacrificing a lick to the taste gods.
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Rene at Tlaquepaque
A sentimental favorite with locals and repeat visitors, romantic Rene infuses classic French cuisine with Southwestern touches. It does meat best (lamb is a specialty), but even lunches go well beyond the sandwich-burger-salad routine with such selections as chicken-stuffed crepes pompadour and basil-crusted salmon.
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Raw Gourmet Café
- Sedona, USA
- Restaurants › Café
Wake up and smell the patchouli at this all-raw, all-organic, all-the-time New Age café where you can sink your teeth into a Vortex Pizza and pick around the Cosmic Rainbow Salad. For the ultimate energy kick, snort some clean air at the Oxygen Bar and get a crunchy Magic Healing Bar for your next vortex foray.
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Cowboy Club
Home of the prickly pear margarita, only-in-Arizona cocktails, dishes like fried cactus strips and an appetizer platter that includes snake brochettes (tastes like chicken, really). The lineup includes plenty of sandwich, steak and salad standards. There's both a kid-friendly and adult-oriented section.
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Cottage Place
Tables at this pretty, intimate dining shrine are a hot commodity with dating couples, birthday celebrants and other special-occasion types. The ambience is fairly formal and grown-up, and so is the continental food, which is dependable if not exactly mould-breaking. Reservations are highly recommended.
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Fratelli Pizza
Watch the pizza acrobats toss and twirl the dough into submission before tucking it in the stone deck oven for perfectly crispy thin crusts. Topping-wise you can go classic or try the Route 66 bestseller with grilled chicken, roasted red peppers, barbecue sauce and other goodies. Best pizza in town!
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Sedona Airport Restaurant
[ourpick] Sedona Airport Restaurant Try to land here on a Thursday (and make reservations) : fresh crab is flown in. All-you-can-eat snow crab is only $17.95. The stellar view atop Airport Mesa, the food, the red rocks glowing like the embers of a dying fire - truly, life is good.
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La Bellavia
A great place to combat hunger pangs or hangovers, this homey, country-style café has been an enduring local breakfast favorite for decades. Benedicts to burritos, plus a long list of sandwiches for lunch (many with a healthful bent), should all get you off to a carb-fuelled start of the day.
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Picazzo’s
Pizza purists might shudder at the unorthodox toppings, but clued-in devotees gobble ’em up like M&Ms. If chicken-bacon-gorgonzola or chipotle-barbecue-beef don’t tickle your fancy, you can always design your own. Nice touch: the mouthwash dispenser in the bathroom.
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Wildflower Bread Company
Yummy bread alert – carbophobes beware! Any time is a good time to feed grumbling tummies at this regional bakery and deli chain, but lines are definitely longest at lunchtime. The healthful sandwiches are a good picnic choice if you’re hitting the hiking trail.
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Coffee Pot Restaurant
Hollywood diva Jane Russell used to own the building, but this breakfast institution is delightfully unglamorous. It consistently wins top marks with locals and visitors, although the mind-boggling 101 omelette selection may present a mental hurdle for morning grumps.
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Red Planet Diner
For an out-of-this-world dining experience, stop at this ’50s-themed diner where pasty aliens float through the space as decorative busts of Mr Spock and Obi-Wan Kenobi look on. Grill food (with a fair number of vegetarian choices) rules this Roswellian roost.
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Bun Huggers
After a day on the nearby mountains it's a local tradition to stop here and refuel, and it's a college-crowd favorite because of the cheap prices. Meat-lovers adore the mesquite-grilled burgers and the ice-cold beer on tap is widely appreciated, too.
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Karma
A trendy sushi bar with low lights, black lacquer tables and scented bar candles, Karma has lots of yummy rolls and combos to choose from, as well as noodle dishes and tempuras. You can quite literally feel the trains rumbling past across the street.
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Heartline Café
An American bistro with fresh and creative seasonings, it serves wonderful meats and seafood - like pecan-crusted trout - as well as a large selection of pasta and veggie dishes. The outdoor patio is an intimate and very romantic dinner spot.
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Brix Restaurant & Wine Bar
Housed in a gently modernized building from the 1900s, this contemporary and casual American eatery showcases fresh food made with produce from local farms and ranches and wine from small producers.
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D'lish Very Vegetarian
Delicious food and attitude- and animal-free dining add up to a solid meal. The food will impress even die-hard meat-eaters.
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