Every Bar and Club in Scottsdale: The Complete List, District by District

This is the whole list. Not the twelve best, not the ten you have heard of: every bar and club we could confirm inside the Scottsdale city limits in October 2026, plus the resort bars on the Paradise Valley border that carry a Scottsdale address and the casino and entertainment venues on the Salt River reservation that everyone calls Scottsdale. Where a place has a full guide on this site, its name is a link. Where it does not, the one line here is what we know and could verify. The lost ones are at the end, because in Scottsdale a bar’s second life as a story is often longer than its first as a bar.

A few rules for how we counted. A restaurant made the list only when its bar is a reason to go on its own: a lounge with its own name, a rooftop, a tasting room, a whiskey wall, a late program that outlives dinner. Pool bars count when a non-guest can buy a drink at them. Strip clubs are across the line in Phoenix and stay there. Kierland Commons and the west side of Scottsdale Road north of Thunderbird are inside the City of Phoenix with Scottsdale mailing addresses; the site files them under Kierland, and so does this list, with the flag. Anything we could not confirm with a 2026 source was left off rather than guessed.

The list runs south to north, the way the city does, after the district that gives Scottsdale its reputation. For how a night actually moves through Old Town, read the nightlife guide first; for the rooms that open at 6 a.m., the dive bar guide; for the doors with passwords, the speakeasy guide. This page is the index behind all of them.

The Entertainment District: Camelback to Indian School, east of Scottsdale Road

The dozen blocks around Stetson Drive, Saddlebag Trail, Indian Plaza and Shoeman Lane are the reason Scottsdale is the bachelorette capital of the country. Three companies own most of it: Evening Entertainment Group, the Corieri family firm that opened Axis in 1997; Riot Hospitality Group, which merged with the Yari brothers’ Spellbound in 2019 and now runs Maya, Whiskey Row, El Hefe, CAKE and Riot House; and Jocque Concepts, the newest, with Kill Club, El Camino and Estelle. You can walk the whole district in ten minutes, and on a Saturday in March you will.

Nightclubs and day clubs

• Maya Day + Night, 7333 E Indian Plaza. The 15,000-square-foot pool club and nightclub that Riot rebuilt floor to ceiling and reopened on May 23, 2025, with a carved wooden goddess behind the bar and a DJ booth that serves the pool by day and the floor by night: day club Friday through Sunday noon to 6, nightlife Thursday to Sunday. The Clubhouse at Maya is 12,000 square feet of open-air turf with beer pong, cornhole and bottle service. Built where Myst and Suede stood.
• CAKE Nightclub, 4405 N Saddlebag Trl. Riot’s chandelier-and-fantasy club with aerialists and bottle-service cake presentations, Thursday through Saturday from 9 and Sundays from 8, since January 2014; the corner that was the Pussycat Lounge and then EPIQ before it. The New Times’ best nightclub of 2024.
• Almost Famous, 7419 E Indian Plaza, Suite A. House and EDM under lasers, Fridays and Saturdays only, in the building that was Dorian.
• 11:11, 4280 N Drinkwater Blvd. The hip-hop, R&B and dancehall club in the room that was the Jackrabbit Lounge and then INTL.
• Pretty Please Lounge, 4426 N Saddlebag Trl. Red velvet booths and Phoenix hip-hop DJs, bottle service, built for bachelorette groups; open by 2018. Its own website has not been updated since 2023, so call before you build a night on it.
• 50 Shades of Rosé, 7419 E Indian Plaza, Suite B. Ben Foreman and Justin Massey’s rosé and cocktail bar, since 2022, that redecorates itself around a new theme every season (October 2026: “Carnevil”), with a scratch kitchen and weekend doors at 11 a.m.; 21 and over.
• Riot House, 4425 N Saddlebag Trl, Suite 105. About 12,000 square feet of South Beach: a wraparound bar, private booths, tropical drinks, El Hefe’s kitchen, NFL watch parties by day and a party by night.
• WET Deck, the Cottontail Lounge and the Living Room, W Scottsdale, 7277 E Camelback Rd. The rooftop pool that invented the Scottsdale day club: 13 cabanas, weekend DJs from noon to 6 from mid-April through October, day passes for non-guests. The Cottontail Lounge shares the deck and turns into a club at night, to 2 a.m. on weekends; the lobby Living Room has live music Fridays and Saturdays; Sexy Roman replaced Sushi Roku in 2025 with a martini cart and a dress code.
• Allegra, the Lobby Bar and the Kauboi Terrace, The REMI, 4415 N Buckboard Trl. The hotel that opened July 22, 2025 where Dakota stood, attached to Maya: a twelfth-floor Moroccan-styled rooftop pool bar it calls the tallest in Scottsdale, open to 2 a.m. Thursday through Saturday with DJs and no swimwear after 6; a whiskey lobby bar with a back door into the nightclub; a VIP terrace over the Maya pool; the Japanese-whisky bar inside Kauboi; and the late-night F/Sixteen diner.

Taco-to-club bars, party pubs and the honky-tonk

• El Hefe, 4425 N Saddlebag Trl. The archetype: real tacos until about 10, then the DJ and the mechanical bull, since 2013.
• Bottled Blonde, 7340 E Indian Plaza, Suite 100. Evening Entertainment Group’s wood-fired pizza and beer garden by day and DJ club by night in the old Axis half of Axis-Radius, with a 1,900-square-foot rooftop since 2021; weekend doors at 9 a.m.
• Casa Amigos, 7320 E Indian Plaza. The Tulum-styled Mexican club in the two-story old Radius, redesigned by HGTV’s Alison Victoria for a $4 million reopening in 2018; fold-away windows, a patio dance floor, pyrotechnics, Tuesday through Saturday, from 8 on Saturdays and later midweek.
• Skylanes, upstairs at 7320 E Indian Plaza. The boutique bowling lounge above Casa Amigos since 2018: two private lanes, a sky-lit bar and bottle service, now sold mostly as a private-event room; the only bowling in the district.
• Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row, 4420 N Saddlebag Trl. The district’s honky-tonk since July 4, 2013: a 360-degree stage, sixty whiskeys, line dancing, 21 and over always, weekend doors at 11 a.m.
• HiFi Kitchen & Cocktails, 4420 N Saddlebag Trl, Suite 110. The retro room with the digital graffiti wall and the retractable roof, bingo on Wednesdays, college night Thursdays, the home of Iowa football.
• Mother Tucker’s Tavern, 4420 N Saddlebag Trl, Suite 100. The wood-paneled party pub with forty screens that replaced Bevvy over Labor Day 2024; Saturday doors at 8:30 a.m. for the Michigan game.
• Wasted Grain and the Old Town Ski Lodge, 7295 E Stetson Dr. Square One’s stage, shaded patio and dance floor in the old Martini Ranch, with touring bands; the après-ski lounge upstairs runs Fridays and Saturdays from 9 and a half-price happy hour.
• Estelle, 4439 N Saddlebag Trl. Jocque Concepts’ 5,800-square-foot two-story open-air restaurant for 400, opened December 2025, whose tempo rises after dark; golden-hour and lunar-hour cocktail deals.

Bars with a point of view

• Kill Club, 7318 E Stetson Dr. “Where grit meets glam,” and “hardcore since ‘24” by its own sign: low light, loud music, cheap beer, dart boards downstairs and the Motor Room with its own bar upstairs, 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily.
• Goodwood Tavern, 7330 E Stetson Dr. A pub with craft beer and a kitchen, to 2 a.m. every night.
• The Hot Chick, 4363 N 75th St. Throwback music, arcade cabinets, thirty screens and an LED wall in the old American Junkie, with themed brunches and the Tailgate Time Machine block party every Phoenix Open week.
• Boondocks Patio & Grill, 4341 N 75th St. The Kory brothers’ climate-controlled backyard with pool tables, skee-ball and eighty TVs, in the building that was Drift Lounge and Spanish Fly.
• Zipps Sports Grill, Camelback, 7551 E Camelback Rd. The wings, the golden buffalo sauce, two pool tables and the neighborhood.
• Wayward, 7217 E 4th Ave. The 2026 replacement for Liquor Pig, which closed on May 30, 2026 amid lawsuits between its owners.
• Frasher’s Tavern, 4180 N Drinkwater Blvd, and Tommy V’s, 7303 E Indian School Rd. A steakhouse tavern and an Italian kitchen with a bar, at the district’s quieter edge.
• Shiv Supper Club, 7373 E Camelback Rd. Riot’s fine-dining supper club with nightly entertainment, a dessert room and a dress code, opened May 14, 2025 where The Mint Ultra Lounge was.
• Giligin’s, 4251 N Winfield Scott Plaza. A family-run bar since August 1995 that outlived every club around it; one of the few on the New Times’ 2023 list of legendary venues still pouring. Its website was down every time we tried, so call.
• Low Key Piano Bar, 4251 N Winfield Scott Plaza. Dueling pianos, Wednesday through Saturday by its last posted schedule, from the group whose rooftop, Above All Else, is promised for the old STK; its site was down when we checked.

Craftsman Court and Sixth Avenue, across Scottsdale Road

• Pour Decisions Patio & Kitchen, 4209 N Craftsman Ct. The multi-room day-to-night bar with the Skyline Rooftop Lounge upstairs, since 2023, in the building that was Dos Gringos for nineteen years and Old Town Gringos for three and a half.
• Rockbar Inc., 4245 N Craftsman Ct. Classic rock and live bands since 2011, some of them all-ages.
• Taj Mahal Restaurant & Lounge, 4225 N Craftsman Ct. An Indian restaurant with a lounge on the court.
• Problem Restaurant & Lounge, 7341 E 6th Ave. The restaurant and lounge that opened in July 2026 in the old Barney’s Boathouse with the wide receiver Deebo Samuel among its partners.
• Fox Cigar Bar, 7443 E 6th Ave. A cigar shop and lounge with a full bar and a covered patio, to 2 a.m. daily, since 2015, at the address that was the Roxy Lounge and Dirty Pretty.
• Oasis, 4441 N Buckboard Trl. The district’s hookah bar, with Lebanese food and a full bar, to 2 a.m. on weeknights and 4 a.m. on weekends (the hookah, not the liquor, after 2).
• i-MAD, 4301 N Civic Center Plaza. The hookah lounge with a cocktail menu and a nightly happy hour, 21 and over, closed Mondays; the top-rated hookah room in the city on Yelp.
• Bad Jimmy’s, 7620 E Indian School Rd, Suite 101. The four-location burgers-and-cocktails brand’s room at the district’s eastern edge.
• Clancy’s Pub, 4432 N Miller Rd, Suite 107. A Midwest-rooted neighborhood sports pub descended from an Omaha original; its web domain has lapsed, so call first.

Old Town outside the district: Main Street, Brown Avenue, the Civic Center, Fifth Avenue and Scottsdale Road

This is the other Old Town, the one with ceilings you can hear under. The saloons predate the clubs by half a century, the wine rooms are a 2010s addition, and the Fifth Avenue shops hide the city’s oldest cocktail lineage. The Old Town and Fifth Avenue district guides cover the blocks.

Saloons, taverns and dives

• Rusty Spur Saloon, 7245 E Main St. Scottsdale’s saloon since 1951 in the 1921 Farmers State Bank, the liquor in the vault; live country every day with no cover, from 2 p.m. on weekdays and late morning on weekends. Start here.
• Coach House, 7011 E Indian School Rd. The oldest tavern, one family since 1959, 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. every day of the year, and buried under tens of thousands of Christmas lights from November.
• Pattie’s First Avenue Lounge, 7220 E 1st Ave. Dollar bills on the ceiling, pool, ping-pong and shuffleboard, open seven days from morning; the old-timers still call it Gordy’s.
• Karsen’s Grill, 7246 E 1st St. A short bar and a burger since 1991, the neighborhood’s game-on-the-TV room.
• The Grapevine Restaurant & Karaoke Bar, 4013 N Brown Ave. Karaoke every night since 1971 on two floors; the best karaoke in the Valley by the New Times’ count in 2023 and 2025.
• Old Town Tavern, 7330 E Scottsdale Mall. Paul Mitchell’s musicians’ bar on the Civic Center mall, live music seven nights, a few dollars to the band, no kitchen; it moved next door in 2026 after the council approved its expansion 7 to 0.
• Belle’s Nashville Kitchen, 7212 E Main St. A hot-chicken honky-tonk in the 1953 Lulu Belle building with the vintage back bar intact; music most nights and a honky-tonk brunch.
• Porters Western Saloon, 3944 N Brown Ave. The Halpin family’s 40-seat cocktail saloon in the 1929 post office that was Porter’s Western Wear, with a pop-up room upstairs that changes with the season.
• Rehab Burger Therapy, 7210 E 2nd St. Beach-shack burger bar with boozy shakes; bar-forward, burger-first.
• El Camino, 7133 E Stetson Dr. Jocque Concepts’ smash-burger dive in the Cowboy Ciao building: a four-dollar PBR and a kitchen that runs to midnight.

Cocktail bars, lounges and the hidden doors

• AZ88, 7353 E Scottsdale Mall. Martinis, towering fries and rotating art installations in a glass box on the Civic Center mall, until midnight since 1988, no reservations.
• The Beverly on Main, 7018 E Main St. The unmarked, curtained lounge in the old Mabel Murphy’s room, 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily with a kitchen to 1:30, and a bookshelf door to a 15-seat Secret Room.
• HULA’S Modern Tiki, 7213 E 1st Ave. Scottsdale’s only tiki bar now that the Drunk Munk is gone: rum drinks behind roll-up glass walls, a scratch Hawaiian kitchen and a serious happy hour.
• Cien Agaves, 7228 E 1st Ave. A hundred agave spirits behind the bar of a taqueria that has been on First Avenue since 2007.
• The Mission Old Town, 3815 N Brown Ave. Matt Carter’s candlelit room beside the Old Adobe Mission, with the city’s best mezcal list and a first-come bar.
• Citizen Public House, 7111 E 5th Ave. Bernie Kantak’s gastropub since 2011, the Original Chopped Salad and a bar that takes cocktails seriously; Social Hour 4 to 6.
• Benjamin’s, upstairs at 7111 E 5th Ave. The unsigned private cocktail room above Citizen, booked for groups of two dozen; ask downstairs. Not a walk-in.
• The Ends, 7137 E Stetson Dr. Tommy Plato’s Bourdain-inspired restaurant and bar in the old Kazimierz cave, open since June 2024; the cocktail program descends from his Second Story Liquor Bar.
• The Roost, 7083 E 5th Ave. A few stools and cold beer at the back of the Rooster Bus western-wear shop. The smallest bar in the city.
• Not My First Rodeo, 7150 E 6th Ave. A country bar and Nashville hot-chicken kitchen in the old Geisha A Go Go space since December 2024, open to 2 a.m. Thursday through Saturday, no cover. Its adjoining Copy Cat Saloon in Suite A is the bottle-service and private-party room.
• 40 Love, 7117 E 6th Ave. The 7,000-square-foot tennis-club restaurant and lounge that took Kelly’s old SouthBridge space in December 2025, with partners including Niall Horan and DeAndre Hopkins; late-night kitchen on weekends.
• Pistoleros Parrilla, 4333 N Civic Center Plaza. The Boondocks brothers’ mesquite-grill steakhouse with a second-story patio and the Pisto Lounge running late on weekends.
• Social Tap Eatery and The Balcony, 4312 N Brown Ave. A two-level sports bar in the old Firehouse and Mickey’s Hangover building, with an 1,800-square-foot rooftop lounge, fireplace and DJ booth upstairs since 2019.
• House Rules, 7232 E 1st St. The “competition bar” that opened at the end of May 2024 as Lane Park and took its new name within the year: ice curling, duckpin bowling, axe throwing and sapo with a full bar and a scratch kitchen, happy hour Sunday through Wednesday 4 to 6, closed Mondays; the LumberjAxes axe-throwing operation merged into it, and a Las Vegas outpost opens in November 2026.
• Marcellino Ristorante, 7114 E Stetson Dr. A restaurant, not a bar, listed for the jazz trio and opera nights on Thursdays and Saturdays.

Arizona wine rooms and wine bars

The Old Town Wine Trail is a real thing and a real afternoon; the wine tasting guide ranks the rooms. The full roster in October 2026:

• LDV Winery, 7134 E Stetson Dr, Suite B110, at SouthBridge. Peggy Fiandaca and Curt Dunham’s Chiricahua-foothills Rhônes; four wines for about $20, two patios, happy hour Monday through Thursday 3 to 6.
• Carlson Creek Vineyard, 4142 N Marshall Way. A Willcox winery in a former gallery with a 20-foot copper bar; five wines for $25.
• Aridus Wine Company, 7173 E Main St. Seated guided tastings that rotate monthly, from the Willcox estate in an old apple warehouse.
• Salvatore Vineyards, 7103 E Stetson Dr. The Domanico family’s reserve label under chandeliers across from the Bronze Horse Fountain; Italian varietals.
• Passion Cellars, 7064 E 5th Ave. The same family’s drink-now label in a sofa-and-chandelier room; it was missing from the 2026 wine-trail map, so call first.
• Los Milics Vineyards, 7045 E 3rd Ave, Suite 101. Pavle and Ita Milic’s Elgin estate closed its first Old Town room in August 2026 and reopened at Marshall Way and Third in October with two patios and a mozzarella bar that pulls the cheese in front of you.
• The Wine Collective of Scottsdale, 4020 N Scottsdale Rd, Suite 104. Zoya Vora-Shah’s all-Arizona tasting room and bottle shop since April 2022: thirty to forty state wines by flight, glass or bottle, a covered dog-friendly patio and a monthly meet-the-winemaker night. The best single introduction to Arizona wine in the city.
• Jamie’s Bottle Shop, 7033 E Main St. Jamie Hormel’s 700-label shop and bar, open since March 2025, with a window bar on Main and a locked reserve room; the New Times put it on its 2025 top-100 bars.
• Wine Girl, 4205 N Scottsdale Rd. Pink, photo-built, wine on tap, thousands of bachelorette parties a year since 2020.
• FnB, 7125 E 5th Ave. A restaurant, listed because its wine list is all Arizona.

Beer, beer gardens and the distillery

• Goldwater Brewing Co., 3608 N Scottsdale Rd. Old Town’s own brewery since 2015, twelve to twenty house beers from the tanks, and the below-street Draft Mine taproom. There is no second Scottsdale taproom; the others are in Mesa and Tempe.
• Brat Haus, 3622 N Scottsdale Rd. Gravel, trees, 28 craft taps, scratch brats, ping-pong and giant Jenga, dogs welcome.
• Sip Coffee & Beer House, 3617 N Goldwater Blvd. Espresso until the afternoon, Arizona pints after, open mics, next door to Goldwater.
• Craft 64, 6922 E Main St. Thirty taps, about ten of them now brewed in-house, beside a top-fifty pizza oven.
• Loco Patron, 4228 N Scottsdale Rd. A cantina that brews its own beer, a big patio and the cheapest margaritas on lower Scottsdale Road.
• One Handsome Bastard, 7042 E Indian School Rd. Trish and Bren Ritchie distill vodka and gin on site in the old Blue Clover Distillery space, since February 2024, with live music and DJ nights. The brewery guide covers the beer end of this list in depth.

Sports bars and the Scottsdale Road strip

• Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers, 4222 N Scottsdale Rd. Thirty screens and a deep beer list; the chain’s Old Town anchor.
• Barstool Scottsdale, 4321 N Scottsdale Rd. Two floors, fifty-plus TVs and live music seven days in the old Saddle Ranch and Two Brothers building, since December 2022; Saturday doors at 8:30 a.m.
• The Montauk, 4360 N Scottsdale Rd. A Hamptons beach house with frozen drinks and a DJ brunch on weekends.
• Bourbon & Bones, 4200 N Scottsdale Rd. A steakhouse with 600 whiskeys and the quietest serious bar on the street.
• STK Steakhouse, 3815 N Scottsdale Rd. The steakhouse-lounge with a DJ moved into the original RA Sushi in late 2025 after closing its Stetson Drive room; two happy hours, open from 2:30.
• Diego Pops, 4338 N Scottsdale Rd. A pink taco shack with margaritas; listed for the happy hour.

Hotel bars in and around downtown

• ZuZu and the OH Pool Bar, Hotel Valley Ho, 6850 E Main St. The 1956 hotel’s mid-century lounge and the pool bar that hosts weekend DJ parties through September; day passes for non-guests.
• Straight Up, Hotel Adeline, 5101 N Scottsdale Rd. Pick up the lobby phone booth, say the year Prohibition ended, and the wall opens on a whiskey bar; nightly from 7. Freestyle is the hotel’s pool bar, home of the Liquid Sunshine Saturday parties.
• Outrider Rooftop Lounge and Cobre, Canopy by Hilton, 7142 E 1st St. The seventh-floor rooftop with the Camelback view, first-come, 21 and over after 9, and a Saturday DJ residency through December; Cobre is the lobby bar downstairs.
• Cielito and the AC Lounge, AC Hotel Scottsdale Old Town, 7117 E 3rd Ave. The sixth-floor rooftop that opened in February 2026 on the ground where the Cajun House stood; agave cocktails, a 14-seat bar and pool-deck seats, bar to midnight.
• The Canal Club, The Scott Resort, 4925 N Scottsdale Rd. Rum cocktails in a 1930s Cuban-colonial room from 7 a.m. to midnight, and a poolside bar with fire pits. The Executive House Arizonian’s Fountain Room and La Roca lounge poured on this ground in the 1960s.
• Hotel Solaya pool deck, 4000 N Drinkwater Blvd. The former Saguaro’s remodeled pool with cabanas and frozen drinks, which threw its first pool party in September 2026. Jose Garces’ Old Town Whiskey was the hotel’s lounge until about 2015.
• Virtù Honest Craft at the Bespoke Inn, 3701 N Marshall Way. A courtyard restaurant with a Wine Spectator list, not a bar; the inn has no standalone one.

The Waterfront, Fashion Square and the Camelback hotels

The canal bank and the mall’s rebuilt south wing are where the polished version of a night out lives: lounges inside restaurants, a rooftop over a casino-company hotel, and a movie theater with a bar on its roof. The Waterfront, SouthBridge and Fashion Square guides have the maps.

• Culinary Dropout, 7135 E Camelback Rd. Fox Restaurant Concepts’ beer hall on the canal, yard games, live music, pretzel fondue; the group-hang default.
• Hand Cut Chophouse, 7135 E Camelback Rd, Suite 154. Riot Hospitality’s chophouse with live music and a canal-side happy hour.
• Postino Highland, 4821 N Scottsdale Rd at Highland. The bruschetta-board wine café in the old Valley National Bank, north of the mall; glasses are cheap before 5.
• Mastro’s City Hall, 6991 E Camelback Rd. Live music in the bar every night, and the loudest room in Old Town during spring training and Barrett-Jackson week.
• Toca Madera, 4736 N Goldwater Blvd. Theatrical mezcal cocktails, torched tomahawks and a DJ booth; a dinner that behaves like a club.
• Society Swan, Scottsdale Fashion Square, lower level of the Nordstrom wing. Sam Fox’s brasserie since October 15, 2025, all-day service and a martini happy hour upstairs on weekdays 3 to 6; the espresso martini with salted cold foam and burnt banana is the drink of the wing.
• Bar Bambino, inside Élephante, 7014 E Camelback Rd, Suite 601. The bronze-ceilinged, green-velvet bar behind the coastal-Italian restaurant, redesigned in November 2025, Thursday through Sunday from 6 with DJs late.
• The Emerald Lounge, inside Catch, Fashion Square’s Nordstrom wing. The seafood house’s late bar, Fridays and Saturdays from 8 p.m. since March 2026.
• Vérité Lounge, Harkins Camelview at Fashion Square. The theater’s lobby bar with an indoor-outdoor rooftop terrace, open since the cinema’s December 2015 debut; the only movie-theater bar in Old Town.
• Moxies, Fashion Square, Level 1. The Canadian chain’s first Arizona room, a cocktail lounge and patio since August 2023; it is also on the late-night food list.
• Telefèric Barcelona, Fashion Square, lower level. Pintxos, paella and a long Spanish wine list since February 2026; a restaurant with a tapas bar worth sitting at.
• Luna by Giada, Wolf by Vanderpump, the Camelback Veranda, the WOLF Pool and Cleopatra’s Pool, Caesars Republic Scottsdale, 4747 N Goldwater Blvd. The first non-gaming Caesars opened in March 2024 with Giada De Laurentiis on the ground floor; Lisa Vanderpump’s 6,500-square-foot restaurant and bar on the seventh and eighth floors had its grand opening on December 16, 2025, with a 180-degree Camelback view, an eighth-floor veranda that serves drinks only from 3 to 10, a rooftop pool bar, and Saturday pool parties downstairs. The rooftop guide sorts the views.
• Sonora Swim Club and Cala, Senna House, 7501 E Camelback Rd. The upstairs pool bar and Beau MacMillan’s restaurant on the ground where Don & Charlie’s stood; the bar’s 2026 hours were not published anywhere we could find, so call.
• 3rd Avenue Grill, Scottsdale Marriott Old Town, 7325 E 3rd Ave. A hotel bar with a 3-to-5 happy hour; the kind of room you use because it is there.

South Scottsdale: the dives, the brewery and the punk room

South of Osborn the bars get older, cheaper and better, which is why the dive bar guide spends most of its time here. The South Scottsdale district guide explains the neighborhood.

• TT Roadhouse, 2915 N 68th St. The best dive in the city: a building that has been a bar since 1962, the current name since 1995 for the Isle of Man motorcycle race, punks and bikers and indie kids, pool, darts, a bicycle night and a bike night, the five-dollar Trash Can, noon to 2 a.m. every day, no kitchen, and the New Times’ best neighborhood bar in Scottsdale three times over.
• The Well Bar, 2623 N Scottsdale Rd. John Marston’s dive in a former Pizza Hut, 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. including holidays, the Valley’s Oregon Ducks bar since 2006, a power hour from 10 to 11 in the morning, and a misted patio right on the road.
• Roadrunner Lounge, 3219 N Hayden Rd. The New Times’ best dive bar of 2009 and 2022: 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. every day, a country jukebox, googly eyes and patron photos on the walls, a wall of board games, a Crock-Pot potluck table, karaoke Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10. Run for years by Willie and Cassie Franano, mother and daughter; the current owners kept it exactly as it was.
• Tallyho Cocktail Lounge, 8479 E McDonald Dr, behind the Walgreens at Hayden and McDonald. Cash only, with an ATM inside; darts, pool, a celebrated jukebox, open from 9 or 10 in the morning to 2 a.m. The New Times once noted the red T knocked out of the sign, approvingly.
• Playa Bar, 1615 N Granite Reef Rd. A cash-friendly dive at Granite Reef and McDowell with pool tables, a jukebox and a dog-friendly patio. Nobody has written its history, which is a recommendation.
• El Dorado Bar & Grill, 8708 E McDowell Rd. A roadhouse on the McDowell strip with karaoke most nights and a Wednesday blues jam; bikers and regulars. Hours vary by day, so call.
• Phở Cao, 7436 E McDowell Rd. A Vietnamese restaurant with a dive-bar room and a pool table: weekly blues jams, a Tuesday open mic, Thursday karaoke and bands on the weekend. The pho is the reason the room is full.
• Pub Rock Live, 8005 E Roosevelt St. The windowless punk and metal room that has been a music venue since the mid-1990s as the Atomic Cafe, then Chasers from 1998, then Pub Rock from about 2012 under owner Nancy Stevens: a few hundred capacity, Crowbar and Jello Biafra on the past bills, and the Arizona Chiefs fans’ bar every football Sunday. The live music guide has the rest of the week.
• Duke’s Sports Bar & Grill, 7607 E McDowell Rd. Al and Jackie McCarthy’s father-and-daughter sports bar since 1998, backing onto the Greenbelt and the disc-golf course; pool, shuffleboard, foosball, ribs.
• Fate Brewing Company, 1312 N Scottsdale Rd. Steve Fate’s 11,000-square-foot brewpub since 2015, medals from the Great American Beer Festival and a wood-fired oven; the original Shea Boulevard brewpub where the company started in 2012 has closed, so this is Fate in Scottsdale.
• Night Owl Pizza & Drinks, 1645 N Hayden Rd. Genuine Concepts’ pizza bar since 2023, twelve taps, pinball and a twinkle-lit patio at Hayden and McDowell.
• Carlsbad Tavern, 3313 N Hayden Rd. The cave-themed New Mexican tavern with a lagoon patio since 1995, happy hour 2 to 6 daily and a kitchen to 2 a.m. on weekends.
• The Salt Cellar’s Oyster Bar, 550 N Hayden Rd. Two flights underground since 1971, wood-paneled, with two happy hours a night, 4 to 7 and 9 to 11. The city’s accidental speakeasy.
• Revive, Element Scottsdale at SkySong, 1345 N Scottsdale Rd. The lobby bar of the hotel on the old Los Arcos Mall site. SkySong’s one real bar, Bitters, opened in 2017 and was listed as closed by spring 2026.
• Papago Plaza has no bar since Papago Brewing and the plaza itself were razed in 2019; the redevelopment’s named tenants so far are a bank, a nutrition shop and a nail salon.

Central Scottsdale: McCormick Ranch, Gainey, Hayden and the Shea corridor

The middle of the city drinks in neighborhood sports bars, two speakeasies and the resorts along the Paradise Valley line. District guides: McCormick Ranch, Gainey Ranch, Shea Corridor, Scottsdale Ranch and Central Scottsdale.

McCormick Ranch and Mercado del Lago

• The Goose, 8300 N Hayden Rd, Suite F101, inside Crust Simply Italian at Mercado del Lago. A 42-seat Art Deco speakeasy since April 2024; look up for the golden goose. Sunday through Thursday 5 to 10, weekends to midnight.
• The Madam, the Social Boardroom, La Fogata and Barnaby’s, The Scottsdale Resort & Spa, 7700 E McCormick Pkwy. The resort’s 2024 remake replaced Kitchen West and Bar Six40 with a password speakeasy for eight behind a bookshelf, a games lounge with pool and shuffleboard that holds the bookshelf, a Sonoran restaurant bar open to midnight, and a café that turns into an Arizona wine bar at night.
• Zipps Sports Grill, Hayden, 8380 E Via de Ventura. The original Zipps, a neighborhood spot for about 25 years at Hayden and Via de Ventura, with a 21-and-over lounge and the spring-training crowd from Salt River Fields.
• The Vig McCormick Ranch, 7345 N Via Paseo del Sur. Genuine Concepts’ backyard tavern since 2014, bocce and lawn games; the only Vig inside the city until the Bell Road one, below.
• Grassroots Kitchen & Tap, 8120 N Hayden Rd. Christopher Collins’ bourbon-forward neighborhood tavern.
• Collins Brothers Public House, 8220 N Hayden Rd. Collins converted Twisted Grove into a chophouse in July 2022 and has since renamed it a public house; a restaurant with a bar, reviewed into October 2026.
• Vecina, 8300 N Hayden Rd, Suite D101. James and Raenee Fox’s Latin American kitchen took the Z’Tejas space at Mercado del Lago in August 2026, with a 4-to-6 happy hour.
• The McCormick Scottsdale, 7401 N Scottsdale Rd. The lakeside resort has a lounge and a poolside cabana bar; their current names were not published anywhere we could reach.

Gainey Ranch and the Shops at Gainey Village

• Grand Vista Lounge, Sandbar and H2Oasis, Grand Hyatt Scottsdale, 7500 E Doubletree Ranch Rd. The 2024 rebrand of the Hyatt Regency at Gainey Ranch replaced Center Stage Bar, The Grotto, Alto and SWB with a grand-hotel lobby lounge over the lake, a family-pool bar and a Polynesian-leaning adults-pool bar.
• Wally’s American Gastropub, 7704 E Doubletree Ranch Rd. Collins again, in the Shops at Gainey Ranch; the Happiest Hour runs 3 to 6.
• SunSet Wine Bistro, 8787 N Scottsdale Rd, Unit 228, at the Shops at Gainey Village. Romain Lauro’s 14-wine bistro since January 2023, Monday through Saturday 4 to 9, closed Sunday.
• Village Tavern, 8787 N Scottsdale Rd. The regional tavern chain’s full-bar room in the same center.
• Fleming’s at the Hilton Scottsdale Resort & Villas, 6333 N Scottsdale Rd, and the resort’s new Salt & Sol, an open-air pool bar and restaurant among the palms from the 2026 renovation, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., open to the public.
• Asadero Cocina & Cantina and the Azure pool bar, DoubleTree Paradise Valley, 5401 N Scottsdale Rd. A cantina bar from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and a seasonal pool bar.
• Embassy Suites Scottsdale Resort, 5001 N Scottsdale Rd. A lobby lounge with a happy hour and two pool bars in the old Chaparral Suites; the bar names were not published.

The Shea corridor, Via Linda and Scottsdale Ranch

• Handlebar J, 7116 E Becker Ln. The Herndon family’s rib house and honky-tonk since 1975 in a building that opened in the early 1960s as Wild Bill’s, where a young Waylon Jennings played; the Herndon Brothers six nights a week and free dance lessons on Wednesdays. The country bars guide builds a night around it.
• Ernie’s Inn, 10443 N Scottsdale Rd. Family-owned since 1973 at Scottsdale and Shea: karaoke every night, a partly open ceiling so you can smoke indoors and see stars, pool, darts, shuffleboard, 2 p.m. to 2 a.m., 21 and over. The New Times’ best dive bar of 2021.
• Dirty Dogg Saloon, 10409 N Scottsdale Rd. The rock-and-roll biker bar in the strip with Oregano’s: live bands, a smoking patio, pool and shuffleboard, Arizona Bike Week’s headquarters, a no-colors policy, Tuesday through Saturday to 2 a.m.
• JING, 10605 N Scottsdale Rd. The $11 million glam-Asian restaurant that opened in December 2025 at the corner of Scottsdale and Shea, with a late-night lounge.
• 92 Drinks + Eats, 9160 E Shea Blvd, Suite 113. The corner bar at Shea and 92nd for more than thirty years, formerly the 92nd Street Cafe & Bar: karaoke Fridays and Saturdays at 9, free bingo Tuesdays, a Friday fish fry, to 2 a.m. on weekends.
• Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers, Pima Crossing, 8624 E Shea Blvd. The Bamboo Club’s old space at Shea and the 101, since September 2019.
• Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers, 116th Street, 10767 N 116th St. The chain’s easternmost room, happy hour weekdays 3 to 6, weekend doors at 9 a.m.
• Goldie’s Sports Cafe, 10135 E Via Linda, Suite E123, at the Mercado at Scottsdale Ranch. The Zipps family’s other brand, family-owned since 1993: a kids’ arcade downstairs, an adults-only upstairs with pool, darts and shuffleboard, and a misted patio across from Scottsdale Ranch Park.
• Tavern Grille, 8880 E Via Linda. The lodge-style sports tavern that was Teakwoods Tavern & Grill, same address and phone, weekend breakfast from 10.
• Ling & Louie’s, 9397 E Shea Blvd. The Asian bar-and-grill chain’s original, since 2008; listed for the happy hour.
• Huqqa, 10305 N Scottsdale Rd. The Shea-corridor hookah lounge, with cocktails, open from 9 a.m. to midnight or 2 a.m. depending on the night.

The Camelback corridor resorts on the Paradise Valley line

The resorts along Lincoln and McDonald west of Scottsdale Road are mostly Paradise Valley by law and Scottsdale by every brochure, while the Phoenician and the Andaz sit inside the city line; the site’s Camelback Corridor guide claims them all, and every bar here welcomes non-guests.

• Thirsty Camel, J&G Steakhouse’s bar, Mowry & Cotton’s bar, the Phoenician Tavern and the pool bars, The Phoenician, 6000 E Camelback Rd. The agave-focused lobby lounge with the fire-pit patio and the valley view, daily 2 p.m. to midnight; Jean-Georges’ sunset bar facing Camelback; and the golf-clubhouse tavern with dueling pianos on Fridays and Saturdays from 8 to 10.
• jade bar, Sanctuary Camelback Mountain, 5700 E McDonald Dr. The best sunset bar in the Valley, beside Elements: floor-to-ceiling glass over Paradise Valley, sushi from 3, happy hour 3 to 6, walk-in only, no reservations.
• Hearth ‘61’s bar and Rusty’s at the Short Course, Mountain Shadows, 5445 E Lincoln Dr. A Friday sunset Champagne ritual on the patio, and a par-3 bar and grill from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. beside the adults-only pool.
• Weft & Warp and the Turquoise Pool bar, Andaz Scottsdale, 6114 N Scottsdale Rd. The art-studio bar over the pool with live music on weekend evenings, and a pool bar pouring margarita pitchers until 6.
• LON’s Last Drop, The Hermosa Inn, 5532 N Palo Cristi Rd. The bar in Lon Megargee’s 1930s adobe with five outdoor fireplaces and Camelback in the frame, 11 a.m. to 10, happy hour 3 to 6.
• Mbar and Prado’s bar, Omni Montelucia, 4949 E Lincoln Dr. The Andalusian resort’s lounge, 4 to 11 or midnight, no reservations, free daytime parking for bar guests.
• Rita’s Cantina, Lincoln Steakhouse’s bar, Tavern 37 and Hoppin’ Jacks, JW Marriott Camelback Inn, 5402 E Lincoln Dr. Margaritas on the stone patio with live music Thursday through Saturday and a bar open to midnight; the steakhouse bar with a 4-to-5:30 happy hour; an open-air sports lounge at the golf club; and the Jackrabbit Pool’s grill bar.
• Hecho Libre lobby bar and the Cima Pool Bar, Kimpton Miralina, 7200 N Scottsdale Rd. The first phase of the old Scottsdale Plaza Resort reopened on January 5, 2026 with chef Wes Avila’s Baja-Sonoran restaurant and its lobby bar; the jazz lounge Remington’s, which played there for thirty years, is gone. Katsuya arrives with the villas in 2027.

North Scottsdale: Kierland, the Quarter, the Airpark, DC Ranch and Pinnacle Peak

North of the 101 the bars are in shopping districts, golf clubhouses and resorts, and the three best rooms are hidden on purpose. District guides: Kierland & the Quarter, the Airpark, Princess & WestWorld, Grayhawk, DC Ranch, Pinnacle Peak & Troon, Troon and North Scottsdale.

Scottsdale Quarter (inside the city) and Kierland Commons (a Scottsdale address in Phoenix)

• Dominick’s Steakhouse, 15169 N Scottsdale Rd. A rooftop pool bar on a steakhouse, which is the Quarter in one sentence.
• Eddie V’s, 15323 N Scottsdale Rd, Suite E160. Live jazz nightly in the V Lounge.
• Culinary Dropout at the Quarter, 15323 N Scottsdale Rd. The north copy of the Waterfront beer hall, with the same live music and patio; the site’s guide covers the Old Town one.
• Zinburger, 15257 N Scottsdale Rd, Suite F150. Fox’s burger-and-wine bar, happy hour weekdays 3 to 6.
• Puttshack, 15059 N Scottsdale Rd. Two stories of tech mini-golf with a big cocktail bar since June 2023, 21 and over after 8 p.m., nine-dollar rounds after 9 on Thursday through Saturday.
• SOL Mexican Cocina, 15323 N Scottsdale Rd. A Baja cantina with a big margarita bar.
• The Guest House, 15301 N Scottsdale Rd. The vibey steakhouse in the old Etta.
• Sorso Wine Room, the Quarter’s self-serve wine wall, closed in April 2025 after ten years; nothing has replaced it.
• Zipps Sports Grill, Kierland, 6501 E Greenway Pkwy, Phoenix side. The largest of the chain’s fourteen rooms since its December 2022 rebuild: two dining rooms, a 21-and-over lounge, pool tables, shuffleboard, and the only Zipps north of Shea since the Frank Lloyd Wright room closed in June 2026.
• Bar NoRTH at North Italia, Mastro’s Ocean Club’s piano lounge, Zinc Bistro’s zinc bar, The Mission Kierland’s tequila bar, Morton’s, Tommy Bahama and Postino Kierland, all at Kierland Commons, Phoenix side. Restaurants with bars worth sitting at; Postino’s glasses are cheap before 5.
• Antidote, the Scotch Library, J. Swilling’s pool bar and Brittlebush, The Westin Kierland, 6902 E Greenway Pkwy, Phoenix side. The resort’s 2026 renovation keeps Antidote, the open-air sports patio it calls the largest in Scottsdale, closes the Scotch Library until fall 2026 for an expansion to about 450 bottles, adds a hidden speakeasy and a three-tier lobby bar that replaces Dreamy Draw, and puts Faro & Brag where Nellie Cashman’s was. Brittlebush is the golf club’s public bar at 15636 N Clubgate Dr, with a bagpiper at sunset.

Thunderbird, Bell Road and the Princess

• T-Bird Tavern, 13802 N Scottsdale Rd, Suite 101, Phoenix side. A new laid-back tavern at Scottsdale and Thunderbird with a chef’s menu and a jukebox, to 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
• The Rooster Tavern, 14202 N Scottsdale Rd, Unit 104, Phoenix side. A “luxury neighborhood dive” with live music, trivia, bingo and Chiefs watch parties.
• DraftKings Sportsbook at TPC Scottsdale, 8129 E Bell Rd. About 390 seats, twelve taps, 32 betting kiosks, patios with cabanas and fire pits, year-round; the restaurant is all ages and the wagering lounge is 21 and over. The only retail sportsbook bar in the city outside the reservation.
• Champions Patio Bar, TPC Scottsdale, 17020 N Hayden Rd. Over the ninth green of the Champions Course.
• Toro, the TPC clubhouse. Richard Sandoval’s Latin restaurant and rum bar over the Stadium Course’s 18th green, with fire dancers on weekend nights and a DJ at brunch.
• The Plaza Bar, Bourbon Steak’s lounge, La Hacienda’s tequila bar and The Social, Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, 7575 E Princess Dr. The indoor-outdoor living room with fire pits, a humidor and cocktails on tap, from 4 or 4:30 to midnight; Michael Mina’s whiskey cart; a bar of more than 200 tequilas; and the pool café. The Princess is the Phoenix Open’s hotel, and in February every one of these rooms is a scene.

The Airpark, Raintree and the Promenade

• K O’Donnell’s Sports Bar & Grill, 14850 N Northsight Blvd. Kevin O’Donnell’s bar since 2005, now run by his daughter Jennifer: 75 screens, a big patio, team trivia, a late happy hour from 9:30 on Wednesday through Saturday, and the Arizona Republic’s best sports bar in 2024 and 2025.
• Pinnacle Brewing Company, 15111 N Hayden Rd, Suite 100. Bob and Wyatt Wilson’s family brewery in a former gas station at Hayden and 82nd since May 2024, with a dog-friendly biergarten and a food truck; the first brewery to open in the city since Grayhawk Beer Company in 2017, and the only one north of Old Town.
• Twin Peaks, 8787 E Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd. The chain’s lodge at Hayden and Frank Lloyd Wright, happy hour 3 to 6 and 10 to close.
• Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant, 7361 E Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd, at the Promenade. The wine-club chain’s tasting room, open seven days.
• Desert Rock Winery & Distillery, 7302 E Helm Dr, Suite 1002. A Sonoma transplant making wine, vodka, whiskey and rum in the Airpark; public tastings Thursday through Saturday 2 to 7, $18 for four pours.
• Su Vino Winery, 16099 N 82nd St, Suite B9. The urban winery that left Main Street for the Airpark pours by appointment only; call before you drive.
• The Capital Grille, 16489 N Scottsdale Rd. Stoli Dolis at the bar.
• Raintree Lounge, Holiday Inn & Suites Scottsdale North, Airpark, 7515 E Butherus Dr. A hotel bar, 4 to 10, with a 4:30-to-6:30 happy hour.
• AGAVE Bar & Grill, Scottsdale Marriott at McDowell Mountains, 16770 N Perimeter Dr. The hotel’s only bar.

The Scottsdale Road corridor at the 101

• Tell Your Friends, 17797 N Scottsdale Rd, two flights beneath The Americano. The one everybody means when they say “the Scottsdale speakeasy”: 52 seats, crimson velvet, live jazz Thursday through Sunday with a small cover, Beau MacMillan’s bites, cocktail attire. Reserve a month out.
• Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers, North Scottsdale, 18529 N Scottsdale Rd, Suite 121. Square One Concepts’ north room, forty taps, pound-plus burgers, boozy shakes, happy hour weekdays 3 to 6. It began a mile north in Grayhawk Plaza, where Grayhawk Beer Company later came and went.
• Sushi Brokers, 17025 N Scottsdale Rd, Suite 190. A happy-hour sushi bar since 2000.
• Local Bistro, 20581 N Hayden Rd. A neighborhood bistro with a bar.
• The Henry, the southwest corner of the 101 and Scottsdale Road. Fox’s big all-day room opened March 18, 2026 on the Phoenix side of the line, with a bar and a walk-up coffee bar.
• Kuza, 17767 N Scottsdale Rd, Suite 100. Clive Collective’s robata and raw-bar restaurant opened September 16, 2026 in the space that was Chauncey Social, the Corieris’ north-Scottsdale nightclub, from December 2019 until April 1, 2025.

Grayhawk, McDowell Mountain Ranch and DC Ranch

• Phil’s Grill, Grayhawk Golf Club, 8620 E Thompson Peak Pkwy. The 19th-hole sports pub named for Phil Mickelson, open to everyone, with a campfire lounge outside; hours follow the course, so check.
• The Vig McDowell Mountain, 10199 E Bell Rd. A stand-alone, Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired tavern at Bell and Thompson Peak since June 2017, with lawn games and weekend brunch.
• Bonfire Craft Kitchen & Tap House, 14148 N 100th St. The Arizona tap-house group’s third room opened in fall 2026 in the Zipps that closed on June 1.
• Thompson 105, 10401 E McDowell Mountain Ranch Rd, Suite 160. A wood-fired rotisserie and bar in the old Twisted Lizard Tavern, happy hour weekdays 3 to 6.
• The Living Room and The Peacock at DC Ranch, 20751 N Pima Rd, Market Street at DC Ranch. Tom Kaufman’s wine café and lounge, about seventeen years old, and the peacock-feathered speakeasy behind its bookcase, with a sax-and-piano duo on Thursdays. The Gainey Ranch Living Room of 2017 is gone; this is the only one.
• All American Modern Sports Grill, 20751 N Pima Rd, Suite 105. An upscale sports grill on Market Street since 2014 with a whiskey bar it calls Cask 53.
• Fleming’s DC Ranch, 20753 N Pima Rd, and Pescada’s raw bar, 20707 N Pima Rd. Restaurants with bars.
• Cedar Room Fine Cigars & Lounge, 20715 N Pima Rd, Suite F100. Beer, wine, a large patio and a deep humidor; the north’s cigar lounge.

Pinnacle Peak, Troon and the far north

• Mastro’s Steakhouse, 8852 E Pinnacle Peak Rd. The original, since 1999, with the piano bar.
• Raven Gastropub, 8900 E Pinnacle Peak Rd, Suite B1. A dark, Poe-themed neighborhood pub at Pima and Pinnacle Peak since July 2018; the Black Raven and the Nevermore at the bar, happy hour daily 3 to 6, closed Sundays.
• Belmont Kitchen & Cocktails, 8876 E Pinnacle Peak Rd, Suite 100. A cocktail-first American room in a former bagel shop since February 2025, happy hour 3 to 6, and a $1,000-a-head chef’s table from November 2026.
• Jalapeño Inferno, 23587 N Scottsdale Rd, and its take-out cantina at 7605 E Pinnacle Peak Rd. The Pinnacle Peak Mexican standby’s full bar and creekside patio, and the Miller Road cantina in what was Rhythm & Wine.
• Dynamite Grille, Troon North Golf Club, 10320 E Dynamite Blvd. Open to the public daily 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., full bar, happy hour 3 to 6, Tuesday taco and margarita night.
• Onyx Bar & Lounge, Saguaro Blossom and Proof’s bar, Four Seasons Scottsdale at Troon North, 10600 E Crescent Moon Dr. The sunset patio facing Pinnacle Peak, with summer stargazing nights and local musicians on weekends; the pool bar; and the Western canteen. Walk-ins welcome.
• Liberty Station American Tavern & Smokehouse, 34522 N Scottsdale Rd, Suite 180, Terravita Marketplace. The Keeler family’s Boston-rooted tavern at Scottsdale Road and Carefree Highway since 2016, a smoker on display off the patio, bar from 11 a.m. to last call, the Happiest Hour 3 to 6, and the anchor for every neighborhood up here.
• Poppy’s Office, 34522 N Scottsdale Rd, next door. The northernmost bar on Scottsdale Road, opened October 17, 2023 by Matt Keeler as a tribute to his father Paul: the entry is a replica of Paul’s office, the bookcase swings open on 1,500 square feet of leather and low light, and the tacos come from Liberty Station. Evenings, closed Mondays.
• Discovery Lounge, the Grill’s deck bar and Spotted Donkey Cantina, The Boulders, 34631 N Tom Darlington Dr and El Pedregal. The lobby lounge with floor-to-ceiling sunset windows, a humidor and outdoor fireplaces, to 11 or midnight; the golf clubhouse deck; and the tequila cantina at El Pedregal with 46 tequilas and a Wednesday-to-Sunday happy hour. The Boulders carries a Scottsdale address at the Carefree line.

Talking Stick and the Salt River reservation

Everything on Talking Stick Way and 92nd Street is on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community with a Scottsdale address, which is why the casino can run a bar that never closes. The Talking Stick district guide explains the line.

• Palo Verde Lounge, the Showroom Bar, Orange Sky Lounge, Arena Poker Bar, Sage Bar, the Fire Garden and Sunwatcher, Talking Stick Resort, 9800 E Talking Stick Way. The casino-level lounge with live music and dancing, 10 a.m. to 2 a.m.; the quick bar by the east garage with a drop-down screen and free bands on Friday and Saturday nights; the fifteenth-floor lounge with live music Fridays and Saturdays 7 to 11; two casino-floor bars; a 24-hour outdoor fire-pit lounge; and the pool bar, whose stage hosts the 21-and-over Vibe by the Pool parties. Degree 270, the fourteenth-floor nightclub, is no longer on the resort’s own list, and neither is the Shadows cigar and martini bar.
• CAZ Sports Bar, Cholla Prime’s lounge and the Showroom, Casino Arizona, 524 N 92nd St. A sportsbook bar with 46 screens and a weekday happy hour, a steakhouse lounge from 4:30, and free live entertainment after the ticketed shows on Fridays and Saturdays from 10 to 2.
• Topgolf Scottsdale at Riverwalk, 9500 E Talking Stick Way. Three levels of hitting bays, a sports bar and a rooftop terrace, to 1 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays; under-18s need a 21-and-over guest after 9.
• Octane Raceway’s Brickyard Grill, 9119 E Talking Stick Way. A full bar beside the indoor-outdoor kart track, with axe throwing and VR, to midnight on weekends.
• Mavrix, 9139 E Talking Stick Way. Bowlero’s 22-lane bowling, arcade, laser-tag and billiards hall with a full bar and a weekday happy hour from noon to 4.
• Medieval Times, 9051 E Via de Ventura. A castle with a full bar in the Hall of Arms before the show.
• Barnwood and The Watering Hole, Great Wolf Lodge, 7333 N Pima Rd. The lodge’s dinner-only lounge, and a swim-up bar inside the water park for guests only.
• The Pavilions has no standalone bar; Thirsty Lion, which people assume is there, has no Scottsdale location.

Opening next

Announced, permitted or under construction as of October 2026, in the order we expect them:

• Alma and the Copper Club rooftop, 8700 E Pinnacle Peak Rd at The Citadel. Soul Hospitality’s wood-fired steakhouse, rooftop lounge and tequila-and-mezcal bar in the old Preston’s, taking reservations from November 2.
• General Admission, 3737 N Scottsdale Rd. A Los Angeles sports-viewing gastropub in the RnR Gastropub space, promised for fall 2026.
• The Westin Kierland’s speakeasy and lobby bar, with the expanded Scotch Library, fall 2026.
• Drake’s Hollywood, 3828 N Scottsdale Rd. An 8,000-square-foot old-Hollywood room with red booths and a valet-only entrance in the former Buca di Beppo, still “coming soon” on its own site after a promised early-2026 opening.
• BOA Steakhouse and Above All Else, 7134 E Stetson Dr. The ground floor and the 6,000-square-foot rooftop of the old STK, split between Sushi Roku’s parent and the Low Key Piano Bar’s owner; neither had confirmed an opening date.
• Ari & Lloyd, 7107 E 6th Ave. A restaurant and cocktail lounge pair in a former cabinetry showroom, targeted for summer 2026 and still coming soon.
• Katsuya at Kimpton Miralina, early 2027; City Winery at the Sydney development near 90th Street and the 101, 2027; PURE Pickleball & Padel at Riverwalk with a Wolfgang Puck bar and a rooftop patio, 2027; and the Hyatt Place at Arizona Boardwalk, late 2027.

The lost ones

Scottsdale tears down and rebuilds on a cycle, and its bars go with the buildings. These are the ones people still ask about, by the decade they opened, with years where the record gives them. The ones with links have full guides; the rest are a line here until they do.

The saloon town, 1941 to 1975

• Whitey’s Cafe and Bar, southeast corner of Main Street and Scottsdale Road, 1941 to the late 1940s. Malcolm White turned a service station into a bar, dressed it in board-and-batten for the winter trade, then leased it out; it became the original Pink Pony. White became Scottsdale’s first mayor in 1951.
• Pink Pony, 3831 N Scottsdale Rd, 1947 to 2016. Charlie Briley’s steakhouse bar was the Cactus League’s clubhouse for sixty years; closed in 2009, revived twice, done in July 2016.
• Lulu Belle, 7212 E Main St, 1953 to the 1990s. The Valley Ho’s owners built a Gay Nineties saloon on the site of the earlier Saguaro Bar; the building is Belle’s Nashville Kitchen now, back bar intact.
• The Hotel Valley Ho’s lounge and nightclub, 6850 E Main St, 1956 to 1973. Jimmy Durante played the lounge piano late at night; Ramada covered the rooms in 1973. ZuZu is the descendant.
• The French Quarter at the Safari Hotel, 4611 N Scottsdale Rd, about 1960 to 1978. Paul Shank’s New Orleans showroom made the town repeal its ban on dancing and booked Rosemary Clooney and the Mills Brothers; the hotel closed in 1998 and the Caesars Republic tower stands there now.
• Reata Pass Steakhouse, 27500 N Alma School Pkwy, 1958 to 2012. Doc Cavalliere’s saloon at an 1882 stage stop; razed in 2015.
• Pinnacle Peak Patio, 10426 E Jomax Rd, 1957 to June 28, 2015. Tens of thousands of cut neckties on the rafters; patio homes now.
• Red Dog Saloon, North Scottsdale Road, 1959 to 1975. Wild Bill Bird and Don Stewart’s two-story saloon with a nude of Red Dog Rosie over the bar; the Galleria site.
• Wild Bill’s, 7116 E Becker Ln, late 1950s or early 1960s to about 1966. “Wild Bill” Byrd’s honky-tonk, where a young Waylon Jennings was a regular, sold to the Lautzes and became Handlebar J, which is why the room, if not the name, is still pouring. (Jennings’s 1964 album Waylon at JD’s is named for a different club, JD’s in Tempe.)
• The Fountain Room and La Roca, Executive House Arizonian, 4925 N Scottsdale Rd, 1961 into the 1960s. Dinner-dancing and a cocktail lounge beside an indoor waterfall; The Scott Resort’s Canal Club is there.
• Trader Vic’s, Fifth Avenue at Craftsman Court, 1962 to 1990, and again at the Hotel Valley Ho from 2006 to 2011. Mai tais for Paul Newman.
• Rawhide’s saloon, 23023 N Scottsdale Rd, 1971 to October 2005. The 1880s town moved to Gila River land near Chandler; shops and homes took the site.
• Bobby McGee’s Conglomeration, 1971 to the 1990s. Bob Sikora’s costumed-waiter supper club and disco, the first of two dozen, began in Scottsdale.
• Mabel Murphy’s, 7018 E Main St, 1972 to 2009. Sikora’s overflow bar for Bobby McGee’s outlived it by decades as a Packers bar; Mabel’s on Main and then The Beverly followed in the room.
• Greasewood Flat, 27375 N Alma School Pkwy, 1975 to March 31, 2015. Fire barrels, picnic tables, bikers and CEOs; the land sold for houses.

The resort era, 1977 to 1995

• The Registry Resort’s showroom and lounges, 7171 N Scottsdale Rd, 1977 to 2005. Scottsdale’s 1980s gala circuit; bankrupt in 1993, demolished in 2007.
• Don & Charlie’s, 7501 E Camelback Rd, 1981 to 2019. The chophouse where baseball drank every March; Senna House stands there.
• Anderson’s Fifth Estate, 6820 E 5th Ave, 1982 to 2007. Burgers by day, dance floors by night, for 25 years.
• Buster’s, 8320 N Hayden Rd, 1987 to 2009. McCormick Ranch’s clubhouse bar at Mercado del Lago.
• Remington’s, 7200 N Scottsdale Rd, 1987 to May 2017. The Scottsdale Plaza’s jazz lounge, thirty years of Tuesday-to-Saturday sets.
• BS West, 7125 E 5th Ave, 1988 to January 7, 2024. Scottsdale’s only gay bar for 35 years; rent and liquor-liability insurance ended it, and nothing has replaced it. The LGBTQ Scottsdale note tells the story.
• The Rockin’ Horse Saloon, 7000 E Indian School Rd, 1991 to about 1998. Tucker Woodbury’s Austin-style roadhouse booked Wilco and Son Volt, burned in June 1996 and finished on Stetson Drive.
• Jetz and Stixx, Camelback Mall, 1992 and 1993 to about 1996. Les Corieri and Mark Drinkwater’s clubs in the strip the Waterfront replaced; the partners bought land on Indian Plaza in 1996 and built Axis there, which makes these two the ancestors of the entire entertainment district.
• The Works, Scottsdale Road at 2nd Street, 1992 to 1997. A warehouse dance club in the buildings of the 1920s cotton gin, Moby and the Prodigy in 1993; a medical center now.
• Martini Ranch and the Shaker Room, 7295 E Stetson Dr, 1994 to October 2013. The anchor of Stetson Drive; Wasted Grain took the building.
• Maloney’s (on Stetson Drive by 1992, when New Times called it spring training’s top St. Patrick’s Day hangout, and later near Shea and the 101, closed early 2009), Lyte Lounge at 7419 E Indian Plaza and Pink Taco at the Waterfront, all gone in the 2009 recession wave.

The club wave, 1996 to 2012

• Dos Gringos, 4209 N Craftsman Ct, 1996 to November 2015, then Old Town Gringos until a landlord lockout on June 10, 2019. Nine thousand square feet of patio and rooftop; Pour Decisions is there now.
• Buzz: The Original Funbar, 10345 N Scottsdale Rd, 1997 to 2009. A 19,000-square-foot two-level club near Shea that became the Valley’s 18-and-over institution, open to 4 a.m., until every other club added its own underage night.
• Cajun House, later The Venue Scottsdale, 7117 E 3rd Ave, 1997 to about 2019. An $8 million, four-level Bourbon Street with a bayou and live gators; demolished for the AC Hotel.
• Axis-Radius, 7340 E Indian Plaza, 1997 and 1998 to June 29, 2013. The Corieris’ sixteen-year flagship; Bottled Blonde took the Axis half, and Livewire, then Casa Amigos and Skylanes, took the Radius half.
• Sanctuary, then Myst, 7340 E Shoeman Ln, August 1999 to May 15, 2012, and Suede, 7333 E Indian Plaza, 2001 to the same night. Both demolished for Maya.
• Barcelona, 15440 N Greenway-Hayden Loop, 2000s to June 27, 2009. The Airpark’s dinner-then-dance-club.
• Papago Brewing, 7107 E McDowell Rd, 2001 to 2019. Thirty taps and the bottle cooler, lost with the plaza.
• SIX Lounge, 7316 E Stetson Dr, 2001 to April 2009. The ultra-lounge with the glass bathroom doors; Revolver, Red Revolver and Ellure followed and failed, and it is a salon suite now.
• The Rogue Bar, 423 N Scottsdale Rd, 2001 to 2019. The south end’s live-rock dive, Sneaky Pete’s before it; Blue Buddha Collective now.
• Sugar Daddy’s, 3102 N Scottsdale Rd, 2002 to 2009. Dos Gringos’ Bourbon Street-themed sibling, sold in 2007 into a fraud lawsuit while its founder pleaded guilty to tax charges over unreported cover charges; closed May 2009, and Oregano’s is there.
• Pussycat Lounge, Saddlebag Trail at Indian Plaza, about 2003 to June 30, 2012. Rebuilt as EPIQ, which lasted a year; CAKE opened in the space in January 2014.
• Kazimierz World Wine Bar, 7137 E Stetson Dr, 2003 to October 2018, revived from January 2019 to July 2023. The truth was inside; The Ends is there now.
• Stingray Sushi, 4302 N Scottsdale Rd, 2003 to 2014, and Salty Señorita, 2003 to 2023 across two addresses, the second in the old Billet Bar.
• Drift Lounge, 4341 N 75th St, about 2005 to 2013. The tiki lounge before the revival; Boondocks has the building.
• Mickey’s Hangover, 4310 N Brown Ave, 2000s to July 31, 2009. Randy Smith’s deliberately trashy 3 a.m. sibling to SIX; Firehouse, with a DJ booth built into an old pumper-truck cab, ran there from the fall of 2010 or 2011 until it closed “for a full remodel” in June 2014 and never reopened; Social Tap since.
• Smashboxx, 7419 E Indian Plaza, November 2010 to May 2, 2014, after Lyte Lounge and Howl at the Moon in the same room; BLUR and Blind Dragon followed, and 50 Shades of Rosé is there now. Next door, Crown Room (by 2005 to 2011) became Chad Landau’s Dollhouse.
• Devil’s Martini, 4175 N Goldwater Blvd and 10825 N Scottsdale Rd, 2000s to February 2011. Both Scottsdale rooms closed the same weekend; the Toronto one stayed open.
• Jilly’s American Grill, 7301 E Butherus Dr, by 2006 into the 2010s. The Airpark’s bar with a dance club attached; dates unrecorded.
• Geisha A Go Go, 7150 E 6th Ave, 2007 to June 2024. The rock-and-roll sushi den; Not My First Rodeo is there.
• American Junkie, 4363 N 75th St, 2008 to September 2014, and Dirty Pretty, 7443 E 6th Ave. The Pussycat team’s sports-bar-by-day club and rock bar; The Hot Chick and Fox Cigar Bar have the buildings.
• 5th & Wine, 7051 E 5th Ave, December 2009 to April 2017, and Mabel’s on Main, 7018 E Main St, 2009 to August 2014.
• Saddle Ranch Chop House, 4321 N Scottsdale Rd, January 2008 to the early 2010s, with the Sunset Strip’s mechanical bull; Two Brothers Tap House brewed there from January 2015 until about 2019, and Barstool rebuilt it in 2022.
• Digestif, 7114 E Stetson Dr, 2008 to 2009, and Searsucker, 6900 E Camelback Rd, 2012 to 2013: the two shortest runs on the list.

The last decade, 2012 to 2026

• Pig & Pickle, 2922 N Hayden Rd, December 2012 to July 2019. A landlord’s lockout notice ended south Scottsdale’s gastropub.
• Kelly’s at SouthBridge, 7117 E 6th Ave, 2012 into the late 2010s; 40 Love is there.
• Second Story Liquor Bar, 4166 N Scottsdale Rd, 2013 to May 4, 2024. Tommy Plato’s hidden staircase; Velvet Taco on the ground floor.
• Scottsdale Beer Company, 8608 E Shea Blvd, about 2014 to spring 2020. The Pima Crossing brewpub whose Cannonball pale ale medaled at the Great American Beer Festival; it hid behind a Chili’s and died in the pandemic’s first months. Macayo’s is there.
• Bad Water Brewing, 4216 N Brown Ave, opened 2014. A small Old Town taproom, out of business, with no closing date on the record.
• Livewire, 7320 E Indian Plaza, December 27, 2014 to July 2017. Evening Entertainment Group’s concert hall in the old Radius, Jeff Bridges, Steve Aoki and Joe Jonas on the bills; gutted that summer for Casa Amigos and Skylanes.
• Derby Public House, 4420 N Saddlebag Trl, 2013 to the mid-2010s (the closing date is unrecorded), an equestrian-themed bar that added off-track betting in March 2014, one of the five tenants of the Shoeman Lane complex that opened with Whiskey Row and HiFi; Bevvy took the corner, then Mother Tucker’s.
• Sushi Roku at the W, 7277 E Camelback Rd, 2008 to July 31, 2023. Fifteen years of hotel lounge sushi; Sexy Roman now.
• Dorian, 7419 E Indian Plaza, November 2017 to about 2022, a Victorian-styled restaurant and bar with a mesquite oven; 50 Shades of Rosé and Almost Famous share the building now.
• Liquor Pig, 7217 E 4th Ave, about 2024 to May 30, 2026. Closed amid lawsuits between its owners and reopened within weeks as Wayward.
• Dakota, 7301 E Indian Plaza, December 2014 to about 2019. Shawn Yari’s organic-by-day, club-by-night room between the W and Maya; The REMI hotel rose on the block.
• Twisted Grove, 8220 N Hayden Rd, 2015 to 2022, now Collins Brothers Public House.
• Grayhawk Beer Company, 20831 N Scottsdale Rd, opened July 2017 and closed without a published date. The old Cold Beers space in Grayhawk Plaza, briefly a brewery.
• Bitters, 1455 N Scottsdale Rd, Suite 115, October 2017 to the mid-2020s. SkySong’s first bar, with whiskey lockers for thirty members; listed as closed by spring 2026, with no last day announced.
• The Living Room Gainey Ranch and La Sala Tequila Cantina, 8977 N Scottsdale Rd, opened in 2017 and gone by 2026 without a published last day. The brand’s south outpost; only DC Ranch remains.
• The Skeptical Chymist, 15688 N Pima Rd, about 2006 to 2021, then The Union Jack, 2021 to January 29, 2023. An Irish pub with apothecary bottles shipped from Dublin, and the British pub that lasted seventeen months in its room.
• Liberty Station DC Ranch, 20825 N Pima Rd, 2018 to about 2025. The Keelers’ second tavern, in the old Market Street Kitchen; Tomu-San Sushi now.
• The Bourbon Cellar, 23623 N Scottsdale Rd, 2018 to the early 2020s. Three hundred bourbons and a butcher who cut the beef himself.
• Merkin Vineyards Old Town, 7133 E Stetson Dr, Suite 4, April 2019 to April 2024. Maynard James Keenan’s all-Arizona room in the original FnB space.
• The Drunk Munk, 7133 E 6th Ave, March 2019 to summer 2025. Flaming rum in monkey mugs in the Cowboy Ciao building; the owners confirmed the permanent closure that July.
• Chauncey Social, 17767 N Scottsdale Rd, December 12, 2019 to April 1, 2025. Evening Entertainment Group’s north-Scottsdale club; Kuza since September 2026.
• INTL Nightclub, a hip-hop champagne bar and ultra lounge, by 2014 to 2020. On June 25, 2020, it was one of eight Scottsdale venues that got final notices from the state liquor department, the bars Governor Ducey called “bad actors” (only Riot House was charged), and four days later his order closed every bar in the state. New Times and Discotech list it at 4405 N Saddlebag Trl; 11:11 at 4280 N Drinkwater Blvd bills itself as the old INTL reloaded. That Drinkwater room was the Jackrabbit Lounge from 2006 and Cameo from 2013.
• Arizona Stronghold’s Old Town tasting room, 4225 N Marshall Way at Fifth Avenue, 2022 to June 7, 2026. The Glomski family’s Verde Valley flagship left after four years to focus on its wine club; the Cottonwood room remains.
• Bevvy, 4420 N Saddlebag Trl, about 2015 to June 2024. The party pub that became Mother Tucker’s Tavern that Labor Day.
• Sorso Wine Room, Scottsdale Quarter, April 2015 to April 2025. The self-serve wine wall, ten years and out.
• RnR Gastropub, 3737 N Scottsdale Rd, 2010 to June 1, 2025. Evening Entertainment Group’s two-story sports bar on Scottsdale Road; General Admission is promised for the space.
• STK on Stetson, 7134 E Stetson Dr, January 2021 to summer 2025, with its 2023 rooftop; moved to the old RA Sushi, with BOA and Above All Else promised for the building.
• Famous 48, 8989 N Scottsdale Rd, Suite 608, at Gainey Village, closed in 2025. Square One Concepts’ tavern with the big patio.
• The Mint Ultra Lounge, 7373 E Camelback Rd, 2010s to 2024. Reported closed in 2020, still open in 2024, and replaced by Shiv Supper Club on May 14, 2025.
• Zipps at Frank Lloyd Wright, 14148 N 100th St, closed June 1, 2026; Bonfire is there. Fate’s original brewpub, 7337 E Shea Blvd, 2012 until some time before 2026; Tipsy Coyote, 7077 E Bell Rd, the old Tilted Kilt, closed by 2026; Stand Up Scottsdale and The Comedy Spot, both closed, the latter under the AC Hotel.
• The restaurants whose bars people miss, each with its own guide: Cowboy Ciao and its grape shots on Stetson, 1997 to 2018; the original RA Sushi and its happy hour, 1997 to 2025; Kona Grill’s big bar at Fashion Square, 1998 to 2024; Stax Burger Bistro by the Soleri Bridge, to 2018; Bandera, to 2020; Sassi’s hilltop lounge, 2004 to 2018; Carlos O’Brien’s pub at Bell Road, 1998 to the early 2020s; Sapporo’s lounge, to 2018; Deseo and Nellie Cashman’s at the Westin Kierland; Eddie Merlot’s and Preston’s up on Pinnacle Peak; Modern Steak, Zinqué and Francine at Fashion Square, the last two lost in 2026; Kitchen West and Bar Six40 at the Scottsdale Resort; Z’Tejas and The Bamboo Club; Tapino and Grazie, two wine bars with kitchens; and Distrito at the Saguaro.
• Old Town Tortilla Factory, 6910 E Main St, about 1996 to August 2026. A restaurant, but its patio bar was a Scottsdale institution, and its closing is the newest loss on this list.

If you only want one kind of bar

• A dive with history: TT Roadhouse, the Coach House, the Rusty Spur, Pattie’s, the Roadrunner, Tallyho, Ernie’s, The Well. The dive bar guide runs the crawl.
• A hidden door: Tell Your Friends, The Madam, The Goose, Straight Up, The Peacock, Poppy’s Office, The Beverly’s Secret Room, the Salt Cellar’s oyster bar. The speakeasy guide has the passwords.
• Live country: the Rusty Spur, Handlebar J, Whiskey Row, Belle’s, Not My First Rodeo, Porters, and across the line the Buffalo Chip and Harold’s. The country guide.
• Live music that isn’t country: Old Town Tavern, Pub Rock Live, Tell Your Friends, Wasted Grain, Eddie V’s, Mastro’s City Hall, Orange Sky, the Palo Verde Lounge, Phở Cao’s blues jam. The live music guide.
• A view: Outrider, Cielito, Wolf by Vanderpump, Allegra, jade bar, Hearth ‘61, Weft & Warp, Lon’s, Onyx, Orange Sky, Dominick’s roof. The rooftop guide.
• Beer made here: Goldwater, Fate, Craft 64, Pinnacle Brewing, Loco Patron; Brat Haus and Bonfire for taps. The brewery guide.
• Arizona wine: LDV, Carlson Creek, Aridus, Salvatore, Passion Cellars, Los Milics, The Wine Collective, Jamie’s, Barnaby’s, The Living Room. The wine guide.
• A game on: K O’Donnell’s, Zipps (three rooms), Cold Beers (four), Goldie’s, Duke’s, Mother Tucker’s, Social Tap, Barstool, Boondocks, the DraftKings book, the CAZ book, Twin Peaks, Antidote, 92 Drinks.
• Karaoke: the Grapevine every night, Ernie’s every night, the Roadrunner on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 92 Drinks on weekends, Phở Cao on Thursdays, El Dorado most nights.
• Something to do with your hands: Skylanes’ lanes, Kill Club’s darts, House Rules’ duckpin and axes, Puttshack, Topgolf, Octane, Mavrix, the Social Boardroom’s shuffleboard, Brat Haus’s ping-pong.
• Hookah or a cigar: i-MAD, Oasis, Huqqa; Fox Cigar Bar, Cedar Room, the Plaza Bar’s humidor, the Discovery Lounge’s.
• A day club: Maya, the WET Deck, the OH Pool, Cleopatra’s, Liquid Sunshine at the Adeline, Vibe by the Pool at Talking Stick, Allegra. The pool guide covers the resort pools you can buy into.
• An LGBTQ bar: none since BS West closed in January 2024. The Valley’s gay bars are in central Phoenix, and the LGBTQ note explains why Scottsdale lost its one.

The rules of the room

• Last call is 2 a.m., statewide. Nothing in Arizona pours later, which is why the 24-hour Fire Garden at Talking Stick serves no alcohol after 2 and why Mickey’s Hangover’s 3 a.m. was a kitchen, not a bar.
• Surge pricing is geography. At 1:45 a.m. on Indian Plaza a car costs double. Walk to Indian School Road or Scottsdale Road first; the nightlife guide has the pickup zones, and Waymo does not surge.
• Dress codes exist and are inconsistent. Clubs enforce them loosely; Tell Your Friends publishes one; the saloons could not care less.
• The calendar changes everything. Phoenix Open week, spring training, Barrett-Jackson and spring break fill every room on this list; the quiet calendar is when you get a stool.
• Happy hour is a bar-and-patio thing, usually 3 to 6 on weekdays, and the happy hour guide has the rules.
• Eat after. Almost none of these kitchens will save you; the late-night list will.

How we built this, and what is not here

We walked the city block by block in October 2026 through official sites, the liquor-licensed addresses in every shopping center, Experience Scottsdale’s listings, the Phoenix New Times and AZ Big Media archives, and the site’s own guides, and kept only what a 2026 source or a live official page confirmed. A handful of rooms that appear in directories but nowhere else (a sports grill on Bell Road, a pub on far-north Scottsdale Road, a wine bar near the Princess) were left off rather than printed on faith. Every open venue carries the date this page was checked, October 20, 2026, and bars close faster than pages update: if a door on this list is dark, or a bar you know is missing, the about page says how to tell us. We take no money from anyone on it.