What is 92 Drinks + Eats?
Every subdivision east of the 101 has a bar it calls “the corner,” and for the blocks around Shea and 92nd Street that bar has been the same one for thirty years. 92 Drinks + Eats, at 9160 E Shea Boulevard, Suite 113, on the southeast corner of Shea and 92nd Street, spent most of its life as the 92nd Street Cafe & Bar, and the new name has not taken: the website is still 92ndstreetcafe.com, the social handles still say 92nd Street, and the regulars never switched.
What it is: a casual, down-to-earth neighborhood bar with a real kitchen, which on the Shea Corridor is rarer than it should be. The bar’s own description is that it “has been the go-to neighborhood spot in N. Scottsdale for more than 30 years,” which puts the opening in the early 1990s, and nobody has published a more exact year or a founder’s name. The hours are 11 a.m. to midnight Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m. to midnight on Sunday, with the kitchen open until 10 p.m. on weeknights and midnight on weekends, which makes it one of the few places east of the 101 serving a burger after 10.
The calendar is the identity. Karaoke every Friday and Saturday at 9. Free bingo every Tuesday from 6 to 8, with a jackpot on the final game that recently reached $11,000. Fish Fry Friday. Sunday brunch with a Mexican Benny and an Orange Crush. College football on Saturdays and the NFL on Sundays on the big screens. The menu is bacon cheeseburgers, hot chicken, loaded nachos, pizza, a Cobb salad, a Mud Pie Sundae and $10 mini pies that, the menu admits, serve two “technically.” Yelp’s reviewers, 321 of them through July 2026, call it an “enduring hangout and sports bar with hearty pub grub.”
Honest verdict: it is not a dive, not a gastropub and not a destination, and it does not need to be any of them. It is the corner, and on the Shea Corridor east of the freeway, where most of the drinking happens in chain patios, a thirty-year-old independent bar with bingo on Tuesdays is the real thing.
Bingo Tuesdays, fish fry Fridays and the 2 a.m. weekend
Tuesday is the best night. Bingo runs 6 to 8 p.m., the cards are free, the room fills with a mix of retirees, young couples and softball teams, and the final game carries a cash jackpot; a recent one offered $11,000 for a blackout within 56 pulls. Get a table by 5:30, order the burger and play. It is the closest thing the Shea corridor has to a town meeting.
Friday and Saturday turn over at 9. Dinner runs first, with Fish Fry Friday as the weekly special (fried fish and hot fries), and at 9 p.m. the karaoke host sets up and the bar changes personality: the dinner tables clear, the singers take the room and the kitchen keeps going until midnight. The bar closes at 2 a.m. both nights, which makes it the late option for everyone living between Pima and the McDowells; Ernie’s Inn at Scottsdale and Shea is the other 2 a.m. karaoke room on the boulevard, three miles west, and the Grapevine sings every night in Old Town.
Sundays start at 10. Brunch opens at 10 a.m. with a breakfast menu, the Mexican Benny and the Orange Crush, orange juice, orange vodka, triple sec and Sprite, in time for the 10 a.m. Arizona-time NFL kickoffs. College Saturdays run the same way with the 11 a.m. open. For the full list of where to watch, the happy hour guide and the late-night list cover the corridor; 92 has a daily happy hour with its own menu on the site.
Order the staples. The bacon cheeseburger is the order the reviews agree on, the hot chicken and loaded nachos are the shareables, the pizza feeds a bingo table, and dessert is either the Mud Pie Sundae or a mini pie with a $3 scoop of vanilla bean. Takeout and delivery run through the usual apps.
Logistics. The strip has its own lot, and the corner is just east of the Loop 101 at Shea, so rideshare from the Scottsdale Road hotels is ten minutes and Salt River Fields is a straight shot down the freeway in spring training.
Thirty years on the corner
The bar is a product of the Shea corridor’s 1990s build-out. The subdivisions between Pima Road and the McDowells filled in through the 1980s and 1990s, the Loop 101 arrived to carry them, and the strip centers on Shea got the restaurants and bars that a new suburb needs. Most of those were chains, and most of them turned over. The 92nd Street Cafe & Bar opened in that wave, in the early 1990s by its own count, and did the thing chains cannot: it stayed, with the same corner, the same kind of menu and a calendar of karaoke and bingo built around people who live within a mile.
The rebrand to 92 Drinks + Eats is recent and shallow, in the best sense. The site kept the old domain and the handles, and the menu kept its burgers and pies. What the new name signals is what “Drinks + Eats” has signaled across the Valley in the 2020s: a bar that wants to be taken seriously as a kitchen, with hot chicken and a Cobb salad next to the nachos and a brunch menu that justifies the 10 a.m. Sunday open. The events, free bingo with an $11,000 jackpot and weekend karaoke, are how an independent on a chain corridor keeps a room full on a Tuesday.
Its place in Scottsdale’s bar history is as a survivor in a part of the city that does not keep bars. The corridor’s independent rooms of the last decade, Scottsdale Beer Company at Pima Crossing and Fate’s original taproom at Shea and Scottsdale among them, are gone; the chains come and go; Handlebar J and Ernie’s at the west end are the only Shea rooms older than this one. The list of every bar and club in Scottsdale shows how thin the east end of Shea is, and 92 is most of what is there.
Honest assessment: 92 Drinks + Eats will never make a best-of list for its cocktails, its beer or its design, and nobody who drinks there cares. It is a neighborhood bar with a good burger, a late kitchen, bingo people attend and karaoke people sing. If you live east of the 101, you already know it. If you are staying nearby, this is the corner.