What is Cobre Kitchen + Cocktails?
Cobre is Spanish for copper, a fitting name for a restaurant in a hotel full of it. When the Canopy by Hilton Scottsdale Old Town opened in October 2020, its designers used desert colors and copper details throughout, including headboards of local wood etched with copper. Cobre Kitchen + Cocktails opened with it, on the ground floor at First Street and Marshall Way.
It describes itself as an American brasserie inspired by the Southwest. Chef Patrick Gaudet runs the kitchen. He trained in his native Canada, cooked at a small scratch-Italian restaurant in Banff and worked at resorts before coming here, and the restaurant credits him with two decades of experience and a focus on health-minded, locally sourced food. The menu shows both sides: brasserie standards like calamari, a Caesar and a burger, next to tepary bean hummus, a Southwest ramen in achiote broth with red chile pork, and a Chimayo chicken with a roasted poblano cake.
It’s a hotel restaurant in the way that matters most to guests: it opens for breakfast at 6:30 every morning and serves dinner every night from 4 p.m. What sets it apart from a generic lobby restaurant is the neighborhood. The Main Street galleries are a short walk south and west, Marshall Way runs past the door, and the Canopy’s Outrider rooftop bar is seven floors up.
It isn’t trying to be a chef’s destination like the tasting-menu rooms a few blocks west. It’s a comfortable, reasonably priced dinner in the gallery district, open every night, with a guitarist on Fridays.
What to order and how to use it
Lead with the Southwest dishes. The tepary bean hummus with grilled sourdough uses a bean the Sonoran Desert’s farmers have grown for centuries, and it’s the starter to order. The house salsa, guacamole and chips comes with tajín pepitas and pomegranate. The Southwest ramen, with red chile pork, a hard-boiled egg and achiote chili broth, is the dish that best sums up the kitchen.
Then pick by appetite. The cold brew braised beef short rib with roasted garlic whipped potatoes and calabacitas is the heaviest plate on the menu. The Cobre Baja tacos use Mexican lager beer-battered mahi. The house-seasoned tri-tip with cilantro shrimp and Mexican street corn is the surf-and-turf. Most entrées fall between about $26 and $43; sandwiches, including the Cobre burger with Barely Buzzed cheddar and a crispy chicken torta, run about $15 to $17.
Time it with the music. A light acoustic guitarist plays in the dining room every Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. through December 2026. Earlier in the year Cobre booked local singer-songwriters on Friday nights. Saturday’s music is upstairs, where Outrider has a DJ from 7 to 10.
Getting there. The hotel has covered self-parking for a fee, and there are free public lots and garages around Old Town a few blocks away. The Scottsdale Trolley runs nearby. On Thursday nights, ArtWalk fills the galleries on Main Street and Marshall Way, and Cobre makes an easy dinner before or after.
The restaurant that came with Old Town’s new hotel era
Cobre exists because of a hotel drought. After the W Scottsdale opened in 2008, Old Town went more than a decade without a new hotel, and when Miller Global Properties finally built one, at First Street and Marshall Way, it chose Hilton’s Canopy brand, which is built around local character. Dallas firm Studio 11 Design used desert colors, local art and copper, and the restaurant was named to match.
The opening date was hard. The hotel and Cobre opened in October 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, when hotel restaurants across the country were struggling. The rooftop, Outrider, was the venue that found an audience fast. Cobre’s job was steadier: breakfast for guests, dinner for guests and the neighborhood, and a bar on the ground floor.
The hotel changed hands in October 2023, when Miller Global sold it to Dynamic City Capital for $102 million, and Cobre carried on under the new owners. In 2026 it’s still serving both meals every day and has added a regular Friday music night.
Its location tells the story of how Old Town’s gallery blocks have changed. For decades, the streets around Marshall Way and Main Street were galleries, studios and a few cafes, quiet after ArtWalk ended. The Canopy and a handful of new restaurants, from Fourtillfour coffee on First Avenue to Anhelo at Goldwater, have brought people to the 2020s arts district at breakfast and late into the evening. Cobre is part of that change, a dining room that’s open whenever the hotel’s guests and the neighborhood need it.