What is F/Sixteen?
Hotels usually hide their breakfast room behind the lobby. The REMI. put a fighter jet on the street instead. F/Sixteen is the hotel’s street-level diner, and its theme is the F-16 fighter jet: bold neon, retro finishes, its own merchandise and a menu written in aviation puns. The opening announcement summed it up as “fast, fearless, and flavorful.”
It opened in July 2025 with the rest of The REMI., the 12-story hotel the Yari family built on Buckboard Trail next to their Maya Day + Night club. Its sister restaurant Kauboi does tomahawks and sushi. F/Sixteen is the cheaper, more casual option, with diner classics made bigger and sweeter. The opening signatures were churro pancakes, honey butter fried chicken and waffles, smash burgers, boozy shakes and a peanut butter and jelly old fashioned, and all of them are still on the menu.
The hours suit a hotel. Doors open at 6 a.m. every day, and breakfast is served until close. Lunch and dinner start at 11. The kitchen closes at 4 p.m. most days and at 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. When it opened, F/Sixteen was billed as running into the late night. The current schedule is aimed at breakfast and brunch, which for many people in the entertainment district are the same meal.
It belongs to a long Old Town tradition. Downtown Scottsdale has had a coffee shop for every era, from Hobo Joe’s on Scottsdale Road in the 1960s to the Breakfast Club a few blocks away today. F/Sixteen is the version built into a lifestyle hotel.
The flight plan
Breakfast is the main event. The churro pancakes come with cinnamon-sugar butter, maple syrup and cajeta, and one stack can serve the table. The honey butter fried chicken and waffles come with maple syrup and country gravy. If you want the full diner plate, order The Big American F-16 (two eggs, skillet potatoes, toast or a biscuit) or The Sonic Boom, which adds buttermilk pancakes, bacon and Hatch chile sausage. The skillets have movie names: the Top Gun comes with wagyu short rib and pastrami spices. The Sonoran Sunrise omelette, with chorizo, green chiles and pepper jack, nods to the local cooking.
Lunch is smash burgers. The F-16 Double Smash uses a wagyu blend with white American cheese. The Charred Jalapeño Smash and the diner patty melt on Texas toast are the alternatives. The sandwich list includes a green chile chicken sandwich and a Cubano, and the “Cruising Altitude” section includes a wagyu Chicago dog and steak frites.
The drinks are part of the theme. Milkshakes come in vanilla, chocolate and cookies and cream, and any of them can take a shot of peanut butter whiskey, vanilla vodka or espresso. The PB&J old fashioned is made with peanut-butter-washed Bulleit rye and strawberry syrup and comes with a mini PB&J. The Jet Set Margarita uses Mountain Dew syrup, and the Concorde Cooler is made with grape Kool-Aid gin. A mimosa kit serves a table at brunch, and there’s a happy hour. There is also a root beer float for anyone skipping the alcohol.
Logistics. The dining room has indoor and patio seating, and you can order online. Weekend mornings are busy because REMI. guests come down along with everyone else in the district who needs a recovery breakfast. The hotel’s parking is valet only, so walk over if you’re staying nearby. Our brunch guide and late-night food guide list other options.
A diner in a nightlife hotel
The REMI. was planned to keep guests inside one building from breakfast through last call. Kauboi covers dinner, the Allegra rooftop pool bar covers the afternoon, Maya covers the night, and F/Sixteen covers the mornings. Alliance Hospitality Group, the team behind Sexy Roman in Scottsdale, curated the four venues with help from Riot Hospitality Group, which runs Maya next door. A diner is a practical choice for a hotel whose guests often reach their first meal around noon.
The fighter-jet theme has local meaning too. Luke Air Force Base in the West Valley has spent decades training pilots on the F-16, and the jet is a familiar sight over the Phoenix area. It also fits Old Town’s habit of putting a theme on every restaurant, from the Western saloons to the Tulum-style clubs on Indian Plaza.
F/Sixteen also continues a line of downtown diners and coffee shops that goes back to the 1960s, when Hobo Joe’s put a cartoon hobo statue on Scottsdale Road. Those coffee shops served shoppers and locals. F/Sixteen’s customers mostly arrive from the elevator or from the night before, but they order the same pancakes, burgers and milkshakes.
Honest assessment: F/Sixteen is more fun than it is serious. The menu is mostly sugar, butter and theme, and prices are hotel prices for diner food. But it opens at 6 a.m. in the middle of the bar district, and on a Saturday morning in the entertainment district, the churro pancakes are a good reason to get up.