What is The Beverly on Main?
Main Street’s gallery block empties out by early evening, which is when The Beverly on Main starts to make sense. The door at 7018 E Main St is unmarked and the windows are hung with heavy curtains. Inside is a dim cocktail lounge that has been pouring since 2015 while the neighbors sold bronzes and Western oils, and behind a bookshelf in the back there is a Secret Room for private parties of up to 15.
It calls itself “Old Town Scottsdale’s best-kept secret,” which is generous: there is no password, and anyone of age can walk in. What makes it worth knowing is the clock. The Beverly opens daily at 4 p.m., runs happy hour Monday through Friday until 7, and closes at 2 a.m., and the kitchen stays open until 1:30. Early, it is a cocktail bar with a good wine list and a real menu. Late, DJs take over and it becomes the quietest party in Old Town, which is still a party, and one of the few places downtown where you can get a burger after midnight.
It is the only one of our speakeasies in Old Town proper, and a fixture of our late-night food list.
When to go and what to order
Pick your Beverly. At 4 p.m. on a weekday it is a happy-hour lounge: conversation volume, discounted drinks, the gallery crowd. After 8 it is 21 and over. After midnight it is where Old Town eats, with a DJ. Choose accordingly.
Happy hour (Mon–Fri, 4–7 p.m.). $9 well spirits; $8 Jameson, Maker’s Mark or El Tesoro reposado; $2 off beer and seltzers, $3 off wine by the glass, $4 off the Classic AF cocktails. Bites run $8 to $12: truffle fries, sweet potato fries, Little Devils (deviled eggs with bacon), the Cornholio corn dip, spicy hummus, Brussels sprouts, a margherita flatbread and Main Street wings. For the occasion, the Adult Happy Meal is a Veuve burger, truffle fries and a glass of Veuve Clicquot ($39); the Sidechick doubles it with a bottle ($149).
What to eat. The Beverly Burger comes on an English muffin with smoked gouda, lettuce, tomato and chipotle mayo. The Filet Bites are pan-seared petite filet with horseradish cream. The truffle fries do what truffle fries do. The rest of the menu is generous gastropub: French dip sliders on pretzel buns, skirt steak and shrimp tacos, wraps, a bacon-wrapped petite filet, flatbreads and a Keto “salad” for people who insist.
What to drink. The signature list changes twice a year and names drinks the way a group chat would: Mogged, Full Brazilian, Big in PV, Jestermaxxing. The Classic AF list holds steadier favorites, including Roman Empire (Knob Creek, Mr. Black, Kahlúa and cold brew, the house answer for the espresso-martini crowd that fills the reviews) and the Antibody (mezcal, elderflower, strawberry, jalapeño). The Silver Fox, a barrel-aged blend of bourbon and rye with agave and three bitters, is the house old fashioned.
Groups. The Beverly is built for celebrations: reserved tables for up to 50 in the main lounge, the Secret Room for 15. Parties of eight or fewer book on OpenTable; bigger groups go through the events form or (480) 889-5580. It is a natural stop on a bachelorette weekend.
Nearby. Thursday’s ArtWalk passes the door from 7 to 9 p.m.; walk the galleries, then duck in. Up Scottsdale Road, Straight Up is the whiskey speakeasy at Hotel Adeline. For the wider district, see our Old Town nightlife guide.
A night bar on the gallery block
Main Street west of Scottsdale Road is the heart of the Main Street arts district, the blocks that made Scottsdale an art-market town and still host the weekly ArtWalk, as they have since 1975. By day the street sells Western bronzes and contemporary canvases; by 6 p.m., most nights, the shades come down. That rhythm is the Beverly’s opportunity. It sits on a street with almost no other nightlife and a great deal of parking after dark, and it built a business on being the one lit room on the block.
The timing matters too. The Beverly opened in August 2014, in the room that had been Mabel’s on Main, between the eras of Old Town’s hidden bars. Kazimierz, the wine cave behind an alley door on Stetson Drive, was still open; Second Story Liquor Bar, up its unmarked staircase on Scottsdale Road, was two years old. Both are gone now, and The Beverly is the survivor: the Old Town room with curtains instead of a sign. The speakeasy boom of 2023 to 2025 then happened almost entirely north of Indian Bend, at The Goose, The Madam, The Peacock and Tell Your Friends, which left The Beverly as the one most visitors can actually walk to.
What has kept it going is less the mystique than the kitchen. A full menu until 1:30 a.m., seven nights a week, puts it in a very short list in Old Town, where the entertainment district a few blocks north mostly feeds people from food trucks after midnight. The cocktail list turns over twice a year at a launch party the bar calls Friends With Benefits, which tells you the house sense of humor.
Honest assessment: it is louder and more of a party than the curtains suggest, the drink names will either amuse you or not, and the speakeasy label is a stretch. But as a happy-hour lounge on a quiet street, and as the place to eat a real burger at 1 a.m. without standing on Saddlebag Trail, it has earned its decade.