14 Vital Phoenix Bars to Visit

"Ross Simon’s multi-award-winning cocktail bar (housed, ironically, in the 20s-era Luhrs Building, which was once home to the Arizona Prohibition Department) has anchored the downtown cocktail scene for eight years and counting. Ross drops an ambitious new menu each year, a lavishly illustrated tome filled with dozens of masterfully conceived and executed drinks. He considers the smallest details, right on down to the water filtration system and ice quality. Drinkers can keep it classic, sipping a polar martini or one of many slight, careful negroni riffs. Or they can get “whimsical as fuck” (B&T’s motto), and travel down novel avenues, from a butter-washed bourbon and Cocchi Torino concoction that nods to popcorn to a pina colada upgrade that is truly worth drinking." - Mcconnell Quinn, Nikki Buchanan