Go here when you want a light and casual lunch or dinner. Also good for having happy hour downtown.

Fez is in the modernist Phoenix style of setting and food. It has a good mix of seating and an open floor plan which makes the restaurant usable for drinks, lunch and dinner.

Also consider Switch, Postinos on Campbell or Lisa G's.

Experience A strong modernist restaurant in the contemporary urban Phoenix style. The food matches that theme and is excellent.

Patio There is a small patio out the front of Fez facing Central.

Parking There is a medium sized parking lot out the back of Fez which is shared with other businesses and can be cramped. There is some more parking both north and south of the rear parking lot, but again, being downtown it can be cramped and difficult to find a park.

Website Fez

Menu The Fez website has multiple menus including brunch, drinks and take out menus.

Map Fez is on Central with parking on the Clarendon side street.

The architectural modernist movement in Phoenix has a nostalgia for the 60s and the modernist architects and designers from the mid-century era. The Modern Phoenix home tour we went on had each house on the tour marked with a 1960s car out the front. They were all in perfect condition as well. Very shiny in the bright desert sunlight.

Phoenix modernism is a curious mix of hipsterist nostalgia for a cramped and poor quality plastic past jumbled in with the technological advances in architectural and industrial materials. Phoenix architecture has been innovating in the use of raw materials and metals such as Corten Steel where the outside elements are allowed to wear the steel into a deep purple rust or a bright orange one.

Given the harshness of the desert environment on wood all manner of metal is used to augment architecture. Pergolahs are made of steel and use industrial rod, bar or ribbon as the slats. Car ports are constructed with all manner of pressed metals as well. I really enjoy the permutation on modernism that Phoenix is experimenting with. It is a visually strong and interesting form that goes against architectural indifference.