Go here when you want to catch an early dinner. It is also a good 'pre-place' to go to on the weekends before heading out for the night.
The crowd at AZ88 goes in phases, moving from the gray hairs to the hipsters as the evening goes on. It draws an eclectic crowd of gays and straights. AZ88's food is light and it has a very good patio. There can be a long wait on weekends though as it is quite popular.
Also consider Stingray,
Furio or
Postino's.
Experience AZ88 always has some kind of art display in the restaurant which periodically changes. The crowd is an interesting one and runs the gamut of Phoenix's social set; from the gray hairs and snowbirds, to hipsters and gays. It makes for an interesting people watching environment.
The food is light and many come with sides of fruit. There is a good beer and wine menu, the former being something missing from many Phoenix modernist restaurants which prefer to focus on wine instead. All in all AZ88 is arguably the best restaurant in Phoenix.
Patio AZ88 has a large patio with tables and a small lounge area. The patio is in the modernist style with a lit sculpture overhead and glass fencing. When the weather is good, the main seating area inside is opened up to the outside air as well.
Parking There is large parking structure off of 2nd Street and Wells Fargo St which is next door to the Old Town Scottsdale Mall, however it isn't obvious how to get to AZ88 from the parking structure. You have to travel east through some buildings to enter the mall side where AZ88, Orange Table and Pure are. Another issue is when there is an event occurring at the Civic Center or one of the other public buildings as the parking structure can fill up quickly.
Website AZ88. It does not have its own URL and has been on the mac URL for ages.
Map In Old Town Scottsdale's Mall. This can be confusing to get to as you have to enter the mall to see AZ88 and it, along with Pure and Orange Table are on the west side of the mall; making them kind of hidden. The best method is to park in the parking structure off 2nd Street, and then walk east into the mall.
AZ88 always has an art display at any one time. They are periodically rotated. The display below is of dead taxi drivers.
Art display for Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Christmas display for 2010.
AZ88 always has a display of one kind or another mixed into the restaurant seating or environment. Some have been ugly, such as the rhinestone racing dogs, but for the most part they are pretty cool and add to the environment and experience. This display above is of dead taxi drivers. From the roof hangs a crashed taxi and the wall has in taxi yellow and black the names of drivers that have been killed.
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Most Popular Restaurants in Phoenix
Phoenix Eats Out is the restaurant review site for
Phoenix,
Scottsdale and
Old Town Scottsdale which lists the modernist and contemporary restaurants, taverns and bars in the greater Phoenix area.
This is the list of the most popular restaurants pages from phoenixeatsout.com that have been viewed the most;
My personal favourite restaurants in Phoenix are
AZ88,
Postinos,
Bomberos with
Grazie,
Humble Pie,
Orange Table,
The Vig,
Fez and others coming close behind. View the complete list with the photo-journalistic style images on
phoenixeatsout.com
Most Popular Hikes in Arizona
Arizona is an outdoor state and has lots of hiking in the city and around the state. Phoenix is unusual for most cities in having several large mountains in the center of the city with great hiking. Anyone who comes to Phoenix has to do the
Echo Canyon trail on Camelback and the
Summit Hike on Squaw Peak or Piesta Peak. The views of the city, suburbs and surrounding mountains are wonderful from Camelback and Piesta Peak.
For more experienced hikers there is the McDowell Mountains in North Scottsdale that has several difficult and strenuous hikes in
Tom's Thumb and
Bell Pass. Alternatively, you can hike the highest mountain in Arizona. At 12,600 feet
Humphrey's Peak is a long and difficult hike.
Alternate Australian Constitutions
Between 2004 and 2009 this site,
southsearepublic.org, was a constitutional blog based on scoop which focused on Australian and global constitutional issues.
One of the strongest aspects of it was the development of constitutions by those involved in the blog. These constitutions are the outcome:
The constitutions were built using principles from Montesquieu's separation of powers, the enlightnment's universal political rights and the ancient Athenian technology of sortition and choice by lot.
Archives For South Sea Republic
South Sea Republic started in 2004 as an Australian constitutional blog in 2004 based on scoop software. It was an immigrative outgrowth of Kuro5hin. The archives for each year since then;
The articles are ordered by views.
Who Is Cam Riley
I am an Australian living in the United States as a permanent resident.
I am a software developer by trade and mostly work in Java and jump between middleware and front end.
I originally worked in the New York area of the United States in telecommunications before moving to Washington DC and
working in a mix of telecommunications, energy and ITS. I started my own software company before heading out to
Arizona and working with Shutterfly. Since then I have joined a startup in the Phoenix area and am thoroughly enjoying myself.
I do a lot of photography which I post on this website, but also on flickr. I have a photo-journalistic website which lists
the modernist and contemporary restaurants in phoenix. I have a site on the
Australian Flying Corps [AFC] which has been around since the 1990s and which I unfortunately
lost the .org URL to during a life event; however, it is under the
www.australianflyingcorps.com URL now.
The AFC website has gone through several iterations since the 90s and the two most recent are
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2004-2002) and
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2002-1999) which are good places to start.
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