Best Boutique with a Mexican Flair Purple Lizard.Best Day of the Dead Festival Desert Botanical Garden.Best Pinata Art Mutant Pinata Show at Bragg's Pie Factory.Best New Showcase for Latino Art Arizona Latino Arts and Cultural Center/Galeria 147.
Best Neighborhood Bar, South Phoenix Mother's Bar & Grill.Best Neighborhood Bar, Downtown Phoenix SideBar.Best Neighborhood Bar, Central Phoenix JT's Bar & Grill.Best Sports Bar, Scottsdale American Junkie.Best Sports Bar, Tempe Baseline Sports Bar.Best Sports Bar, Southeast Valley Crabby Don's Bar & Restaurant.Best Sports Bar, West Valley Yard House.Best Sports Bar, North Phoenix 16th Street Sports Bar.Best Sports Bar, South Phoenix Gallagher's Sports Grill.Best Sports Bar, Downtown Phoenix Coach & Willie's.Best Sports Bar, Central Phoenix The Ox Sports Bar.Best Place to See Midget Bartenders Giligin's Bar.Best Ladies Fight Stripper Fight League at Cheetahs Gentleman's Club.Best Drag Queen Show "The Follies" at Ice Pics.Best Hip-Hop Night The Blunt Club, Thursdays at Yucca Tap Room.Best Hookah Lounge Caf� Istanbul and Market.Best Bar for Bikers and Hipsters Chopper John's.Best Bar for a Drink and a Smoke Maverick Saloon.Best Bar for Day Drinking The Recovery Room.Best Place for a Twilight Drink House of Tricks.Best Happy Hour, Tempe Four Peaks Brewing Company.Best Happy Hour, Southeast Valley San Tan Brewing Company.Best Happy Hour, West Valley Tuscan Oven.Best Happy Hour, Downtown Phoenix District.Best Happy Hour, South Phoenix Amano Pizza Bistro.Best Happy Hour, Central Phoenix Fez Restaurant and Urban Bar.Best Place to Drink Pabst Blue Ribbon Old Skool 50 Cent PBR Night.Best Local Beer for a Novice Drinker Papago Brewing Company's Orange Blossom.Best Bottled Beer Selection Taste of Tops.Best White Sangria La Bocca Urban Pizzeria & Wine Bar.Best Red Sangria Rita's Kitchen at Camelback Inn.Best Old-School Martini Seamus McCaffrey's.Best Karaoke with a Live Band "I'm with the Band" on Mondays at Blue Martini Lounge.The Encanto Circles offer myriad route possibilities, and when you've exhausted those (or yourself), you can always head to Encanto Park, bordering the north side of the neighborhood. Curved streets lined with old, lushly landscaped Period Revival homes set the stage for an out-of-Phoenix experience (even the temperature is purported to be a few degrees lower in this unique urban ecosystem). Even if you don't live there, you can enjoy this 'hood.In a city of grids, Encanto/Palmcroft offers walkers an alternative to the straight line. The folks on these blocks - 15th to Seventh avenues, north of McDowell Road and south of Encanto Boulevard - are proud of the hard work they've done to maintain both their beautiful buildings and the nifty neighborhood spirit they've developed. A tight, friendly neighborhood association and close ties to the Historic Preservation office have kept Encanto's charm intact. Encanto/Palmcroft is home to some of the loveliest older architecture in the Valley: Tudor Revivals and American Colonial and California Craftsman homes, all situated on generous lots, nearly all of them restored or maintained, and each one a glimpse of beautiful bygone days. This 75-year-old neighborhood offers a glimpse of what tony downtown residential districts once looked like.