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Pizzeria Bianco: How a Grocery Store Pizza Counter Became America’s Pizza Pilgrimage
Chris Bianco started selling pizza from the back of a Phoenix grocery store in 1988. Decades later, his tiny brick pizzeria in Heritage Square…
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Best Sonoran Hot Dogs in Tucson: Six Stands Worth the Drive
Born on the late-night streets of Hermosillo and perfected on Tucson’s South Side, the bacon-wrapped Sonoran dog is the city’s signature bite. From a…
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El Charro Café: A Century of Carne Seca on a Tucson Rooftop
Since 1922, one family has kept El Charro Café cooking in downtown Tucson, from Monica Flin’s fryer and a disputed chimichanga legend to the…
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Best Route 66 Stops in Arizona: Seven Family Classics for the Centennial
Route 66 turns 100 this year, and in Arizona the road survives because a few families never closed up shop. From Oatman’s burros to…
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Tlaquepaque Arts and Shopping Village: The Sedona Village Built Around Its Sycamores
In the early 1970s, Abe Miller set out to bring an old Mexican village to the banks of Oak Creek, and he refused to…
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The Palace Restaurant and Saloon: The Bar That Survived Whiskey Row’s Great Fire
When fire swept Prescott’s Whiskey Row in 1900, patrons carried the Palace’s oak bar across the street and kept pouring. That same bar still…
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Best Date Shakes and Date Farms in Arizona: Five Sweet Stops Worth the Drive
Arizona’s Medjool palms trace back to a handful of Moroccan offshoots, and today the groves around Yuma pour some of the best date shakes…
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Rod’s Steak House: The Route 66 Steer That Has Fed Williams Since 1946
Since 1946, a giant neon steer has called hungry travelers off Route 66 in Williams. After a long pandemic closure, Rod’s Steak House is…
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Copper Queen Hotel: Bisbee’s Grand Old Lady of the Copper Boom
Built by a copper mining company in 1902 to impress investors, Bisbee’s Copper Queen Hotel has outlasted the boom that built it. Today it…
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Lutes Casino: Yuma’s Century-Old Pool Hall Where Nobody Gambles
Lutes Casino has no slot machines, just dominoes, pool tables, a cheeseburger topped with a hot dog, and a ceiling that a wooden leg…