💎 Quartz, the Valley’s newest ‘‘immersive cocktail experience,’’ opens at 4 p.m. today in a storefront space on the southeast corner of Van Buren and Fourth Avenue in downtown Phoenix.
It’s the first standalone bar from Instrumental Hospitality (Belly Kitchen & Bar, Sin Muerte) in partnership with Chuckie Duff (Cobra Arcade Bar, Ziggy’s Pizza, The Rebel Lounge).
The 2,000-square-foot cocktail lounge features a glowing main bar with a mirror-like brass bar top floating beneath a giant rock-slab ceiling.
The bar offers a dozen gemstone-inspired specialty cocktails, three mocktails, wine, and beer.
Tucked behind the bar, a high-end desert-inspired lounge, The Cave at Quartz, is a mirrored rose-gold arched crystal cave with private booths accessible by reservation only.
Quartz is open 4-midnight Sunday-Thursday and 4 p.m.-1 a.m. Friday-Saturday.
LA Crab Shack launches 2nd location in Peoria
🦀 LA Crab Shack, which debuted at AZ International Marketplace in Mesa in 2017, has launched a second location on the northwest corner of Peoria and 67th Avenue in Peoria. (The ‘‘LA’’ stands for Lousiana, not Los Angeles.) Open for lunch and dinner daily.
Brillé Mead Company makes debut in Tucson
🍻 Brillé Mead Company, Arizona’s fifth commercial meadery and the first in Tucson, has opened. Brillé, which specializes in Ethiopian-style mead known as T’ej, has set up inside the Dillinger Brewing production facility and shares the brewery’s Oracle Road taproom.
Hidden House in Chandler closed this weekend
🔒 In a somewhat unusual move for a restaurant its size, The Hidden House in downtown Chandler will be closed this Friday and Saturday in order to host private events. The high-end New American restaurant will reopen to the public at 11 a.m. Sunday.
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