Fox Cigar Bar

If Scottsdale has a default, this is it — the most-reviewed cigar room in the Valley, and the one that keeps the lights on the longest. A standalone building in the middle of Old Town, Fox is where the desert's long evenings go to become longer ones.

It clears the bar on the two things that matter most. The humidor is one of the largest walk-ins in Arizona, past four hundred brands. The bar is a genuine full bar — six hundred spirits, a hundred whiskeys, bourbons and scotches, rotating taps — not a beer cooler with a cigar counter. Arizona's tobacco-retailer exemption lets the two live under one roof, and Fox uses the privilege fully.

The Room

Custom leather chairs, bar and high-top seating, some thirty-four screens with the sports packages to fill them, and a patio for the evenings the desert cooperates. It's built to hold a crowd on game night and a quiet regular on a Tuesday with equal ease.

The Hours

Open to 2 a.m. — the latest of any lounge in this guide's Scottsdale set, and the literal answer to "patios that stay open when everywhere else closes." Come for a nightcap; stay past when you meant to.

Why We Picked It

Because it does the fundamentals better than anyone in the Valley — the wall, the bar, the hours — and the fourteen hundred-plus reviews at ★4.8 back it up. Start here. You'll understand why the regulars never left.