For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Flagstaff, Arizona Travel Guide has been your connection to Flagstaff's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
Flagstaff Dining
Flagstaff offers a good range of restaurants, and most of the places are also easy to find, right off the main thoroughfare or in the downtown area. There are also a couple of standouts where you'll find the locals, which is always a good sign. And if you're unsure and need a second opinion, ask. Flagstaff folks, residents and business operators alike, are the friendly sort.
If the town’s historic sights have stirred up a hunger for historic homes along with an appetite for fine dining, here is a sampling of places where the food is as pleasing as the historic buildings housing them are charming:
The Cottage Place, 126 W. Cottage Ave., is a Flagstaff institution, and an example of the Bungalow style architecture popular in the early 1900s. The structure was built as a residence around 1910.
Josephine's Modern American Bistro on N. Humphrey's St is housed in a 1911 Craftsman-style rock bungalow and is listed on the National Historic Register of Historic Places. There's outdoor dining in the summer and a fireplace inside for winter.
At 19 E. Aspen St. in the heart of historic downtown, Pasto's stone and brick building was built in 1907 by David Babbitt of the Babbitt ranch family dynasty with an original hammered-tin ceiling. In the summer, dine on the outdoor patio, where picturesque brick walls are lined with greenery.
At Charly's Pub and Grill in the historic Hotel Weatherford at 23 N. Leroux St., grab a street-side table on the patio under the hotel's upstairs balcony. Charly’s opened Jan. 1, 1900 when Arizona was still a territory, and legendary cowboy author Zane Grey wrote Call of the Canyon here. Wander onto the balcony from the third-floor ballroom where the owners have installed Wyatt Earp's bar, brought from Tombstone.
