Around Chase Field

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Chase Field is in downtown Phoenix, and the whole evening works on foot. Have dinner at CityScape, a dining-and-retail block a few minutes’ walk from the park, and get a local beer at Huss Brewing’s downtown taproom. Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers has a restaurant at the park itself, and families get a hands-on science museum and a children’s museum within walking distance.

Phoenix summer highs routinely top 100 degrees, so in midsummer keep the outdoor legs of the plan short and spend the wait indoors.

Bars and restaurants in downtown Phoenix change their hours, and some close for good, so look up any spot below before you go.

Downtown Phoenix around the park

Chase Field is at 401 East Jefferson Street in downtown Phoenix. The bars and restaurants worth your time are within a few blocks of the gates, and the light rail stops a short walk from the park, so a no-car night is realistic. You can find more about the light rail and the garages in our Getting There section.

CityScape, the dining block, is a few minutes’ walk. Tom’s Watch Bar is steps from the park, with The Desmond and the Huss Brewing taproom a short walk beyond. Roosevelt Row, the arts district, is the far end of the range, a longer walk or a quick rideshare. Mortgage Matchup Center (formerly Footprint Center), where the NBA’s Suns play, is next door, so the blocks around the park have plenty of game-day life.

Right at the gates

Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers has a restaurant at the park, with entrances on Jefferson Street and at the park’s northwest corner at 4th Street, and you can also get to it from inside near Sections 139 and 141. It is open 7 days a week. You can find more about the concourse food in our What to Eat section.

CityScape and the downtown core

CityScape is the place to go for dinner, a downtown dining-and-retail center a few minutes’ walk from the park, with enough range in one spot that a group stops arguing. The Arrogant Butcher and Chico Malo are the two to start with, and both are in the same complex, so a group that cannot agree can split up and still walk to the gates together.

For an easy night, eat dinner at CityScape, walk the few minutes to the gates, and stop at Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers or Tom’s Watch Bar afterward while the garages empty out.

Bars within an easy walk

If the night is built around beer rather than dinner, these three are an easy walk from the park:

• Tom’s Watch Bar is a big sports bar steps from the ballpark, so go there if a sports bar is what you want before first pitch.
• The Desmond is a pizzeria-meets-pub, a casual place for a slice and a beer without a full sit-down dinner.
• Huss Brewing’s downtown taproom pours Arizona craft, the stop if your pre-game beer should be a local one instead of another stadium domestic.

Roosevelt Row

Roosevelt Row, downtown’s arts district, has a denser and more independent bar-and-restaurant scene than the blocks around the park. It costs you a longer walk or a quick rideshare, so plan it as its own stop rather than a detour on the way to first pitch. It fits best in front of a night game, when you have an afternoon to spend.

Family-friendly pre-game

The Arizona Science Center at Heritage and Science Park is a hands-on science museum a short walk from the ballpark, an easy stop with kids before an evening game and a way to get out of the heat on a hot afternoon. The Children’s Museum of Phoenix, at 215 North 7th Street, is about three blocks north of the park, so you can walk there too. Both are daytime stops, so plan them for before the game.

The swimming pool behind the right-center field wall is a private group rental for up to about 35 people, so a regular ticket does not get you to it. You can find more about renting it in our Where to Sit section. A Chase Field tour runs on its own schedule, separate from game tickets, and is the kid-friendly way to see the building itself.

More to do in Phoenix

A downtown Phoenix food tour, in the same part of town as the ballpark, is worth a look, and it includes an alcohol package.

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