Bars in Phoenix with late night hours

Gracie's Tax Bar

A former tax office on 7th Avenue turned punk-leaning neighborhood dive, named for Grace Perry and the original owners of Abbey Tax Services. It opens at 4 PM every day and runs to 2 AM, with food served until 1 AM on weeknights and 2 AM on Friday and Saturday, which makes it one of the few rooms downtown where you can still order something at last call. Drinks are cheap, there is a jukebox and board games, and it pulls in local artists and musicians. Reviews split hard on service, so it rewards patience on a busy night.

Cobra Arcade Bar

About forty restored arcade cabinets and pinball machines line a downtown room painted end to end with murals, and the cocktails are named after video game characters. It is open 4 PM to 2 AM every single day, which makes it one of the most dependable late stops in the neighborhood. The bar itself serves no food, but food trucks and vendors park outside Thursday through Sunday from 9 PM to 2 AM, outside food is allowed, and you can have a pizza delivered. Games run on tokens bought with cash, which catches visitors out, and weekend DJ nights get loud enough that it is a bad choice for a conversation.

Thunderbird Lounge

A Melrose District dive with a retro lounge look, live music, DJs and a back patio that is the real draw on a mild night. It opens at 4 PM on weekdays and noon at weekends, and closes at 2 AM all seven nights. Happy hour runs 4 to 6 PM Monday through Friday, a dollar off wells, drafts and White Claw. Outside food is permitted but outside drinks are not, and it is a 21-and-over room. This is a neighborhood bar rather than a destination, and that is the point of it.

Seamus McCaffrey's Irish Pub & Restaurant

Phoenix's original Irish pub, on Monroe Street in the middle of downtown, pouring Guinness since long before the neighborhood filled up with cocktail rooms. It is open 11 AM to 2 AM every day of the week, so it is one of the few downtown addresses you can walk into at noon or at last call. There is a lunch menu from 11 AM to 3 PM, a daily happy hour from 3 to 6 PM, and live music at weekends. Expect a pub with a proper pint, not a club.

Charlie's Phoenix

A country-themed gay nightclub on Camelback that has been running since 1984, with DJ-spun western sets, line dancing lessons, karaoke and a large patio. It is the latest-closing room on this list: 4 AM on Friday and Saturday, 2 AM the rest of the week. Worth knowing that Arizona law stops alcohol service at 2 AM statewide, so those last two hours are dance floor rather than bar. Doors open at 2 PM Monday through Thursday and at noon at weekends. Its Google score is the lowest here, so come for the hours and the dancing rather than the service.

Bitter & Twisted Cocktail Parlour

Ross Simon's bar in the historic Luhrs Building is the most decorated cocktail room in the city, with a book-length menu and bar bites built to match it. It is also the earliest closer here: midnight Tuesday through Thursday, 1 AM on Friday and Saturday, shut on Sunday and Monday. Happy hour runs 4 to 6 PM Tuesday through Friday. It is a 21-and-over room at the top of this set's price range, so treat it as where the night starts rather than where it ends.

Bikini Lounge

The oldest tiki bar in Phoenix, on Grand Avenue since 1947 and still cash only. Neon, kitsch, a pool table and vintage lounge booths, open 3 PM to 2 AM seven days a week. Regulars point out there is no food, so eat before you come. It is the cheapest room on this list and the one people treat most like a second living room.

Linger Longer Lounge

A North Central lounge that reads as a dive but is roomier and more comfortable than one, with a game room, a dance floor and DJ nights. It runs to 2 AM every night, opening at 4 PM on weekdays and around noon at weekends. The kitchen leans hard into sausages and hot dogs, with meat and cheese boards alongside. Karaoke is a fixture and bands play without a proper stage, which reviewers say still sounds good.

Boycott Bar

One of the very few lesbian bars left in the United States, on 7th Avenue in the Melrose district, and the highest-rated room on this list. It runs to 2 AM six nights a week and closes on Mondays, opening at 5 PM most evenings and earlier at weekends. Expect a small, warm room rather than a big club. It carries as much weight locally for its place in Phoenix LGBTQ+ history as for the drinks.

Killer Whale Sex Club

The name is the joke: this is a craft cocktail bar on Roosevelt Row behind a pink and teal mural, not a club of any kind. It opens at 7 PM and runs to 2 AM every night, which makes it a genuinely late option in the arts district. The cocktail list changes constantly and there is beer and wine, but no food at all. The room is loud and colourful and it fills up hard on First Fridays.

Luckys Indoor Outdoor

Two bars in one on 2nd Street: an indoor room with pool tables and Skee-Ball that plays like a college dive, and a big outdoor patio with picnic tables and swinging chairs. It is open to 2 AM every night, from 4 PM on weekdays. Burgers and sandwiches are served, so it is one of the few genuinely late rooms here with real food. Its Google score is the weakest in this set while its published price tier is the highest, which is worth knowing before you commit a night to it.

Stardust Pinbar

A pinball lounge next door to The Van Buren, opened in 2019 and themed around David Bowie, with gig posters, an illuminated disco dance floor and a wall of machines. It runs to 2 AM every night. Ziggy's Magic Pizza operates inside, so there is real food alongside the drafts and cocktails. Opening times shift around during the week, so check before an early visit.

The Little Woody

An Arcadia neighborhood bar hidden behind a red neon owl on Indian School Road, with the entrance round the back, which catches almost everyone out the first time. Inside there are three sections: pool tables, a main bar with booths and tables, and a dance floor with skee-ball in the corner. It is open 4 PM to 2 AM every day except Tuesday, when it is closed. Weekends are when it gets loud and the dance floor earns its keep.

Valley Bar

A basement bar and music venue under Central Avenue, reached through an alley door marked by a glowing red sign, in a building that dates to 1949. Drinks are named after Arizona politicians and infamous local history, and Cocina 10 serves Arizona-inspired food in the lounge. It runs to 2 AM Wednesday through Saturday, 1 AM on Sunday and Tuesday, and is closed on Mondays. Concert nights pack it out, so a quiet drink is a midweek proposition.

Hanny's

A former department store on 1st Street turned into a three-storey restaurant and bar, with mid-century architecture, a long backlit bar and old dressing rooms repurposed as bathrooms. It is the earliest opener on this list at 11:30 AM midweek, and it runs to 1 AM on Friday and Saturday, midnight the rest of the week. Food is a full kitchen rather than bar snacks. It suits a dinner that turns into a late drink better than it suits a 2 AM night.

Rips Bar

A family-owned dive on 16th Street that opens at 8 AM and does not close until 2 AM, the longest working day of any bar on this list. The walls are covered in an eclectic mix of art, and there is karaoke, live music, DJs, pinball and a pool table. Drinks are cheap and the crowd is mixed and completely unbothered. There is no kitchen, so this one is drinks only.