Carefree Restaurant Association
Carefree, Arizona
Check back for dates for our Spring Carefree Restaurant Week!
Carefree’s very own Restaurant Week happens twice per year.
Local carefree restaurants will offer exciting prix fixe lunch and dinner menus.
Specials for the week include 2 course lunch for $18, 3 course dinner for $35 or $45. (excludes alcohol)
From Latin cuisine or family-style Italian to modern American, soul food, high tea or simply a good old-fashioned burger, there is something to suit every palate.
Carefree Restaurant Association Members
Take a look at each of our Carefree Restaurants. Each one offers a unique culinary experience. You are bound to fall in love with Carefree cuisine.
Dine local and experience eating out “Carefree Style”
Fine Italian Cuisine
Address: 7171 E. Cave Creek Rd., Carefree
Phone: 480-488-5800
Website: AlbertoCarefreeAz.com
Hours
Tuesday – Sunday
4:00 pm – Close
Coming in January 2021
Address: 121 Easy Street, Carefree
Phone: (480)618-0014
Website: AthensonEasy.com
Serving Full Service “Delicious” Breakfast & Lunch All Day!
Address: 7211 E. Ho Road # 23 Carefree, AZ 85377
Phone: 480-488-9261
Website: BlackMountainCoffeeShop.com
HOURS
Open Daily 6:00 am – 2:00 pm
Enter as strangers, leave as friends…
Address: 37636 N Tom Darlington Rd. Ste 1, Carefree, AZ 85377
Phone: 480-595-BRIX (2749)
Website: BrixWinesAZ.com
Breakfast & Lunch – Incorporating clean whole foods
Address: Civana Carefree – 37220 Mule Train Road, Carefree
Phone: 480-653-9000
Website: Civanacarefree.com
“European Style” coffee shop
Experience superior coffee and tea served in a welcoming and relaxed environment
Address: 7171 E Cave Creek Rd, Carefree, AZ 85377
Phone: 480-595-5050
Website: CarefreeCoffeeRoastery.com
Cozy Bistro serving healthy options without sacrificing flavor
Address: 36889 N Tom Darlington Dr., Carefree, AZ 85377
Phone: 480-488-9796
Website: restaurantconfluence.com
Tuesday through Saturday
Lunch ~ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Dinner ~ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Visit our website for Chef’s Tasting Events
Traditional Italian with a touch from the South. Homemade pasta, Fish and daily specials
Address: 100 Easy St., Carefree
Phone: 480-306-7506
Website: CorradosAZ.com
Happy Hour 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EVERY DAY
Authentic British tea room serving lunch and Afternoon Tea.
Address: 201 Easy Street # 103, Carefree
Open Tuesday – Sunday 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Closed Monday
Curbside Pick-Up with In-House Dining
Phone: 480-488-4812
Website: CarefreeTea.com
Join us for High Tea!

The best kept secret in Carefree!
Address: 7275 Easy St. Carefree, Arizona
Phone: 480-595-0233
Website: Giordanostrattoriaromana.com
Monday through Saturday
5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Keelers Neighborhood Steakhouse
Address: 7212 East Ho Hum Road, Carefree
Phone: (602) 374-4784
Website: KeelersSteakHouse.com
HAPPY HOUR 7 days per week; 3pm – 6pm
DINNER Sunday – Saturday; 5pm – 9pm
PIZZICATA IS THE FIRST PINSERIA ROMANA IN ARIZONA!
Address: 7252 Ho Road, Carefree (Spanish Village)
Phone: 480-488-2848
Website: PizzicataUSA.com
Due to the extremely high quality of our flour, our unique cold working method, the high hydration and our closely watched 72 hour process of cold fermentation, Pinsa is more wholesome, digestible, low-calorie and lower fat than the classic pizza.
The Best Family Pizza and Original Family Recipe Favorites
Address: 36889 N Tom Darlington Dr., Carefree
Phone: 480-488-0703
A refuge and an oasis. Beer pub and wine bar.
Address: 42016 N. Old Mine Rd, Cave Creek
Phone: 602 – 321-1510
Website: RavensViewWineBaraz.com
Spirit in the Desert … a Place for All People
Address: 7415 E. Elbow Bend
Phone: 480-488-5218
Website: Spiritinthedesert.org
Spirit in the Desert boasts a bright and spacious dining room with seating for up to 75 guests. Buffet meals can be tailored to group and individual preferences by our professional chef. Indoor and patio seating provide spectacular mountain views.
Delicious farm-to-table produce, grass-fed meats, sustainable seafood, and decadent desserts.
Address: Civana Carefree – 37220 N Mule Train Rd, Carefree
Phone: 888-692-4343
Website: Civanacarefree.com
Comfort Food with a Southwest Flair
Address: 34 Easy Street, Carefree
Phone: 480-595-9909
Website: VenuesCafe.com
Happy Hour EVERY DAY 3 pm – 6 pm
Monday – we offer the best burger in town. Choose from an 8 oz. Angus Beef Burger, house made Turkey Burger, our Impossible Vegan Burger or our Specialty Sweet Heat Burger; add your choice of side and a FREE glass of house red or white wine, Sangria, or a Draft or bottled beer. Kids can have a free scoop of ice cream for dessert
Tuesday our VIPs receive 10% OFF of any full priced item.
Wacky Wednesday $2 Tacos and $4 Margaritas
Thursday get 50% OFF all bottles of wine with the purchase of any entrée.
Friday all you can eat Fish N Chips.
Saturday buy one Entrée get your second for 50% OFF
Check out our website for more Specials and Events!
Our Featured Restaurant of the Month
Carefree Coffee Roastery
Located at 7171 E Cave Creek Rd, Carefree.
They are open to serve you Monday – Saturday 6:30 am – 3:oo pm and Sunday 7:00 am – 11:00 am
Carefree Coffee Roastery is a “European Style” coffee shop where you will experience superior coffee and tea served in a welcoming and relaxed environment. Carefree Coffee Roastery offers a variety of coffee drinks, teas, breakfast items and pastries, sure to excite any palate. Select a specialty coffee and freshly baked pastry or tantalize your taste buds with a delicious waffle and fresh fruit with real maple syrup or honey. If a croissant filled with delicious meats or cheeses or vegan Modern Oats are your pleasure, Carefree Coffee Roastery is the place to go!



A BIG thank you to Images Arizona for the article in the February Edition about our Carefree Restaurants.
Serving Up Gratitude
Restaurants Owe Survival to Community’s Loyalty and Support
Of all the businesses affected by the pandemic this past year, restaurants have been left with the greatest challenges in adapting to the ever-changing world in which we now find ourselves.

Raven’s View
At the beginning of 2020, Carefree restaurants were full-swing into another great first quarter. Things looked optimistic for a busy high-season as owners continued with their plans for a successful year. Parties were booked, reservations were made and the phones kept ringing.
Everything changed on March 17, 2020. That day, members of Carefree Restaurant Association took the initiative to close their in-house dining as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold of Arizona. Within days, an executive order from Arizona’s governor formally locked down all in-house dining across the state and customers were advised to stay home.

Black Mountain Coffee & Cafe
With the mandatory closures, restaurant owners were left with the unprecedented challenge of figuring out how to operate a dining establishment in the midst of a pandemic. At first glance, it appeared to be an insurmountable task. However, our restaurant community has resilient, imaginative and innovative professionals who over the past year have proven that they were up to the challenge.
From offering groceries and essential items (including that elusive toilet paper); making crockpot dinners to-go and hosting tailgate parties in Raven’s View Wine Bar’s parking lot; enjoying drive-in breakfasts complete with roller-skating servers at Black Mountain Café; and partnering with delivery services to bring food directly to customers, everyone found a creative way to survive.
And Carefree’s family-owned restaurants have survived — a remarkable feat given that, according to the National Restaurant Association, more than 110,000 restaurants (or about 17% of the country’s total restaurants) have closed either permanently or long-term during the pandemic.
Our restaurants now offer new services they probably would never have considered before.

Alberto’s Ristorante
Curbside service became the new norm for many, as customers ordered and paid for meals ahead of time then pulled up to a designated parking space and waited in the safety of their own car while food was delivered to them. The town of Carefree was particularly helpful in spreading the word about curbside service throughout the community, printing custom signage for each restaurant to reserve designated parking spots for guests.
“We were seeing the effects of the Canadian border closure and really missing our Canadian customers,” says Alberto Liani, owner of Alberto Ristorante. “But, at the same time, our take-out business was up 60% as our locals found new ways to support us.”
One restaurateur even courageously debuted a brand-new dining establishment as Pomodoro — the sister restaurant to Pizzicata in Spanish Village — opened its doors in Cave Creek during the pandemic.
Nonetheless, 2020 was an emotional rollercoaster. Restaurant owners had to become medical technicians (taking temperatures), face mask enforcers and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts alongside ever-changing day-to-day responsibilities — which included being the busser, the server, the bartender, the barista, the line cook and the dishwasher.
Everyone needed to be flexible in order to keep their doors open.
Reductions in manpower, services and allowed capacity in dining rooms had a direct impact on staff, too. Paul Keeler of Keeler’s Neighborhood Steakhouse recalls the kindness and generosity of guests during the worst months of last year.

Keeler’s Neighborhood Steakhouse
“One customer left a $400 gratuity for staff on a check for $25,” he says. “Another ‘paid it forward’ and, on two separate occasions during our happy hour, bought drinks for all seated at our ‘socially distanced’ bar. This then continued throughout the evening with random acts of kindness as guests bought drinks for others.”
There were brighter days amongst the gloom. Adele Giordano of Giordano’s Trattoria Romana recalls a moment in the fall during which a young couple who had come to the restaurant for their first date came back for dinner during the pandemic.
“At one point in the evening, the man got down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend,” Giordano says. “The entire restaurant was clapping and cheering as the couple danced to our music. It was very emotional.”
Carefree’s restaurant owners all agree on one thing — it is the continued loyalty and support from customers that has lifted up spirits and kept restaurants going throughout the pandemic. The businesses have risen to the challenge but it is the community that has given them the confidence and commitment to continue through adversity.

English Rose Tea Room
At the English Rose Tea Room, phone calls came daily during the lockdown from customers who were just wanting to check in and make sure everyone was doing OK and promising to return as soon as dine-in service was allowed.
Catherine Marr, owner of Venues Café, says some customers now come by three times a week just to dine on her newly extended outdoor patio where they feel “comfortable and safe.”
Despite the challenges, a number of restaurateurs even participated in the Carefree Restaurant Week last fall, during which special menus were prepared for two-course lunches and three- or four-course dinners. These options were made available for both curbside pick-up and in-house dining.
Unlike the early days of April when it was rare to know someone with COVID-19, many people now unfortunately know first-hand the impact of the virus on their friends, family members or work colleagues.
So it is with hope and optimism that we look forward to 2021.

Corrado’s Cucina Italiana
A new year brings another new restaurant to Carefree. Athens on Easy Street — a Greek-inspired restaurant owned and operated by Augie Athenson and his family — offers the community a menu that includes typical Greek fare such as spanakopita, moussaka, souvlaki and of course gyros.
With Valentine’s Day approaching, Carefree Restaurant Week slated for the spring and a new Art and Foodie Stampede event in April, there is no better time to discover the culinary delights of your own neighborhood.
On behalf of everyone at Carefree Restaurant Association, thank you for your continued patronage. We look forward to serving you in the future.