Highball Is a Tippy-Top-Tier, Gimmick-Free Cocktail Bar
Highball’s one of those cocktail bars that doesn’t really have a theme, doesn’t really have a gimmick, and isn’t trying to be trendy in any way. If it had a tagline, it’d be “really good and fairly fancy,” and the world seems to agree, with an active Spirited Awards regional top-10 honoree run since 2022. The cocktails cover your full range of flavors, from tropical vacation to, uh, sophisticated vacation… on another thread entirely, what do you think a “normal Tuesday” inspired cocktail menu would have? Is it just Negronis and Old Fashioneds? Double-shot margaritas? Maybe Highball’s wild Lyon Hearted cocktail, with butterscotch-infused Scotch, bourbon, rum, sherry, curaçao, coconut bitters, and a little side cookie is what we actually need. A couple of those and my TPS-report woes would go away for good.
Website: highballphx.com
Reservations: OpenTable
Tip: There’s a $100 bowl cocktail for 3+ that should be on everyone’s bucket list.
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Highball Has 10 Yumpoints
APR 18, 2024
Tales of the Cocktail Foundation: Tales of The Cocktail Foundation Announces Spirited Awards® 2024 Regional Top 10 Honorees
Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. West
APR 18, 2024
Tales of the Cocktail Foundation: Tales of The Cocktail Foundation Announces Spirited Awards® 2024 Regional Top 10 Honorees
Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. West
NOV 9, 2023 / NIKKI BUCHANAN AND JAMIE KILLIN
Eater: 15 Fabulous Cocktail Bars to Try in Phoenix
Owned by cocktail savants Libby Lingua and Mitch Lyons (who create high-volume cocktail programs for other venues under the brand name Two Hands Consulting), Highball, perched on the second floor of an historic building, is a cozy yet sophisticated hangout. The wildly creative cocktail menu comes with helpful descriptors such as “velvety, smooth, tantalizing” and “quirky, ripe, exotic.”
APR 24, 2023
Tales of the Cocktail Foundation: Tales of the Cocktail Foundation announces the Regional Top 10 Honorees for the 2023 Spirited Awards
Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. West
MAY 5, 2022
Tales of the Cocktail Foundation: Tales of the Cocktail Foundation announces the Regional Top 10 Honorees for the 2022 Spirited Awards
Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. West
Dec 16, 2020 / Lauren Cusimano
Phoenix New Times: First Sip: Highball Is an Upscale Cocktail Lounge Without a Gimmick, Which Is Refreshing
Opened at the tail end of October 2020, Highball is overseen by Libby Lingua and Mitch Lyons, formerly of Barter and Shake Hospitality. Barter and Shake's joints tend to be conceptual in some way; this new, sleek establishment is gimmick-free. There’s no narrative, no wild décor, no themed cocktails on the menu. It’s just straightforward chic. Which turns out to be kind of refreshing.
