Mill Avenue's All-Day Breakfast
Tempe's Mill Avenue handles the city's central restaurant demand — a strip that mixes Arizona State University students, downtown professionals, and the residents who live in the surrounding blocks. Sunshine Breakfast Bar is one of the rooms that handles all three demographics confidently.
The cooking is American breakfast in its proper form: careful eggs, considered hashes, the kind of breakfast plates that handle a serious meal as well as a quick one.
What to Order
Breakfast hashes with proper potatoes; eggs Benedict with house-made hollandaise; French toast on real bread. The coffee programme is more serious than the format suggests.
The Format
The dining room handles the busy weekend brunch crowd; the patio handles Arizona's long warm season. The pace is brisk on weekends, unhurried on weekdays.
Best Occasion: Solo Dining
Sunshine is one of Tempe's most natural solo-dining rooms. Counter seating handles a single cover; the format is unintimidating; the price point sits in the bracket where a solo diner can eat well without feeling extravagant.