▼ Café The Dirty Drummer welcomes all, including those with Macbooks. bles, is ice cold, and opens at 11 a.m. every day. Pair all that with Wi-Fi and you’ve got the perfect bar for that thesis, manuscript, script, or just a couple hours on Reddit. Pomeroy’s 5555 North Seventh Street Not much has changed at Pomeroy’s since it opened in 1983. Wood paneling covers most everything, including the front win- dows. At the bar or one of the joint’s many wooden booths, bust out the laptop and or- der the house wings or a burger with a cold glass of domestic beer. Need a break? There are a couple of pool tables, darts, lots of seating, and Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure. Charley’s Sports Grill 8110 West Union Hills Drive, Glendale This northwest Valley joint — you can find it in the back of a plaza on the west side of Loop 101 and Union Hills Drive, near Ar- rowhead Towne Center — is many things: a bar, a lunch counter, a place to get some work done. The front room at Charley’s has a fireplace and a few tables, plus the TVs (showing whatever game’s on) are of- ten muted. And the patio’s nice when the weather’s nice. It serves any domestic beer you can name and breakfast all day. Lauren Cusimano Working Hard or Hardly Drinking? Have a drink and get some work done in these laptop-friendly Phoenix bars. BY LAUREN CUSIMANO while reviewing TPS reports? Many metro Phoenix bars are equipped with everything professionals need to be productive while enjoying a drink, maybe some wings, and certainly strong, free Wi-Fi. Here are 12. A The Dirty Drummer Eatin’ and Drinkin’ Place 2303 North 44th Street There’s much to love about The Dirty Drummer. The wood-paneled walls. The open grill behind the bar. A jukebox packed with Merle, Willie, Waylon, and the Hanks. Its proximity to a Costco. And, yes, the Wi- Fi. This sports bar, honky-tonk, and lun- cheonette at 44th and Oak streets was Lauren Cusimano Windows open at Canteen Arcadia. opened in 1975 by Frank “Drummer” Arm- strong and his business partner, “Dirty Dave” Werner, and it’s perfect for a couple hours’ worth of work with a laptop, phone, and maybe a Drummer Burger with a Miller Lite. Time Out Lounge 3129 South Mill Avenue, Tempe Familiarity is the name of the game at the Time Out Lounge. The owners and many bartenders have been behind the bar for years, serving craft and domestic beer, quick cocktails, and easily accessible shots of … anything. It’s roomy, has three pool ta- re you bored of looking up from your laptop only to see the same four walls? Could you stand to have someone else pour you a glass of wine Canteen Arcadia 3619 East Indian School Road Canteen is a coffee shop, bar, and cowork- ing space in Arcadia, spottable by its giant front windows that open up to the foot traffic of Gaslight Square. Along the wide, wooden bar, you’ll find laptops lined up for miles — or so it seems. There are snacks and charcuterie boards, coffee and tea, and lots of adult beverages, including cider, seltzer, domestic beer, and signature cock- tails like the Hummingbird Nectar or the Cowork Mule. First Draft Book Bar 300 West Camelback Road, #1 Attached to Changing Hands’ Phoenix loca- tion, First Draft Book Bar creates an atmo- sphere that’s a blend of cafe, bar, and bookstore. Speaking of blend, it also feeds the need for book lovers, remote workers, and students to have a coffee, wine, cocktail, beer of their choice. Order a white sangria, lavender lemonade mimosas, or beer and wine on tap, and get to work. It stays pretty quiet in here; it’s a bookstore, after all. Bottleshop 48 — Craft Beer & Fine Wine 3318 South McClintock Drive, Tempe The 2,000-square-foot Bottleshop 48 in Tempe has 500 square feet dedicated to wine, 1,000 square feet for handcrafted beer, and a good amount of surface >> p 30 29 phoenixnewtimes.com | CONTENTS | FEEDBACK | OPINION | NEWS | FEATURE | NIGHT+DAY | CULTURE | FILM | CAFE | MUSIC | PHOENIX NEW TIMES JUNE 24TH – JUNE 30TH, 2021
