Pigtails is a hidden bar in the heart of downtown Phoenix. There are a few drinks on the menu, which change very frequently, but the Old Fashioned is rumored to be a regular.
With vintage furniture and unfinished concrete walls, the underground space has an upscale yet creepy vibe to it, though it’s nothing a couple of cocktails can fix. And the bar’s red lights are another ode to Malinda, a charming and rambunctious woman who is said to have spent time in Tucson’s Maiden Lane, a red light district. The location once housed the Hotel Adams, an 1896-built luxury hotel that was destroyed by a fire in 1910, hence the flames depicted in the mural. Her hair is aflame in bright shades of blue, yellow, and orange, with an unassuming door to the bar in the middle of the colorful mural.ĭescend the stairs into a red-lit concrete basement. The dimly-lit basement speakeasy can be accessed from an alleyway north of the hotel between Central Avenue and First Street.Ī colorful mural titled Malinda marks the entrance, commemorating Malinda Curtis, a Black woman who lived in the neighborhood in the late 19th century and the namesake of the bar. It may be tucked inside the Renaissance Phoenix Downtown Hotel, but tourists aren’t stepping foot inside Melinda’s Alley unless they really know their way around.
Detail of Malinda mural by Hugo Medina and Darrin Armijo-Wardle.
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