Ember Coast
A chef plating a Southwest dish with red-rock views

For the food-led

Red-rock tables and a chef in your kitchen.

Sedona's dining scene punches far above its size. We build the trip around it.

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Sedona's table is anchored by chef Lisa Dahl's restaurants, from the panoramic Mariposa to the candlelit Dahl & DiLuca, and by Jeff Smedstad's Elote Cafe, the most coveted reservation in town. We secure them all and sequence them across the week.

Anchor the trip around wine country

Just down the road, the Verde Valley wine country around Page Springs and Cornville pours award-winning Arizona reds, an easy morning of tasting-room visits. Pair a creekside fine-dining night at Cress on Oak Creek with a private-chef dinner in the villa for the ideal luxury-food spine.

A private chef plus a guided wine-country morning, with the view tables and the hardest reservations reserved around it, makes the trip a true food journey.

What’s inside

  • Lisa Dahl's view tables, reserved
  • The hardest reservation in town at Elote
  • A private-chef villa night
  • A Verde Valley wine-country morning
  • Creekside fine dining at Cress on Oak Creek

A sample rhythm

  1. 01

    Wine morning

    A guided Verde Valley tasting-room visit to open the week.

  2. 02

    Chef nights

    Private-chef dinners in the villa, built around the season.

  3. 03

    View tables

    Sunset at Mariposa and the coveted seat at Elote.

  4. 04

    Creekside

    A fine-dining night above Oak Creek at Cress.

The Sedonawe’d build in

The pieces that fit this trip.

The table

Red-rock-view tables and creekside chefs.

Sedona's dining runs from a hilltop room with panoramic walls of stone to a fine-dining cottage above Oak Creek. We hold the hard reservations.

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West Sedona

Mariposa Latin Inspired Grill

Chef Lisa Dahl's hilltop showpiece, walls of glass framing the red rocks over a wood-fired Latin grill, the definitive Sedona view table.

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Award-winning

Uptown Sedona

Cress on Oak Creek

The Forbes-rated fine-dining room at L'Auberge, serving seasonal American tasting menus on a deck suspended over Oak Creek.

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Uptown Sedona

Elote Cafe

Sedona's most beloved and hardest-to-book table, chef Jeff Smedstad's elevated, regional Mexican cooking drawn from years in Oaxaca.

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West Sedona

SaltRock Southwest Kitchen

The wood-fired Southwest kitchen at Amara Resort, open-flame cooking and craft agave cocktails with a red-rock backdrop.

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Award-winning

West Sedona

Dahl & DiLuca Ristorante Italiano

Lisa Dahl's romantic, candlelit Italian flagship, a perennial top-rated Sedona dinner two decades running.

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Village of Oak Creek

Cucina Rustica

A grand Tuscan-villa setting from the Dahl restaurant family, warm rustic Italian cooking under hand-painted starlit ceilings.

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Where to stay

Resorts cradled by the red rocks.

From a creekside hideaway in Oak Creek Canyon to a resort tucked inside Boynton Canyon, these are the stays a Sedona trip is built around.

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Boynton Canyon

Enchantment Resort

A 70-acre resort set deep inside Boynton Canyon, ringed by red-rock walls, with casita-style rooms and the destination spa Mii amo on site.

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Uptown Sedona

L'Auberge de Sedona

Creekside cottages along the banks of Oak Creek, a Forbes-rated retreat known for its riverfront dining and outdoor cathedral of sycamores.

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Boutique

Uptown Sedona

Amara Resort & Spa

A modern hillside boutique within walking distance of Uptown, with an infinity pool framing the red rocks and creek access below.

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West Sedona

Sky Rock Sedona

An elevated hilltop perch with some of the widest red-rock panoramas in town, recently reimagined with a stargazing-forward program.

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Destination spa

Boynton Canyon

Mii amo

An all-inclusive destination spa inside Enchantment, built around three-, four-, and seven-night immersive journeys for deep restoration.

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Adults-leaning

Oak Creek

L'Auberge Creekside Cottages

The most secluded rooms at L'Auberge, individual cottages set right at the water's edge for the quietest, most romantic stay in Sedona.

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Restore

Vortex energy, watsu, and red-rock calm.

Sedona is one of the world's wellness capitals: canyon spas, energy work, and immersive multi-night journeys built for the deep reset.

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Boynton Canyon

Mii amo Spa

Repeatedly named among the world's best destination spas, with a sacred Crystal Grotto at its heart and all-inclusive multi-night journeys.

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Award-winning

Boynton Canyon

The Spa at Enchantment

Day access to Mii amo's treatments and an open-air movement and meditation program set against the canyon walls.

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Oak Creek

L'Apothecary Spa at L'Auberge

Creekside treatments and the signature Watsu water therapy, performed in a private warm-water pool beside Oak Creek.

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Only-in-Sedona

Red-rock country

Sedona Vortex Experiences

Guided visits to the famed energy vortexes at Bell Rock, Airport Mesa, and Boynton Canyon, paired with meditation and breathwork.

Golden sunset light shimmering on the sea

Food & chef experience

Let’s design it around you.

Share what you can already picture. A concierge fills in everything still open and sends back a plan, not a quote.

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