Batter up: Ten restaurants to sample in Phoenix and Scottsdale

Welcome to Dodgers spring training 2009.

Please discard any lingering lamentations about tradition and Florida. Arizona awaits, with a shiny new $100-million stadium complex, beckoning fans to forget the economy for a few days and take refuge in the primal pleasures of baseball. Think heat, not humidity; saguaro cactus in lieu of swaying palms; fajitas instead of fried fish. Think Camelback Ranch in Glendale, the new spring home of the Dodgers.

Read more in this week's Travel section, and check out this list of restaurants to sample in Phoenix and Scottsdale, as well as this photo gallery of hot restaurants to try while you're there.

Photo credit: Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times