PHX Business Journal: 3 Valley restaurants ranked among best in the nation

Three Arizona restaurants were listed among the best in the nation by OpenTable, which gave out its 2014 Diners' Choice Awards earlier this month.

Here are the restaurants that received Diner's Choice Awards:

• Café Monarch - Scottsdale
• Kai - Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort - Chandler
• ShinBay - Scottsdale

The San Fransisco-based online restaurant reservation and review company complied more than 5 million reviews for more than 20,000 restaurants across the U.S. to develop its top 100 restaurants in the country. The reviews were all from verified OpenTable diners between Dec. 1, 2013, and Nov. 30, 2014.

Kai was not only listed among the top 100, but came in as No. 8 in the entire country. Kai is regularly mentioned in top lists, including being the only AAA Five Diamond restaurant in the state.

Arizona does not only have restaurants that rank among the top in the nation but also highly rated hotels and resorts. Yesterday I wrote about eight hotels and resorts in the state that were listed among the top 500 in the entire world.

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Phoenix Business Journal: Sky Harbor recognized as airport of the year

Those messages over the intercom at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airportthat welcome passengers to "the friendliest airport" may not be just a marketing technique.

Sky Harbor was recognized recently as the airport of the year by the Transportation Security Administration, reports KTAR.com.

TSA awarded Sky Harbor with the honor because it provided "exceptional courtesy and attentiveness" to more than 42 million annual passengers while maintaining high levels of security.

The honor likely highlights improvements made at the airport, which had been criticized for a number of complaints against TSA last year.