text: This is like a rest area along a busy highway but with a fabulous beer selection Actually calling a Britishstyle pub like The Rose and Crown a rest stop is an unfair characterization The place is actually quite lively has a great front porch and rustic interior decent pub grub and a myriad of ways to slake your thirst The location in Heritage Square has made it my default pit stop when I am in dowtown Phoenix for other reasons howevernnAnd that is the beauty of the location After an Adults Night Out at Arizona Science Center my posse inevitably winds up here Following a day of drinking at a local beer festival or light rail pub crawl my posse drifts here It is also a great spot to keep that buzz going with a fresh pint or the pause that refreshes where you can get some real food in your gullet and live to drink another day It is not a bad place to catch a cab too since there is a convenient curbside loading area for just such an instancennLet me say a few things about the beer and food The food offered here includes British pub favorites like Bangers Mash and a Scotch Egg Being a big fan of the Scotch Egg I had to try this one It is hard to beat a hardboiled egg wrapped in pork sausage and rolled in bread crumbs and then deepfried As my English friend used to remark It is more than a snack and indeed it is The Rose and Crown serves the egg elegantly sliced into eights for sharing perhaps And it comes with a pickled relish which is hard to describe but tasty The other food item Ived sampled here and that I can recommend are the Pub Wings They are a decent pile of meaty buffalo style wings with a pretty good vinegar bite When this hot mound winds up in your face and should you be so fortunate but enough about your personal life sniff carefully All too many times I have made the rookie mistake of inhaling whilst sniffing and then lapsing into the inevitable wing cough from accidental aspiration of the vinegary wing sauce vapor I once had an order of wings here that were tangy enough to evoke the wing cough from the table behind mennI consider the Rose and Crown a great downtown Phoenix landing pad from which to appreciate fine beer and pub culture