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To experience the magic of candy making, visit the Cerreta Candy Company. This family-owned business has been making delicious treats for over 50 years. They offer public tours of their factory, where you can watch as vats of chocolate are poured into delicate molds to create mouth-watering candies. You'll be able to hear the popcorn popping before it gets coated in luscious caramel. The Cerreta family has passed down their candy-making skills for four generations, and they continue to oversee production and operations. You can watch them make a variety of caramels, fudge, brittle's, Camelback's, and caramel popcorn. They combine modern and old-fashioned candy-making techniques to create popular chocolate-covered creams such as butter, maple, fudge, or peppermint. They specialize in molded chocolates like the famous French Mint and the Chocolate Enrober, where creams, caramels, pretzels, cherries, and marshmallows get covered in luscious chocolate.

The Valley Bar is a prominent building located in downtown Phoenix, constructed in 1949 on Central Avenue. The interior design, created by Patch & Clark Design, is characterized by soft yellows, cool greys, and bright whites, evoking the feeling of Arizona's abundant sunlight. The Valley Bar is a distinct Arizona space that pays homage to the past and present of Phoenix life. The Rose Room has eight beers on draft and a drink menu with over 50 wines and signature cocktails named after local politicians of varying degrees of infamy. The Game Room at Valley Bar has two billiards tables, shuffleboard, two skeeball games, board games, pinball, darts, and more. The Music Hall at Valley Bar is an intimate, 250-capacity room that showcases all varieties of music, film, spoken word, and comedy.