The two buildings at 322 E. Camelback Road look small from the street, set right beside Uptown Plaza. Both are red brick and close enough to share a patio. Since October 8, 2026, one of them has belonged to Homme Thai Supper Club. It is the new restaurant from Vivid "Gabby" Chu, the executive chef behind LeDu Thai. Phoenix New Times called them "two little red-brick homes." It reported that Chu fell in love with them on her first tour and plans to put a cocktail lounge called Blue Zebra in the second one, with a patio connecting the two.
The lounge carries most of the plan's history. Going back to the brewpub years, most tenants here have run both buildings as one evening, with dinner in one and a drink before or after in the other. Chu's plan brings that setup back.
Twenty-five years, two rooms
The site's food history starts in August 2001, when Sonora Brewhouse opened at 322 E. Camelback. Here is how the address has been used since then:
- 2001 to 2009: Sonora Brewhouse. It opened as a pub, began brewing on site in 2005, and renamed itself SunUp in 2009, according to Mouth by Southwest. Brewmaster Uwe Boer built its reputation on beers like Trooper IPA and the White Russian imperial stout.
- 2009 to 2019: SunUp Brewing, two rooms. The western building held the Front Bar and the kitchen. The other building was the Brewer's Den. In 2015, SunUp added a 15-barrel production brewery with a canning line next to the brewpub.
- 2019 to 2023: Los Sombreros, sharing the corner with SunUp until 2022. SunUp closed its kitchen on April 20, 2019, and kept the Brewer's Den as a taproom. Los Sombreros moved into the other room and kitchen and held a grand opening on December 13 that year.
- 2023 to 2025: Copper & Sage and Blue Stave. A Southern-inspired restaurant opened in late 2023 as a dual concept with Blue Stave, a bar next door. Both closed in April 2025.
- 2026: Homme Thai Supper Club, with Blue Zebra planned. The restaurant opened in October. Chu has said the lounge will follow "in the coming months."
Every entry on that list has two parts, and that comes from the property itself. Two separate buildings with a patio between them let a tenant run them as one evening or divide them between businesses.
The years the pair was split
The split happened from 2019 to 2022. For those years, two businesses with different hours and menus shared one corner. SunUp poured its beer in one building while a Mexican restaurant ran the kitchen in the other.
That arrangement ended in March 2022. As Mouth by Southwest reported, Los Sombreros took over management of SunUp's last taproom and extended its hours to 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends. One operator ran both buildings again. Los Sombreros closed its Uptown location in February 2023, while its Scottsdale and Mesa restaurants stayed open.
The next tenant designed the pairing in from the start. Phoenix New Times described Copper & Sage as occupying "one of the two small brick buildings," with Blue Stave next door, where guests could have a cocktail before or after dinner. Chu's plan follows the same layout with a different cuisine and a different drinks program.
What Homme does with its half
Chu opened LeDu Thai off Roosevelt Row in July 2024. LeDu was named one of Phoenix New Times' best new restaurants of that year. She briefly ran a second LeDu at Seventh Street and Bethany Home Road and closed it in August to focus on Homme. She grew up on a farm in Hat Yai, in southern Thailand, and learned regional dishes in her uncle's restaurant. Homme is pronounced "homey," and the restaurant describes itself as "Where Thai Cooking Feels Like Home."
AZ Big Media published her own account of the idea:
"Homme Thai Supper Club is an invitation to sit at my family's table. Every dish on this menu reflects the recipes I grew up eating, from the Hat Yai fried chicken I learned in my uncle's kitchen to slow-simmered curries made from scratch."
The 50-seat dining room has butter-yellow walls, wood wainscoting and exposed brick, with rattan pendant lights and vintage photos above the tables and leather booths. Plates come family-style. The menu puts less familiar southern Thai dishes next to the standards. The dishes Chu has highlighted:
- Gai Thort Hat Yai: fried chicken wings, made the way she learned in her uncle's kitchen.
- Gaeng Khua: a slow-simmered southern Thai curry fragranced with acacia leaves and topped with slices of grilled beef.
- Dtom Ga-Ti: a coconut and shrimp soup with bamboo shoots, king oyster mushrooms and sator beans, the long, flat, pungent green beans that give it its savory depth.
- Kua Kling: a dry stir-fry of minced chicken with southern Thai curry paste, lemongrass, makrut lime leaves and peppercorns.
Pad Thai and pad gra-pow are also on the menu, alongside salads, soups, wok dishes and noodles.
The drinks list points to the building next door
Homme's own bar is a full program. The wine list mixes Arizona producers, including Provision Wines, AZ Stronghold and Flying Leap Winery, with natural wines supplied by The Natural Wine Co., an Arizona distributor. The cocktail list is called "Things From Home." It includes the DNA, made with pandan-infused Mekhong rum, passion fruit, pineapple and coconut, and Who Told Grandma?, with Ya Dong, Chartreuse, Luxardo, Thai basil and lemongrass. There is also a Banana Espresso Martini.
Blue Zebra is planned as the bigger drinks room. Chu told Phoenix New Times it will have a larger drinks menu and bar bites with southern Thai influences. The liquor license application, as What Now Phoenix described it in July, shows a floor plan with an indoor dining area, two bars and patio seating. That layout continues the pattern at this address. Homme serves dinner in one building, Blue Zebra will serve drinks in the other, and the patio between them can hold guests from both.
Chu described the appeal of the buildings this way to Phoenix New Times: "I can see people are gonna love this building because it's a house, and I can match the recipes and our food."
Getting a table at Homme
Homme takes reservations through OpenTable, which lists these hours:
- Lunch: Tuesday through Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Dinner: Tuesday through Thursday, 4 to 9 p.m.; Friday, 4 to 10 p.m.
- Weekends: Saturday and Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- Monday: no hours listed
For a weekend dinner, plan to arrive early. The listed hours end at 9 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, an hour earlier than on Friday. The restaurant posts updates on Instagram at @hommephx.
The neighborhood around Camelback and Third Street has drawn new restaurants for years. Mouth by Southwest pointed this out back in 2019, when SunUp gave up its kitchen to focus on brewing. The two brick buildings have stayed part of that scene through each of their tenants, and Homme with Blue Zebra is the latest plan to run a dinner room and a bar room here under one operator.
If you're curious how small, character-rich buildings like these hold their value along Camelback Road, or you own one yourself, Shawn Keeler is happy to talk through what makes a property like this work. Let's Connect.
