There's something about sports bars in Scottsdale and Phoenix that's always makes me feel like I'm getting nickeled and dimed. I found Dukes to be the best out of that group though.
Dukes reminds me of a Doc & Eddies North. It doesn't feel corporatized like, say, Gallagers.
Dukes is kinda divey, feels like your large local bar and it did a good job accommodating our groups for college football games.
I even saw a private area reserved for fans watching the University of North Dakota. If your bar can accommodate fans of an FCS school, I'm impressed.
TVs are spread throughout the bar, there's a pool table and games and they are consistently open Saturday mornings so you can watch your team's 9:00 am kickoff (unlike some bars).
I haven't been to Dukes in a long while. I once watched a game there when a drunk football fan tried to fight me because I tried to explain to him two teams from the same conference cannot play in the Superbowl. He felt like I was showing up his football intelligence.
He was there alone and I was with a group. When I told him I wouldn't go into the parking lot with him he went to the bar and stared me down waiting for me to leave. One of the ladies I was with complained to the staff. He offered her a free drink for her inconvenience. She then explained to him that it wasn't her he wanted to fight.
Okay, so the staff isn't brilliant. It's still a good place to watch football.
Unfortunately I can't comment on the food because I don't remember eating any. I think Tempe and Chandler sports bars are better values when it comes to food.
I'd go back to Dukes over Upper Deck, Gallagers, Half Moon, Full moon or Blue Moon.