This good-times country bar and grill brims with Stetson hats, neon beer signs, and caddies full of barbecue sauce. It’s an ideal spot for watching a Packers game, taking free dancing lessons on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday nights, and catching some live country music and cover rock. It is also huge: 6,000 square feet, with […]
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Chef Dan Maldonado’s pork enmoladas are sublime. Similar to pork enchiladas, these enmoladas wrap braised pork in soft tortillas smothered in a rich, lightly sweet and neatly spicy red mole sauce. Also popular here are the seven different taco options offered, each made with fresh, warm corn tortillas. The grilled vegetable version, stuffed with squash, […]
Cahuamanta El Yaqui is a small Mexican restaurant on Phoenix’s west side specializing in the cooking of southern Sonora, particularly the region around Ciudad Obreg
From the outside, Call Her Martina looks like any other business in the fancy Scottsdale Waterfront strip mall. But inside, customers embark on an experience. Take a seat at a table in the modern black-and-white-themed dining room, snag a space at the bar, or hang out with friends at a large group high-top underneath glowing […]
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Owner Marina Carbajal has taken her family’s Las Cruces recipes and brought them to a strip mall in far east Mesa. The results are superb Sonoran-style Mexican food, all homemade, and some of the best of its kind in the Valley. Top picks include machaca, green chile beef, alb
New Mexico-style Mexican food served in a cave-like setting, complete with bats and gushing waterfalls. The kitchen sends out nothing but winners, from traditional favorites like carne adovada and blue corn enchiladas to nifty platters like pork osso bucco and chicken breasts stuffed with sun-dried tomato, spinach, pepper and feta. First-rate margaritas, too. Read our […]
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The Peoria Carolina’s is the third location of this Valley favorite and is just as good as its two siblings. Order anything involving a tortilla, especially the Oaxaca Special, a breakfast-minded mix of chorizo, bean, potato, and cheese, wrapped as a burro. Delicious menudo is sold on weekends, and house-blended chorizo is a specialty here. […]
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This south Phoenix staple is a true come-as-you-are restaurant. It is almost shockingly bare-bones. There’s no decor on the paint-chipped walls, no music. The stark white building’s entrance leads straight to the ordering counter just above a scuffed wall. But those shoe-marked baseboards speak to the many overeager diners running up to place their order. […]
A second location of this legendary Valley restaurant, Carolina’s has a cult following for its out-of-this-world homemade tortillas. Folks line up to gorge on green corn tamales, enchiladas, red machaca burros and, on weekends, menudo. Breakfast burros are another delicious treat.
Casa Amigos Tacos and Tequilas and Skylanes, a Mexican-restaurant-meets-bowling-alley, is found in Old Town Scottsdale. The establishment is a restaurant on its ground floor with bowling upstairs and a full bar and drink menu.
The salsa bar at Casa Corazon in central Phoenix is a thing of beauty. You’ll find nearly a dozen house-made salsas and fresh taco garnishes, enticingly well-organized and bearing unique flavors that will have you making return trips during your visit. Don’t miss the creamy, blended pineapple salsa, or the bracingly fresh serrano pepper salsa. […]
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If you love green chiles, make tracks to this attractive hacienda-style restaurant. The Reynoso family’s Miami-Globe recipes are sure to delight. Don’t miss the authentic Mexican cuisine and the not-too-sweet margaritas.
This quaint gem of a restaurant is located in the heart of downtown Glendale – indeed on a corner, at 58th Avenue and Palmaire to be exact – and promises to take you back to an era when life was a little easier and a little less stressful. Reminisce about days gone by while taking […]
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Walter Sterling and the Ocotillo crew’s latest restaurant channels Mexican influences as far north as Sonora (a Sonoran rib-eye) and as far south as Yucatan (cochinita pibil). That cochinita sears the brain, and not just with chiles. An order brings a pile of richly spiced pork that retains the animal’s full charm, roasted in a […]