You haven’t lived until you’ve tried El Bravo’s machaca burro. This small, pleasant restaurant makes some of the best flour tortillas around, and its green chile burros are hard to beat, too. It’s also one of the few places in town serving Navajo tacos, and popovers with honey and powdered sugar.
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For most of the week, this east-side discoteca remains cold and dark, hidden behind a chain-link fence and locked up tighter than Fort Knox. On Friday and Saturday nights, however, the place comes alive with colored lights, hundreds of dancers, and Latin beats. The interior is home to a rollicking sea of dancing humanity, including […]
The closest thing Phoenix and/or Arizona has to a signature dish — aside from the much-battled-over chimichanga — is the Sonoran hot dog. When we’re called upon to make a case for the importance of this cherished street food, we look to the El Caprichoso Sonoran hot dog cart. Around for more than 20 years, […]
El Charro is more than a coffee shop experience. Husband-and-wife owners Francisco and Azul Peralta, former workers in STEM fields, have drawn from their world travels and aimed for more of a salon vibe. They hit that target. Sit at the bar, and unbidden, Francisco may pour you high-end mezcals, just so you can taste. […]
As much an eatery as it is a mad scientist’s laboratory, this offbeat spot on the city’s south side features Mexican and American ingredients and flavors fused together to create one-of-a-kind street foods worth sampling if you’re in the neighborhood. Start with the fiery asada chiltepin on street tacos, the green chile beef in home […]
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On the hunt for top-tier Peruvian food? Head to either location of El Chullo. The original is located in the Coronado district, where the family-owned restaurant has been a go-to spot for arroz con mariscos since opening in 2014. A new location, just a few miles away on Seventh Avenue, debuted in the summer of […]
Outstanding Mexican food, not aimed at gringo tastes. Posole is first-rate, and the alb
Tuesdays are our favorite days at this bright and welcoming North Phoenix restaurant serving Jalisco-style Mexican fare. That’s when Maria and Mark Altmaier serve up their luscious chicken mole. Simmered for hours and with a list of ingredients that could fill a page or more, the Altmaier’s rich, thick, chocolate-tinged sauce can be had over […]
This cash-only, family-run food truck serves fantastic Sonoran-style hot dogs until past midnight most nights on West Indian School Road.
There’s something uniquely appealing about Peruvian cooking, with its subtle spicing and its celebration of complex, tangy flavors. The menu at El Farol is compact, but you can still get a sense of the native cuisine from offerings such as cebiche de pescado (tilapia marinated in lime juice, cilantro, onion, and garlic) and saltado (beef […]
Horseshoe Restaurant is the very definition of a hole-in- the-wall restaurant, in the best sense of the term. The small Mexican restaurant on Buckeye Road is inelegantly sandwiched between a mass of carburetor and machine shops, but don’t be too put off by the location. The restaurant happens to be a fine destination for Mexican […]
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This strip-mall Mexican eatery has been a neighborhood staple for decades, known especially for its excellent authentic breakfast dishes, including juicy machaca, chilaquiles, and menudo.
From the outside, this place looks like your basic Mexican restaurant strip mall storefront. But inside, the kitchen is turning out central Mexican dishes that you won’t find elsewhere in town. Check out huarache, gorditas, sopes and the alambre con queso, all variations on a corn masa theme. The more familiar items are also well-crafted, […]
So much grease slides off the flautas here that you could probably start a fire with it if you were so inclined. So is that a bad thing? Hell, no. Particularly when it comes to Mexican fast food. El Norte
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