Mesa in Phoenix
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Com Tam Thuan Kieu, a homey spot at Mekong Plaza, is a place to gorge on enormous plates of food, most of which run $6.99. Incredibly, the menu has more than two hundred different items — rice dishes, noodle soups, and rice vermicelli dishes — but if you look closely, you’ll see that every conceivable […]
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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
Caswells beats any other indoor shooting range in the Valley, for a number of reasons. First, Caswells is a firearm retailer, which means visitors can buy or rent a wide variety of guns and ammo. The indoor range at Caswells has awesome air conditioning, so patrons don’t have to sweat it out while shooting, and […]
Nowhere but here will you find a pakalolo toasted sub(smoked ham, Swiss cheese, and Hawaiian pineapple), but even the old standards served at this comfortable lunch spot are tweaked attractively. Like the Panama Red, a new take on Chicken Marinara smothered in home-made red sauce and topped with Parmesan and Provolone. Even their pizza subs […]
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Downtown Mesa’s Chupacabra Taproom boasts a global selection of 32 brews on tap, ranging from numerous styles of craft beer to hard seltzer and barleywine, but unlike many other taprooms, it also carries a decent stock of boutique wines from near and far. This makes Chupacabra an ideal stop for for those who want to […]
Brothers Josh and Jason Duren live by the motto, “Out of bad comes good,” and it was this belief that created the foundation for Arizona’s widely loved and largest cidery, Cider Corps in Mesa. Jason served in the U.S. Marine Corps, and as a part of his healing and recovery from injuries sustained in Afghanistan, […]
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Hip, railroad-car-size establishment specializing in Cornwall’s answer to the potpie, the pasty (pronounced pass-tee). Traditionally, these jumbo turnovers are filled with steak, onion, rutabaga, and potato, and are referred to as oggies. The place also has porkies, which are (you guessed it) stuffed with pork, sage, onion, potato, and apple; and lamb and mint varieties. […]
There are lots of homegrown options for Mexican food in Arizona, but we have to hand it to one Utah-based chain restaurant for serving fresh, healthy food: Costa Vida. There are three locations in Arizona: Mesa, Queen Creek, and the newest location in Goodyear, which has online ordering capability. Costa Vida serves standards like burritos, […]
Founded in 1984, Crackers draws all walks of life for its all-day breakfast menu and lunch items, from egg skillets and pancakes, to sandwiches, to sweets like bread pudding and scones. The restaurant now has three popular restaurants in the East Valley, but with so much made-from-scratch goodness on the menu, we wish it would […]