La Famiglia Pizza & Pasta

One of the closest things we have to a real New York café, except that the owners are friendly. The concept is order-at-the-counter casual, but the food is first-rate. Go for the tremendous meatballs, huge pizzas, excellent pastas, tasty heroes and fancier fare like veal scaloppine, chicken Francese and shrimp scampi. Read our review.

La Fonda Del Sol

Scottsdale is mostly known in the food scene for its upscale restaurants that specialize in just about every type of global cuisine. What can be hard to find is an old-fashioned, down-to-earth Mexican joint where the food is good and cheap. Lucky for us, La Fonda Del Sol, located on the corner of Scottsdale Road […]

La Frontera

It’s rare to find a more joyful lunch, dinner, or late-night meal than one eaten near a taco truck in a lot on 16th Street. Our favorites along this strip near 16th and Van Buren Street are La Frontera 1 and 3, and, up the street some, Tacos Y Mariscos El Sinaloa. As its name […]

La Frontera Comida Mexicana

Street food might be trending hard, but La Frontera Comida Mexicana has been around long before mobile eateries were cool. The stationary food truck can be found near the intersection of 16th Street and Van Buren serving Mexican fare and some of the city’s best Sonoran-style carne asada. Besides the award-winning carne asada burrito, they’ve […]

La Hacienda at the Fairmont

Phoenix has too many Mexican restaurants to count, and you can pretty much throw a stick in any part of town and hit one (and then have the stick ricochet off the building to hit another). But most of it is cheap and greasy. While there’s a time and place for that (like 2:30 a.m. […]

La Mejor Barbacoa

Just southwest of Old Towne Glendale, you’ll find La Mejor Barbacoa sandwiched between an auto repair shop and a transmission repair shop. Blink, and you may not find it at all. Good thing there’s a sign, and three flappy banners advertising barbacoa, menudo, and Micheladas. Inside this golden-yellow restaurant (which looks deceptively small from the […]

La Merced

This Mexico City-style restaurant in Mesa takes its name from the largest traditional food market in Mexico City, a fact that seems contrary to its small, unassuming home in a near-vacant strip mall but not of its gigantic plates of boldly flavored and affordable eats. Street food fare includes stellar flautas full of moist shredded […]

La Parrilla Suiza

This Mexico-based chain delivers the fare of Mexico City — it’s different, but not exotic. Grilled meat and cheese dishes are the specialties here, but nothing will torch your tender lips. If you’re not filled by dinner’s end, give the bready sopapillas and dense Mexican flan a try.

La Parrilla Suiza

This Mexico-based chain delivers the fare of Mexico City — it’s different, but not exotic. Grilled meat and cheese dishes are the specialties here, but nothing will torch your tender lips. If you’re not filled by dinner’s end, give the bready sopapillas and dense Mexican flan a try.