Paquime Street Food opened in 2014, and though they serve a wide assortment of Northern Mexican street foods, they’ve become known for their grilled-to-order ribeye street tacos.
We’ve eaten our weight in carne asada and grilled chicken tacos, but there have also been a few unusual offerings that really captured our attention. If you haven’t already, these are the five tacos you should be eating right now in Metro Phoenix.
The annual Real, Wild & Woody craft beer festival will host over 65 breweries at the Phoenix Convention Center on July 29 from 2 to 6 p.m., and tickets are still available via their website for $57, and, if you buy your your tickets before midnight on Sunday, July 16, you’ll be automatically entered to win one of the ten complimentary early-entry tour passes, which allows two guests into the festival an hour earlier.
You can’t beat the price on these doughnuts.
Forno 301 Pizzeria and Bar won’t change much, the owners promise.
This year, the summer is far from a quite time for the Metro Phoenix restaurant scene. The openings keep on coming with four new spots including a Biltmore outpost of a popular Scottsdale restaurant and bar, a new doughnut shop in Arcadia, another deep dish pizza option, and a mysteriously named “900-degree” restaurant on Shea Boulevard.
Ice House Tavern is the coolest bar in Phoenix, and a couple of years ago, the dive bar overlooking the Arcadia ice skating rink had a face lift, gaining more comfortable booths and a full dinner menu.
Restaurant Atoyac became a cult favorite among diners looking for Oaxacan food and fried fish tacos close to Central Phoenix.
A new Aioli Burger concept has opened up in a midtown co-working space, and despite a conspicuous lack of burgers, it is extremely good.
Metro Phoenix may feel far removed from the Deep South, but Southern-style eats and traditional soul food staples long have been a part of our local food culture, and it continues to be, with restaurants like these five soul food gems.
We’re headed to Chick-fil-A to watch some people eat sandwiches dressed as cows.
Phoenix might be home to the world’s first camp-themed restaurant.
The summer of poor food safety practices continues, with 17 Valley restaurants racking up enough infractions to warrant a ‘D’ grade from inspectors, and one that received two D ratings in a single month.
Mercado Y Carniceria Cuernavaca acts as grocery store, diner, and corner market for the neighborhood along 68th Street, just south of Old Town Scottsdale. There, they prepare mesquite-grilled pollo asado and cecina, a quickly cured salted beef.
There are still plenty of new restaurants coming your way in 2017.
Shake-up a drink, mash some award-winning hummus, indulge in some sweet nostalgia, eat like a true Arizona local, and then go watch a bar fight. It’s all happening this week in Metro Phoenix.
Though it might be tempting to go for the carne asada, given that the name of the joint is “Sonora” grill, the chicken is where it’s at.
There is great, authentic Chinese regional cuisine right here in Phoenix, with many of the most interesting restaurants concentrated in Mesa and Chandler. So, make a plan this weekend to head down to those ‘hoods to seek out these five Chinese delicacies.
So-called ‘crazy fruit tea,’ a delicate, iced jasmine tea served in an extra-large cup stuffed with fresh slices of pineapple, orange, kiwi, strawberry, and whatever else they have on hand fruit-wise, is worth the drive to Boba Tree in Mesa.
My Uncle John had tapped into what Jeff “Beachbum” Berry once called the Caribbean Holy Trinity of Mixology — rum, lime, and sugar —when he created a beloved family cocktail recipe.
Third in our three-part series on Phoenix restaurant design: Chris Bianco on his distinctive vintage spaces.
June brought more shuffling around in the Metro Phoenix restaurant scene, with half a dozen closings and nearly 20 openings. We were thrilled to see new outposts of favorites like The Vig and Carolina’s, and devastated to bid farewell to innovative dining venues like Posh Restaurant, but perhaps most surprising of all, was the restaurant that closed before it even opened its doors.
