📍 Coronado, Phoenix

Javier Verdugo turned a former church in Coronado into a Southern Mexican restaurant, and the space kept its soul in the conversion. The menu pulls from southern regions of Mexico ...

Myke Olson's McDowell Road pizza window — a sourdough New York-style pie, honey-and-pepperoni square slices, and a rotating daily-special board the Phoenix pizza obsessives follow ...

A 1920s bungalow in the Coronado Historic District turned into a British-inflected modern-American dining room — shepherd's pie treated seriously, a cocktail list that doesn't just...

McDowell Road Cantonese running since 1983 — formica tables, a menu the size of a phone book, and salt-and-pepper chicken wings serious Phoenix Chinese-food eaters have been quietl...

A Coronado neighborhood coffee shop inside a mid-century gas station shell — the ham sandwich is the cult order (house-cured, served on a proper roll), and the coffee program has b...

Small 16th Street storefront since 2008 doing Mexico-City-taqueria food — beef-cheek, chapulines, and an off-menu taco mara that has earned Phoenix Mexican-food-obsessive cult stat...

A mesquite-fire taqueria on 16th Street — carne asada grilled over real mesquite, tacos al pastor off a trompo, Sonoran dogs as a side act, and house tortillas hot off the grill. A...

A Coronado 7th Street bottle-shop-and-bar — serious rotating taps (heavy on AZ small-brewery), cider program, and a strip-mall patio the neighborhood treats like its porch. The kin...

A 16th Street fast-counter serving fried fish-and-chips, shrimp, and steak sandwiches since 1947 — the oldest continuously-operating Pete's location in a small AZ family chain. For...

A Coronado bungalow converted to a breakfast-lunch cafe — corner-house patio, a brunch menu calibrated to the neighborhood, and the kind of walking-distance diner Coronado has been...