Perched on a cliff at the Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs — Phoenix's most literally elevated dining room, with 40 miles of Valley skyline as the backdrop. Seasonal contemporary menu,...
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El Bravo Mexican Restaurant
Mexican / Sonoran
Since 1974 — a family-owned Sonoran Mexican restaurant on North 7th that has been feeding Phoenix families for three generations without a menu overhaul. Green corn tamales (specif...
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City of Spice
Indian / Pakistani · Eater Phoenix 38
North Phoenix Indian-Pakistani from the Uddin family, opened to bring a broader slice of South Asian cooking to a part of town that didn't have much of it. Tandoor, biryani, and a ...
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Las 15 Salsas Restaurant Oaxaqueño
Oaxacan / Mexican
Mole negro is one of the world's most complicated sauces, and most Phoenix kitchens do it dirty. Las 15 Salsas puts the hours in — dark, velvety, draped over a quarter chicken that...
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The Sicilian Butcher
Italian / Butcher
The Maggiore family's Italian-butcher-meets-restaurant concept — build-your-own-meatball format, house charcuterie program, and a dining room that treats Italian cooking as a carni...
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Chino Bandido
Chinese-Latin Fusion
Since 1988 — a Chinese-Mexican-Jamaican-Caribbean fusion counter that operated 20 years before 'fusion' was the word for it. Quesadilla with jade red chicken, jerk-chicken stuffed ...
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The Sicilian Baker
Italian / Bakery / Cannoli
The Maggiore family's Sicilian bakery right next to The Sicilian Butcher — a build-your-own-cannoli format, in-house biscotti program, and a retail case of imported Italian groceri...
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Bandera Phoenix
American / Rotisserie
The Hillstone Restaurant Group's open-fire rotisserie concept — wood-fire chicken, skillet cornbread that comes to every table without asking, and the dimly-lit American-steakhouse...
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Chompie's
Jewish Deli
Arizona's New York-style deli chain since 1979 — pastrami stacked the way New York demands, matzo ball soup with the density right, and a bagel program baked in-house. Greenway Rd ...
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Via Delosantos
Mexican
A North Central Ave Mexican staple since 1989 — the kind of neighborhood room with a stream running through the patio, enchiladas suizas everyone orders without thinking, and a mar...