📍 South Phoenix, Phoenix

The flour tortillas at Carolina's are the best argument anyone can make for why Phoenix is a serious food town. Thin, pliable, blistered right, sold by the bag to locals who treat ...

The Farm at South Mountain's prix-fixe fine-dining room — prix-fixe format, menu changing with what's pulled from the garden that day, and string-lit courtyard dinners that feel li...

The Chavez family's New Mexican legend, operating on South Central since 1992 in Tom Mix's old ranch house. Hatch green chile at proper intensity — not Phoenix-tourist heat, New Me...

One of three restaurants at Maya Dailey's Farm at South Mountain — outdoor seating under the pecan trees, a farm-to-table breakfast menu, and a Saturday crowd that treats the 9 a.m...

Part of the 10-acre working farm at the base of South Mountain — the Farm Kitchen serves seasonal breakfast and lunch from produce grown 50 yards away. Pecan-tree-shaded picnic tab...

The cheese crisp — an open-face flour tortilla blanketed in cheese and broiled until the edges shatter — is a Phoenix-specific thing, and Comedor Guadalajara has been making the be...