A great Mexican meal can ruin every mediocre taco you eat afterward. Once you find the kind of salsa, tortillas, and slow-cooked fillings that actually stick in your memory, the bar gets much higher.
Arizona makes that problem easy to have. Across the state, certain restaurants have built serious followings by serving food that feels worth planning a whole day around.
These are the places where one bite makes you rethink your usual order and where the table tends to get very quiet once the food arrives…