There was no consensus but plenty of mouth-watering recommendations when we asked for your favorite Phoenix-area Mexican restaurants.
State of play: The top vote-getter among our 35 responses was New Mexico-style Los Dos Molinos, which has two Phoenix locations.
- Reader Amy Donahue’s go-to is the machaca burro, while Ron Wested recommends anything with garlic roast pork.
The other side: Keri said Los Dos Molinos is great but called it “sacrilege” to declare a New Mexico-style restaurant Arizona’s best.
- Tacos Chiwas, Espiritu, El Horseshoe, Poncho’s Mexican Food or Rosita’s Place.
- And if you want New Mexican food, Barry Smith directed us to Gil’s Taste of Taos in north Phoenix.
Zoom in: Given the abundance of great Mexican restaurants here, only a few other places collected multiple votes from readers.
- Three readers recommended Mi Patio.
- Phoenix’s Tee Pee Mexican Food and Casa Corazon, and local chains Ajo Al’s and Valle Luna each got a pair of votes.
El Mesquite Cocina Mexicana is a small, family-owned joint that’s been in south Phoenix for nearly 40 years.
- José Gutierrez said his go-to meal is machaca and eggs, “but their homemade chorizo is nothing to sleep on.”
El Bravo in Sunnyslope is “true Arizona Mexican food,” reader Audrey Taylor writes.
- They’re known for green corn tamales with an “unforgettable green sauce,” but her top order is a bean and cheese burro, green-style.
Tacos Huicho in Phoenix is “straight out of Sonora,” Jeff Jumpe wrote.
Yes, but: Former state lawmaker Steve Farley said Tucson has Arizona’s best Mexican food, and he recommended Juanito’s Taquería, which he said has great veggie burros and carnitas…