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In every state, when asked where is a good place to dine, there are a several restaurants that tend to be recommended over and over again.
These are the “can’t miss” eateries every state has, and 24/7 Tempo highlighted the best of them:
“It’s possible to eat very well today in virtually every corner of America. It could be homemade waffles or classic burgers at a popular diner, vivid foods from other cultures (such as Thai or Colombian or Moroccan), or refined Michelin-starred dining in some temple of gastronomy — or anything in-between.
In every state, however, there’s inevitably at least one establishment that has attained iconic status, a place emblematic of its surroundings — a restaurant no food-lover should miss when in the vicinity.
Sometimes these places are plain, sometimes they’re fancy. They might be relative newcomers to the dining scene or have been around for a century or more. What matters is that, in one way or another, they represent and define their time and place — sometimes simply by perfecting some unique local specialty.”
The must-try restaurant to stop by in Arizona is El Charro Café in Tucson:
“America’s oldest Mexican restaurant under continuous operation by the same family, El Charro, founded in 1922, claims to have been the birthplace of the chimichanga — the deep-fried burrito common in the Southwest. The restaurant is so emblematic of Tucson that the galley on the U.S.S. Tucson submarine has been named El Charro Down Under. (There are three additional locations in the Tucson area, including one at the airport, but the iconic original is best.)”