Arizona Restaurant Week is a twice-yearly culinary tour-de-force when cooks and restaurateurs flaunt their greatest creations in a multi-course, wallet-friendly format. For 10 days, greater than 120 Valley eateries will provide three, 4 or five-course menus at set costs. It is an excellent alternative to attempt a brand new restaurant or head to an iconic eating vacation spot whose costs are normally properly above the price of an off-the-cuff dinner out.
The spring occasion serves as a final push earlier than the summer season lull, so it’s additionally a good alternative to indicate much-needed help to native venues.
A full listing of taking part eating places is up to date each day and will be discovered on the Arizona Restaurant Week website. However, if the lineup is overwhelming and narrowing down the alternatives appears daunting, we’ve bought just a few options.
Whether or not due to the creativity of their dishes or the worth for the worth, these 18 restaurant week menus are price including to your eating calendar.
All menus can be found from Might 20 to 29. Menus that function alcohol apply to dine-in orders solely. Reservations are beneficial.
The Larder + The Delta
– $44 per individual
– 3 programs
– Takeout and dine-in
James Beard Award semifinalist chef Stephen Jones is serving a sampling of the dishes that earned him that honor this yr. Begin with both the early summer season vintners salad composed of roasted beets, fennel, French beans and croutons in a crimson wine French dressing or attempt the cauliflower with pickled celery, smoked moody bleu cheese, scallions and Cutino’s Sizzling Sauce. There are two major course choices: Nashville-style sizzling rooster served with dairy-free new potato salad, cornbread, bread, and butter pickles, and whipped honey butter or blackened salmon with braised turnip greens, smoked ham hock and sizzling water cornbread puree. Jones punctuates the meal with a buttermilk biscuit adorned with strawberries, raspberries, whipped yogurt and fermented honey.
Particulars: 200 W. Portland St., Ste 101, Phoenix. 480-409-8520, thelarderandthedelta.com.
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The Real
– $55 per individual
– 3 programs
– Takeout and dine-in
Kick issues off at this model new restaurant with tempura-fried squash blossoms filled with native goat cheese served with a tomato emulsion and basil pesto or attempt the fire-roasted beets with arugula and smoky blue cheese or a gazpacho topped with poached shrimp. Most important dishes choices embrace fire-roasted flat iron steak accompanied by smoked fingerling potatoes, charred broccoli, and kicky Aleppo chili aioli; roasted Icelandic salmon with fennel and cauliflower puree; or spaghetti tossed with confit cherry tomatoes, garlic, basil, oregano, crimson pepper and parmesan. Final however not least, dessert decisions embrace native peach crostata and chocolate budino.
Particulars: 6015 N. sixteenth St., Phoenix. 602-633-1187, thegenuineaz.com.
Ocho Rios Jerk Spot
– $44 per individual
– 3 programs
– Dine-in solely
Go on a Caribbean taste journey with a build-your-own sampler plate of 4 meats and two sides. For the meats, select from: jerk rooster, brown stew rooster, curry rooster, fried rooster, oxtail, curry goat, jerk shrimp, curry shrimp or coconut curry shrimp. Sides embrace rice and peas, white rice, mac and cheese, steamed greens, potato salad and coleslaw. Dessert choices embrace banana bread, grape nut ice cream, coconut rum cake or crimson velvet cake.
Particulars: 4220 W. Northern Ave. Ste 104, Phoenix. 623-248-5131, ochoriosjerkspot.com.
Tomaso’s
– $44 per individual
– 4 programs
– Takeout and dine-in
Head to this traditional Italian spot and begin your meal with a selection of burrata and prosciutto or seafood salad with grilled octopus, clams, mussels and shrimp. Subsequent, select between Caesar salad or Tomaso’s salad earlier than mulling over the principle course choices: shrimp parmigiana that includes herb breaded jumbo prawns in a San Marzano tomato, mozzarella, paccheri and tomato herb sauce; rooster and sausage scarpariello with Tuscan potato and rapini; pork loin saltimbocca; or eggplant parmigiana accompanied by ricotta-stuffed gnocchi. Sicilian cannoli and tiramisu or on provide for dessert.
Particulars: 3225 E. Camelback Street, Phoenix. 602-956-0836, tomasos.com.
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Rito’s Mexican Meals
– $44 per couple
– 3 programs
– Dine-in solely
This native chain’s solely full-service location affords a restaurant week menu that includes a shared appetizer and dessert and two entrees. Begin by splitting queso blanco, avocado fries topped with tajin and cotija cheese or elote. All entrée choices include rice and beans. Attempt two enchiladas stuffed with rooster or cheese topped with crimson or inexperienced sauce; two rooster or beef tacos; or a burrito made enchilada-style, chimichanga, or chimi enchilada-style topped with crimson, inexperienced or combo sauce and stuffed with beef, rooster or beans. Share a dessert of tres leches flan, chamoy-covered watermelon with mango and pineapple lined with candies, or a milk chocolate truffle wrapped in churro dough and deep-fried.
Particulars: 5813 N. Seventh St., Phoenix. 602-368-6726, ritosmexicanfood.com.
OAK on Camelback
– $33 per individual
– 3 programs
– Dine-in solely
At this swanky spot on Camelback Street, begin your meal with crispy ‘kung pow’ brussels sprouts, crispy pork ribs or OAK roasted beets with goat cheese. Entree choices embrace OAK fired butter rooster served with scallion coriander rice and charred broccolini; salmon accompanied by quinoa, black rice, squash, eggplant and roasted tomatoes; forbidden rice bowl loaded with edamame, carrots, snap peas, mushrooms, charred broccoli and brussels sprouts with coconut chili; and pork chile verde or Texas steak chili with cornbread. Heat brownie a la mode, blackberry cobbler with vanilla bean gelato or popcorn creme brulee are candy ending choices.
Particulars: 111 E. Camelback Street, Phoenix. 602-200-8111, oakoncamelback.com.
Bandolero Cocina de Mexico
– $55 per individual
– 5 programs and tequila digestif
– Dine-in solely
This husband-and-wife run restaurant begins with a selection of guacamole or chips and salsa and both black bean or tortilla soup. For the third course, select between bacon-wrapped shrimp in garlic sauce or mushroom empanadas. All major programs include beans and rice and embrace the choice of rooster enchiladas, mahi-mahi tacos with mango salsa or tacos al pastor. The meal winds down with churros and chocolate with a tequila digestif on the aspect.
Particulars: 8977 N. Scottsdale Street, Scottsdale. 480-590-8180, bandoleroaz.com.
Campo Italian Bistro & Bar
– $44 per individual
– 3 programs
– Takeout or dine-in
Chef Alex Stratta, who has labored in Michelin-starred kitchens, presents a restaurant week menu that begins with a selection of untamed Mexican scampi with crispy mascarpone polenta, Seba’s meatballs with San Marzano tomato sauce and grilled bread, or grilled eggplant rollatini. Most important dish choices embrace: lasagne bolognese, crispy porchetta with fregola, apples, dates and almonds or roasted sea bass with fennel, lemon, tomato and olives. Dessert will likely be a troublesome resolution with cannoli, tiramisu that includes Kahlua soaked ladyfingers and chocolate budino as decisions.
Particulars: 8260 N. Hayden Street, Scottsdale. 480-597-9195, campoitalian.com.
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Grassroots Kitchen & Faucet
– $44 per individual
– 3 programs
– Takeout and dine-in
At this Scottsdale restaurant, starters embrace braised pork stomach served alongside jalapeno cheddar grits with candied pancetta or ahi tuna poke with shrimp, avocado and wontons. For the principle course, go for Topher’s braised quick ribs with lowered pure jus, jalapeno cheddar grits and grilled asparagus, southern shrimp and grits with tasso ham relish and grilled focaccia or slow-smoked Carolina child again ribs which are grill completed with Brother’s tangy slaw. The citrusy key lime pie or decadent chocolate toffee brownie are finale choices.
Particulars: 8120 N. Hayden Street, Scottsdale. 480-699-0699, grassrootsaz.com.
Canal Membership, The Scott Resort and Spa
– $44 per individual
– 3 programs
– Dine-in solely
At this Cuban-themed resort restaurant, menu choices start with a selection of plantains with smoked bacon black bean puree or grilled shrimp skewers with aji amarillo, avocado puree and mango salsa. Transfer on to pork chilindron with papas bravas and roasted summer season squash, grilled rooster with black beans, rice and inexperienced salad, or crispy pores and skin salmon served with purple potato hash and chipotle butter. Finish with churro doughnut holes, flan and chocolate cake, or an ancho chocolate brownie with dulce de leche gelato.
Particulars: 4925 N. Scottsdale Street, Scottsdale. 480-424-6095, thecanalclubaz.com.
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Ling & Louie’s Asian Bar & Grill
– $55 per couple
– 3 programs
– Takeout and dine-in
At this pan-Asian impressed restaurant, begin with a shared appetizer of crispy calamari, char siu al pastor tacos, spicy ahi roll or loaded sliders stuffed with beef, candied bacon, blue cheese and onion. Every diner can select their very own second course of tom kha gai soup with rooster, lengthy life rooster and rice soup or miso blended inexperienced salad and a major dish of blackened rooster and pork with greens in a spicy ginger soy, new wave pad thai with rooster, surf and turf sliced grass fed beef, shrimp, asparagus and mushrooms, rooster with recent greens, mint and Thai basil in a peanut curry sauce, honey walnut shrimp with broccoli or Ling’s meatloaf with szechuan type inexperienced beans, crimson wine mushroom gravy and wasabi mashed potatoes.
Particulars: 9397 E. Shea Blvd., Scottsdale. 480-767-5464, lingandlouies.com.
Cielo, Adero Scottsdale
– $55 per individual
– 3 programs plus a glass of wine or Aperol spritz
– Dine-in solely
– Beverage included
Take pleasure in dinner at this resort restaurant that includes lovely mountain views. Start with a starter of ricotta bread, mushroom arancini or gazpacho. For the principle attraction, select Peruvian roasted half-chicken with fried plantains, roasted potatoes and salsa verde, brule salmon served with roasted potatoes, smashed garlic and sauteed spinach, or braised quick rib in black pepper sauce with candy potatoes, peas and mushrooms. Select New York cheesecake, chocolate espresso tart or the fruit medley for dessert. Every meal comes with a glass of crimson or white wine or an Aperol spritz.
Particulars: 13225 N. Eagle Ridge Drive, Scottsdale. 480-333-1880, aderoscottsdale.com.
Los Sombreros
– $33, $44, $55 per individual
– 3 programs plus one beverage
– Takeout and dine-in
At this native chain, there are three menus out there. For $33, entree choices embrace the camarones baracho shrimp sauteed in tequila, butter and garlic. For $44, a marinated pork medallion is wearing a conventional mole and topped with pineapple and apples with blended greens and mashed potatoes on the aspect. And for $55, get pleasure from a surf and turf of wood-fired steak and sauteed scallops over creamy poblanos. All menus start with a selection of a quesadilla filled with huitlacoche and goat cheese topped with chipotle tomato sauce or sopes filled with refried beans, chipotle tomatillo sauce and carnitas. Flan con mezcal and tres leches cake are dessert choices. Dine-in orders include a selection of a mezcal old school, Tijuana Donkey (a southwest twist on a Moscow Mule) or the well-known Steve-a-Rita. Takeout orders include a selection of a fountain drink.
Particulars: 1976 W. Southern Ave., Mesa. 480-534-6742. Different areas in Phoenix and Scottsdale: lossombreros.com.
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Alter Ego, Cover by Hilton Tempe Downtown
– $55 per individual
– 3 programs
– Dine-in solely
This season’s AWR menu takes cues from the American South. First course choices embrace candy corn and inexperienced chile hush puppies, a plate of Arizona pimento cheese and house-pickled greens accompanied by Noble Nation Bread or a grilled kale salad with crimson peas, heirloom carrots and spiced pecans in a cinnamon French dressing. For the principle course, select from seared scallops with creole bone marrow butter and vegetable succotash, braised oxtail with prickly pear gastrique, pan-fried okra and ham hock butter beans or cornmeal fried zucchini blossom with mushroom duxelles, inexperienced tomato relish and corn puree. Vanilla bread pudding with hurricane coulis and gelato, buttermilk chess pie with poppy seed ice cream and candy corn souffle with a huckleberry chipotle coulis vie are dessert choices.
Particulars: 108 E. College Drive, Tempe. 602-612-7871, alteregotempe.com.
Dolce Vita Gelato and Grocery
– $33 per individual
– 3 programs
– Takeout and dine-in
The Sicilian lineup contains starter decisions of arancini with meat sauce, meatballs with tomato sauce or a pizza topped with tomato, anchovies, pecorino and bread crumbs — all accompanied by salad and bread. For the principle course, select from Anelletti pasta with meat sauce, mozzarella and ham, tagliatelle with pancetta tossed in a tomato cream sauce and potato gnocchi served in a white sauce with ham. Cannolo, Italian custard and puff pastry, or gelato are provided for dessert.
Particulars: 5251 E. Brown Street, #104, Mesa. 480-218-0225, gelatodolcevita.com.
The Sicilian Butcher
– $44 per individual
– 4 programs
– Takeout and dine-in
Begin your culinary journey to Italy with charred octopus or cacio e pepe fritelle, that are basically fried mozzarella fritters, however higher. After the salad course, choices embrace shrimp parmigiana, pork chop milanese, baked three-meat ragu stuffed handkerchief pasta in bechamel and Tomaso’s Well-known Meatballs crafted with the trinity of veal, pork and beef and served with broad ribbon pasta and Bolognese. You’ll be able to’t go incorrect with both cannoli or tiramisu for dessert.
Particulars: 9780 W. Northern Ave., Peoria. 623-471-5721. See different areas in Chandler and Phoenix at thesicilianbutcher.com.
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City Margarita
– $44 per individual
– 3 programs
– Takeout and dine-in
Get a dose of New Mexican aptitude with a menu that begins with a selection of al pastor carnitas empanadas or crispy cauliflower. For the principle course, take into account New Mexico-style lobster and crab enchiladas, roasted salmon in a mango beurre blanc sauce or 36-hour marinated New York carne asada. Dessert is a troublesome resolution between the City Margarita lime pie and raspberry churro bites.
Particulars: 6685 W. Beardsley Street, Glendale. 623-561-6674, urbanmargarita.com.
Fabio on Hearth
– $44 per individual
– 3 programs
– Takeout and dine-in
Huge appetites get addressed proper off the bat with decisions like wood-fire porchetta served with rosemary focaccia, frivolously breaded shrimp with arugula, white wine sauteed mussels and calamari or zucchini fritti because the opening choices. The 5 entree decisions are all tempting, however probably the most thrilling are the lobster tortellini in a pink vodka cream sauce with crab, white pizza with imported mozzarella di bufala, parma ham and arugula, and handmade, ravioli-like sacchettini filled with butternut squash and ricotta in a sage cream sauce with crispy prosciutto di Parma. Two scoops of housemade gelato is a grand finale.
Particulars: 8275 W. Lake Nice Pkwy., #101, Peoria. 623-680-5385, fabioonfire.com.