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Limon Urban Kitchen Phoenix AZ – GREAT Fajita Chicken

Limon Urban Kitchen is located in North Phoenix Arizona. They offer breakfast seven days a week. They also offer lunch, dinner, and a bar seven days a week. When you walk in you pass by a good sized patio but once inside it looks like a sports bar with lots of big screen TVs.

The food menus are mostly Mexican.

Off the all day menu they offer appetizers like wings, shrimp ceviche, carne asada fries, and nachos. They also offer salads, fajitas, burgers, burritos, street tacos, and entrees like pork carnitas, beef machaca, fish & chips, and chicken enchiladas.

They start you off with complimentary warm chips and salsa. We added on the house made roasted white poblano queso.

The salsa is tasty….It’s better than some. Maybe I am overly picky about queso….For my taste this could be more poblano and cheese forward…….

Anyways –

My husband gets a cup of Sops de Fideo.

It’s a chicken based soup with thin pasta threads.

My main arrives. The Lettuce Fajita Wraps…

Not what I was expecting. They aren’t wrapped and all the wet hot stuff is on top of the lettuce. It’s hard to tell by my photo but the romaine are also very small thin leaves. It’s next to impossible to eat this as lettuce wraps.*********BUT*****This chicken is UNUSUALLY GREAT! It’s marinated with delicious flavors and is melt in the mouth tender. Might be the very best fajita chicken that I have ever tasted. The plate also contains caramelized onions, bell pepper strips, pico de gallo, and lime wedges.

Here’s the Enjitomatada (carne asada, tomatoes, onions, jalapeƱos, chipotle adobo sauce, Spanish rice, pinto beans, flour tortillas.)

I taste a small piece of carne asada. It’s nicely flavored and is tender.

We both thought that the carne asada was good but both of thought that the fajita chicken was really great!

That was a little taste of Limon Urban Kitchen in Phoenix Arizona.

2750 W Dove Valley Rd PHX AZ

623-466-7500

www.LimonUrbanKitchen.com

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Tia Carmen The Beautiful Life New Year’s Eve Dinner 2022 Phoenix AZ – Best Dinner of the Year! – Worth A Fork!

Tia Carmen is a high quality contemporary and sort of southwest restaurant located in the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort in North Phoenix Arizona. The kitchen is led by Michelin Star Chef, restauranteur, and Bravo Top Chef Master Chef Angelo Sosa.

Angelo Sosa
entrance
inside
inside

The 2022 Tia Carmen Beautiful Life New Year’s Eve 2022 Dinner cost $135 per person and was 4 courses. They did offer an optional Beau Joie Champagne parings for $85.

First course for most people was seafood orchestra

This was beau soliel oysters dressed with garden grape mignonette + cara cara sabayon + oscietra caviar, nantucket bay scallops enrobed in fresh cara cara juice, hoja santa + cara cara koshu; king crab, salsa macha + yuzu & lemon aioli + hibiscus leaf.

A vegetarian alternative was offered. With the same sauces on amazing grapes, pineapple and jicama.

Next was pumpkin chawanmushi

It was a kabacha squash filled with steamed squash & shiitake mushroom custard + squash caramel + shaved black truffle

The main course was a mesquite grilled wagyu Denver steak.

All the steaks were seared and were rare- medium rare….almost blue in the center.

They came adorned with tepary bean aged mole negra + bone marrow croquettes + manchego cheese + shaved black truffle……Really amazing…….To amazing to even discribe.

Finished by an astonishing dessert flight garnished with incredible herbs grown by restaurant.

beet macarons

beet macarons
beet macarons

kumquat + cara cara carrot sorbet

goat cheese gel +chestnut mousse on hazelnut sable

cucumber + rosemary tarts

chocolate-aged mole negro bon bon

Every Plate was FORKING FANTABULOUS !!!! This was the best dinner I had in 2022 and I’ve been to Michelin Star and Michelin Guide Restaurants.

Worth a Fork!

Tia Carmen

5350 E Marriott Dr PHX AZ

480-293-3636

www.TiaCarmenDesertRidge.com

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