Urban Margarita is an American Restaurant that swings to New Mexican Fusion Cuisine. This restaurant is located in a strip mall in the Arrowhead section of North Glendale that is also known as the Upper West Side of Metro Phoenix Arizona. Urban Margarita was listed in the Phoenix New Times as among the ten BEST restaurants for New Mexican Cuisine in Metro Phoenix.
It looks like this when you walk in. To the right side of the photo is an indoor-outdoor bar with high top tables near the bar.
To the left is the inside dining area.
Behind the main dining area is another room with a bar.
There is also a partially covered outside patio with a indoor/outdoor bar with misters, a fireplace, a big screen TV and heaters.
Today we shared the cheesy corn appetizer.
it came with a bowl of chips. It’s kind of simple…LOTS of tasty melted cheese, sweet fresh corn, some spices a little heat and grassy cilantro. It’s really delicious!
For my main I got the citrus marinated and grilled “Kickin Chicken” in pineapple habanero glaze with black beans and cilantro rice.
The sauce runs a little sweet but it is spicy…..Chicken is tender and the rice is very fluffy.
My husband got the slow braised hatch pork chile verde.
Not all but some of the previous dishes we’ve had at Urban Margarita were-
Baja chop salad is pictured below.
It a mound of spring mix, black beans, fresh corn, red onion, tomato, avocado, poblanos, cotija cheese and Baja vinaigrette. It’s topped with marinated grilled chicken breast. That Baja vinaigrette does have a good amount of acid to it.
Next is the Urban Burrito.
This one was stuffed with carnitas, lettuce, cheese, cilantro rice, black beans and corn. This was topped with what they call Baja sauce. (it looks like green chili sauce to me)
The stuffed Poblano pepper (with queso on the side).
The peppers (TWO) are stuffed with spicy shredded chicken. It came with rice and corn. I liked that this isn’t swimming in cheese sauce like most New Mexican cuisine that I have tried. This is approachable and sensible.
This is the slow braised pork rib in hatch chile verde with rice, black beans and tortillas.
We’ve had other dishes but I can’t find the photos…..I KNOW I had the salmon here.
We tried the bananas Foster ice cream tortas.
These were SINFULLY good.
This was bananas sautéed in Anejo rum, butter, and brown sugar over an ice cream stuffed brioche bun. It sounds weird but was DANG DELICIOUS!
That was a TASTE of Urban Margarita in Glendale AZ
www.UrbanMargarita.com
Everything is subject to change.
