*******THIS LOCATION NOW CLOSED ******La Satisima Gourmet Taco Shop has two locations in Metro Phoenix Arizona. One location is in Phoenix and the other location is by Old Town Glendale Arizona. The Old Town Glendale location isn’t a fancy place but it is decorated in a day of the dead kind of theme.
Ordering isn’t impossible but it can be kind of difficult deciding on what you want………because…… On the menu are over FIFTY different tacos that you can get into five different STYLES (cazuela((bowl)), burro, lonche ((sandwich)), quesa ((Mexican mesa like calzone)),and then can UPGRADE each style to something else……enchilada style (sauces +), entrijolada (refried beans+), mariachi taco (crispy & soft+), taquetzin protein style (crispy cheese outer).
Besides tacos there is more. There are salads and many specialty entrees like Baja Sur Baby Shark, Mazatlan Marlin, Oaxacan Black Mole Chicken, Mexico City Style Chicken Tinga, Cochinita Pibil, Nogada Tacos and MORE!!!!
They start you off with complimentary chips and then you hit the very special and unique salsa bar.
There are LOTS of salsas here. Some of the salsas might be strawberry, peanut, pecan, sesame, cactus, chipotle, avocado, tomatillo.
Since there is over 50 tacos on the menu chances are that you are going to try a taco or two or more.
Marlin (left) and battered whitefish tacos (right)
On my most recent visit they made the marlin taco very different see below.
I think my marlin was accidentally coated with tamarind salsa? Under the cheese the fish is coated with something that was dark brown….Liked the above marlin taco better. (and the below marlin taco better)
Smoked marlin and chicken mole tacos
pork, chicken tinga, basket taco plate with rice and refried beans
Vegetable stuffed quesa (tasty. like a taco. tasting calzone)
On my recent visit I tried 4 tacos and it was one or two tacos too many for me….(I was stuffed and I didn’t even eat it all)…..My favorites tonight were the cauliflower mole taquetzin style crisp cheese jacket (lower left side) and the chicken tinga (lower right) both were delicious and flavorful. Wasn’t a good day for the fish tacos I tried. The pastor maui maui taco on the upper right would have been delicious if the fish was fresher tasting….I just really didn’t like the smoked marlin the way they made it today….Shame because I used to think that I tasted the very best marlin tacos outside of Mexico I used to get here. I’ll go back but might not get fish tacos next time.
My husband is a bigger eater than me and had 4 tacos wit rice and beans.
He had the chorizo in the taquetzin cheese jacket and said that it was very good. He also had a different chicken taco, one of the beef tacos, and a pork taco. He liked them all but didn’t all of them were the ones he ordered.
The restaurant has a really big menu with lots of options. The food that comes out might differ slightly from description.
www.SatisimaGourmet.com
*******UPDATE*******THE GLENDALE LOCATION NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS ********VISIT THEM IN PHOENIX**********
5932 W Glendale Ave Glendale AZ
623-939-3292
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