Carolina’s is a family owned group of four Mexican Restaurants that are considered to be a staple of Phoenix. The original location has been in business since 1968. This restaurant might be most famous for their daily made fresh flour tortillas.
Some of the other offerings are breakfast burritos, 16 combo platters, burros, chimi’s, tacos, tostados, tamales, a children’s menu, soft beverages, and more.
This is a casual restaurant.
You order and pay at the counter, grab a number, and seat yourself.
We started out by sharing a cheese quesadilla.
The flour tortilla is really great. It’s light and thin and melts in your mouth. The cheese adds a little something to it…….I think I should have ordered a fried jalapeño because that would have been tasty here.
I tried three different tacos. They came wrapped up like this.
Potato taco, shredded chicken taco, and a shredded beef taco with sides of guacamole, green salsa, and hot sauce.
The meats are both finely shredded and are tender. The taco shells are good and tasty and were fresh fried to order…….I don’t know if my visit is typical or maybe I hit them on an off day but the potato taco and the beef taco are both flavorless. Only the chicken taco today is infused with flavors. The beef taco and the potato taco are better when you add the green salsa to them. The green salsa is actually very good and full of flavors. I thought that the hot sauce had a taste that is similar to tabasco sauce.
My husband tried the burro 3 way combo platter.
The burro is 3 way because in the middle are beans and on one end is stewed beef in a red chili sauce and on the other end is beef in green chili sauce. The platter comes with Mexican style rice and refried beans. He said that the beef in red sauce was very good……but the green chili side was next to meatless.
Summing things up….From the Glendale location
Get the shredded chicken
Get the beef red chili
Get the green salsa
Take out some flour tortillas
That was my trip to Carolina’s Greenway Location in Glendale AZ
5920 W Greenway RD Glendale AZ
623-878-6277
www.CarolinasMexicanFood,com
Every THING is subject to change.
