Bahia De Guaymas is a Sonoran Mexican Restaurant located in Phoenix Arizona. They offer mostly seafood items but also do offer meats and chicken. The menu is mostly in Spanish. Here English is the second language but the servers are bilingual.

This isn’t a fancy place but parking is easy since they have their own parking lot.

In the front of the restaurant a bar stretches across the room and behind is a dining area filled with traditional tables and booths along one side.

The tables are set with a bucket of many bottled sauces that don’t look clean or safe to use.

Lets take a peek at the menu….

They start us off with chips salsa and a bowl of limes.

I see marlin tacos on the menu. You can’t find marlin tacos everywhere so we share one.

This marlin taco is served on a fresh made grilled slightly puffy shell and has melted white cheese inside with the smoked marlin and is garnished with a little salad.

For my main I had the filete a la diablo.

It’s a nicely grilled mild white fish covered in a blanket of a chipotle-ee tomato-ee sauce. It’s a little spicy…….The rice is seasoned some with maybe a chicken broth and is studded with a few vegetables like peas, carrots and corn. The refried beans are very loose and soupy. We also got tortillas to share. The corn tortillas were hot and were grilled extra nice. The flour tortillas were maybe the thinest flour tortillas that I have ever had anywhere. I don’t know if they made them but they did taste like home made tortillas.

My husbands meal was very similar but was with camaron (shrimp).

That was my trip to Bahia De Guaymas in Phoenix AZ.

This restaurant has an authentic feel to it. The standout dish was the smoked marlin taco.

I haven’t found a website for this restaurant but they are on Facebook

Everything is subject to change.

Little Miss BBQ is a casual central Texas style bbq restaurant with two locations in Phoenix Arizona. The original location is smaller and is located near the Phoenix Airport. It’s Little Miss BBQ University on University Drive. The 2nd location is in North Phoenix in the Sunnyslope area. The Sunnyslope location offers more seating, expanded hours, limited alcohol, and a few more menu items.

First you wait in line. Usually you start by waiting on the porch and get a whiff of BBQ from all the smokers going. Then you look at menus and decide on what you are having today.

The line moves slow soon you will be inside.

Here is a closer look at the front where you order.

You pass some rubs, sauces, canned alcohol, and some other stuff.

Now it’s your turn. Time to decide on what you want.

Then they slice up the meat for you. You get your sides. You pay and seat yourself.

You can seat yourself on the patio.

Or inside.

Today we shared a two meat plate of 1/2 lean and 1/2 fatty brisket (They use the highest quality prime here), turkey with slaw and potato salad. On the upper left corner in the below picture is the pork belly. My husband said his favorite today was the pork belly. …The pork belly was even more succulent than the fatty brisket.

Sometimes the fatty brisket is too succulent for me. But I know that is how most people prefer it.

My husband also tried a burrito.

He got it with the red mole sauce. He liked it for $10. but is a bigger fan of the meat plates.

Once I came on a Thursday and got the Thursday pastrami special…(This was excellent).

The above plate is from a prior visit….They did differ some in taste (turkey and the brisket) but it’s all very good…No complaints.

This plate has the jalapeño cheesy grits, meaty beans, fatty brisket, pulled pork, and sausage.

Little Miss BBQ is Worth a Fork!

www.LittleMissBBQ.com

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Chino Bandido is a casual one of a kind unique restaurant located in North Phoenix Arizona. According to Food Network Chino Bandido is one of the top places to eat in the country. A quote from Guy Fieri of Food Network, “One of the most original on DDD” (TV Show Diners Drive-Ins and Dives) The menu offers food that is sort of American Chinese style, some food is Mexican-ish, and some food is Jerk Style. You can pick your pan of food as a single entree with a side or for only a little over a dollar more get a combo with two sides. Then you have even more choices. You can upgrade and burrito-ize any entree. You can also quesadilla -ize any entree. There are almost endless combinations. (according to Food Network they calculated nearly 90,000 combinations)

Here’s the menu the rest is up to you.

When you come in you fill out your order on a slip of paper on a small desk by this wall near the door you just came threw.

Then you wait in line.

It’s always busy.

When you get closer it looks like this.

The menu is up on the wall and the TV on the right plays Food Network shows with Chino Bandido.

You almost don’t see the mascot unless you look for him.

He’s in a corner of the main dining area.

After you order and pay. You get your beverage and seat yourself. When your meal is ready someone will run out of the kitchen calling your name with your tray of food and run it to you.

I got my usual Chile Relleno with emerald chicken with white rice and black beans and my husband got the carnitas quesadilla with hengrenade chicken, jerk rice and black beans.

It’s a lot of food. For me this is two meals but my husband eats his whole pan. We share one cookie for dessert. The Chile Relleno is very large and it’s packed with lots of cheese. The coating is a lot of crushed saltine crackers. I always like the emerald chicken. It’s white meat chicken that is always tender and moist and it’s topped with fresh ginger and scallions. I think it goes with the white rice and black beans.

The snickerdoodle is always a perfect sweet ending.

Hey I got two tasty meals that are better than fast food anywhere and are also cheaper than fast food.

I have to say-

Chino Bandido is Worth a Fork!

www.ChinoBandido.com

Everything is subject to change. (I bet the prices will have to go up a little sometime) Also a dog friendly patio is posted on the door but on the day of my visit they didn’t have patio tables yet.

******UPDATE NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS *****Smashers EATS is a casual full service not too fancy inexpensive restaurant located in a strip mall in North Phoenix Arizona. The main dig at Smashers EATS are various smash style burgers but they also offer other things. They also offer appetizers, salads, various sandwiches, a few entrees, some pasta dishes, a children’s menu, milk shakes, some desserts and alcohol. They also do make some home made desserts …….I heard that the specialties are cheese cake and cookies….but they are made on Tuesdays so by the weekend they are all gone.

It looks like you order at the counter but you don’t and seat yourself instead.

The walls are bricked and decorated with lit stain glass panels.

A few big screen TVs are on the walls. The Table tops are unique with carving and colors.

My husband went with a 6oz. green chili burger (doubled (ANOTHER 6oz….for $3.00 more and brought some burger home for the dogs) and picked onion rings as his side.

Under the seeded bun top are some pickles, lettuce and tomato slices. In the mouth was a juicy nicely seasoned delicious burgers with a good amount of melty pepper jack cheese, bacon and green chilies. He got a generous amount of crispy onion rings with it too!

I had the house cured pastrami melt with Cole slaw as my side.

Just the way I like it!

Really greatly thin grilled toasty marble rye and the tasty delicious flavorful pastrami. It had the just right amounts of sauerkraut Russian Island dressing and melty Swiss cheese. WOW! It was a YUM-DINGER! The Cole slaw was really great too. Nice fresh and crunchy with the just right amount of sweetness.

I don’t know how everything is at Smashers Eats but the smash style burgers and the cured in-house pastrami melts are recommended.

******UPDATE NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS********

I haven’t found a website for Smashers EATS but they are on Facebook.

16816 N Cave Creek Rd PHX 85032 602-283-5600

Tue.-Sat. – 10am-8pm

Everything is subject to change.