If you’re looking to add culinary harmony to your 2023 Tucson Desert Song Festival experience, we have some suggestions of new restaurants near the festival venues that are worth checking out.
A few dining tips before we get started:
Check to see if the restaurant takes reservations.
Probe their Yelp and other social media reviews to see if they have any service issues that might make you late to your concert.
Check out the menu before you go so you have an idea of what you want. That will cut down on the time you wait.
If possible, order ahead so the food will be ready when you arrive.
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OK, now onto the tasty stuff.
Downtown Tucson — not far from the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall where several Song Festival events will take place — and the area around the University of Arizona — home to Centennial Hall and smaller concert halls at the Fred Fox School of Music — welcomed a handful of new restaurants last year that either opened after the 2022 Song Festival or were so new they weren’t on many folks’ radars.
Chef Travis Peters puts an order of The Giant Chicharron, pork belly with house seasoning, chimichurri and Delta hot sauce, out for the server to deliver at The Delta, 135 S. Sixth Ave.
Tyler Fenton and his siblings (Reilly Craft Pizza) opened their fire-inspired fine-dining restaurant Bata at 35 E. Toole Ave. in March. They opened the downstairs cocktail complement Barbata in mid-November. bata tucson.com, barbata.com
Cruda Mariscos & Oysters, 31 N. Scott Ave., joined the family of downtown restaurants that includes La Chingada and The Neighborhood in February. crudamariscos.com
Ezbachi, a Japanese-style izakaya grill, opened at 62 E. Congress St. in mid-April. ezbachi.com
If you’re taste buds are craving quesabirria tacos, check out La Yaquesita Mexican Cuisine, which took over the former L Station at 500 N. Fourth Ave. inJune. facebook.com/YaquesitaTacos
The popular food truck Penelope Wood Fired Pizza opened inside Cartel Roasting Co.’s downtown location at 210 E. Broadway in October. penelopepizza.com
For a true taste of the South, The Delta, 135 S. Sixth Ave., which This is Tucson food writer Ellice Lueders labeled the “pissed off rock-and-roll cousin” of the popular New Orleans-inspired The Parish, opened in the old Downtown Kitchen + Cocktails in early January. thedeltatucson.com
The Flores family honored its founder with The Monica, a fast-casual, scratch-made open-kitchen eatery that pays homage to Monica Flores at 40 E. Congress. themonicatucson.com
The pasta-centric Noodies, which also sells Italian sandwiches and self-serve gelato, opened in the former Bentley’s House of Coffee and Tea at 1730 E. Speedway in mid-April. noodies.square.site
The newest addition to the UA’s bustling dining and drinking district Main Gate is The Union Jack, an authentic British-style pub at 800 E. University Blvd. that opened in late fall. theunionjackbar.com
The Beatles look down on tables at The Union Jack, a new British pub and restaurant at Main Gate Square.
This national chain is moving across the street in midtown. Gabriela Rico / Arizona Daily Star
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