Valentine

I hear about Valentine from more Tucsonans than any other Phoenix restaurant. Start with the white Sonoran wheat pretzel with guinea hen butter and Arizona honeycomb. The twice-cooked potatoes with yuzu aioli were amazing, but fair warning — it’s a large portion and you HAVE to save room for other dishes, like their famous crispy cauliflower with native tahini, stonefruit escabeche, and wolfberry harissa. You can make a whole evening out of Valentine by shopping in the attached Modern Manor, a vintage store with loads of beautiful midcentury furniture (including a lot of beautiful sofas that are hard to find in Tucson), and ending the night in Valentine’s backroom cocktail lounge (you have to go outside and enter through the alley on the north side of the building).