Listen Daily Star, we’ve gotta talk.
We’re fine with you jinxing baseball teams (and we’re cool about chatting baseball with you on Twitter), but we’re drawing the line on this “food” thing you guys keep doing.
It was funny when y’all were into Subway, and it was getting a little old when you were celebrating Panda Express, but today’s Pizza Hut article is just lame (plus, the photo is blurry as f—k). When there are countless restaurants around town doing great things and serving up great food, it’s a disservice to keep throwing bones to the big, national places.
So we’re taking it upon ourselves to look at local specials, from local restaurants — and if they’re serving locally grown ingredients in their food, so much the better.
Take the Surly Wench Pub, for example. They recently opened up the Surly Wench Kitchen and expanded their menu beyond typical (if exceptionally tasty) pub fare, creating tasty dishes such as today’s special, chicken mole tacos.
Yep, they’re serving up two chicken mole tacos and mixed potatoes with spiced cucumbers for $6 — see that picture to the side there? Yeah, that looks tasty as HELL.
On top of that, the Wench is running happy hour specials all day ’til 9 p.m. And after then, whiskeys are $2.
It seems like that’s only the tip of the Wench-berg, too: all of the herbs used in their dishes are grown in the Surly Wench Garden, and I have it on good authority from their kitchen manager that they’re using local products whenever possible — those tortillas with the chicken mole tacos are from Anita Street Market, for instance.
So for a good time and some good eats, head to the Surly Wench Pub at 424 N. Fourth Ave. — they’ll take care of you, Tucson.
This article appears in May 30 – Jun 5, 2013.
Boy I sure do love chicken mole tacos but its kind of hard to enjoy eating said tacos in a dark, dank, metal bar with scary people frolicking around clad in leather S&M garb. I’ll stick to Pizza Hut! JK I’m going to the B-line.
You guys sure find a need to constantly bash the azds. Why not just report your own stuff and leave it along already. Frankly the only thing is does IMO is make you look less credible.
I’m not all that enticed by chicken mole tacos, but $2 whiskeys…hell yeah!
Seriously though, this is a great counteractive response to the ADS’s support of all that isn’t local. I really hope that Mr. Mendez and/or other TW contributing staff continue with these pieces in the future.
I am WAY more interested in the local specials from local restaurants…looking forward to the next one.
Well, the PH franchises here are owned locally, they probably throw their money at AZDS anyway.