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1 week ago | 
tucson.com | Ellice Lueders
Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2021 and updated in May 2025. It’s a Sunday morning in Tucson, and the family is in the car. You’re driving to your local carniceria to pick up fresh menudo and carne asada that will be grilled over a coal or mesquite fire in an otherwise anonymous parking lot. Maybe you’re lucky, and when you go inside you’re greeted by a dimly lit menu of burros and tacos.
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1 week ago | 
thisistucson.com | Ellice Lueders
Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2021 and updated in May 2025. It’s a Sunday morning in Tucson, and the family is in the car. You’re driving to your local carniceria to pick up fresh menudo and carne asada that will be grilled over a coal or mesquite fire in an otherwise anonymous parking lot. Maybe you’re lucky, and when you go inside you’re greeted by a dimly lit menu of burros and tacos.
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2 months ago | 
tucson.com | Ellice Lueders
Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2022 and updated in 2025. My mom tells me stories of spending her high school years getting bussed an hour and a half each way, from her home in a small housing development past Forty Niner Country Club, where Tanque Verde Road turns into Redington Pass, to Rincon High School, where she was districted.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
tucson.com | Ellice Lueders
Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2022. We're re-sharing it in June 2023 because Just Churros officially opened its brick and mortar on National Churro Day, June 6. Churros are Rick “Ricky” Pintor’s inheritance. He calls his churros Spanish-Mexican fusion because he makes them with an old-school Spanish recipe, but they are dusted with cinnamon as well as sugar, a Mexican invention. He is a third-generation churrero.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
tucson.com | Elvia Verdugo |Ellice Lueders |Gloria Knott
Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2023 and updated in 2025. Love is in the air, Tucson!Valentine’s Day is almost a week away. Now's the time to plan a romantic date with your boo or a self-care day for yourself. 💖No matter how you celebrate, here are tons of ideas to help you celebrate Valentine’s Day in Tucson. Take a tour of Colossal CaveColossal Cave, 16721 E.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
tucson.com | Ellice Lueders
Editor's note: This story was originally published in January 2022. The back of Tania’s 33 is like if what lurked behind the Wizard of Oz’s green curtain was actually amazing. Past the plastic flaps that separate the front and back of house, behind the horseshoe-shaped grill, steam table and fry bay that produce most of the items on their prodigious menu, you’ll find a narrow hallway lined with stock pot stoves.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
tucson.com | Ellice Lueders
Editor's note: This story was originally published on July 21, 2021. We're resharing the story in 2024. Initially, this story was created by #ThisIsTucson and underwritten by Visit Tucson, spotlighting Tucson's unique flavors and hot deals on cool staycations. Thank you for supporting the local organizations that support us!Flour tortillas are synonymous with Tucson.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
tucson.com | Gloria Knott |Elvia Verdugo |Ellice Lueders
This story was created by #ThisIsTucson in 2022, updated in 2024 and underwritten by Hughes Federal Credit Union. Thank you for supporting the local organizations that support us!Maybe you're planning a visit for the holidays. Maybe you're hoping to visit Tucson to escape the cold this winter. Maybe you're just taking a mini vacation in a food city you've seen plastered on all those "best of" lists (yes, that's us bragging). Whatever the case, you only have three days here.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
thisistucson.com | Gloria Knott |Elvia Verdugo |Ellice Lueders
This story was created by #ThisIsTucson in 2022, updated in 2024 and underwritten by Hughes Federal Credit Union. Thank you for supporting the local organizations that support us!Maybe you're planning a visit for the holidays. Maybe you're hoping to visit Tucson to escape the cold this winter. Maybe you're just taking a mini vacation in a food city you've seen plastered on all those "best of" lists (yes, that's us bragging). Whatever the case, you only have three days here.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
tucson.com | Ellice Lueders
Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2022 and updated in 2024. As a food writer, the question I get asked above any other is: where should we eat? I can never give a straightforward answer. My response is always: It depends. What do you feel like eating? I’m not about to send someone craving a fried chicken sandwich to get my favorite Sichuan beef dish at Noodleholics.
