The Best Mexican Food

Southwest Discoveries is famous for our guided hiking tours, but we also love to eat!! Some of our favorites include savory tacos, mouthwatering salsas, fresh guacamole, and hand crafted tortillas still warm from the oven. It’s no wonder that Tucson is designated as America’s first UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) City of Gastronomy and home to the “Best 23 Miles of Mexican Food” in the country.

We’d love to give you a taste of Tucson’s best with our gastronomy tour led by Chef Barry Infuso.  No matter if you are a full-time-resident of the “Old Pueblo,” or a visitor, on this Tucson food tour you’ll eat your way through delicious neighborhoods from the burgeoning downtown, south-side or all-around town. This three-hour tour will open the food secrets not mentioned in the New York Times articles and known only to those who have eaten their way from one side of town to the other in search of the best Sonoran Hot-Dog on the city's south side to a hole in the wall serving up some of the city's finest Mexican street food to a white tablecloth eatery serving the finest of Mexican regional cuisine. You’ll discover the food lore of the city’s 4,000 + year history and how it received its UNESCO designation. Respond to this email to book your private tour of Tucson’s best eateries today!

We’re also very excited to be experiencing the best of Oaxacan food in our upcoming 9 day tour to Oaxaca, Mexico! Oaxaca is famous for its mole sauces and mezcal, as well as being a UNESCO World Heritage Site! Join us June 5-13 as we enjoy regional delights like tlayudas, mole empanadas, and memelas at beloved local eateries, feast on goat barbacoa and crunch roasted grasshoppers in heritage corn tortillas, savor rich moles at the local market, experience the process of making mezcal at a renowned palenque and imbibe inventive mezcal cocktails at a Michelin-rated restaurant, explore the birthplace of corn, squash, and ancestral foodways that shaped the world, take a cooking class with a traditional Zapotec cook at her home, and finish with a cold artisanal beer in a hidden private cactus-and-sculpture garden.  There’s only a few days left to book this tour, so respond to this email by May 15th to reserve your spot on this adventure of a lifetime!