El Charro- A Tucson Mexican Dining Tradition
El Charro is Tucson’s Mexican Food and a
family favorite for great value and delicious recipes. Established in
1922 by Monica Flin, El Charro Café has been called one of the Top 50
Plates in America by USA Today and One of the 21 Most Legendary
Restaurants in America by Gourmet Magazine.
El Charro 100 Fastest Growing in U.S.
Tucson’s own El Charro Café has made the
July/August 2009 Hispanic Business Magazine’s list of 100 fastest
growing businesses, ranking #62 out of 100 listed.
El Charro Café and Family are proud of
this recognition, although Marques Flores laughs; “hey, it only took 88
years to become on of the fastest growing companies!”, making light of
their 88 year old family owned business.
El Charro Café recently opened their
newest location in Oro Valley, AZ and has plans on adding new locations
in 2010. El Charro can also be found at the University of Arizona
Football Stadium.
Established in 1922 by Monica Flin, El
Charro Café of Tucson, Arizona is The Nation’s Oldest Mexican Restaurant
in continuous operation by the same family. Monica’s grandniece,
Carlotta Dunn Flores and family, currently operate multiple Tucson-area
locations of the venerable Mexican Food destinations.
Featuring traditional Sonoran-style and
innovative Tucson-style Mexican Food, they are celebrating 85 plus years
of taste and history, and have been called one of the Top 50 Plates in
America by USA Today and One of the 21 Most
Legendary Restaurants in America by
Gourmet Magazine. El Charro Café is also proud to announce that they are
the Gold Medal Winners of Tucson Lifestyle’s Reader’s Poll as Best
Mexican Food Restaurant in Tucson for 5 years running and can be seen
regularly on the History Channel and Food Network!
Fiesta de la Musica Live Music Series live every weekend
Tucson favorite El Charro Café announces
the start of their NEW Fiesta de la Musica Live Music Series at select
locations (see attachment), a great new value of live music every
weekend featuring some of Tucson’s most talented local musicians.
El Charro opens in Sahuarita
El Charro Café Rancho Sahuarita opened in
the Rancho Sahuarita Marketplace and Village at 15920 S. Rancho
Sahuarita Road. The 4,500 square foot restaurant has an indoor-outdoor
bar, retail space and a patio. The restaurant will be similar to the two
newer café location at 7725 N. Oracle Riad and 6910 E. Sunrise Drive.
Sir Veza's Taco Garage opened by the Flores family
On the northwest corner of Swan and
Speedway, a new casual concept Mexican restaurant has opened. Sir Veza's
Taco Garage, 4699 E. Speedway, is a sit-down restaurant which
specializes in low-priced Mexican food, hamburgers and sandwiches.
New menus from El Charro
El Charro also will be rolling out new
menus featuring delicious new recipes by Chef Carlotta Flores including
new Grilled Salmon Tacos, Chicken Adobo, and a new Saturday Barbecue
promotion that will turn every El Charro into a family barbecue setting
complete with such Sonoran favorites as Birria, Roasted corn on the cob,
and Frijoles Elegantes. El Charro will also be continuing their great
kids under 10 eat free weekends and Teacher Tuesdays where all teachers
get to have a 2 for 1 offer every Tuesday of every week!
El Charro joins with Metro Restaurants
Ray Flores, owner of El Charro restaurants
and Bob McMahon of Metro Restaurants, have agreed to partner with each
other. The El Charro concept will continue. There are five El Charro
restaurants in Tucson and six Metro Restaurants. Since 2004, McMahon and
Flores have been partners at two El Charro restaurants- Speedway at
Swan Road and Orange Grove at Oracle Roads.
El Charro Café is "legendary"
Gourmet magazine recently named Tucson's
downtown El Charro Café as a local legend- one of 20 restaurants in
America, according to its October 2008 edition
The Story of El Charro Restaurant
It may come as something of a shock to
fans of El Charro Cafe , Tucson's famous Mexican restaurant, that its
origins are more French than Spanish.
Monica Flin's parents, Jules Finn and
Carlota Brunet, both came from French stock, but when she opened her
restaurant in Tucson in 1922, it was Mexican food she chose to serve her
customers.
The restaurant has moved several times since its founding, but it has remained a family business.
El Charro's southwestern cooking relies on
chilies, garlic, rice, corn, and a seasoning mixture called pico de
gallo, a spice rub used much the same as voguish Cajun blends. It
also calls for sun-dried beef, impossible to duplicate outside Tucson,
but for which the book offers a complex method of creating a substitute.
El Charro's salsas and stews are more readily duplicated, especially
for those with access to Mexican produce markets. (From Booklist, Mark
Knoblauch: El Charro Cafe: The Tastes and Traditions of Tucson ).
Purchase authentic, official El Charro salsa, books and posters online from Amazon.com:
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El Charro Picante Verde Salsa (Hot)
Authentic salsa from El Charro Cafe in Tucson, AZ.
Ingredients: Crushed tomatillos
(tomatillos, citric acid), water, salsa (onions, salt, garlic, white
vinegar, canola oil, oregano), citric acid. Hot. 13 oz. Purchase El
Charro salsa online: El Charro Picante Verde Salsa (Hot)
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El Charro Salsa Basico (Mild)
Authentic salsa from El Charro Cafe in Tucson, AZ.
Ingredients: Crushed tomatoes
(tomatoes, salt, citric acid), water salsa (onions, salt, garlic, white
vinegar, canola oil, oregano), tomato puree (water, tomato paste, citric
acid), citric acid, Mild. 13 oz. Purchase salsa online: El Charro Salsa Basico (Mild)
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El Charro Salsa Picante (Medium / Hot)
Authentic salsa from El Charro Cafe in Tucson, AZ
Ingredients: Crushed tomatoes(tomatoes,
salt, citric acid), water, salsa(onions, salt, garlic, white vinegar,
canola oil, chiltipin pepper, oregano), tomato puree (water, tomato
paste citric acid), citric acid. Medium / Hot. 13 oz. Purchase salsa
online: El Charro Salsa Picante (Medium / Hot)
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El Charro Restaurant Tucson, AZ Locations:
The Original El Charro
Historic Downtown Tucson
311 N. Court Avenue, 520-622-1922
El Charro @ The UofA
903-1922
El Charro Catering: 520-792-9922
El Charro Downtown - El Presidio
311 N. Court Avenue, 520-622-1922
El Charro Café East Broadway @ Wilmot
6310 E. Broadway, 520-745-1922
El Charro Ventana Sunrise @ Kolb
6910 E. Sunrise, 520-514-1922
El Charro Café Oro Valley
7725 N. Oracle Road #101, 520-229-19222
El Charro Café Speedway
4699 East Speedway, 520-325-1922
Catalina Foothills' Ventana Village Shopping Center
East Sunrise Boulevard and North Kolb Road
El Charro Café Rancho Sahuarita
15920 S. Rancho Sahuarita Road, Sahuarita
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El Charro Café Cookbook
Author: Jane Stern, Michael Stern
A Roadfood Cookbook: The
colorful history of El Charro Cafe and the 150 recipes for vibrant,
exciting Mexican food make this book as unique and entertaining as the
80-year-old restaurant itself. It is rumored that in the 1940s, founder
Monica Flin would sit on the El Charro patio, sipping martinis from
teacups and playing cards with John Wayne, who was in Tucson to film
westerns. Today the restaurant is run by Carlotta Flores and her
husband, Ray. The El Charro Cafe, America's oldest family-operated
Mexican restaurant, is located in a house built in the 1890s by Monica's
father (who was also Carlotta's great-grandfather). The restaurant's
signature dish is Carne Seca Beef, a Tucson passion. The beef is cured
high above the restaurant's patio where strips of thin-sliced tenderloin
hang in an open metal cage.
Old favorites and creative new Mexican dishes that are enjoyable to cook and to serve fill the book.
The greatest restaurants in
America are its wonderful independent regional restaurants. And there
are no greater experts on America's regional restaurants than Michael
and Jane Stern. "Coast to coast," said the New York Times, "they know
where to find the freshest lobster rolls, the fluffiest pancakes, the
crispiest catfish." Rutledge Hill Press is launching a new series of
Roadfood Cookbooks, each with recipes, pictures, and the history of one
of America's greatest regional restaurants.
• Hardcover: 232 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (November 30, 2002)
Purchase book online from Amazon.,com: El Charro Café Cookbook: Flavors of Tucson from America's Oldest Family-Operated Mexican Restaurant
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El Charro Cafe
Author: Carlotta Flores
El Charro Café is famous
throughout the United States and the world for its vibrant, fresh
Mexican food and fiesta-like atmosphere.
In this beautifully
illustrated color hardcover cookbook, owner and chef Carlotta Flores
shares her recipes, her family history and her love of this flavorful
cuisine.
Carlotta includes prized
family recipes as well as those that make El Charro a Tucson delight and
tradition. She tells stories of the four generations of her family who
have worked at El Charro since its beginnings in 1922, making it the
oldest family-run restaurant in the Southwest.
A glossary of Spanish terms
and foods helps you learn your way around a Mexican menu. You'll learn
the secrets to making authentic, traditional Sonoran Mexican dishes and
also ways to make light, healthy and equally delicious newer ones.
You'll absorb tortilla etiquette along with the recipes for El Charro's savory sauces and soups.
Photographs of the patio and
restaurant are interspersed with "notitas" (little notes and tips) and
Carlotta's stories. The heart of the book: Wonderful recipes, including
all the classic dishes you expect from a Mexican restaurant as well as
ones that may be new to you such as Puerco con Mangos (pork with mango
sauce), Tacos de Camaron (shrimp tacos), Almendrado (almond meringue
pudding), and Capirotada (Lenten bread pudding). Vegetable dishes such
as Rajitas de Nopalitas y Cebollitas (sautéed prickly pear with onions
and green chile), Enchiladas de Hongos (mushroom enchiladas), Papas
Molidas de Navidad (mashed potatoes with green chile and salsa) will
open your eyes and tastebuds.
A book so representative of Tucson that is was chosen for the City of Tucson’s Millennium Time Capsule.
You will enjoy your visit to El Charro Café, sampling Tucson's heritage as well as its cuisine ... Bienvenidos!
• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Fisher Books (October 1998)
Purchase book online: El Charro Cafe: The Tastes and Traditions of Tucson
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El Charro, Western Mexican Cook Book
Author: Alfonso C Pain
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