The Phoenix restaurant scene is hot, with new, creative, cutting-edge, top-dollar restaurants opening all the time. For those who favor more casual eats and colorful meals that don’t cost an arm and a leg, the city is a bonanza of unfancy smoke shacks, burger joints, dog houses, and diners. Especially notable are breakfast at Harlow’s Cafe, masterful BBQ at Little Miss BBQ, comely burritos smothered with red or green chile at Rito’s Mexican Food, and a dazzling repertoire of non-traditional hot dogs at Short Leash Hot Dogs. In this wiener haven, even the buns are unusual — naan bread, tortillas, pretzel rolls — and condiments include mango chutney, peanut butter, chipotle cream cheese, and avocado sauce. Short Leash Hot Dogs is paired with Rollover Doughnuts where, here, too, tradition is complemented by the likes of lemon-turmeric-poppy seed donuts, Key lime coconut donuts, and bourbon cream-filled Bismarks.
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