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by Chris Malloy Updated Jul 23, 2020, 8:35am MST

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by Chris Malloy Updated Jul 23, 2020, 8:35am MST

A hundred years ago, in March, Arizona restaurants closed for dine-in service or shuttered completely to stem the spread of coronavirus. Nonetheless, the virus has proliferated and forever shaken up the dining scene. Though the state reopened for business more than two months ago, many restaurants have stayed closed, or have reopened and then decided to close. It’s a brutal time for restaurants. Those with the means and the appetite can consider supporting any of these 23 stellar takeout options.

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Balkan Bakery

Pretzels, rye bread, and kifli are some of the staple products that fly off the shelves at this north Phoenix bakery. But the Osmic family’s craft reaches its peak with hearty boureks, stuffed with meat, cheese, or spinach, coiled from phyllo dough that they shape by hand. Two make a big meal.

1107 E Bell Rd ste 16, Phoenix, AZ 85022

Seydi’s Pupuseria & Grill

Mother-and-son team Seydi and Jose Flores have been churning out to-go orders of chicken tamales, steak, fried whole fish, and other Salvadorian staples. Diners can mix-and-match gooey cheese pupusas, $29 per dozen.

2625 E Greenway Pkwy suite 107, Phoenix, AZ 85032

La Mejor Barbacoa

Platters heaped with lamb barbacoa are made for to-go containers. This relatively young eatery that specializes in Mexican-style barbecue is remaining open for takeaway, so call ahead for slow-cooked sheep, menudo, pozole, huaraches, and other dishes.

6522 N 59th Ave, Glendale, AZ 85301

Hana Japanese Eatery

Lorie Hashimoto’s beloved Japanese restaurant remains open for takeout and delivery. Diners can order from a wide roster of Japanese staples, like sushi, katsu, and agedashi tofu. Raw gyoza are also on offer for pan-frying at home. Look for the $18 curry special that feeds two.

5524 N 7th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85013

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Chula Seafood Uptown

At its uptown Phoenix location, Chula and chef Kyle Kent are offering some of Arizona’s freshest fish prepared in increasingly creative ways. Recently, they rolled out pastrami-style salmon on challah and a char siu swordfish banh mi (both specials). On Mondays, look for rotating large-format family meals.

100 E Camelback Rd #172, Phoenix, AZ 85012

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Persepshen

This new central Phoenix restaurant’s menu rapidly rotates to highlight local farm offerings, and that hasn’t changed with the pivot to takeout. Grass-fed beef shawarma, ‘nduja pizza, and pork cheek tacos have been recent features. Persepshen’s epic platter of charcuterie is also available for takeaway. So, too, are cocktails like a moonshine juicebox.

4700 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85012

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Fry Bread House

Sandra Miller’s classic has stayed open to serve homestyle indigenous foods in Central Phoenix. Customers can order ahead and pick up chile stews, tamales, burros, fry bread both sweet and savory, and ceme’t, the thin wide flour tortilla cooked in the Sonoran for centuries.

4545 N 7th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85013

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FnB Restaurant

In early June, James Beard Award winner Charleen Badman and beverage maestro Pavle Milic got back in their downtown Scottsdale saddle to serve takeaway. The bounty of the microseasons remains on full display: lamb manti with cherries, pasta with snap peas, pork shoulder with tomatillo and squash. To-go drinks include Arizona wines.

7125 E 5th Ave #31, Scottsdale, AZ 85251

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Vecina

This Latin-influenced Arcadia restaurant, a 2020 James Beard Award nominee for Best New Restaurant, is open for takeout with a full menu. Cocktails, wine, and a deep list of Arizona beer options are also available to go. Specials have veered into new territory, like pasta.

3433 N 56th St, Phoenix, AZ 85018

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Glai Baan

Northeastern Thai fixture Glai Baan has kept its kitchen open, and some genre-bending cocktails are ready for takeout in illustrated bottles. Diners can order ahead and grab chef Cat Bunnag’s staples like khao soi, panang curry, and smoked mackerel fried rice for curbside pickup.

2333 E Osborn Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85016

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Barrio Cafe

Silvana Salcido Esparza has winnowed down her menu to a few greatest hits, some remixed. Cochinita pibil, cecina, and piloncillo-glazed salmon all see the darkness of her upright smoker. Esparza is also making her family’s pork chile verde recipe, chicken with mole, chiles en nogada, and more. To-go drink options include a guava margarita for two.

2814 N 16th St #1205, Phoenix, AZ 85006

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Authentic Ethio African Spices

Anduale Hassan freely says his tiny Ethiopian kitchen in central Phoenix is a ghost restaurant — meaning a restaurant designed for takeout and delivery. His food is classically Ethiopian, the menu loaded with stews, injera, coffee and juices, an East African spin on pasta, and platters designed for sharing.

1740 E McDowell Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85006

The Larder and the Delta

Downtown, the imaginative food of Stephen Jones makes for some of the most refreshing and thought provoking eating in greater Phoenix. Look to his classics, like Hoppin’ John with field peas and Carolina gold rice, crispy pig ears, or Buffalo-style cauliflower. Or get more experimental with a dish like country ham bo ssam for two.

200 W Portland St #101, Phoenix, AZ 85003

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Taco Boy's

Though you might miss watching the Cornejos tending dozens of slip-thin steaks over grills of hissing charcoal, you can still taste the carne asada those steaks become. Taco Boy’s remains open to purvey tacos, burritos, vampiros, quesadillas, platters, and an intensely smoky tray of beans.

620 E Roosevelt St, Phoenix, AZ 85004

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Carolina's

The longtime Sonoran-Mexican American neighborhood restaurant is still griddling newborn flour tortillas. Get them to go in the form of machaca-and-egg burros, chimichangas, and enchiladas, or whatever from the full menu calls out.

1202 E Mohave St, Phoenix, AZ 85034

Worth Takeaway

For pickup and delivery, this downtown Mesa sandwich destination is crafting its usual sandwiches, like a Cuban, Reuben, and crispy chicken with honey-Sriracha. Keep up with Worth on social media for wide-ranging off-menu specials on Mondays, recently poutine, spaetzle, and gemelli with lamb ragu. Diners can supplement orders with items from local artisans, like Noi Cacao chocolate bars.

218 W Main St, Mesa, AZ 85201

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Myke's Pizza

Come summer, Myke Olsen’s neo-Neapolitan pies enter a time when the seasons present themselves on pizza in uncommon ways. Curls of delicata squash and fontina. Cherries and pistachios. Follow on social media to keep up. Notably, Olsen recently brought back his chocolate chip cookies and started experimenting with ice cream.

31 S Robson #103, Mesa, AZ 85210

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JL Smokehouse

Though rising meat prices are squeezing the Phoenix barbecue scene, James Lewis continues to smoke top-notch meats with inflections of his native Arkansas. Lewis cuts a peppery brisket and pulls a succulent pork, sure, but consider looking to some of his more singular meats: rib tips, smoked Bologna, a Chicago-hinting sausage sandwich.

2010 E Broadway Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85040

Sherpa Kitchen

Subash Yadav translates the bounty of central Arizona farms to into vibrant Nepalese dishes: momos, noodles, soups, stir-frys. Though he opened just before the pandemic, he has already started to amass a cult following. Why? For one, his is thorough. A $6 soup, gundruk, takes 10 days to make.

1533 W Elliot Rd #101, Gilbert, AZ 85233

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Tacos Chiwas Chandler

Both locations (Chandler and Phoenix) of Nadia Holguin and Armando Hernandez’s esteemed taqueria are packaging Chihuahuan-style specialties to-go, including tacos, burritos, quesadillas, and gorditas. Thankfully, all three of the salsas normally available at the chilled self-serve area now come in small plastic containers.

2160 N Alma School Rd, Chandler, AZ 85224

Ghost Ranch: Modern Southwest Cuisine

The kitchen of this wide-ranging Southwestern restaurant in South Tempe has stayed open with a truncated menu. Chef Rene Andrade and his team are serving multi-person meals (like enchilada and whole chicken combos). They’re also bagging one-person options like a green chile burger and torta ahogada (sauce-drowned sandwiches). Margaritas are available, too.

1006 E Warner Rd #102-103, Tempe, AZ 85284

Cotton & Copper

On top of boxing some recent Cotton & Copper menu staples, chef Tamara Stanger is cooking an intensive large-format meal that changes nightly. Lately, that has meant duck paprikash, Sonoran-style enchiladas, and Korean fried chicken spatzle. Grab one of Sean Traynor’s cocktails to wash down Stanger’s ethereal pies.

1006 E Warner Rd #113, Tempe, AZ 85284

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Balkan Bakery

1107 E Bell Rd ste 16, Phoenix, AZ 85022

Pretzels, rye bread, and kifli are some of the staple products that fly off the shelves at this north Phoenix bakery. But the Osmic family’s craft reaches its peak with hearty boureks, stuffed with meat, cheese, or spinach, coiled from phyllo dough that they shape by hand. Two make a big meal.

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1107 E Bell Rd ste 16, Phoenix, AZ 85022

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Seydi’s Pupuseria & Grill

2625 E Greenway Pkwy suite 107, Phoenix, AZ 85032

Mother-and-son team Seydi and Jose Flores have been churning out to-go orders of chicken tamales, steak, fried whole fish, and other Salvadorian staples. Diners can mix-and-match gooey cheese pupusas, $29 per dozen.

2625 E Greenway Pkwy suite 107, Phoenix, AZ 85032

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La Mejor Barbacoa

6522 N 59th Ave, Glendale, AZ 85301

Platters heaped with lamb barbacoa are made for to-go containers. This relatively young eatery that specializes in Mexican-style barbecue is remaining open for takeaway, so call ahead for slow-cooked sheep, menudo, pozole, huaraches, and other dishes.

6522 N 59th Ave, Glendale, AZ 85301

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Hana Japanese Eatery

5524 N 7th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85013

Lorie Hashimoto’s beloved Japanese restaurant remains open for takeout and delivery. Diners can order from a wide roster of Japanese staples, like sushi, katsu, and agedashi tofu. Raw gyoza are also on offer for pan-frying at home. Look for the $18 curry special that feeds two.

5524 N 7th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85013

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Chula Seafood Uptown

100 E Camelback Rd #172, Phoenix, AZ 85012

At its uptown Phoenix location, Chula and chef Kyle Kent are offering some of Arizona’s freshest fish prepared in increasingly creative ways. Recently, they rolled out pastrami-style salmon on challah and a char siu swordfish banh mi (both specials). On Mondays, look for rotating large-format family meals.

100 E Camelback Rd #172, Phoenix, AZ 85012

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Persepshen

4700 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85012

This new central Phoenix restaurant’s menu rapidly rotates to highlight local farm offerings, and that hasn’t changed with the pivot to takeout. Grass-fed beef shawarma, ‘nduja pizza, and pork cheek tacos have been recent features. Persepshen’s epic platter of charcuterie is also available for takeaway. So, too, are cocktails like a moonshine juicebox.

4700 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85012

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Fry Bread House

4545 N 7th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85013

Sandra Miller’s classic has stayed open to serve homestyle indigenous foods in Central Phoenix. Customers can order ahead and pick up chile stews, tamales, burros, fry bread both sweet and savory, and ceme’t, the thin wide flour tortilla cooked in the Sonoran for centuries.

4545 N 7th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85013

Visit Website

FnB Restaurant

7125 E 5th Ave #31, Scottsdale, AZ 85251

In early June, James Beard Award winner Charleen Badman and beverage maestro Pavle Milic got back in their downtown Scottsdale saddle to serve takeaway. The bounty of the microseasons remains on full display: lamb manti with cherries, pasta with snap peas, pork shoulder with tomatillo and squash. To-go drinks include Arizona wines.

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7125 E 5th Ave #31, Scottsdale, AZ 85251

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Vecina

3433 N 56th St, Phoenix, AZ 85018

This Latin-influenced Arcadia restaurant, a 2020 James Beard Award nominee for Best New Restaurant, is open for takeout with a full menu. Cocktails, wine, and a deep list of Arizona beer options are also available to go. Specials have veered into new territory, like pasta.

3433 N 56th St, Phoenix, AZ 85018

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Glai Baan

2333 E Osborn Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85016

Northeastern Thai fixture Glai Baan has kept its kitchen open, and some genre-bending cocktails are ready for takeout in illustrated bottles. Diners can order ahead and grab chef Cat Bunnag’s staples like khao soi, panang curry, and smoked mackerel fried rice for curbside pickup.

2333 E Osborn Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85016

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Barrio Cafe

2814 N 16th St #1205, Phoenix, AZ 85006

Silvana Salcido Esparza has winnowed down her menu to a few greatest hits, some remixed. Cochinita pibil, cecina, and piloncillo-glazed salmon all see the darkness of her upright smoker. Esparza is also making her family’s pork chile verde recipe, chicken with mole, chiles en nogada, and more. To-go drink options include a guava margarita for two.

2814 N 16th St #1205, Phoenix, AZ 85006

Visit Website

Authentic Ethio African Spices

1740 E McDowell Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85006

Anduale Hassan freely says his tiny Ethiopian kitchen in central Phoenix is a ghost restaurant — meaning a restaurant designed for takeout and delivery. His food is classically Ethiopian, the menu loaded with stews, injera, coffee and juices, an East African spin on pasta, and platters designed for sharing.

1740 E McDowell Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85006

Visit Website

The Larder and the Delta

200 W Portland St #101, Phoenix, AZ 85003

Downtown, the imaginative food of Stephen Jones makes for some of the most refreshing and thought provoking eating in greater Phoenix. Look to his classics, like Hoppin’ John with field peas and Carolina gold rice, crispy pig ears, or Buffalo-style cauliflower. Or get more experimental with a dish like country ham bo ssam for two.

Open in Google Maps

200 W Portland St #101, Phoenix, AZ 85003

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Taco Boy's

620 E Roosevelt St, Phoenix, AZ 85004

Though you might miss watching the Cornejos tending dozens of slip-thin steaks over grills of hissing charcoal, you can still taste the carne asada those steaks become. Taco Boy’s remains open to purvey tacos, burritos, vampiros, quesadillas, platters, and an intensely smoky tray of beans.

620 E Roosevelt St, Phoenix, AZ 85004

Visit Website

Carolina's

1202 E Mohave St, Phoenix, AZ 85034

The longtime Sonoran-Mexican American neighborhood restaurant is still griddling newborn flour tortillas. Get them to go in the form of machaca-and-egg burros, chimichangas, and enchiladas, or whatever from the full menu calls out.

Open in Google Maps

1202 E Mohave St, Phoenix, AZ 85034

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Worth Takeaway

218 W Main St, Mesa, AZ 85201

For pickup and delivery, this downtown Mesa sandwich destination is crafting its usual sandwiches, like a Cuban, Reuben, and crispy chicken with honey-Sriracha. Keep up with Worth on social media for wide-ranging off-menu specials on Mondays, recently poutine, spaetzle, and gemelli with lamb ragu. Diners can supplement orders with items from local artisans, like Noi Cacao chocolate bars.

218 W Main St, Mesa, AZ 85201

Visit Website

Myke's Pizza

31 S Robson #103, Mesa, AZ 85210

Come summer, Myke Olsen’s neo-Neapolitan pies enter a time when the seasons present themselves on pizza in uncommon ways. Curls of delicata squash and fontina. Cherries and pistachios. Follow on social media to keep up. Notably, Olsen recently brought back his chocolate chip cookies and started experimenting with ice cream.

31 S Robson #103, Mesa, AZ 85210

Visit Website

JL Smokehouse

2010 E Broadway Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85040

Though rising meat prices are squeezing the Phoenix barbecue scene, James Lewis continues to smoke top-notch meats with inflections of his native Arkansas. Lewis cuts a peppery brisket and pulls a succulent pork, sure, but consider looking to some of his more singular meats: rib tips, smoked Bologna, a Chicago-hinting sausage sandwich.

Open in Google Maps

2010 E Broadway Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85040

Visit Website

Sherpa Kitchen

1533 W Elliot Rd #101, Gilbert, AZ 85233

Subash Yadav translates the bounty of central Arizona farms to into vibrant Nepalese dishes: momos, noodles, soups, stir-frys. Though he opened just before the pandemic, he has already started to amass a cult following. Why? For one, his is thorough. A $6 soup, gundruk, takes 10 days to make.

Open in Google Maps

1533 W Elliot Rd #101, Gilbert, AZ 85233

Visit Website

Tacos Chiwas Chandler

2160 N Alma School Rd, Chandler, AZ 85224

Both locations (Chandler and Phoenix) of Nadia Holguin and Armando Hernandez’s esteemed taqueria are packaging Chihuahuan-style specialties to-go, including tacos, burritos, quesadillas, and gorditas. Thankfully, all three of the salsas normally available at the chilled self-serve area now come in small plastic containers.

2160 N Alma School Rd, Chandler, AZ 85224

Visit Website

Ghost Ranch: Modern Southwest Cuisine

1006 E Warner Rd #102-103, Tempe, AZ 85284

The kitchen of this wide-ranging Southwestern restaurant in South Tempe has stayed open with a truncated menu. Chef Rene Andrade and his team are serving multi-person meals (like enchilada and whole chicken combos). They’re also bagging one-person options like a green chile burger and torta ahogada (sauce-drowned sandwiches). Margaritas are available, too.

Open in Google Maps

1006 E Warner Rd #102-103, Tempe, AZ 85284

Visit Website

Cotton & Copper

1006 E Warner Rd #113, Tempe, AZ 85284

On top of boxing some recent Cotton & Copper menu staples, chef Tamara Stanger is cooking an intensive large-format meal that changes nightly. Lately, that has meant duck paprikash, Sonoran-style enchiladas, and Korean fried chicken spatzle. Grab one of Sean Traynor’s cocktails to wash down Stanger’s ethereal pies.

1006 E Warner Rd #113, Tempe, AZ 85284

Visit Website

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