Where to Eat

 

The Cowboy Club and Silver Saddle Room

This was one of our favorite places. There is a saloon-style room that has a bar and comfy booths on one side of the building and an elegant dining room with china, crystal and many courses on the other. Most of the same food is available on both sides, but the presentation is different! Expect tasty little treats between courses in the Silver Saddle Room. Try the pistachio encrusted halibut and cactus fries!

 

Shugrue's Hillside

More elegant dining with a great hillside view. Tasty food and lovely atmosphere. China and crystal, but no formal dress required for anything in Sedona!

 

 

 

Sally's Mesquite BBQ

This was a find! Sally's address is actually on a little street that runs behind the main drag in downtown Sedona. While walking and shopping down 89A, we wandered down a long corridor in between shops and found this tiny little slice of barbeque heaven. The counter is housed in the main building, only a few customers can get in at a time! Across the hall is a little dinning room with ancient tables and chairs. It looks like a dive, but it is the best pulled pork and beef I have ever had.....and my family is from the South! Don't expect anything fancier than old fashioned picinic food!

Red Planet Diner

This little gem is a diner...expect diner food! Great burgers, fries, real milkshakes, breakfasts and meat-and-potato diner dinners. The atmosphere is comical and family friendly. You will feel like you stepped into a warped version of a 50's diner, only this one is UFO themed! Enter past the flying saucer water fountain, sit next to an 8 foot tall alien and order Lunar Linguini and a Vortini. The sign at the entrance says "Earthlings wait to be seated, Aliens pay cash." Campy, sci-fi decor, puns, jokes and other weirdness abounds. It is one of the few places in Sedona open late for meals. Reviewers rave about the Vulcan Veggie-burgers, but you can count on old-fashioned stick-to-your-rib dishes to be top notch and artery-hardening. It is a "must-see/must-eat!"

Dahl and DiLuca's

Superb Italian food! Lovely surroundings and excellent service! A top-rated eatery in almost every travel guide!

 

 

 

 

Mexican Food or Where Not to Eat
You would think that you might find some wonderful Mexican food in Arizona. We were horribly disappointed! In the middle of downtown on Hwy 89A we ate our first meal at Oaxaca, advertised as a premier restaraunt in all of the travel guides. After a horrible margarita, poor service and possibly the blandest, wateriest, most tasteless Mexican food we have ever had, we wondered if those reviewers ever actually ate there. Yes, I ordered a second margarita..hoping to at least get tipsy enough to finish my meal. It didn't work and I left most of it. The salsa tasted like it came out of a jar and the chips were stale. Hubby's tostada had more brown lettuce than green; and the beans looked like........

We also ate at the famed El Rincon and Maria's Restaurant and Cantina. In both places the salsa tasted like tomato catsup and the food was only marginal. Ok, so Sedona is in Northern Arizona, but I would have thought that I could get food at least as good as LA! I have had better food at Taco Bell! Now that's scary! No links for these guys, we were very disappointed!