Mexican Food Restaurant & Caterer Serving Phoenix, AZ

When the holidays come around, the first thing that comes to mind, other than Christmas celebrations, is food. Any celebration or merry making is incomplete without food. Perhaps this is the only element of Christmas that allows you to experiment with different items. Well, some are more traditional and keep to the usual holiday food, more in keeping with the Christmas spirit, but some of us love to go a different route and find it fun to celebrate the holidays with cuisines from different parts of the world.

So why not try and experiment holiday dining this season with Mexican food?
To begin with, Christmas in Mexico is all about fun, getting together, and making traditional Mexican holiday food that you would love to share with friends and family. Though Mexican food is always fun and rich in ingredients and taste, special Mexican holiday food is made especially by families to celebrate the holidays and the recipes are handed over from generations to generations.

Where there is food, can drinks be far behind?
In addition, to the Mexican holiday food there is also traditional Mexican drinks that may or may be free of alcohol. So, something that is suitable for the young and the old, the little and the not so little.

So what typically is Mexican holiday food?

Mexican fiesta is a lavish spread of food with concoctions and ingredients that spice up the food in special ways.

• Start with the famous Mexican Christmas salad which is a great combination of fruit with a unique tangy dressing. This is a colorful and healthy Mexican recipe and it is easy to make. The flavors are unique and combine to give it a robust and rich note, leaving you asking for more.
• One can make special Enchiladas with a red sauce while some can be spruced up with a creamy sauce.
• The traditional Spanish rice can be made tastier with special fresh spices and made more interesting with refried beans, nacho chips, guacamole and salsa.
• Get a little adventurous and add seafood to your holiday cuisine this winter. Shrimps, lobster dips, scallops and other forms of seafood can certainly make holiday dining more exciting.
• The Mexican peacock is an age old recipe that is a must for the traditional meat eaters. Add beans cooked in different styles with various toppings that make it all the more flavorful.
• Make a special Mexican flan for those special sweet endings.
• Did I say endings? The sweetness would be incomplete without the traditional Mexican Bunuelos. They are festive Mexican cookies that are enjoyed by everyone. As a tradition these cookies are served broken into pieces with hot anisette-flavored syrup poured over them.

Certainly this Christmas ask friends to share their age old recipes and bring them to your table. The world is going global, so why not bring the world to your dining table and try a different cuisine each evening. Bon Apetit and Cheers to the Christmas spirit!

When you are in search of great Mexican food, you want to find a restaurant that displays a certain degree of good character. It may seem that every Mexican restaurant you have been going to tends to offer the same Americanized menu selections as every other. Your expectations of Mexican food are beginning to rise, and no restaurant seems to cater to your needs. If you want to enjoy exquisite and traditional Mexican food, look no further than Comedor Guadalajara.

What qualities does a meal require to be considered traditional Mexican food? Mexican food is famous for its use of fresh and locally grown produce such as cilantro, peppers, chiles, corn, garlic and onion. Although, the key ingredient of Mexican food is love. Comedor Guadalajara serves authentic Mexican food in its purest form. Providing a warm atmosphere that is lavishly decorated; the environment provides the feeling you get when at a restaurant in the actual city of Guadalajara. For those of you that avoid chain restaurants: Comedor Guadalajara is a family owned and oriented business, guaranteeing that the staff is friendly and treat you as if you were a member of their family.

Comedor Guadalajara offers a diverse menu that is guaranteed to excite even those who have the most demanding of palates. Family favorites such as tacos, enchiladas and burritos are only the beginning of the great dishes this restaurant has to offer. More complex dishes include items such as the famous Chile Relleno (cheese stuffed chile in egg batter) and the Pollo En Mole (chicken in a spicy, semi-sweet sauce). Comedor Guadalajara also offers many seafood based dishes, which are rare in U.S. located Mexican restaurants. Cooked to perfection, the fresh seafood ingredients include shrimp, octopus, tilapia, red snapper and calamari. Come dine at Comedor Guadalajara today, your satisfaction is guaranteed!

Are you in charge of organizing an event for your office? And, that includes deciding on the lunch or dinner menu as well as finalizing on the caterers. To begin with, it is essential to decide on the kind of cuisine that you would want to have. Given the background of your guests and their ethnic origin, you can decide on a cuisine that is new to them and simply wow them with the authenticity on offer. You could also choose a cuisine that gets your taste buds alive with a good balance of great tasting spicier meals as well as milder ones, for those who prefer food that is easy on the stomach. You got it right? For your guests you can decide on Mexican cuisine that will simply impress them right from the word go.

While deciding on Mexican cuisine, you can look for restaurants that serve authentic Mexican food. Comedor Guadalajara in Phoenix is a family restaurant known to serve authentic Mexican food, made from recipes followed by generations. Comedor Guadalajara has a great selection of catering options for every occasion, whether it’s a wedding, or an official gathering, or, an informal get together of friends and family. Each catering is personalized to the extent that the Chef is personally involved in helping decide the menu that would be the right fit for the occasion. In addition to the menu being customized for different tastes and numbers, it is accompanied by pints and quarts of your favorite Mexican sauces and sides, to make it more interesting and flavorful.

Each catering is different. The food in addition to being unique can have different option like one- two appetizers, two-three choices of entrees – non-vegetarian and vegetarian; three or more salad options; two desserts. The catering experts at Comodore Guadalajara decide on the menu for the catering keeping in mind the time of year, and the seasonal items and ingredients available for preparing the food. Not only does it make the food unique, seasonal and fresh, but also keeps it different than the set menu that is available at any run of the mill restaurants and fast food chains.

Menu planning for your catering service is perhaps the most fun and enjoyable part of any event. With the help of expert advice from the Chef and the catering experts you simply cannot go wrong. With authenticity of food being the best bet, your party would simply rock with the culinary delights and titillate the food palates. Bon appetite!

We decided on having a theme party with a difference. A party that would display authentic cuisine from a particular Region with distinct culture and flavor, along with the culture of the Region. We wanted it to be a unique party in every possible way -the event, the invites, and over and above the food that would keep you asking for more. What could be a better choice than authentic Mexican cuisine for the party? The diversity of Mexican food would add to the fun of the party. However, the challenge was to provide authentic food and not something, which was fusion cuisine that would pass of for Mexican food. Our search ended with Comedor Guadalajara – the restaurant that is well known for providing authentic cuisine down the generations, being run by a family known for their culinary distinctions.

Mexican food is zesty and a tad bit spicy for a regular palette. It was important to decide on the right spread of food from their menu. We decided to leave the choice of the spread to the Chef, who suggested on showcasing an entire seafood spread done up in Mexican style and taste. We made sure that the food provided would just not have the zesty Mexican flavor but would use the spices and the staples used in Mexican food like beans, corn rice amongst others.

It was also essential that the catering for the party in Phoenix would be done in purely Mexican style. After all it was all about the spirit that need to be highlighted and experienced by one and all. It was important on  deciding on the right caterer in Phoenix. We wanted someone who would care for our business and provide personalized attention to the food. After all, it was about a caterer in Phoenix who understood the essence of the party and would be proud to display their culinary talents that would keep the guests asking for more.

We were happy to choose Comedor Guadalajara, who not only provided the best authentic Mexican cuisine, but also did a wonderful job at catering for the party.

-A Happy Customer

Comedor Guadalajara, located in Phoenix, Arizona at 1830 S. Central, continues to enjoy great success after two generations of family tradition. The restaurant was started in 1968 by Magdaleno Sanchez and is now run by daughters Teresa Sanchez-Hiller and Maria Sanchez-Gortarez as well as son Antonio Sanchez.

When their father opened the restaurant over 35 years ago, they had a four person team but have now grown to an operation of more than 50 associates. Part of their success can be attributed to the exceptional staff and management’s philosophy of treating their associates like family. But, it’s the authenticity of the great food served that keeps diners coming back time and again.

Offering sonoran style cuisine from the North part of Mexico, their authentic Mexican food is true to its heritage. One of their signature plates, Parillada Grande “Mariscada” or Seafood Grill, includes whole fresh water fish, shrimp, slipper tail lobster, squid, calamari and mussels. If seafood is your craving, you will enjoy the abundance of these culinary delights from the sea. Other specialties include Carne Asada (grilled steak), Carnitas de Puerco (pork loin) and Chile Relleno (stuffed chile).

Breakfast comes with its own specialties. Traditional dishes such as menudo, a spicy breakfast soup, can be found on the weekends. And, their newly added special of “Huevos con Nopalitos” should not be missed. Don’t forget your appetite on this dining out because the portions are plentiful.

Shamrock Foods salutes Comedor Guadalajara as part of ongoing Delicious Destinations travels.

- Marcela Jacober