2 Best Restaurants in Lake Havasu City, Northwest Arizona

This always-hopping taquería in the nondescript Basha's Shopping Center serves reliably good Mexican food. It's not fancy, but the clean and comfortable short-order joint turns out tasty tacos, burritos, tostadas, enchiladas, and taquitos served with chicken, grilled fish, carne asada, and other meat and veggie options. Six different salsas at the salsa bar add a bit of spice to the mix.

Culinary Institute of America trained chef Joe Mizzoni crafts authentic Mexican street foods like cochinita pibil tacos and beef birria and passes them through a window to patio diners at Lake Havasu Cigars. Traditional methods like nixtamalization---the process of treating heirloom corn with lime, cooking it, drying it, and grinding it into flour---make this casual eatery a local favorite.