La Santisima

Name: La Santisima
Address: 4117 N 16th St, Phoenix, Arizona, 85016, US
Telephone: (602) 254-6330
Price range: $$
Rating: 4.40

Mexican restaurant, Restaurant, Taco restaurant

Location: 4117 N 16th St, Phoenix, AZ 85016, United States
Phone: (602) 254-6330
Price: $$

Opening hours

Sunday: 11 am-8 pm
Monday: 11 am-9 pm
Tuesday: 11 am-9 pm
Wednesday: 11 am-9 pm
Thursday: 11 am-9 pm
Friday: 11 am-11 pm
Saturday: 11 am-11 pm

Food & drink

Vibe

Guacamole

Burrito

Tortilla soup

Salsa

Michelada

Horchata

Margarita

By owner

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Reviews

The best mexican place I have ever been to! Such a large and interesting menu, with so many amazingly deliscious dishes! And 14 different salsas in the salsa bar that you can help yoursekf to (if you're dining in the restaurant), with some REALLY interesting options, like pecan, peanut, salsa macha, pibil, and some interesting fruit salsas.
Some great cocktail options as well.
We all loved this place so much! And the decor is as great as the food!

Vegan/ vegetarians - so many incredible choices.
Stunning art to enjoy in the walls.
Wonderful staff happy to chat about Mexican culture.
Wow , we felt so lucky to find this place.
The courtyard would be stunning on a warm evening. I'll be back next time I'm in Phoenix

This is an experience.
The first impressions are a mix: dated parking lot, but giant statue outside of a equally giant door.
Upon entering the restaurant, you are immediately hit with the strong smell of incense.
I found this to be Urías and distracting, considering most restaurants, want you to be greeted by the smell of their own food, and not distracted by incense. We went on a Tuesday night, and it was not busy at all, and were seated right away.
After the hard sell to purchase the overly expensive, and small in portion, guacamole, we just went with the chips and salsa.
The salsa bar is one of the highlights.
it is large, diverse, and eclectic.
Some of the highlights include strawberry, sesame, and guacamole.
We tried to sample a bit of each.
Unfortunately, the containers for the salsa are very small, so you don’t get a try a whole lot of anything, maybe two or three chips per, salsa container. Beyond the salsa, we got the Horchata, which they claim to be phoenixes best.
It was overly spicy, and filled 2/3 full of ice.
I thought it was way too expensive for the amount received. We of course ordered the quesadillas.
These are extremely large, and so we only ordered two for three of us.
We ended up taking half of one of those home.
They are delicious, and different than any other I have had before, and the fillings were quite good.
Unfortunately, the quesadilla is dominated by the corn“tortilla”, with only a third of the dish made up of filling. I would like to give them more stars, but the distraction of Incense, the hard incessant sell on the guacamole, and the limited value of the dishes, dropped it from a four to a three star experience.