I'm not at all familiar phoenix but very familiar with food and good food is a real treat when you stumble across it, so stumble I did.
I disembarked the metro to attend the Art Walk unaware of my surrounding (Landlubbers wouldn't fully understand) only to round the corner and see Verde, OH happy Days.
I do my homework by reviewing the pulse of all things good, so weeks ago when I arrived back from sea it was Mexican I was Steering towards so with the help of yelp I knew then I had to try them out.
It was such good fortune that I had landed on that platform or who knows when I might pass this way again?
Matt (co-owner) greeted me poised to go the extra distance as I ask what he recommended (common amongst many in the BIZ) and when he said green chili pork I knew he must also be psychic for that is just what I had been thinking weeks earlier when first reading the reviews at yelp.
It was a true good eats experience from watching my meal's fresh tortillas being made, to savoring them along with small bite constructed combos alternating between the elements that made up my engaging heart's blissful delight. My tongue was experiencing such delights and my senses were as vast as the seven seas that I call home. The Verde isn't just a restaurant serving good food but a testament to the passion of its people and it shows by them going the extra distance, or maybe it was just the intoxication of the fresh wood fired tortillas and the great people gathered around that fire?
I'll be back since I know now how to get there. Phoenix is now just a little bit smaller and Verde is now a lot bigger since as a cook I'll take the fond memories with me while trying to recreate the dishes without their special flame on the vast ocean I call home.