Continuing on my friend's favorite Phoenix and surrounding area places is Ajo Al's. Apparently she had never been to this particular location though and freaked out about the seemingly real cowhide booths and chairs (she's a vegetarian). I actually kind of thought it was cool. I mean, if you're going to kill the animal for food, you might as well use everything.
I tried the chicken taco salad for lunch. The taco tostada was too stale but the chicken was well flavored. I actually liked the citrusy dressing. Other than some lettuce, chicken, beans and tomatoes, the taco salad seemed to be missing sour cream. I thought it was nice the restaurant was able to split the bill 6 ways (which we had not asked for but appreciated the effort).
I do give this restaurant the thumb's down for terrible salsa. Pace picante is better than what they tried to give us. And according to a friend, their "hot" salsa was not spicy as well. I found this very disappointing.