GLBT-Friendly Restaurants
Searching for a quiet table with a view, something more lively, or even someone to cater your event? Tucson is known for its fabulous Mexican and Southwestern cuisine, but we have so much more. Below you will find a list of gay-friendly restaurants and caterers. To see a wider selection of everything Tucson has to offer, see our Culinary section.
Blue House Catering, Inc.
Blue House Catering is tucson's most comprehensive full-service off-site caterer. Innovative, taste-driven menu selections for all budgets and event need levels. Drop-off or staffed catering service available, boxed lunches to black-tie affairs. Professional, creative, thorough, service-oriented.
Café Poca Cosa
Chef and owner Suzana Davila creates unique, imaginative Mexican cuisine in her casual, upscale downtown bistro - Café Poca Cosa. The fare at gay-friendly Poca Cosa combines a wide array of ingredients and flavors from Mexico to craft original, memorable meals. The spontaneous menu changes twice daily. Guests can partake of unusual preparations and delicious mole sauces.
Colors Food & Spirits
Colors Food & Spirits is a modern gay eatery located in midtown Tucson. The establishment features modern décor, an attractive bar area and a wide-ranging menu with friendly service.
Delectables Restaurant & Catering
Delectables Restaurant & Catering is a favorite destination restaurant for Tucsonans and visitors alike. We offer Pastas, Salads, Sandwiches, Burgers, Appetizers. Full Bar, Wine a specialty, crème brulee, chocolate mousse, flourless chocolate cake, carrot cake and more.
Enoteca Pizzeria Wine Bar
Bringing simple, authentic Neapolitan Italian cuisine to downtown Tucson, Enoteca offers fresh, creative dishes and a wide array of wines. This gay-friendly "Tucson Original" restaurant boasts dark wood and metal décor, a changing menu of delicious pizza and Italian dishes, and great prices.
Feast
The chef at this gay-friendly eatery creates interesting, eclectic dishes. Feast's changing menu has boasted the likes of Mixed Green Salad, White Gazpacho, Duck Tamales and Chile Relleno, Mashed Potato Tacos, and the popular Feast Grilled Cheese. Try the Seared Mahi Mahi or New York Grilled Steak, and finish with dessert such as Roasted Strawberry Shortcake and homemade ice cream.
Janos, Jbar, Downtown Kitchen & Cocktails
Janos features French-inspired southwestern cuisine using produce grown by a network of gardeners, freshest seafood from Sea of Cortez, with other ingredients flown in from around the world. Located in the Catalina Foothills, Jbar is a latin grill which is the earthy, rowdier cousin to Janos. Finally, DOWNTOWN Kitchen + Cocktails features innovative farm-to-table cooking with killer cocktails set in a trendy, modern atmosphere in downtown Tucson.
Mother Hubbard's Restaurant
This gay-owned, low-key Tucson restaurant offers big portions and low prices, and specializes in delicious breakfasts. Try some eggs, hot coffee, enormous pancakes, or the cheapest breakfast special in town. Mother Hubbard's warms the stomach and heart, and offers a free, weekly Wednesday breakfast for people living with HIV.
Revolutionary Grounds Books and Coffee
Revolutionary Grounds Books and Coffee provides a safe space where people of color, women, men, youth, and member of the LGBTQ community can come together without fear to talk, plan and dream of a better world for all people. The bookstore carries a range of progressive/leftist books, periodicals, and accessories. The coffee shop serves coffees, mochas, teas, smoothies and a selection of sandwiches, salads and pastries.
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What's New
July 2011 - Wine Survey Released by Arizona Office of Tourism Provides Valuable Insight into Growing Industry.
Tucson's premiere wine and food event, the Tucson Culinary Festival, takes place in October at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort.
Travel Channel's Adam Richman came to Tucson to shoot a couple episodes of Man vs. Food! Watch the A Side of City segment on 4th Avenue on Travel Channel's website, and watch Adam devour a Sonoran Dog (left).
The March 2011 issue of Asian Restaurant News named our own Harvest Moon Chinese Cuisine as one of the Nation's Top 100 Chinese Restaurants.
Cooking Light magazine named Tucson as one of the top 10 cities that best fits their philosophy to eat smart, be fit, and live well.
Tucson's El Charro Mexican Cafe was named one of the "21 Most Legendary Restaurants in America" by Gourmet Magazine.
El Charro Mexican Cafe was named one of America's 50 Food Icons by NRN Magazine.
For the inside scoop on the Tucson food scene, visit the Arizona Daily Star's food section.
See the list of restaurants that were voted as Tucson favorites in the Tucson Lifestyle Magazine 2010 Culinary Awards.






