Late night nibbles in Tucson
- Updated
When you're out later in the evening and want to dine with friends, you have plenty of choices besides fast food.
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
- Updated
Sometimes, a run for the border (yeah, we’re looking at you, Taco Bell) just ain’t gonna cut it.
It’s late and you want food, and rolling through a drive-through just doesn’t feel … right. You want to cap off a special night out after a show or concert with an equally special meal.
Well guess what? You don’t have to settle for scattered, smothered and covered.
Not all eateries pull down the shades at 9 p.m. For your consideration, some late-night dining spots
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
- Updated
266 E. Congress St., 207-8201, hubdowntown.com
Prices: Entrees hit up to $23 while sandwiches, burgers and salads are mostly $14 and under.
Open daily until midnight. Diners can indulge in a reverse happy hour from 10 p.m. until midnight that includes half off of selected appetizers as well as a $2 break on beer, wine, house cocktails and well drinks.
The full menu is available and — for those of you who don’t think a meal is complete without dessert — so is everything at the ice cream counter. Hub recently rolled out its fall menu with heartier fare like the Hub Shank, an eight-hour braised pork shank accompanied by green chile and caramelized onion au gratin, apple bourbon bacon jam and fried shoestring onions.
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
- Updated
2905 E. Skyline Drive in La Encantada, 615-3970, rasushi.com
Prices: Reverse happy hour starts at 10 p.m. with specials on drinks and select menu items, some sushi and appetizers range from $3.49-$8.99.
Open until midnight daily. For late-night nibbles, you can’t go wrong with garlic edamame, which are soybeans gussied up in a garlicky butter sauce. Popular rolls include the Viva Las Vegas, which is artfully topped with crispy slices of lotus root, and the Tootsy Maki, which aside from being stuffed with a mix of crab, shrimp and cucumber, is just flat-out fun to say.
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
- Updated
1813 S. Fourth Ave., 622-5081, minidito.net
Prices: The majority of menu items are in the $7 and $8 range, with combination plates ringing in around $11.
Open until 10:30 p.m. Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and until 2 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays. You’ve got the full menu of classics to choose from — burros, chimis, tostadas and tacos — but look no further than the trio of green chile enchiladas, stuffed with ooey-gooey melted cheese and slathered in a mild green chile sauce. Truly comfort on a plate.
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
- Updated
2564 E. Grant Road, 323-7739, kingfishertucson.com
Prices: $6-$30, with most items under $18.
Open until midnight daily. The late-night menu will not disappoint — everything from fresh oysters to salads to baby back pork ribs, which are fall-off-the-bone tender and brushed with a not-too-sweet prickly pear sauce. The hamburgers here are among our favorites in town, and the ever-changing offerings of desserts by pastry chef Marianne Bane cannot be denied.
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
- Updated
6320 E. Tanque Verde Road, 296-1631, jonathanscork.com
Prices: $4.50-$8.50.
Open until midnight Thursdays-Saturdays. Special late night menu available from 10 p.m. until closing. When it comes to east-side eats, night owls can’t get enough of Jonathan’s best-sellers, which are the food equivalents of a favorite blankie: mac and cheese, a French dip and sautéed mushrooms.
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
- Updated
2200 E. Elm St., 325-1541, arizonainn.com
Prices: Appetizers and shared plates start at $8; entrees range from $16-$23.
Open until midnight daily. The full menu is served in the bar and patio, and it pretty much covers everything. You’ll find crackling balsamic-glazed Brussels sprouts served with savory goat cheese panna cotta to salads and burgers and even duck and waffles and braised short rib pho.
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
- Updated
4340 N. Campbell Ave. in St. Phillips Plaza, 329-8575, uniontucson.com
Prices: $4-$30, with the bulk of items under $19.
You have until 2 a.m. each day of the week to catch some of the tasty dishes at this gastropub. The late-night menu is available 11 p.m.-1 a.m., and you won’t find tired bar food among the choices. You can indulge in sliders, cheese boards, greens, ramen and sandwiches, including Union’s Chicken BLT, with grilled, juicy chicken and crispy bacon neatly packed between slices of ciabatta. That’s worth staying up late for.
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
- Updated
2526 E Grant Road, 382-9255, dantesfireaz.com
Prices: $6-$27, with most offerings under the $20 mark.
Dante’s full menu is offered daily until 2 a.m. You can go light, daintily eating a crabapple salad, make it a bit heavier and fiery with the Thai curry shrimp (a favorite, we admit), or full-out dinner with something like a chicken marsala served with a risotto tickled with truffle. Keep in mind there are happy hour food specials between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. You could eat more for less. Who doesn’t like that?
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
- Updated
6453 N. Oracle Road, 797-1233, theparishtucson.com
Prices: $5-$15.
The Parish is open until midnight Tuesdays through Saturdays, and after 10 p.m. the late night menu kicks in. You can sip on a bowl of gumbo, chow down on the tasty Parish burger or indulge in trout smoked over pecan wood. That late menu is small, but choice.
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
- Updated
902 E. Broadway, 622-5100, welcomediner.net
Prices: Late-night menu (midnight-2 a.m.) tops out at $13; most entrees on regular menu (available until midnight) are under $22.
The new-to-Tucson restaurant is open until 2 a.m. and often has lines to get in. No wonder: It serves big biscuits so light you’ve gotta tie them down. Silky country gravy that has never seen a can. Fried chicken that is crisp and moist the night you eat it — and the next day after spending time in the fridge. The late-night menu is served after midnight.
The fried chicken dinner is off the menu by then, but the Big Jim is available — it’s that golden chicken matched up with gravy, Cheddar cheese and bacon and hugged on both ends by the biscuit. That’ll soak up a multitude of sins from earlier in the evening.
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
Sometimes, a run for the border (yeah, we’re looking at you, Taco Bell) just ain’t gonna cut it.
It’s late and you want food, and rolling through a drive-through just doesn’t feel … right. You want to cap off a special night out after a show or concert with an equally special meal.
Well guess what? You don’t have to settle for scattered, smothered and covered.
Not all eateries pull down the shades at 9 p.m. For your consideration, some late-night dining spots
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
266 E. Congress St., 207-8201, hubdowntown.com
Prices: Entrees hit up to $23 while sandwiches, burgers and salads are mostly $14 and under.
Open daily until midnight. Diners can indulge in a reverse happy hour from 10 p.m. until midnight that includes half off of selected appetizers as well as a $2 break on beer, wine, house cocktails and well drinks.
The full menu is available and — for those of you who don’t think a meal is complete without dessert — so is everything at the ice cream counter. Hub recently rolled out its fall menu with heartier fare like the Hub Shank, an eight-hour braised pork shank accompanied by green chile and caramelized onion au gratin, apple bourbon bacon jam and fried shoestring onions.
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
2905 E. Skyline Drive in La Encantada, 615-3970, rasushi.com
Prices: Reverse happy hour starts at 10 p.m. with specials on drinks and select menu items, some sushi and appetizers range from $3.49-$8.99.
Open until midnight daily. For late-night nibbles, you can’t go wrong with garlic edamame, which are soybeans gussied up in a garlicky butter sauce. Popular rolls include the Viva Las Vegas, which is artfully topped with crispy slices of lotus root, and the Tootsy Maki, which aside from being stuffed with a mix of crab, shrimp and cucumber, is just flat-out fun to say.
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
1813 S. Fourth Ave., 622-5081, minidito.net
Prices: The majority of menu items are in the $7 and $8 range, with combination plates ringing in around $11.
Open until 10:30 p.m. Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and until 2 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays. You’ve got the full menu of classics to choose from — burros, chimis, tostadas and tacos — but look no further than the trio of green chile enchiladas, stuffed with ooey-gooey melted cheese and slathered in a mild green chile sauce. Truly comfort on a plate.
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
2564 E. Grant Road, 323-7739, kingfishertucson.com
Prices: $6-$30, with most items under $18.
Open until midnight daily. The late-night menu will not disappoint — everything from fresh oysters to salads to baby back pork ribs, which are fall-off-the-bone tender and brushed with a not-too-sweet prickly pear sauce. The hamburgers here are among our favorites in town, and the ever-changing offerings of desserts by pastry chef Marianne Bane cannot be denied.
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
6320 E. Tanque Verde Road, 296-1631, jonathanscork.com
Prices: $4.50-$8.50.
Open until midnight Thursdays-Saturdays. Special late night menu available from 10 p.m. until closing. When it comes to east-side eats, night owls can’t get enough of Jonathan’s best-sellers, which are the food equivalents of a favorite blankie: mac and cheese, a French dip and sautéed mushrooms.
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
2200 E. Elm St., 325-1541, arizonainn.com
Prices: Appetizers and shared plates start at $8; entrees range from $16-$23.
Open until midnight daily. The full menu is served in the bar and patio, and it pretty much covers everything. You’ll find crackling balsamic-glazed Brussels sprouts served with savory goat cheese panna cotta to salads and burgers and even duck and waffles and braised short rib pho.
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
4340 N. Campbell Ave. in St. Phillips Plaza, 329-8575, uniontucson.com
Prices: $4-$30, with the bulk of items under $19.
You have until 2 a.m. each day of the week to catch some of the tasty dishes at this gastropub. The late-night menu is available 11 p.m.-1 a.m., and you won’t find tired bar food among the choices. You can indulge in sliders, cheese boards, greens, ramen and sandwiches, including Union’s Chicken BLT, with grilled, juicy chicken and crispy bacon neatly packed between slices of ciabatta. That’s worth staying up late for.
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
2526 E Grant Road, 382-9255, dantesfireaz.com
Prices: $6-$27, with most offerings under the $20 mark.
Dante’s full menu is offered daily until 2 a.m. You can go light, daintily eating a crabapple salad, make it a bit heavier and fiery with the Thai curry shrimp (a favorite, we admit), or full-out dinner with something like a chicken marsala served with a risotto tickled with truffle. Keep in mind there are happy hour food specials between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. You could eat more for less. Who doesn’t like that?
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
6453 N. Oracle Road, 797-1233, theparishtucson.com
Prices: $5-$15.
The Parish is open until midnight Tuesdays through Saturdays, and after 10 p.m. the late night menu kicks in. You can sip on a bowl of gumbo, chow down on the tasty Parish burger or indulge in trout smoked over pecan wood. That late menu is small, but choice.
- By Kathleen Allen and Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star
902 E. Broadway, 622-5100, welcomediner.net
Prices: Late-night menu (midnight-2 a.m.) tops out at $13; most entrees on regular menu (available until midnight) are under $22.
The new-to-Tucson restaurant is open until 2 a.m. and often has lines to get in. No wonder: It serves big biscuits so light you’ve gotta tie them down. Silky country gravy that has never seen a can. Fried chicken that is crisp and moist the night you eat it — and the next day after spending time in the fridge. The late-night menu is served after midnight.
The fried chicken dinner is off the menu by then, but the Big Jim is available — it’s that golden chicken matched up with gravy, Cheddar cheese and bacon and hugged on both ends by the biscuit. That’ll soak up a multitude of sins from earlier in the evening.
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