Reforma's pato dish features guajillo chile duck confit in a chocolatey mole Poblano sauce, $22.

Okay, this upscale Mexican restaurant at St. Philip's Plaza technically opened in December of 2014. But it felt wrong to leave this black beauty off any list of best dishes in Tucson. Reforma's mole de pato is a tour de force of meats, potatoes and plantains steeped in a nutty mole sprinkled with white sesame seeds and lush green onions. Spear the whole duck leg with your fork and rip off its moist meat, stuffing the chunks into one of Reforma's housemade flour tortillas. The chorizo, you want to eat by itself. When you puncture the taught skin, little crumbles of spiced pork fall away into the molten brew below. Scandalous. 4310 N. Campbell Ave., 520-867-4134

   

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