Rita's Mexican Food, Phoenix

Rita's hopes to transport diners to the lively, colorful streets of Mexico and south-of-the-border beaches with its authentic Mexican food and Mexican seafood. It serves Mexico City–style street tacos, sea-bass stews, and Sinaloa-inspired seafood cocktails that lack only the breezes and vacationing snowmen that come with visits to the beach. Its staffers pull carts topped with avocados tableside to create guacamole in front of hungry patrons and pour eight different handcrafted margaritas made with freshly squeezed juices and premium tequilas.