Crossroads

My husband and I just shared shrimp fajitas for lunch… wonderful ! Green, red, yellow peppers and onions cooked just right. shrimp seasoned perfectly… we even enjoyed the flour tortillas. Will definitely return…

Very casual environment. Many long tables which would be great for large groups. Went during happy hour, so we partook in the $ 2 margaritas and $ 1 beers. We both ordered chicken enchilladas, which were tasty: just enough sauce and not too much cheese. Salsa with chips tasted homemade and had a nice kick to it. Overall, good value for the cost.

This is one of my go to Mexican restaurants. It is delicious but also much l as busy that some of the other Mexican places around town.
They give you unlimited chips and salsa (made in house). I usually get the chicken enchiladas because they are delicious and they make their own enchilada sauce. I would definitely recommend this place if you are looking to get away from the crowd and the long waits! They also have a mariachi band some nights!
Service has always been good here!

Chips were served with fresh lime along with a really good spicy salsa. Chile relleno was average but topped with a very good rich red chile sauce. 3 taco meal, barbacoa, lengua and cabeza. Each prepared quite differently, all good. Barbacoa a little oily. Still worth talking tne leftovers home. Servers very nice, good attention. Would come back.

We moved to Tucson from California and visited dozens of Mexican restaurants to finally find something we were happy with. I love the décor of Crossroads, the food is fantastic, I love the live music from the blind man. He is so talented and it’s so refreshing to see. One of my favorite meals is the fajitas, or the buffet. Great place, great atmosphere

This place has a great happy hour drink special omg $ 1 beers like great beers. example dos xx and tecate cheaper then a soda. I ordered the dozen oyster and a burrito a red chili chimichanga style omg yes I was really hungry. Every thing was delicious and the service makes it better. The best part the have a great deal on living social u pay $ 12 and get $ 22 of food. So if you are in the neighborhood this place worth a stop.

Kids love to come and get the enchiladas, Sonoran hot dogs. Love stopping in here on our way into Tucson.

Food was wonderful! Service was top notch. We went there because we had a living social discount. We will most certainly go back! I can’t believe I’m a native tucsonian who loves Mexican food and I’ve never been there. Best place I’ve been in awhile! Try it!

We attended this years Salsa and Tequila challenge and was introduced to Crossroads.
The owner and her family were pleasant and happy to be at the event. I was incredibly impressed with the Tomatillo Salsa. I believe it even won an award. I knew I had to get to their restaurant. The owner has an incredible smile and has great eye contact.
We arrived for lunch yesterday. Its a hike from Oro Valley but truly worth the drive. Upon entering the restaurant I knew it was going to be special. The atmosphere is pleasant, laid back and happy. We decided on the lunch buffet. Its been what I have been looking for in Tucson since I moved here almost two years ago. The food is a great big hug of comfort. This food is made with love. Its not pretentious. There is no one showing off knife skills. Its not trendy. I can just picture someones grandmother cooking in the kitchen. There is no shortage of good mexican food in Tucson. However, what is missing in my opinion is originality. The food may taste different at various restaurants but it all looks the same. The food at Crossroads was about achieving flavor. I really felt like I was at grandmothers for sunday supper. Its comfort food at its best.
This is not your restaurant if you are looking for how food is suppose to look. This is a restaurant about how good the food tastes. I wish this was in my neighborhood. We will go back and bring family and friends. Its the kind of restaurant you want to promote. We are losing a lot of home cooking restaurants. This restaurant has been around over 80 years. Give it a try. Bring someone you love and share the comfort.

Hands down best Mexican food in Tucson. Try the carne seca burro enchilada style. Also their shrimp gismo is amazing. Campechana is top notch

Always excellent. Prices are reasonable. Service is sometimes a little slow when they are busy but not extreme. Food is always good. The servers are always pleasent. It is definitely worth the stop.

«You won’t leave on an empty stomach»
«We guarantee the best Mexican cuisine-​north of south of the Arizona border»
Reading this from their website, my expectations went through the roof.
Crossroads is located on 4^th Ave near 36^th Street. It is literally next to the Greyhound Park. The restaurant can serve large groups of people but parking is fairly limited; few spots in the front and slightly more but narrow spots in the back. Crossroads doesn’t want customers waiting long before being seated; a good sign of what is to come.
Service is highly commendable. Every employee in the front of the house is smiling, making jokes, and most importantly taking care of their customers. Drinks refilled at the right moments, chips brought out when running low, and fresh salsa replaced when the bowls are about empty. This definitely adds to the experience at Crossroads.
And now for the part you’ve been reading for, the food. I’ll just go through the online thesaurus to describe the various foods I’ve tried at Crossroads:
1. Chips and salsa: flavorful
2. Beans and rice: yummy
3. Potato tacos: piquant
4. Huevos Rancheros: luscious
5. Nopalitos: savory
6. Guacamole: heavenly
If you are wondering about the portions, it was very plentiful. They are definitely worth the price paid for an awesome meal. Also, breakfast is served all day.
I’m deciding to give this place 5 starts because I believe this is the best Mexican restaurant along historic 4^th Avenue. I don’t know about it being the best all-​time (technically speaking north and south of any border is the entire world), but Crossroads is a place to go for authentic Sonoran Mexican food.

It’s decent. The fajitas are tasty, but seemed pre-​made. Probably a little too pricey for the product.

Crossroads is South Tucson’s best kept secret, at least around where I live (north Midtown), a neighborhood where Guadalajara reigns supreme and anything else is blasphemy. Now South Tucson certainly has some excellent tacos, Tacos Apson and Taqueria Pico De Gallo come to mind. However, sometimes when you’re meeting family or friends for a dinner out, its nice to meet at a more comfortable, sit-​down Mexican restaurant.
Crossroads has an excellent atmosphere, with mariachi on the weekends, delicious/​spicy homemade salsa, and seemingly classic, homemade décor. Drinks at happy hour are incredibly reasonable, as are some of the appetizers. Even if you’re just looking for a place to hang your hat, have a couple beers/​margaritas, and maybe a queso fundido, Crossroads will fill that need without breaking the bank.
The service is usually pretty good, although sometimes its on the slow side. That’s really my only gripe. I’ve only been here for dinner but in my experience if you have nowhere to be, Crossroads is perfect in every other way. The wait staff are friendly and attentive, they’re happy to accomodate changes without any fuss and are great at making recommendations if you’re not sure what to get.
The food I’ve had is excellent. I can’t speak for the tacos as I usually steer toward the burritos, enchiladas, and messy plates that are usually difficult to eat comfortably at taco stands. Both the red and green chile pork are very well done, and in my opinion the green enchilada sauce is the clear winner. My favorite addition? Ask for green chiles on anything and they’re actual green chiles, cut into strips and roasted, not this canned/​diced liquid swill most places resort to.
They also have a pretty extensive assortment of mariscos on the back of the menu, though I’ve only had the shrimp. I’m still a bit wary of eating much seafood in the desert, but the shrimp was delicious.
Overall
Crossroads is one of the best sit-​down, Mexican restaurants in town with a wide variety of options, some more authentic than you’d find most other places. I’m not exactly sure if its worth the hike depending on where you’re from, but if you find yourself on the southside look no further.

The hubby and I bought a Living Social for this place with the intention of using it during one of his lunch hours since he works nearby. We went to use it on a Tuesday afternoon, and to my surprise the place was only half full considering it was right at noon. It took awhile to get seated and even longer to get our order in.
We briefly considered the buffet until we noticed a handwritten sign near the buffet that said no coupons with buffet. I figured they would consider our Living Social voucher a coupon so we went with the menu. The waitress pointed out the lunch special sign indicating the daily lunch specials for $ 5.99. That seemed like an excellent deal so I went with the green chile chimi and my husband chose another chimi off the regular menu.
The food was very good, I especially liked the rice and beans. The green chile was very mild compared to what I am used to as a native New Mexican, but that’s pretty typical here in Tucson. My husband enjoyed his chimi as well. The portions were large enough that we needed boxes for the leftovers. We wanted to order some sopapillas but our waitress was not around after dropping off our food which meant our glasses were never refilled either.
Finally we flagged her down, but by that point we were already late so we asked for the sopapillas to go, a box, and our check. Once at the register to pay, the cashier told us that they were having issues with their credit card machine after she ran our card so no receipt could be given. It’s a good thing I had some cash on hand to leave a tip for our slow server because I certainly didn’t feel comfortable with indicating an amount to the cashier without the ability to sign or get a receipt.
Once I got home I was bummed to open my to go container of sopapillas and find they were cinnamon sugar with syrup instead of honey. I wish the menu would have indicated that they came this way so I could’ve requested they be plain with either a honey or caramel dip.
Overall, the food and value were great, but it’s the super slow mediocre service which will make a return visit unlikely. An hour and 40 minutes for lunch is just unacceptable and the reason why I can only give this place two stars.

Uf. We came here with a Living Social, and had decent expectations after reading the reviews. The décor was busy and dusty and the restaurant had some odd mariachi singers going table to table, which mashed up with the music on the loudspeaker made for a terrifying tone-​deaf experience. Anyway, we had our order taken promptly by a cheery waiter and our food came out quickly. I ordered a carne asada burrito and my wife had cheese enchiladas. They brought her the wrong order of enchiladas but quickly rectified that by bringing another enchilada and promising there would not be an extra charge. Unfortunately the food was lukewarm and mediocre. With all the awesome food in Tucson, I’m confused as to why this place still exists. The other reviews about less-​than-​fresh ingredients are sadly correct. While we appreciated the service, then food just doesn’t merit a return visit.

You ready for heart-​thumping, ear piercing, holiday-​inspired, Latin-​fusion Christmas music to go with your Sunday brunch?
Step right in.
Good. God. That was a first.
Usually the live DJ might be spinning a mix of what generally sounds like mariachi, modern banda, tejano and norteño. But, no, not today. We were listening to what sounded like a pimped out version of «Holly Jolly Christmas» with several more trumpets than necessary.
But I so enjoy this place.
I have been a patron of Crossroads since I was, well, a college student. The prices are beyond reasonable and you get a nice sampling of food. Be forewarned: the parking lot seems like it was built before vehicles were made to carry 15 people at once.
It’s a great place for families, and families will frequent in large numbers. So will tourists, probably because it’s can so easily be described kitsch. The interior decorating is bright and busy. You’ll even find booth seats made out of what appears to be part of reused, antique wagon wheels.
I would say the buffet is the best way to go – but take note and call in advance. Word was that the buffet ended at 2 p.m., but it had ended well before noon on this particular visit.
The breakfast buffet has a mix of standard Mexican and American fare. You’ll find scrambled eggs, chilaquiles, bacon, sausage, refried beans, tortillas, a salsa station, fruits and a sample of other offerings. For lunch, they serve the likes of salad, tacos, chimichangas, tortas and will usually have a couple of soups, including menudo.
I’ll call it: It’s a tourist trap. It’s true! There are a number of Mexican and Mexico-​inspired restaurants in Tucson of the same rate that fare much better than Crossroads; restaurants whose food is fresher and comes with more flavor, including Mosaic Café, Mi Nidito and *some* Mariscos Chihuahua locations.
But I imagine I will always return to Crossroads.

BAIT AND SWITCH FRAUD ALERT
Crossroads restaurant would not honor their Livingsocial voucher for the buffet. The manager was hiding in the back and would not come out.
The voucher does have exclusions; but, the buffet is not one of them and there is no signage citing this exclusion in the restaurant.
UNACCEPTABLE
We decided to purchase the voucher because we had not tried Crossroads before. We thought that if the food was not that great then it would be okay because it wouldn’t hurt the wallet as much as if were paying the full price.
Their food does not taste good at all.
They recieved our money that they would not have if it were not for THEIR FRAUDULENT AD.
GOOD TRICK ON YOUR CUSTOMERS, CROSSROADS!
The buffet itself is in a very dark room and it is difficult to see exactly what you are putting on your plate. The tortillas are either falling apart or stuck together and the serving spoons are very sticky.
Rigo’s across the street is much better and I believe it is less expensive.
One star to the apologetic waitstaff.

An authentic casual setting located not too far from the airport /​South Tucson. After picking my husband up at the airport, we Unilocaled to find somewhere new in an area of town we typically don’t go. I read happy hour went until 7, but when we sat down at 6:30, the server said it ended at 6– oh well, the margs were only $ 5. I had a prickly pear margarita which was good, but preferred the one my husband ordered (1800 Cadillac with a spicy rim). We were severed complimentary chips and salsa which were very good. I ordered the 3 chicken enchiladas ($ 6.99– see picture), not the order with beans and rice. They were exactly what I expected, good, not great, but hit the spot. My husband ordered the carne aseca plate, which he also said was good. The service was good, however, please note you have to go to the hostess stand to get your bill and pay (we waited awhile in our booth until we realized this :)
At the end of the day, its a fine authentic Mexican restaurant in South Tucson, but I am still searching for my favorite… with a list to come!

I’ve always been quite pleased with this place. I haven’t been in a while, a few years, when I came for the buffet with co-​workers. This time around I visited around 1 for lunch with my dad, and were the only customers in here. The lunch specials were what we both ordered, I had the red chili chimichanga, and he had the cheese enchiladas. They come with fresh beans and rice. And with chips and slightly hot salsa, it was a delicious meal. I found the red chili nearly perfect and finished it off. My dad was full and didn’t get through all of the enchiladas, so it’s quite filling.
Good service, tasty. Prices seem slightly high but you’re getting seafood here and good food. Lots of fun looking drink specials too.