Casa Denogean - Superior, Arizona

Revised:  September 9, 2018.  This restaurant shuttered for good in approximately 2016.

During the 4th Annual Prickly Pear Festival Irma Heasley and I ate lunch at this small homemade Mexican food restaurant.

It is small but was packed and that’s how we knew the food was going to be good..and it was .  We ordered off the special festival menu…and chose Green Chile con carne and Nopales Combo Plate served with rice and refried beans.  OMG!  Green chile con carne was chunks of beef (like a pot roast) in a sauce of nopales (prickly pear) and topped with green chopped chiles.  The beef was cooked to perfection…mostly like simmered for hours in the sauce.  That came with one huge flour tortilla.  Irma and I split and order…and they gave us an extra tortilla.  We had the most wonderful young man as our server…just waited on must as if we were the most special   people in the whole room.  I ate my half in my favorite style…just ripping off parts of my tortilla and using it to pick up the meat sauces…beans and rice.

We were served homamde chips and salsa before out main entree arrived.  The salsa was delicious and served to us in a tall plastic bottle.  We took a chip...squeezed on the salsa...what a novel way of serving the salsa...and no salsa was wasted...and the remaining could be served to another table after a quick refill.  We like the idea...saves on a lot of waste.

Of course I couldn’t pass on the Prickly Pear Cupcake for dessert.  It was served in a glass, long stemmed dessert cup…vanilla ice cream in the bottom with the cupcake on top of ice cream (the cupcake tasted as if it was made from the pad of the prickly pear…and I could see the small pieces of pulp…that was covered with whipped cream..and then prickly pear sauce was guzzled over the top of the whipped cream.  Great lunch..and now I have two favorite places to eat in Superior, Arizona…Porter’s Bar and Grill and Casa Denogean.

Green Chile Con Carne and Napoles Combo Plate

This picture is rotated to the right but won't transfer in that position so please forgive me posting this but you must see the delicious Prickly Pear Cupcake that we ordered for dessert.