Touched By Fire

 

While our friends Marlaina & MacG were visiting for Christmas, we decided to go to BATA for Marlaina's birthday.  We always save the "foodie" restaurants for when they are here since they're really our only friends who appreciate this type of menu.

The restaurant has received quite a bit of press, being called one of the best restaurants in the West by Sunset magazine, which described it like this: "With a 400-mile sourcing rule, the restaurant uses micro-seasonal produce and local meats, with every dish containing an element that has been grilled, seared, smoked, charred, or cooked in the coals to create a new, fire-first Sonoran cuisine."

It was mentioned in Time magazine's "World's Great Places 2023" piece

And Bon Appétit magazine included it in its "50 Best New Restaurants 2022" list. 

That's the short list of places it was written about.  There are others. 

Everything was so good that we ate everything before I remembered to take a photo. But I got a photo of these pieces of braised beef, which ironically was the only thing that wasn't completely up to my standards—it was a little dry. But with a spoonful of the sauce it came with, it was actually quite delicious.

Overall, the dinner and evening were wonderful.  Celebrating a friend's birthday, being together for the holidays, trying a new restaurant....all on my list of things that constitute a good time.

Happy Birthday, Marlaina!

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