The Parish

Here in Tuscon on a business engagement & were searching for cuisines that are from our home state. Unilocal’d the parish and decided to give it a try. Had the BBQ Pigtails as an appetizer and the Drunken Angel and Johnny Steak & Fries as entrées. Let me tell ya, they were all AWESOME. We mentioned to our waiter that we were from Louisiana & were looking for some good home cooked food! He actually told the owner we were there & he came out to personally meet us, being that he was also from the Baton Rouge area. That made our visit a much more enjoyable one & we’re looking foward to dining again before our stay is over. Good food & staff with the Louisiana hospitality in Arizona!

Visited here so many times and every time is a pleasure to dine in. Food is tasteful with very good service. Best place to lunch with family or friends. Best value for $$$.High class food for sure.

Great service and good food. I feel duped after calling to ask for happy hour specials and discovering ion arrival that their $ 5 appetizers are just the normal everyday price. Pretty cheap. Food was good, but didn’t blow me away. Not bad but there are so many GREAT places I probably won’t be back.

One of my very favorite places! The ambiance, the friendly staff, the great food. Liquor a infused with different flavors, craft beers on tap, oh, and did I mention the food? Bacon popcorn. Wha?! Goat cheese chili relleno! Smoked Angel, the ginormous pork chop… So hard to pick just one!

Yummy lunch and drinks today more than better service and truly a good experience I’ll be back!

The chef here has a real talent. I enjoyed the atmosphere. Fish and chips were the best I have had in AZ. Yay! They don’t have a great selection of on tap beers but I guess I can accept that ;)

Have been wanting to stop by here… Popped in on a Sunday evening much to my surprise Andy Hersey was performing!
Great drinks, wonderful food…
I had chile rellenos filled with goat cheese and perfectly spicy edamame!
This place could only exist in Tucson. An incredible combination of Mexican and New Orleans cuisine.
Vegetarian items and gluten free items are noted.
I had the Doctor for a beverage and enjoyed it immensely. Many other grand choices.
Happy hour Monday through Friday 3 to 6 p.m.
I can’t wait to come back!

Very nice setting and soft music playing. The pasta was delicious! My favorite entrée. My husband ordered the NY strip and it was so tender and juicy. Will definitely dine there when we are back in Tucson!

This is now a new favorite place for me, everything about it was fabulous from the décor and artwork on the walls from local artists, the cute bar and chandeliers, and intimate candlelit tables. I saw what kind of place we were in the moment we walked up to the door, and one of the waiters smiled and waited to open the door for us, Thomas ended up being our waiter for night, and he was fantastic! He took the time to explain the history and background of the drinks to us, reminding us that we were in a New Orleans style restaurant. The chef came out and complimented us on our selections, and asked how everything was, and the food — omg the food! I had the gumbo with hushpuppies, and it was soo amazing. The hushpuppies were light and not overly battered, and the gumbo had nice sized chunks of andoullie sausage. I tried my friends trout and collard greens, and it flavored so well — just perfect! My husband is hard to please when it comes to burgers, and he had no complaints! One of the best burgers he’s had — it was the Parish burger. I want to go back and try their worlds crispiest fish and chips, and some of the amazing sounding appetizers — it was hard to choose something because everything on the menu sounded good! I also liked the fact that the menu was in big print, many times in a dark restaurant, I have a hard time reading the menu, but I had not problem! I can’t wait to run back to the Parish!

First visit last night and was great! Found here on Unilocal.Bartender Amber provided an excellent recommendation of the Drunken Angel. I also had to try the bacon popcorn based on reviews here. The beer selection was more than expected with plenty of local options. Two tv’s in the bar to watch a game. Would definitely go back again.

Would like to give 3.5 stars but I’ll round up to 4 based on service and the drink menu. Had a group from work head to The Parish tonight and had great service with a big group from our server Jill. There’s a good beer list and a lot of great specialty drinks, I had La Verdad which I’d highly recommend –reminiscent of a Moscow mule with tequila.
Our table tried a few of the appetizers. I got the fresh oysters, which came with a really great smoked tomato sauce. They were mild but tasty. Other big hits at the table were the bacon popcorn and the frog legs.
Our entrees is where things seemed to miss the mark for the group. I had the trout which was good-​okay, if a little bland. I had to salt it, and I can’t remember the last time I salted food at a restaurant. A couple of us got the Drunken Angel, which I tried and was great. There was another angel hair pasta dish that was way too heavy both in richness and smoke, and a couple of the guys got the special, a seafood gumbo, which didn’t seem to impress either of them that much.
In a nutshell, it just seemed like everything entrée-​wise that I tried lacked balance. Especially at the price point, in Tucson, I expect a bit more balance and complexity. I’ll definitely be back (great ambiance and live music are a total win), but I’ll definitely be trying my luck with other entrees.

I walked in to this joint and was greeted with a smile, went directly to the bar and took a seat. The bartender Amanda was sweet and efficient and she sure knew how to mix a drink. I had The Peach a mixed drink that included bourbon infused dried peaches. It was so good. We ordered the Bacon popcorn appetizer slightly buttered with salt and pepper, yum. My friend Al had a black and blue and we shared the Johnny Steak and Frites, perfectly cooked medium rare with a Johnny Walker Cream sauce, wow I’m coming back.

Sat at the bar for dinner early on a Wednesday night. Cocktails and service were perfect from Loren. The food is a strange fusion, but admittedly so. Ate some frog legs, which is a sweet novelty in Tucson.
The staff accommodated our weird needs. The lighting is nice.

One of the best restaurants in northwest Tucson. Most places putting out food of this caliber are closer to the downtown scene. This is modern American fare with strong cajun roots, and they feature my absolute favorite burger in Tucson: The Parish Burger.
If there’s one thing that prevents me from awarding The Parish 5 stars, it’s consistency. I’ve ordered the burger many many times over the last few years. Sometimes it’s perfect, sometimes it’s nowhere near the temperature I ordered it (usually overcooked), and sometimes it feels like they skimped on a few ingredients. There have also been times when the restaurant isn’t busy but the food takes a very long time to come out. I wouldn’t let these things deter you from dining here, though. It’s fantastic food, and one of my go-​to places in my neighborhood! If they ironed a couple things out, this place would be off the charts.

The WORST late night menu ever. Not only was there nothing appetizing to nosh on, it was disgusting. Nothing on their menu pairs with late night drinks even. Who wants smoked trout (think chopped up lox) after 10pm? I ordered it because I was hungry– and it was dry. They served it on a small plate which made it too difficult to eat. My boyfriend said the gumbo was disgusting.
Stick to lunch or dinner– skip late night menu as of where it stands now. YUCK!

Louisiana flavor located in north Tucson! I saw Abita rootbeer on the menu and had to have it to satisfy my sweet tooth, and it’s one of the best rootbeers (yum!). My friend and I ordered the pretzels to start (amazing!) and the Pimpinadas. Those were good but the flavors were interesting. It’s jerk chicken wrapped in an empanada topped with peach marmalade. I didn’t think the peach went with the jerk chicken, maybe a spicier topping would compliment the chicken better.
For the main dish, we split the Smokin’ Angel. The dish comes with burgundy angel hair pasta, which I had never seen before, and a mesquite smoked tomato sauce, giving the pasta a really rich and salty flavor. I’ve never had something like this before, and I’m sad to report that it wasn’t my favorite. I’m not much of a seafood lover, so I can’t speak about the majority of their menu, but everyone around me looked very happy with their mussels and oysters.
I’d be happy to come back, get another rootbeer, try the gumbo and get those pretzels again!

3.5 stars rounded up! we weren’t in love with the Parish but they do have some solid dishes
—la verdad cocktail: kinda acidic but pretty lacking in alcohol
—fish n chips: nice, light, crispy crust on the fish! fries were also good
—drunken angel pasta: love the loads of seafood in the dish but the pasta sauce had an odd taste i couldn’t get over
—gumbo: spicy sausage! comes w/​a scoop of rice on top & corn hush puppies. i liked the hush puppies BUT the gumbo was nothing too special
—pimpinadas: not a fan of the combination of flavors here, a play on sweet & salty with a KICK of spicy
—goat cheese relleno: a nice appetizer, but not an easy one to share
—pecan smoked ruby red trout: comes w/​candied pecans, carmelized onions, roasted garlic, & toast… the trout was just ok but i liked the onions & pecans!
Our server was really nice & let us have a big private room for our friend’s bday even though there were only 5 of us
NOTE: no cake cutting fee, SCORE!

Nicely hidden in the dark corner of Orange Grove and Ina (Next Door to Sushi on Oracle). Great atmosphere with live music, we went in on a Saturday night at about 9 pm.
Bacon Popcorn? Interesting appetizer, but pretty good. I like my bacon extra crispy and that’s what was mixed with the lightly buttered popcorn. I enjoyed it, but I would like to have it for breakfast with eggs and some French toast.
The Gumbo was delicious, great taste with some spice to it. Craw fish hush puppies were very fluffy and crispy at the same time. They had a hint of spice in the after taste. My burger was cooked just the way I ordered it and the fries were crispy, but not burnt.
Dessert special was a chocolate lava cake à la mode and it was delightful. So stuffed from the above, but we had to finish every last bite of the dessert.
I cannot wait to go back, food and service was awesome!

Better come here at off hours. It gets pretty crowded. However, the servers are hopping and really on the job.
Not really Southern cooking, the small menu is better-​described as Southern-​inspired.
I got the Parish burger, one of the few pre-​made burger offerings I’d ever seen that I liked. ANd a cup of gumbo, which was genuinely gumbo-​like, without being too bitter.
The pork rinds appetizer is vastly more expensive than the stuff you buy at a grocer’s in a bag. It is, however, also vastly fresher.
NOTE: I took this down from 5 stars to 3 — because the food was still good — when I received my credit card bill and discovered that the restaurant had without notice decided to increase my tip. Not by enough to make it worthwhile for me to contest the charge with my credit card company, but even if the tip is chintzy, which I don’t believe mine was, you don’t get to change it unilaterally.
If I ever return here, which I probably won’t, I’ll pay by cash only, and if they don’t like my tip now, they’ll really dislike what I’ll leave them then.

I feel like I stepped into New Orleans! It has that Victorian/​voodoo look going on! The bar is definitely the highlight of the place, on the shelves are Mason jars filled with their ‘house infused’ spirits. So cool looking!!!
The ‘hand-​crafted cocktails’ are amazing! And the food is to die for!
We started with the hush puppies, that has shrimp mixed in them, followed by the shrimp po boy and the angel hair pasta… I definitely recommend the angel hair pasta dish!!!
Ever thing here was fantastic! I highly recommend trying it out, you won’t be disappointed