Restaurants in Apache Junction

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Black Bear Diner's griddle and grill gurus plate up hearty helpings of casual comfort food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. For the most important meal of the day, served all day, options include sweet-cream pancakes ($5.49–$5.99), a henhouse of three-egg omelettes and two-egg scrambles ($8.29–$8.99), and Bigfoot's chicken-fried steak and eggs ($9.99), which satisfies even Sasquatch-sized appetites. Riding on a french roll, the tri-tip dip ($8.99) mingles among the selection of specialty sandwiches, while the old-fashioned meat-loaf dinner peddles by on an original penny-farthing ($9.99).

Native American-style fry bread controls the spotlight at Niki's Kitchen Fry Bread, sharing the stage with fresh ingredients from beans and cheese to strawberries and chocolate. The bread can be folded around meats and veggies to create tacos and sandwiches—including their take on the philly cheese steak—or dusted with cinnamon and sugar to make a doughy dessert. On Fridays and Saturdays, the family-owned eatery offers a Polynesian plate special, which changes on a weekly basis, much like a very lazy shapeshifter.

Servers and patrons alike crunch across scattered peanut shells on the way to their tables at Teakwoods, a boisterous neighborhood watering hole crowned Best Sports Bar in 2009 by Phoenix New Times. A team of chefs cooks up classic American eats, including half-pound burgers, meaty sandwiches, and their award-winning wings, which can heat up gastro-chambers and cargo-pants pockets with flavors such as medium, hot, and honey-barbecue hot. As bartenders pour draft beers and concoct tasty libations, guests can catch their favorite sporting events on one of many high-definition TVs that broadcast events from the MLB, NFL, and UFC. When guests can't make it to the restaurant, Teakwoods' chefs cater fare to events, gatherings, and parties.

A smattering of 20 sauces and seasonings dripping from handspun wings coats patrons' fingers as they cheer on their favorite professional sports teams broadcast on Buffalo Wild Wings' TVs. Eyes are torn between watching teams dribble a ball, shoot a puck, and land a grand jeté, and plates of plentiful wings, burgers, wraps, salads, and ribs. For more entertainment, trivia games exercise brains, and the Blazin' Challenge offers recognition for those brave enough to down a dozen wings slathered in the eatery's hottest sauce in six minutes.

PaPaYa Thai Restaurant’s chicken mango curry won Best Thai Curry 2009 by Phoenix magazine. It brims with the bold, sweet, and spicy flavors of coconut milk, mango, and red-curry paste, further enhanced by sweet basil, lean chicken, and bell peppers, each shaped like a life-size Stanley Cup. It’s testament to the carefully crafted dishes typical of PaPaYa, which serves traditional dishes that alternate between sweet, sour, and salty flavors and feature no MSG. The barbecue grill adds crispiness to chicken, beef, pork, shrimp, and salmon, each plated beside thai sticky rice and sides of sweet chili dip or spicy lime sauce. Most dishes can be made vegetarian on request, and PaPaYa’s attentive waiters encourage patrons to pick their preference of spiciness, ranging from mild and medium to thai hot.