Monti's La Casa Vieja

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The Extras: Banquet rooms seating up to 125 are available for wedding receptions, anniversary celebrations and business meetings. Book well in advance.

When to Go: Happy hour (weekdays, 3pm-7pm) features free appetizers in the lounge and $2 well drinks, wine, beer and house margaritas.

If you're tired of the Scottsdale glitz and are looking for Old Arizona, try this sprawling steakhouse. The adobe building was constructed in 1873 (casa vieja means "old house" in Spanish) on the site of the Salt River ferry, which operated in the days when the river flowed year-round. Today, local families know Monti's well and rely on the restaurant for solid meals and low prices. The dark...

The historic adobe "casa" that houses Monti's was built in 1873, and through the years, rooms have been added on until the place is a virtual Disney’s Haunted Mansion of strange corners, dead-end hallways and singular spaces that may be part dining room, bus station and-or kitchen. The menu is as old-as-the-hills, too, with the signature retro Roman bread, often-wilted iceberg salad and...

In Short
For nearly half a century, locals and visitors--more than a half million a year--have flocked to this Arizona State University neighborhood steakhouse for down-home dining and a...

Monti s La Casa Vieja serves more than half a million diners every year. Located on the banks of the Salt River and tucked away on the north end of Mill Avenue in Tempe, Ariz., Monti's La Casa Vieja is steeped in a tradition of hospitality associated with the Southwestern United States that dates back more than 130 years. The restaurant makes its home in an authentic adobe hacienda that's an...