Latino-Owned Businesses in Phoenix to Support in 2026

About 43% of Phoenix residents identify as Hispanic or Latino, the largest single group in the city. The Latino-owned businesses in this guide are more varied than "Mexican food in Arizona" suggests: family kitchens that have been open for decades, a Puerto Rican restaurant, a Chihuahua-style kitchen in Tempe, and an unusually deep bench of coffee.

Two of the entries here are civic organizations that have shaped the state, and one is a shop built specifically to get other Latina-owned businesses off the ground. This guide covers all of it.

Quick answer

1. For family Mexican, Rosita's Fine Mexican Food, Casa Reynoso, and Casa de Julia.
2. For Chihuahua-style cooking, Cocina Chiwas in the Culdesac neighborhood in Tempe.
3. For Puerto Rican, Phoenix Coquí, which is family-owned and also LGBTQ-owned.
4. For a modern bistro, El Zaguán Bistro and Malegría Cafe.
5. For coffee, Fair Trade Cafe downtown, Xolo Coffee, Giant Coffee, Cafetal Coffee, and Window Coffee Bar.
6. For pastry with your coffee, CP Coffee & Pâtisserie.
7. For shopping, Amor Collective, a Phoenix retail incubator for Latina-owned businesses.
8. To support the civic side, Chicanos Por La Causa and Mi Familia Vota.
9. Our Phoenix hub carries the full Valley list.

Where should I eat?

The oldest names first. Rosita's Fine Mexican Food, Casa Reynoso, and Casa de Julia are family Mexican restaurants, and all three are Latino-owned and women-owned in our records. These are the everyday kitchens rather than the destination ones, which is usually where the better food is.

Cocina Chiwas is the one to plan around. Modern Chihuahua-style Mexican from a husband-and-wife team, anchoring the Culdesac neighborhood in Tempe. It is the only Featured Latino-owned restaurant in the metro and the most distinctive cooking on this list.

For something other than Mexican, Phoenix Coquí serves Puerto Rican food and is family-owned. El Zaguán Bistro and Malegría Cafe round out the sit-down options.

Why is the coffee list this long?

Six of the sixteen Latino-owned businesses in our Phoenix directory pour coffee, which is a disproportionate share and worth knowing about if coffee is how you pick a neighborhood.

Where	What it is
Fair Trade Cafe	Downtown Phoenix, shade-grown organic fair-trade coffee, community-minded room
Window Coffee Bar	Espresso, pastries, avocado toast; also LGBTQ-owned
Xolo Coffee	Phoenix coffee shop
Giant Coffee	Phoenix coffee shop, also women-owned
Cafetal Coffee	Phoenix coffee shop, also women-owned
CP Coffee & Pâtisserie	Cafe and bakery, also women-owned

Note how many of those carry a second ownership tag. Three of the six are women-owned as well, and one is LGBTQ-owned. A single listing often sits in more than one community at once, which is the argument for browsing by more than one tag.

What is Amor Collective?

The one retail listing, and the most useful one for anybody trying to start something. Amor Collective is a Phoenix retail incubator and cultural shop built to give Latina-owned businesses a place to sell before they can carry a lease of their own.

If you are shopping, it is one stop that supports many owners. If you are an owner, it is a route to a storefront that does not start with a five-year commitment.

Which civic organizations should I know?

Chicanos Por La Causa is the larger of the two by a wide margin. Founded in 1969 by community and student activists to confront discrimination against Mexican American students and the conditions of South Central Phoenix barrios, it is now the largest community development corporation in Arizona and among the largest in the country, working across affordable housing, economic development, education, and social services in several states.

Mi Familia Vota is a national Latino civic organization that works on citizenship, voter registration, and turnout. Both are listed as nonprofits rather than businesses, and both take volunteers as readily as donations.

Who should be on this page next?

We add to this page as businesses get listed, and the categories we are most actively looking to add across the Valley are attorneys, accountants, contractors, salons, clinics and real estate agents.

Restaurants and cafes come first everywhere, because that is what published guides cover and what a directory can verify quickly.

If that is you, you would be the first one listed in your category, which is a strong position on a page people are already searching. Listings are free to add.

How is ownership determined?

Each listing shows a verification status. Publicly listed means ownership was recorded from a public source such as a chamber directory or the business's own description. Self identified means the owner told us directly. Certified means a third party verified it.

We never infer ownership from a surname, a photo, or the food a restaurant serves. That last one matters here more than on most pages: a Mexican restaurant is not evidence of a Mexican American owner, and treating it as evidence is how directories end up full of confident errors.

Phoenix also has guides to its LGBTQ-owned, Black-owned, and Asian-owned businesses, and several listings appear on more than one of them.

Common mistakes

Assuming the cuisine tells you the ownership. It does not, in either direction. Some of the Latino-owned businesses on this page are coffee shops with no Latin American menu at all.

Only looking in food. That is where our listings are, not where the businesses are. The gap is in the record.

Treating a tag as a certification. Ownership tags are sourced claims with a status attached. Formal supplier-diversity certification is separate and shown separately.

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