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, and the Latino-owned businesses in our directory sit almost entirely in food and drink. Thirteen of the sixteen listed across the metro are restaurants or cafes, and the split inside them is more interesting 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.

The three that are not restaurants matter more than their number. Two 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.

What is not on this list?

Almost everything outside food. There is no Latino-owned attorney, accountant, contractor, salon, clinic, or real estate agent listed anywhere in the Phoenix metro in our directory.

In a city where more than two in five residents are Hispanic or Latino, that is obviously not a description of the place. It is a description of what has been recorded, and the recording came mostly from restaurant and cafe sources. If you run a Latino-owned business in any other category in the Valley, you would be the first one listed in it, 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.

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.

Filtering to Phoenix city limits. Cocina Chiwas is in Tempe. A strict city filter drops one of the best entries here.

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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Source notes for editors

• Business names, categories, cities, and ownership tags come from published Inclusivity.org listings in the Phoenix metro directories (Phoenix, Tempe, Scottsdale, Chandler, Mesa, Gilbert, Glendale, Avondale, Queen Creek), queried 2026-08-15. Counts reflect that snapshot.
• Chicanos Por La Causa's 1969 founding, origins with community and student activists in South Central Phoenix, and status as Arizona's largest community development corporation: UnidosUS and CPLC's own materials.
• Phoenix's Hispanic or Latino share of population, about 43% and the largest single group in the city, is from American Community Survey data as reported by Data USA and Arizona Demographics (42.6% to 42.9% depending on release). Reported as "about 43%" rather than a false-precision figure. Note that at least one outlet has reported the Hispanic population as a majority in Phoenix; that does not match the ACS share and was not used.
• Cocina Chiwas is in Tempe, and the guide always described it that way. Its listing was stored under the Phoenix city value until 2026-08-15, when 82 misfiled Arizona listings were re-checked against published street addresses and moved to their real cities; the listing and this guide now agree.