West Side Story: A Phoenix Dining Profile Worth Savoring

Known for his CenPho hits, restaurateur Omar Alvarez is now pouring inspiration into the oft-neglected West Valley dining scene. At first glance, Omar Alvarez’s little stretch of 24th Street doesn’t look much like the headquarters of one of Phoenix’s most steadily expanding restaurant groups. There’s the laid-back patio at Pa’La Wood Fired Cooking, a converted historical cottage shaded by mature trees along a Central Phoenix corridor where older homes, mom-and-pop businesses and newer destinatio