Latha

Latha is a restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona. It serves contemporary pan-African cuisine, with a menu that follows the interconnected foodways of Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, and the Southern US. The kitchen is led by Chef Digby Stridiron, a partner in the business, alongside CEO and founder Evelia Davis and General Manager Will Brazil. Dishes include starters such as burnt onion hummus with cucumber, housemade tahini, zaatar, and chapati; whipped goat cheese with black garlic honey, radishes, and sumac; watermelon salad with avocado, jicama, whipped feta, and awaze honey vinaigrette; and shrimp aguachile with mango, avocado, pepino, and plantain. Mains include vegetable and dayboat moqueca with rice grits and roasted coconut chutney, blackened red fish with awaze shrimp and oxtail dirty rice, pineapple piri piri chicken with jollof rice, lamb griot with couscous and sweet plantains, and oxtail barbacoa radiatori. The bar offers wine, beer, and spirits owned or developed by Black artisans. Latha also hosts private events, with a full-service restaurant and bar, two indoor rooms, and two outdoor patio areas, for parties of more than eight, including celebratory brunches, rehearsal dinners, wedding receptions, business dinners, and cocktail parties. It holds a rating of 4.80.

The restaurant sits on East Adams Street, about a tenth of a mile from the Rosson House Museum and the Arizona Science Center, and roughly the same distance from South 7th Street and North 7th Street. Arizona State University Mercado is about a tenth of a mile away, and the University of Arizona is about two tenths of a mile away.

Latha's pan-African menu and its private dining rooms and patios give Phoenix a place to gather over food, drinks, and music drawn from Africa and the diaspora.