Where to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner in Tucson

Once a compact bastion of artists, eccentrics and drifters, Tucson has billowed across the surrounding Sonoran Desert like a dust storm, propelled largely by an influx of retirees. The restaurant scene has expanded in step, but vestiges of the Old West remain, along with traces of Tucson's history as a Mexican pueblo , and some of the top establishments hide in plain sight in the lively and eclectic Fourth Avenue district near the University of Arizona campus.