Seven years ago, Gila was a raucous sports bar and restaurant. Three years ago, owner Ann Cannon Lepard decided firmly on a different business energies. Gila is a haven of interesting dining at lunchtime. The brightly colored patterns in walls, tables, chairs and upholstery stay the same, but those great white dividing walls are moveable. There are a half-dozen super sandwich productions, each comes with pasta salad, red potato salad or seasoned fries.
Menus change here every few months.
Novelist Maureen Daly has been a restaurant critic for The Desert Sun since the late 1980s. Her reviews appear weekly. The Desert Sun.