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Tucson Weekly Best Restaurants 2007

Best Casual Dining Review: “While eating a fat breakfast burrito and e-mailing SOS messages to the world in hopes that someone would save us from the zombies, we realized that The B Line, with its tasteful décor, delicious food and free wireless Internet access, is the perfect place to lay low for a while and wait for the streets to clear. Plus, the bar seating by the window looking out onto Fourth Avenue provides a rare vantage from which to spot zombies, gutter punks or super-hot ladies--whatever you're into.”

Runner Up for Best Veggie Burger (2007)

Runner Up for Best Desserts (2007)

Tucson Weekly Best Restaurants 2006

Best Casual Dining Review: “We love how B-line creates a whole experience, not just a meal. We remember the months it took to prepare the space before it opened, every detail exquisitely designed and crafted. The food matches the décor: hip and urban and expertly prepared. It's fun to sit at the counter facing Fourth Avenue and people-watch. Save room for dessert; the pastry team knows their stuff. The fruit pies are good enough to stand in for dinner: The crust is extraordinarily flaky and delicate; the fillings are pure and unstarchy with a perfect acid-sugar balance so the flavor of the fruit comes singing through.”

Tucson Weekly Best Restaurants 2005

Best Casual Dining Review: “The B-Line might be a descendant of the luncheonettes that became popular in the '20s. It's comfortable. The menu features Tucson comfort food. The terrific quesadilla has a dipping sauce that emphasizes complex flavors and some heat. Dinner salads with tender steak or moist salmon come with innovative dressing choices. Burros are made with the best Tucson tortillas. Italian subs are spicy and served with a chaser of mellow pasta. An interesting selection of beer and Stewart's soda pop are offered with wine, coffee and tea. Part of the fun is the waiter taking your order at the counter, placing it on a clip and zipping it down a suspended line to the kitchen. The B-line is also modern and hip. The decor is New York stylish. The view is Fourth Avenue.”

Runner Up for Best Desserts (2005)

Runner Up for Best Desserts (2004)

Tucson Weekly Best Restaurants 2003

Best Casual Dining Review:  “Oh, we love B-Line. We love that they're there for us on Sundays (so we forgive the Monday closure) and we love that they stay open in those hours between breakfast, lunch and dinner. We love that they have a small but excellent selection of beer on tap. And we adore the simplicity of the menu--giant buttermilk biscuits for breakfast served sweetly with pecan butter and honey, or prepared savory, with eggs and roasted green chilies. Lunch and dinner offer burritos and quesadillas, simple pastas with homemade sauces and salads the likes of which we ain't used to in these parts--combining purple Peruvian potatoes, sunflower seeds, dried fruits and feta--dressed with such a light hand that we needn't ask for the exquisite buttermilk horseradish on the side. The bakery case is gorgeous, with tarts, cakes, pies and chewy cookies. B-Line is perfect for a family brunch, a solo afternoon beer-and-crossword hour or a dinner date.”

Tucson Weekly (Review by Charlotte Lowe Bailey)

"The B Line's pies alone nearly reduced me to greedy tears. Such flaky crust, with a taste like lightly sweetened sugar cookies, should be celebrated.... What ever happened to pie anyway? Where is the good pie that makes you want a good cup of Joe or an icy glass of milk? At The B Line, that's where."

"Also fabulous are both the lunch and dinner entrees. You order at the counter and service is quick with orders brought to your table. A trough of tortilla soup, spiked generously with cilantro, redolent with fresh ripe avocado and not overwhelmed by jack cheese ($6.25) is a deservedly popular dish."

"Another favorite, the humongous blackened catfish burro ($6.95), served with peppery achiote rice and a fun twist on coleslaw with jicama and tortilla chips tossed in with red, green and yellow peppers, cilantro, salsa and a healthy squeeze of lemon. The flaky catfish had its distinctive sweetness and tasted as if fresh caught. The accompanying salsas on all the burritos are fresh, fresh, fresh."

"The very affordable menu (you can easily dine for under $10, even if a gourmand) has few flaws. It is limited and perhaps that is, for a devotee of the cafe, a minus. You can easily eat your way through The B Line fare but luckily they've started featuring a weekly special--currently a spinach salad with crumbles of blue cheese, toasted spicy pecans, sliced pear and Roma tomatoes with a raspberry vinaigrette."

"Their salad in general is very good, with the now standard selection of greens... but with the creative additions of seasonal vegetables such as purple potatoes, beets and carrots. The house-made dressings are lightly adventurous, such as the zippy horseradish. The pastas and the sausage sandwich are a clever mix of the hip and the homespun."

"The burritos are far from mundane, yet their essence is simplicity: tender carne asada, grilled chicken or black beans and rice dressed with sauces that understand the tastes and textures they accompany."

Food Network: $40 a Day (Episode AD1B16)

The desert sun of Tucson, AZ is almost as hot as the $40 burning a hole in Rachael Ray's pocket. She stops at The B Line to enjoy one of our tasty pies. The pies at The B Line are made fresh daily. This homemade berry pie is full of ripe, red fruit. It comes served warm with fresh. cold whipped cream.

The Berry Patch Pie Recipe (now called the Four-Berry Pie) is available from Food Network.