Ocotillo Restaurant in Phoenix AZ – One of My Favorites! – Worth a Fork!

Ocotillo is a (what seems like) one mile square compound in down town Phoenix that is a modern farm to table global style restaurant with a wonderfully enormous menu of astonishing variety. Ocotillo offers a modern atmosphere, multiple patios, an outdoor coffee bar and an outdoor cocktail bar.

As you enter from parking lot.

Park like setting.

Outdoor seating.

Patio by the front of restaurant.

Coffee Bar.

More outdoor seating.

Patio and Cocktail bar.

Dining Areas

It’s fun to share plates here since they offer so many interesting detailed plates.

Thirty -one detailed plates on the menu today with great variety. How could you not be happy with a menu like this?

We started with one of the Small Plates.

It’s not so small.

But it was Delicious!

Here was the House Smoked Salmon with Capers, Tea Egg, Pickled Shallot (it looks like a rose) Pickled Shallot, Dill Creme Fraiche Salad and Seeded Bread. The Salmon was carefully smoked and was buttery. The flavors of everything went really well together. This small plate is very large and can feed three people pretty well or a small bite for four people.

Then we wanted to share one of the vegetable plates and went with the Charred Sweet Potato with Avocado, Lime, Pickled Shallots, Pasilla Pumpkin Salsa.

OMG this is one of the most delicious things I tasted this year! The Char adds something delicious here against the potato and they sprinkled the sweet potato with what I think was Aleppo Pepper. There was a fresh herb salad with mint and cilantro too. When you ate everything on this plate together it became magical……Incredibly delicious……I wasn’t expecting this vegetable plate to be so large so I got to bring home a second take out box…..

Lastly we shared a House Made Pastrami Sandwich with Oil-Vinegar Coleslaw, Grain Mustard and Seeded Bread. The Sandwich came with lemon broccolini salad.

The Sandwich was just delicious! The Pastrami was tender and on the lean side. It had a nice smoke to it but not too much. It wasn’t crusted but had lots of flavors in it that included cloves. Slaw was good and crisp, grain mustard not to strong. This is really good. The Broccolini salad is better than I expected. I was expecting the broccolini to be a little chewy but it was unusually light and easy to eat.

Wow! that was really great! And I get to enjoy most of it again at home! That’s a win!

Here are not all but some of the previous dishes I enjoyed from Ocotillo. The menu changes regularly. Everything was wonderful and delicious. Portions so far have always ran very large.