Mariscos Culiacan is a casual Mexican Seafood Restaurant located in an older strip mall in Glendale AZ. This isn’t a fancy place. Culiacan is a city in northwest Mexico in the state of Sinaloa so the food served sounds like Sinaloa Style. They serve appetizers, soups, fish platters, tacos, burritos, fajitas, Mexican beverages and they also do offer a children’s menu. Today’s selection of seafood included many dishes mostly with shrimp, octopus and tilapia.
As soon as we were seated a large basket of chips, blended salsa, and cups of hot (temperature) fish soup arrives.
The fish soup taste fresh made. Taste like bayleaves, oregano, garlic and cumin but very delicate and balanced…just enough to enhance the fish stock.
My first choice the whole snapper wasn’t available today so I went with the Veracruzana Style Tilapia. ($13.99)
I received a fresh tasting mild flaky fish that tasted like it was fried, seasoned in butter and was crispy on one side. I don’t think I had fish fried in butter in a long time and this seemed very tasty to me. My fish was topped with bell peppers, onions, carrots and the tiniest olives I’ve ever seen in my life(they looked like capers). The sauce seemed to be made with a mild chili. My plate also included salad garnish, mixed vegetable studded white rice, refried beans and steamy hot fresh tasting tortillas.
My husband tried the Marinero Relleno. ($16.99)
It was a big pocket of tin foil that contained a lot of mixed seafood in a tomato based sauce with bell peppers, onions and melty white cheese. At the bottom of the foil was a filet of tilapia as big as my meal. Other seafood in the dish were shrimp and octopus. The shrimp and tilapia were cooked nicely but the octopus was on the chewy side. On the side was vegetable studded white rice, refried beans, salad garnish and hot steamy tortillas.
That was my trip to Mariscos Culiacan in Glendale.
I haven’t found a website for them but I did notice that they are on Facebook.
Everything is subject to change and your experience may or may not differ.
