Ocotillo is a one mile square compound restaurant, coffee bar, cocktail lounge, wine bar and park located in near downtown Phoenix Arizona. Ocotillo offers a wonderfully varied ever changing menu of astonishing variety. They are farm to table goodness mixed with global fusion. The dinner menu usually is something like several small salads, vegetable plates, small plates, house made pasta plates and large plates. The restaurant is modern and has multiple outdoor dining areas with an outdoor cocktail bar and an outdoor coffee shop.

Tonight we dined outside.

The Ocotillo resident “Mittens” said, “Hi” and rubbed against my leg.

We started out by sharing the eggplant meatless balls.

They had crisp exteriors with little bits of crisp cheese. The eggplant balls were topped with pesto and were served over cheesy, herby polenta.

My husband had the pork shank.

It was very meaty and succulent and was served with a porky corn stew and crispy smoky potatoes. My husband said that this was really GREAT!

I went with the market fish that was Atlantic Salmon today.

All the fresh vegetables, herbs and lemongrass sauce made the plate special.

Here are some of the previous plate that we had at Ocotillo.

cauliflower, kale, pesto, peanuts, herbs, lemon vinaigrette

Thai style chicken

crispy chicken meatballs

charred sweet potato

house made pastrami sandwich

house made smoked salmon with spinach salad

mole chicken salad

Japanese style fish and chips

Tandori chicken sandwich with watermelon salad

mesquite grilled steak sandwich

pork torta

Korean Style BBQ beef brisket sandwich

tomato tartine

crispy pork flats with green chili hominy

fried bbq korean style chicken sandwich with kimchi slaw

house smoked salmon with potato cake

vanilla roasted pear

Mediterranean chicken with black barley, barberries, fennel, salad

spicy Japanese style beef curry

house smoked salmon, tea egg

Ocotillo chicken

Ocotillo is certainly Worth a Fork!

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