My Trip To El Heroico Guaymas Restaurant & Fish Shop in Peoria AZ

El Heroico Guaymas Restaurant and Fish Shop recently opened in Peoria AZ. This small business is located in a shopping center with easy parking. The shop is small and offers a variety of condiments, tortillas chips and the fish counter.

They are without a patio but there is maybe five tables inside.

I was very excited to try this new place. One because fresh fish is my favorite thing to eat out because I usually don’t make that at home unless I hike to Nelson’s or Chula. I also enjoyed the fresh seafood from vacations in Mexico and was hoping to taste something similar here. I also liked that this place wasn’t a far trip for me.

The person that took our order seemed very polite. As we were at the counter ordering I noticed that food going out from the kitchen actually looked not just good but AMAZING and was really decorated up like something special. The person taking our order said twice that he was giving us chips and salsa with our order two times while we were there.

We were waiting for our order by the door so we’d be out of the way. Someone there (maybe the owner?) Thanked us for coming in and told us to have a seat and wait at a table.

While we were waiting I noticed a young couple with children that came in. They were checking out the fish counter. They started talking in Spanish and the nice man behind the counter served them and their children complimentary shrimp. They left. I don’t know if they came back.

We waited and waited. Our order was done in thirty minutes.

We opened up the packages and got this.

Upper left is a marlin taco. Upper middle is a fish taco and a marlin relleno. Upper right is a shrimp quesadilla. Lower middle is a El Burro Percheron (steak, avocado, tomato, percheron sauce) (we didn’t receive the chips and salsa)

AND we purchased a snapper for dinner.

I thought the marlin and marlin relleno were ok. I really did like the darker orange chipotle mayo sauce. It is the exact sauce that most restaurants in Mexico give you to use for fish tacos.

But I tell The Forking Truth so I have to be honest and tell you that I was very disappointed with the fish taco for more than one reason.

One it is served very naked and doesn’t even come with a lime. Two – I can’t eat it……(I had to spit it out)…….It’s so FISHY STRONG that it could do push ups…….I don’t think anyone could eat this. (the fish meat its oddly curled…????)

The shrimp quesadilla was good but there were some problems with the burro.

The filling was cold and wasn’t re-heated for us. Inside the burro was chewy cold steak that wasn’t very flavorful and not seared and seemed like it was boiled and had a cold white sauce threw it that my husband thought was sour cream.

The last disappointment was the fish we took home for dinner.