Casa Corazon is a full service with bar Mexican Restaurant located in Phoenix Arizona. If you are a fan of shrimp then you are in luck. Casa Corazon offers a not entirely but a shrimp heavy menu. Most of the appetizers contain shrimp. Some of the appetizers are aguachile, shrimp fundido and shrimp cocktails. They offer things that you are familiar with like tacos, burritos, a salad, soups, enchiladas, and fajitas. They also offer things that are more South Mexican like chiles en nogada, cochinita pibil, and chicken mole negro. Some of the specialty dinners are the hot lava moloajete cauldron of guajillo sauce fried fish, shrimp, chicken, and asada, shrimp dinners, whole fried fish, ribeye, and a lobster quesadilla. They also offer a children’s menu and desserts.
You enter threw the kitchen and someone greats you there and walks you to a table. It looks like this place used to be a small church. There are small stained glass windows with crosses as small accents around the room, lots of exposed old bricks, old wood, and hand done fresco paintings.
Sometimes you get chips that look like this.
Sometimes you get chips that look like this with a bacon-ee bean dip.
After you decide on what you want you walk back into the kitchen to the salsa bar.
Many different salsas here of all kind of different heat levels. Today I went with pineapple, hibiscus, and morita. The pineapple is very thin but does have a pleasant pineapple taste. The hibiscus was smoky but kind of floral. The morita was a deeper smoky and pairs especially well with beef.
Last time I enjoyed three different tacos.
Earlier this year Casa Corazon participated in The Dish Fest where best dishes of the valley are featured from Phoenix Magazine.
The tacos were delicious! They were among the best dishes that I tried at The Dish Fest.
Below is an enchilada plate of chicken, cheese, and beef enchiladas in their unique RED BEET enchilada sauce.
Tonight we tried the lava molcajete – mixto.
It’s HOT and BUBBLING with red guajillo sauce (tasty and not too hot spicy), sea bass, grilled shrimp, asada sirloin, grilled chicken, rice, black beans, Mexican onions, mushrooms, squash, nopal (cactus), A Mexican yellow pepper, and tortillas.
We like everything but the steak, chicken, and shrimp because they were all over cooked and dry. My husband lied and told the server everything was fine because he was mad that she forgot to order the taco that he wanted to try.
This is The FORKING Truth….so I have to say….
A lot of salsas……..
A shrimp heavy menu………
Sometimes very good….
Sometimes things go the other way like at most restaurants
Casa Corazon
2637 N 16TH St PHX AZ
602-334-1917
www.CasaCorazonRestaurant.com
Everything is subject to change.
