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Los Arbolitos De Cajeme Restaurant Phoenix AZ – Worth a Fork! North/Central Phoenix gets a New Higher End Mexican Seafood Restaurant

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Los Arbolitos De Cajeme is a slightly upscale but casual Mexican Seafood and Steak Restaurant located in Phoenix towards the North Side.This is an established group of Mexican Restaurants with eleven locations in Mexico and Phoenix is home to their first location in America.

It’s bright modern and beautiful at the entrance and the first thing you notice is the bar with a really high ceiling with fish decorations and glass that lets in lots of light. The restaurant is sort of “L” shaped with the bar in the middle of the “L.”

On the other side of the bar is a dining room that isn’t being used today.

Straight ahead is where we are being seated.

There’s modern fixtures. Fish decor and neon. You can view the kitchen action threw the glass if you want to.

They started us off with chips, a sauce, a pickled onion condiment and fresh limes.

We started with an appetizer called Toritos de Marlin ($10.99…price is subject to change)

These are blistered yellow peppers are stuffed with Marlin and are in house made soy sauce. (this is a traditional taqueria dish) The yellow peppers are unlike similar looking yellow peppers I’ve purchased…..Each one taste different. They go from almost tasteless to hot jalapeño HOT! Most were on the milder side. For the most part this is a tasty milder dish….I think if you like tuna that you’d probably like this marlin. This appetizer dish was very generous in size.

For my main I tried the Filete Al Ajillo Con Nopal (grilled lemon sole with guajillo, garlic and cactus) ($18.00…price is subject to change)

Hot steamy tortillas, rice and vegetable garnish are served with the entree. I don’t always like cactus but here it’s very good. They cooked it so well it’s almost like eating green beans. It’s garlicky, a little spicy but not too spicy. There’s a generous amount of mild white fish.

My husband tried the Camarones a La Diabla. (deviled shrimp in a chipotle chiltepin cream sauce) ($18.00 price is subject to change)

This dish was served with rice and steamed fresh vegetables. The comment was that it was that this was delicious with well cooked shrimp but didn’t run as spicy as other shrimp diablos we’ve tried from other Mexican Seafood restaurants we’ve been too.

I’d say our first visit to Los Arbolitos De Cajeme was Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

www.MariscosLosArbolitos.com

Every thing is subject to change and your experience may or may not differ.

The Forking Truth

My Trip to Mariscos Culiacan in Glendale AZ

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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.

Fish based vegetable soup

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)

Veracruzana Style Tilapia comes with tortillas not pictured

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.

The Forking Truth