Toro Latin Restaurant and Rum Bar

Gabby did a terrific job! A great place to watch the Golfers come in off 18.

Awesome dinner! Liked it better than Burboun or La Hacienda. Waiter is very attentive and food was excellent. Cooked to perfection and right temperature.

The best meal I had in Scottsdale, by far. Great service, beautiful surroundings. The only thing that could have been improved was the bus service back to the resort, which was deplorably slow.
Appetizers:
Calamari — really excellent, breaded pretty lightly
Nacho Trio — beautiful trio of really distinct sauces
Entrees:
Angry Tuna Roll — really, really delicious; great blend of flavors
Salmon — DELICIOUS words cannot describe.
Dessert:
Chocolate Cake — get it. less like chocolate cake with caramel icing, more like straight up chocolate fudge with layers of caramel.
Pumpkin donuts — okay; a weirdly tiny portion compared to our gargantuan slice of cake.

We’d been wanting to try this place for a while, and given improving reviews, thought now was the time. Well, as sometimes happens with places catering primarily to the tourists, there was some good and some bad.
First the good. Our service was outstanding, waitress was very attentive and did her best to make our experience better. The rum drinks were also excellently executed, flavorful and with ample but not overpowering rum. The yucca cheese rolls were great, as was the short rib flatbread.
Here’s the «OK». Shrimp ceviche was good, about what you’d expect, but we needed to ask for chips to eat it on. The «very popular» red snapper dish was not a whole snapper as one review indicated, but a rather small fillet that while prepared well lacked in overall flavor and was a bit pricy for what you got.
Now the bad. The slaw that accompanied the snapper was so salty I couldn’t eat it. The house special Toro salad was iceburg lettuce (really?), that was overdressed with a flavorless dressing, and also looked and tasted as if it had been made and dressed hours before leaving the lettuce limp and soggy. Unfortunately the dessert they comped us to make up for the salad was also a miss. It was billed as a custard, but came and was so soupy I would have never identified it as custard. My husband hit it when he labeled it «sweetened condensed milk straight from the can».
So as I said hit and miss. I might go back for drinks and apps, but not for dinner.

Ceviche was some of the best I’ve had. The chicken was really, really plain: no sauce no spice no nothing. Disappointing. Plantains that came with it were perfect. Potatoes with it just potatoes, plain. Red snapper was also good, good flavor (not great), but required/​needed hot sauce, there just wasn’t enough flavor there on its own. Rum Flight was also very good and they have a good selection of beers and wine. Service was also excellent. I’ve had much better Latin cuisine and much cheaper places. Was really hoping this place was going to knock my socks off because it’s just around the corner.

This place is within walking distance of where I live. They allow dogs outdoors which appeals to me .my dog is very quiet and small. I am a big fan of sushi and they did a fantastic job. Great place or a bottle of wine and sit outside to enjoy the cooler weather. Very romantic and cozy place they have live music but close early… check times before hand. Some may think it’s a little pricey but it is fantastic!

Toro Latin is a new restaurant that occupies the space that was once the TPC Grille, overlooking the TPC golf course, and with a small outdoor patio that benefits from green grass, a lake in the background, and our beautiful Arizona sunsets. The food and service have to compete with nature, and they both did so successfully on our visit.
Our group started with a couple of salads (the Toro Salad is huge), and the crunchy shrimp, all great especially the shrimp. The filet was a fine cut of meat and perfectly done, served with three sauces, the best of which was the chimichurri. The salmon was a huge chunk with a great sear, and the snapper was perfectly done but maybe lacked something in flavor.
Prices are high — this is a resort restaurant — but not outrageous.
I’m pretty picky, but I really can’t find anything wrong with Toro Latin. But I’ll be back to keep trying.

Staying at the Fairmont, free shuttle brought us to this magical place on the golf course. Sat at the bar for a late lunch. Ordered the chifa-​style fried rice (so good) and an off-​menu sushi roll we spotted the chef making for staff; he generously offered to make us one as well. Very high quality ingredients. Extensive rum menu; mai tai was a bit on the sweet side, but traditional daiquiri up (made with aged rum) was on point. Will definitely try to return before heading back east.

We had a large group of 29. The service was fantastic and the food was better. the vanilla caramel custard must be made of angel tears, so incredible! We were extremely impressed and the view wasn’t too bad either!

I brought a client and his wife to Toro while they were visiting AZ for wedding. I love the renovation they have made to the space and the views of the golf course and mountains are incredible. We enjoyed a glass of wine and I enjoyed the beef tenderloin stir fry — it was quite tasty, but very salty. They certainly have a nice menu and the improvements I’m sure have been a success for this space.

This was one of the best meals I have had all summer. I went here with my family to celebrate my grandmas 80^th birthday and we had an amazing experience!
First of all, the ambience was wonderful with the pretty views of the golf course during a beautiful Arizona sunset. I loved looking out on the terrace that was decorated with pretty lights. There was also an amazing mariachi band playing throughout the night, and they even sang happy birthday to us at the end of the night!
The service was also outstanding. Our waiter was so helpful and made accommodations for my brother who is allergic to shrimp/​shellfish.
The cuisine was wonderful — it is a Latin American restaurant but with what felt like a Japanese influence. The bread that they serve is gluten free and tasted amazing! It came with a homemade sweet pepper salsa that was great. We started out with two orders of really fresh and yummy tuna and shrimp ceviches. We had some awesome sushi rolls — the salmon and rainbow rolls were two favorites.
The best part of the meal was definitely the red snapper dish. It was completely to die for! It was definitely the best red snapper I’ve ever tasted if not the best fish. It was cooked perfectly and came with yummy flour tortillas and grilled veggies on side so you could make little tacos if you wanted!
And additionally the chocolate cake that we had at the end for my grandmas birthday was absolutely incredible! One of the best cakes I’ve ever had. This was such an incredible meal and whenever I’m in Scottsdale again we will definitely be coming back.

Know that feeling when everything clicks perfectly. when you visit a new restaurant for the first time. The décor, the water glasses with a colorful swirl, the beautiful flatware, the view from the veranda, all set you up for wonderful food & service.
This is one of those places. Simple, elegant, with sumptuous food (we had the breakfast burrito) and great service from Melissa.
Why so good? Astonishingly fresh ingredients, like the poblano peppers and wild mushrooms, incredible salsa, beautiful plating and the most perfectly cooked potato I have ever tasted.
High high recommendation. I dine out all the time.
Superb!

Very eclectic fusion cuisine, fried rice especially good, nice rum tastings, angry tuna roll, everything good, with a nice ambiance and good service

Beautiful place to catch the sunset. Amazing drink menu and friendly staff. Get the angry tuna role, brilliant!

We just happened to stop in today for a casual lunch overlooking the golf course and to our surprise, they had a brunch all day. There was a lovely latin band outside on the patio with some light bongo drums and a trumpet, which made for a nice ambiance.
The menu had many offerings for both breakfast and lunch. The prices were very approachable as well. What a surpirse. We will surely be back to enjoy Sunday Brunch!

Looking for new seafood restaurant to try, and this one came up on Unilocal.
It is located inside the TPC club house. The view from the restaurant is beautiful, especially now, a little over month away from the PGA tournament, the green was at the perfect condition.
Service was great. We had our server, but there were two other servers helped us with bringing food and refilling drinks.
I had artichoke Atlantic salmon lunch. Salmon was very thick and juicy. Sauce they poured on top complimented the salmon and mushrooms.
They used really good quality salmon and I enjoyed every bite of it.
They offered three different desert the day I went. I decided to try their vanilla pudding. It was overly sweet, and fresh fruit mixed well with the pudding.
Espresso was really good as well. It complemented the desert and was nice way to end a great lunch.
Since the view was very nice, I would like to come back for early dinner during sunset.

Tried this restaurant on a Friday evening. Walked in and requested a window table around 5:30
Was told
they were all reserved, although we were the only ones there. Seated outside with heat lamps was fine. All of the food
Was good, tried 6 small
Plates in our hour plus time. Upon leaving inside of restaurant looked nice
, with two people seated
Anywhere in the restaurant. Will try it again next year.

I note at the time of this review this restaurant is newly opened and still might be working things on the menu out.
First of all maybe the most useful information needed is that you must use the address posted on Unilocal and not the Fairmont Princess Address posted on the Toro Website or you will be in a mess and will have to use the Fairmont Shuttle Bus that may or may not be running to get to the Toro Restaurant and Rum Bar.
When we finally found this restaurant sort of hidden in the Fairmont Golf Course we found that it didn’t have a sign. You will know your in the right place when you see the bottles of rum and restaurant tables.
The interior of the restaurant is very slick and modern with a big sushi/​ceviche bar in the middle of the room. We decided to sit on the patio with lovely views of the golf course and the McDowel Mountain Range.
The menu is Pan Latin Cuisine. We were told the menu is mostly Peruvian with flavors but blended with Asian too.
This restaurant features a rum bar but I didn’t partake in alcohol and had Iced Tea and water instead. The restaurant could use more filtration as the water had an off taste I didn’t like.
We started with the Angry Tuna Roll. It was made with quality Tuna that was delicious. I liked that they dotted each piece with actual wasabi sauce. The tuna really was spicy and the rolls sat on some sort of Thai Chili Sauce. The Angry Tuna Roll was really very good.
For me what wasn’t as well received as the Tuna Roll was the Chicken Soup (Caldo De Pollo). It was presented to us as cold pulled chicken in a bowl with some rice and a little bit of something like pico and a little pitcher of warm water laced with a little bit of chicken flavor that you pour on. This soup was very weak in flavor. TO BE FAIR as possible I do think maybe the soup might have had more flavor if the liquid was hot enough to bloom whatever was in the bowl and maybe you might get a better tasting soup than I got. The waiter asked us how it was when we were finished with it and my husband told the waiter the soup was very bland. The waiter thanked us for the imput.
We also shared the Lomo Sactado. It was delicious and made with Medium Rare (almost too close to rare for me) Tenderloin and Crispy Fries as promised. It was really a very tasty Stir Fry in a Soy Jus. The tomatoes and onions just tied it together. I do think they should ask you how you want the meat cooked in this dish. I’m OK on a tenderloin with M/​R but not everyone is.
The kitchen was very good about splitting our plates for us.
I really want to give this new place 3.5 stars but if I have to decide between 3 and 4 I’m closer to three stars on this one mostly because of the Weak Chicken Soup, the very high prices on the iced tea and soda ($ 5.or a small glass of soda) and the rest already mentioned.
3.5 stars

Hello! …Second Unilocal reviewer here and they are not even ‘officially’ open yet! If this was the 2^nd week of their soft opening… WOW…how can this be improved upon? Our entire dining experience was fabulous.
What does Scottsdale, AZ have in common with Dubai and Hong Kong? TORO.
We are staying at the Fairmont Princess so you can catch the complimentary Mercedes shuttle from the main portico at the hotel… it’s only a mile or less to the restaurant.
It’s Asian + South American fusion. And it rocks! Sushi + ceviche? Sashimi and lomo saltado? Why not?
As we perused the menu, we had a lovely visit from the Rum Princess (love that they have a Rum Princess in lieu of a sommelier) to help us navigate the extensive spirits selection.
Rather than narrow our choice down to two mains, we ordered five small plates/​apps and ALL were terrific.
After ordering, a couple of warm, fabulous, cheesy rustic rolls appeared with a light and bright tomato/​onion …then to find out it is GLUTEN FREE, made with yuca flour — very HAPPY!
We tried the hamachi toradito, lamb skewers, angry tuna roll, short rib flatbread and the steak tartare.
Now, if we were forced at gunpoint only to choose three of those again, we’d say that you CANNOT MISS the lamb skewers, steak tartare, and angry tuna roll.
Huh?
Yep. A sushi roll, and grilled skewer and a classically french dish… all at the same restaurant and all are standouts.
Nah — we’d probably just take the risk of the bullet and order them all again.
The flatbread with the pulled pork rib meat, manchego cheese, horseradish cream, caramelized onions… yum! The hamachi with sriracha… everything is better with sriracha.
GF? — you are in GREAT shape here. Tons of choices. Vegans, pescatarians, frugans, paleos, carnivores, finicky kids… I think you’ve found a happy place. There is something here for everyone and that includes foodies alike.
A wonderful Martin Codex albarino topped it all off… absolutely perfect. Here we are, ranting and raving about the food because that is the point of dining out — you do not notice the service because it was spot on and the ambiance (center bar with tv’s for those wandering sports fans’ eyes) was very complementary.
TIP: Food production was FAST. If ordering multiple small plates, order in waves so that they do not all arrive at once… or let your server know to stagger the order.
Great job, all you peeps at Toro! Good luck on your grand opening!

My husband and I came from Boston to visit his parents and we decided to go for dinner nearby and we ended up here. Our server was Lesley and she was super sweet and very helpful. She explained everything on the menu and all her suggestions made our dinner even better.
We ordered the wild mushroom flat bread, Toro burger, the Panna Cota as the desert and espresso and a cappuccino to end the night. To say this place is amazing is an understatement.
We ended up going out tonight for our last night in Arizona and taking my in-​laws here for dinner. They ended up loving this place and kept on thanking us throughout the night for bringing them here.
So, if you love amazing food, good customer service, great ambiance and a place to impress your in-​laws, this is the place to go. I promise it will not disappoint.
I loved this place so much that I decided to write my first review on Unilocal about it.
To be honest, I was a bit lazy before about posting, but this place was definitely worth it.