Blue Coyote Restaurant, in Palm Springs, with others in the Desert Cities area, offers innovative Mexican food in relaxing surroundings. Eat either inside in the casitas or the garden patio - shaded by trees during the day that sparkle with tiny lights after dark. There is live music and displays of flowers, cacti and succulents, with fountains and Mexican-inspired art. Established in 1992 the restaurant has a reputation for high quality Southwestern and Mexican cuisine, and its signature Wild Coyote margarita.
The menu features a large range of authentic Mexican dishes, with daily specials and choices for children. To start try the spinach quesadilla, carnitas — fried spiced pork or the Aztec Fiesta Patter — a colorful array of red and blue taquitos, cheese quesadillas and pollo naranja. The salad selection features the Tahquitz Tostada Salad — a chipotle tortilla with black beans and mixed greens with a choice of steak or chicken, and the sunburst chicken salad — all salads are served with a choice of eight dressings.
Favorite dishes include the towering tostada — a stack of black beans, roasted corn and sour cream on a crispy tortilla, fresh fish tacos featuring marinated Mahi-Mahi in a flour tortilla, and southwestern carnitas steamed in a banana leaf. There are daily specials on the dinner menu featuring Cajun salmon, Spanish prime rib and whiskey scallops. Desserts include the chocolate and hazelnut Mayan pyramid, traditional flan and a white chocolate and passion fruit mousse. Sample the Wild Coyote Margarita, a specialty beer or one of the many tequilas on the list.
