Toro sits inside the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess in North Scottsdale, where Chef Richard Sandoval — a Culinary Institute of America graduate whose restaurant portfolio spans dozens of locations across four continents — applies his contemporary Latin cooking to a North Scottsdale dining room built around a golf-course view.
The menu moves across categories rather than staying in one lane: sushi and ceviche sit alongside steak and burrata, with bread service and a dish called la bomba among the items regulars mention, and a margarita program that comes up often in conversation about the place.
Day-to-day kitchen leadership runs through Chef Gage Smit, who grew up on a banana farm in Maui and trained at the University of Maui College before working in kitchens including Eleven Madison Park, McCrady's, and Vintage Cave Honolulu, and running Fairmont Orchid's Brown's Beach House prior to Toro.
The patio's view over the TPC Scottsdale golf course and the Fairmont Princess grounds is a consistent draw, though regulars describe the experience as hit-or-miss — food that lands well when the kitchen is on, paired with service that can swing from attentive to slow within the same visit.
The menu moves across categories rather than staying in one lane: sushi and ceviche sit alongside steak and burrata, with bread service and a dish called la bomba among the items regulars mention, and a margarita program that comes up often in conversation about the place.
Day-to-day kitchen leadership runs through Chef Gage Smit, who grew up on a banana farm in Maui and trained at the University of Maui College before working in kitchens including Eleven Madison Park, McCrady's, and Vintage Cave Honolulu, and running Fairmont Orchid's Brown's Beach House prior to Toro.
The patio's view over the TPC Scottsdale golf course and the Fairmont Princess grounds is a consistent draw, though regulars describe the experience as hit-or-miss — food that lands well when the kitchen is on, paired with service that can swing from attentive to slow within the same visit.