Kai

Kai is the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort's crowning glory. The restaurant closes every summer for its cooks to travel across America in search of the boldest and brightest flavors for their cuisine, which has a Native American theme. This cuisine takes the traditional flavors of Native American tribes from all around the world and gives them a highly modern and innovative spin. Chef de Cuisine Ryan Swanson creates memorable culinary marvels by combining the essence of the Pima and Maricopa tribes with locally cultivated foods from the Gila River Indian Community.

The Native Seed/SEARCH Foundation, a program dedicated to preserving old lines of Native American seeds that might otherwise be extinct, has items on the menu at Kai, which means seed in Pima. Kai has created a menu that includes grilled tribal buffalo tenderloin with smoked corn puree, cholla buds, chorizo and scarlet runner bean chile, and saguaro blossom syrup, among other dishes that pay homage to Native American cuisine.

Other favorites include escargot, wild mushrooms, and caramel goat cheese served with native "bread" and truffle crema, lemon and black garlic butter, and pig belly, which rotates to take advantage of seasonal food. The Great Plains Bison dish includes pemmican in McClendon's Farm date leather, tartare and cured yolk, marrow custard, and sumac piloncillo; the Venison Season dish includes blue foot and truffle mushroom bread pudding, cranberry sumac game jus, mangalitsa lardon, and garlic root hay.

Entrees are available, or guests can opt for The Journey, a wonderful multicourse evening with wine pairings created by the restaurant's sommelier.

Address: 5594 W Wild Horse Pass Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85226, United States
Phone: +1 602-225-0100
Website: https://www.wildhorsepass.com/