Welcome to Desert Rain Café

We are dedicated to featuring traditional, healthy Tohono O’odham foods for our customers. Every dish at Desert Rain Café is:

Traditional.... Each dish contains at least one traditional product such as cholla buds, tepary beans or saguaro fruit syrup.  Sometimes we prepare them as our people have for countless generations and sometimes in new ways. Either way, it is done with the utmost respect for the foods that I’itoi provided to sustain the People of the Desert.

Healthy.... Traditional foods are healthy foods. They help regulate blood sugar levels and control diabetes. We use syrup from the agave as our sweetener, mesquite flour in our baked goods and olive oil for cooking.

Delicious.... The flavors of the desert are rich and wonderful. We feature them in ways that will satisfy and excite your palette. If you are not happy with your meal, please let us know so we can make it right!

View our current menu here!

Desert Rain Café is located at the TOCA Building in Tohono Plaza on Main Street in Sells, Arizona. The café is an economic initiative of Tohono O’odham Community Action (TOCA). TOCA is a 15-year old 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to creating a healthy, culturally vital, and sustainable Tohono O’odham community. 100% of all café proceeds support TOCA’s local programs in traditional O’odham foods, native farming, youth leadership development, community health and wellness, and Tohono O’odham traditions and culture.

Our “Tohono O’odham Trading Company” packaged dry goods (tepary beans, saguaro syrup, and cholla buds) are available at the Desert Rain Gallery Shop (next to the café) or through mail order.

Call (520) 383-4966 to order.

Visit us online at www.tocaonline.org