OC Food Reviews

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Last week we decided to try a place friends have been telling us we just had to visit called the Blue Agave on Yorba Linda Blvd. It’s a pretty unassuming little place in the corner of a strip mall. I was thinking it really didn’t look like much from the outside when I walked in and realized it really didn’t look like much on the inside either.

The interior of the restaurant looks like a really over-stylized southwestern cliché, think pinks and turquoises, geometric patterns and airbrushed American indian paintings and you’ll get the picture. The clientele was somewhat less interesting, people wearing cheesy hawaiian shirts and the like. I felt like we had entered a tourist trap on Route 66.

After our initial impression we sat down to peruse the menu and enjoy some chips and salsa. I noted right away that their chips and salsa were pretty bland, not a good sign. I also noted that their menu was more like Southwestern Fusion than traditional Southwestern cuisine. Every dish has a creative twist to it, which is nice but sometimes you just want to get something traditional, classic or familiar, and they fail to provide anything like that on their menu. The menu is a little on the pricey side too.

In the end we decided to try several items from their menu and share. We ordered the Hacienda Fajitas Enchiladas, Apache Chicken Quemada and Citrus Swordfish Skewers. Our waitress wasn’t very friendly and up to this point I really wasn’t expecting much of the food at the Blue Agave. It may be because of my lowered expectations, but when we got our food I was pleasantly surprised, it’s was pretty good!

It wasn’t perfect though, everything we tried had good flavor but also was a little on the over-cooked side. Nothing tasted really very fresh. Overall the food at Blue Agave is really tasty but there is definitely room for improvement.