Agave Cocina & Cantina

They have wonderful food and drinks. The service is friendly but it is the slowest service ever. I always have an empty drink sitting in front of me and they just really dont pay attention to you. This, mind you, is not when its even busy. The service I have had every time I have gone has been slow and awkward. But the drinks and food are good and its good cause you can sit outside.

Might tasty!
Let's go over the fun stuff:
-Great happy hour. Goes until 6:30 7 days a week.  Try the tacos and nachos and then come back to this review to thank me.
-Amazing green salsa. It is hotter than you think
-Good beer selection.  
-Friendly staff
-The Nachos rival Matador's for being the best in Redmond
-The Tacos were significantly better than Matador's.

Overall, it's quite good.  I'm holding out on star 5 because we've only been there for Happy Hour and not full dinner.  However, if Happy Hour is any indication, dinner is probably pretty good.  We'll do a burrito vs. burrito challenge at some point.

Everything is FRESH.  Nothing tastes like it's out of the can here.  

My wife and I will be coming back here.

Slightly upscale Tex-Mex at upscale prices

Want a change from the typical Las AztecIxtacas puddle of rice, beans and a huge cheese-encrusted burrito bomb?  Spend a little more and try the interesting choices here.

Our evening started typically enough - a dim restaurant, a basket of chips, two kinds of decent salsa, both with a noticeable kick, an ordinary premium margarita.  We ordered a masa-encrusted calamari while we pondered the menu choices. Service was not particularly communicative, but I managed to establish that I could indeed select the two accompaniments to my chili relleno, so I asked for nopalitos (advertised as corn cactus salad) and grilled asparagus.

Our calamari arrived beautifully cooked, mercifully with a sort of aioli instead of the advertised salsa (phew!).  Our entrees followed, surprising me with a smallish if handsome cheese-decorated relleno, and the accompaniments in dishes alongside.  No rice. No bean puddle.  And I didn't miss them a BIT - the relleno was delicious, the grilled asparagus properly smoky and firm, and the nopalitos were a nice change (although there was no corn in sight, probably my fault for calling it nopalitos instead of corn salad!)  I managed to sneak a bite of my wife's potatoes, and they were beautifully crisped.

While the portions were smallish, and the prices largeish, I think the quality of ingredients and the novelty of the side options will bring us back.