Tequila’s Mexican Grill and Bar

Tequila’s looks like an everyday Mexican restaurant. But it is a cut above.

Shrimp cocktail, for instance. If you order it, you will wait a while, because the shrimp are cooked to order, arriving still warm in a giant goblet, packed into cool red sauce. Along with the vast school of large shrimp are soft slivers of avocado, chopped onion, peppers, and spice. It’s a zesty meal all by itself.

The same extraordinary shrimp can be a topping for nachos, a featured player in soup, at the top of a shrimp taco salad, in a burrito del mar paired with scallops, and as the star player on a fajita platter.

Fajitas, available in single or double-size portions, come every which way: steak, chicken, carnitas, shrimp, or strictly veggie. Fajitas parrilla is a cornucopia of just about every protein in the house with all the trimmings, including guacamole, rice, beans, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and grilled onions, peppers, squash, and mushrooms.

Tequila’s is not open for breakfast, but it does offer such Mexican egg dishes as huevos con jamon (scrambled with ham) and huevos con chorizo (scrambled with spicy Mexican sausage).

It’s a cheerful place with a charming staff and a full bar from which come powerhouse margaritas by the goblet and pitcher.