Eats and Drinks
Best Serious Margarita
Blue Agave Restaurante y Tequileria
1032 Light St., (410) 576-3938
Eighty kinds of tequila. Seven different margaritas. A buck blender surcharge if you're barbarian enough to ask for your 'rita frozen instead of on the rocks with salt. Now this is a place that gives oft-abused margaritas the respect and caring attention they deserve. It's always fun to try authentic oddities like the margarita Blue Agave makes with prickly pear juice--a deep purple potion that's become a sort of unofficial cocktail of the Ravens football team--but we're solid fans of what we've come to regard as the gold standard of local margaritas, El Superior. It's simply perfect: Herradura Anejo tequila with freshly squeezed lime juice plus just the right amount of Cointreau, though purists may prefer the house 'rita using El Jimador Bianco and Triple Sec.
All Awards for Blue Agave Restaurante y Tequileria:
Best Sangrķa, 9/19/2007
Best Margarita, 9/18/2002
Best New Restaurant, 9/19/2001