AZUL Restaurant and Tequila Lounge
September 5th, 2008
Yep!! Free Flow Friday anyone? Sure, can you ”flow”a shot of tequila from Azul Restaurant and Tequila Bar in Midtown? Love, love, love this place.
A few months ago, Rod and I put on some different rims on my Audi. It was a hot Thursday night, no kids, a date night with the top down. (No, not me…my Audi). :) Since we frequent the same restaurants in Sacramento over and over again, we chose Azul. Parking was crazy and since we waited so long (It was about 8:00 pm) since midtown/downtown gets filled with people on bikes, cars or merely walker’s; we found one somewhat difficult spot. So, Rod starts to parallel park and no he didn’t ride up on the curb. As he rode up on the curb, all I could hear were scraping sounds of my new rim. My heart sank. His heart sank. We got out of the car, looked at the rim, got back in the car and ended date night. :( We both were so mad at the tire being “jacked up” within minutes of getting them, that we just went to Taco Bell and went home. I mean, I’m not too surprised this happened to us. This always happens. We nearly wrecked our boat within an hour of buying it? It’s just us. Rod and I are both super excitable people who sometimes can’t slow down because of being so excited! Most of the time, it’s a good thing. 
Anyway, the other day, we decided to have lunch at Azul. I initially didn’t know it was a tequila bar as well, but was thrilled when we walked in. The architecture and decor is magnificient. I felt like I was walking right off the cobbled boardwalk of Puerto Vallarta into Xitomatoes! The colors are exuberant and ever since being in there…I wished I had a blue wall, with silver birds up in my home. Actually, I sat through the entire lunch obsessing on where and how I could have that blue wall! Anyway, not to sidetrack, but the food was also excellent. I had shrimp “garlicky” tacos. They were authentic, fresh and most importantly the rice was the BOMB. We almost ventured over there last night for date night, “garlicky” tacos and tequila, BUT ended up staying at the restaurant we were at due to a little too much alcohol intake. NEXT time, I am there. Sipping tequila at the long wood bar…I can see myself now.
Check it out. They are part of MARRS (midtown, art, retail, restaurant scene). They are located at 1050 20th Street. Azul is smack dab in the middle next to Luigi’s pizza, and Soloman Dubnick Gallery. They also participate (obviously) in second Saturday and generally have live music. Very cool place, very good food and love the feel inside. I love Mexico and felt as though they really duplicated the place well.
