By END
October 7, 2009
It's Birthday Time!! Not mine but a good friend's. When you're the Birthday Girl, you can pick anywhere you wanna go, and do anything you wanna do without complaints from your friends. So when my girlfriend suggested Margaritas, I plastered that fake smile on my face and said great! Read about my love-hate, mostly hate relationship with Mr. Cuervo here. Birthday Girl wanted to try Margaritas, located close to Lambeau Field.
As we pulled up, my first thought was that this was a corporate owned restaurant, but the ladies in my entourage told me that it was locally owned. There is NOTHING wrong with corporate owned bars/restaurants whatsoever; it's just usually I tend to prefer the locally owned ones more. The prices, the atmosphere, servers and bartenders are more laid back and to my liking in individually owned places. This is only my opinion; please don't yell at me for preferring smaller places. Now that my disclaimer is out of the way, let's begin with the good stuff--
We decided to sit on the bar side, it seemed a bit more lively and remember what Bday Girl wants, Bday girl gets. Our server came over almost immediately and told us about the drink specials for the day, 22oz. margaritas for only $5. Oh joy. Tequila. And lots of it. (Do you hear the sarcasm?) I asked the server her favorite and ordered the Prickly Pear on the rocks. A frozen raspberry, a frozen pomegranate and a pomegranate on the rocks were also ordered. While waiting for the drinks to arrive, I was quietly pumping myself up for the torture I was about to endure, tequila does not like me and I'm not really sure why. The moment of truth arrived a few minutes later and we all cheered to the occasion. I timidly took a sip from my fishbowl and was met with a sweet surprise. I couldn't taste the tequila at all! And there was plenty of liquor in there; I was quite tipsy about half way finished with my drink. The pomegranate flavor one was more than okay and the raspberry was tasty too. If you don't like any of those flavors then try something else. Margaritas had 26 total flavors to tickle your fancy. I was told the Sangria Swirl was another popular pick. All of them can be frozen and 23 flavors can be made rocks style. I inquired about the beers on tap and they had Dos Equis! I never see that anywhere and yes I realize that this is a Tex Mex joint but I still never see that brew on tap. They also had New Glarus, Miller Lite, Bud Light, Coors Light, Landshark, and Blue Moon. 
And their bottle choices were the same plus other favorites such as Corona and Corona Light. Their liquor supply was fully stocked; they could easily mix you up whatever you had in mind.
Because Margaritas has the whole Corporate vibe going on, their bar area was completely set up for the sports enthusiast. Big flat screen TV's were across the bar area so you won't miss a catch/hit/kick/punch. Margaritas is a unique Mexican Cantina, with a relaxed atmosphere, great service and a sports bar area. Oh yeah, and the margaritas will definitely entice you to come back again and again.
