El Cerro Azul, Powhatan

Spanish for “the blue hill,” El Cerro Azul takes its name from the highlands surrounding the owners' hometown of Degollado, Mexico, whose fields of deep-indigo agave reward the patience of waiting seven years for the plants to ripen. The menu promises an equally colorful pay-off with traditional Mexican eats such as golden-brown pork carnitas, marinated-chicken chipotle, and rib-eye-steak campestre smothered in grilled veggies and onions. An ample selection of vegetarian choices stuffs chimichangas with mushrooms and organic spinach, and burritos with squash. Lobster tails in tequila-butter sauce, however, offers a flavor of Mexican cuisine that is rarely enjoyed outside of a lobster's bachelor party.