POBLANO MEXICAN GRILL & BAR – Restaurant

Poblano Mexican Grill & Bar sits on McMullen Booth Road with a patio that stays busy well past the point most Clearwater strip-mall rooms empty out. The kitchen works the full sit-down Mexican canon - tacos, enchiladas, burritos, quesadillas - and the bar backs it with a deep tequila shelf and margaritas made by hand rather than poured from a machine. Diners come back for the ingredients more than the novelty: the flavors read as genuinely Mexican rather than Tex-Mex, and the staff is the part people mention unprompted. Long hours, big portions, and a bar worth arriving early for.

Cuisine: Restaurant