Highlighted by Guy Fieri on Triple-D, Sabroso! Mexican Kitchen is located in Garden Grove, as a corner restaurant in the Harbor Plaza. It is very much an upscale Mexican restaurant, with a large and gorgeous dining area with a large bar and open kitchen. My wife and I stopped in for lunch before going to the nearby Angel's stadium for a ballgame, and found the food to be decent and the service to be excellent.
It's a busy plaza, but the large parking lot provided plenty of parking spots. We were greeted at the door by our soon-to-be server, Andrea, and she was engaging and informative throughout our stay. This is the sort of hostess that I take recommendations from, so proceeded that way. Our waters were kept full throughout, and numerous servers stopped by to make sure we were OK. The food came out in stages, all clearly made-to-order, and staged really well.
Chips and Salas ($3) - not complementary, but having free refills. It's worth getting for the price, as the chips are all freshly made from the homemade corn tortillas. And the two salsas were good.
Signature Tamale ($9) - it seems expensive for just one tamale, but it was really good, with a good ratio of masa and carnitas. Two - three would have filled me up.
Taquitos ($15) - 3 short but fat deep-fried wrapped tortilla around shredded chicken. My wife enjoyed it, especially dipped in the salsa from our appetizers.
Camarones En Crema ($25 plus $3 for Diabla) - adding the Diabla was a mistake for me (I asked for light diabla...if this is low, I don't want to know what medium is), and I paid for it about an hour later. But the dish itself was good, with a strong mushroom flavor, consisting of 7 really good jumbo tail-on shrimp, cooked perfectly (with that light chewiness I seek). It came with an OK rice and refried beans. My original intention was to get the garlic version of this, but will probably go with more tamales next time.
They do accept reservations, no longer through Yelp, but through one of the POS providers (Toast I think). read more
