La Huerta Grill — Restaurant in Broken Arrow

One bean at a time………

La Huerta is a large Mexican restaurant cartel based in Arkansas, with many restaurants scattered across the northeastern part of that state. There is one in Poteau, OK. Now they are in Broken Arrow to get a piece of the already overloaded Mexican restaurant market. They are a good solid Mexican restaurant but don’t expect to be blown away. Most all of their restaurants are rated 4.0 – 4.3 on Google. I have dined at several and found that to be a reasonable assessment of the food and service. Most Yelp reviews of La Huerta’s locations are not as generous with the stars. The new restaurant in Broken Arrow is in that ballpark of Google’s 4 star rating.

The interior of the restaurant is pretty much as it was when Casa Grande operated in the building. It is a nice roomy modern dining facility with a bar. A great building, large parking lot and a perfect high exposure accessible location for most any type of restaurant.

The food.. Ask for salsa picante. It had a fresh taste (peppers, cilantro, garlic, etc.) with a nice level of heat. The mild salsa is tomato and garlic. My wife had a “pick two” combo from the lunch special: a relleno and a tamale w/beans and rice. The relleno was very good. I had the Enchiladas La Huerta: 3 chicken enchiladas with a habanero cream sauce. This was a light flavorful plate of well-seasoned chicken, rolled in corn tortillas and covered with bright orange mild habanero sauce. It came with a small bowl of charro beans and rice.

The service was disappointing, but adequate. The waitress took our order. Our food was served by someone from the kitchen. My bowl of beans came without a spoon. Our waitress had vanished after taking our order. In the meantime, I found a long-handled iced tea spoon in the tableware packet. Not the ideal tool to eat the bean soup with. When the waitress did finally show up to deliver the check, I was done. I had eaten the bowl of beans with the small, long-handled tea spoon…pretty much….one bean at a time.

Not my top choice for Mexican food in Broken Arrow, but it might be yours. Be sure to ask for a spoon before the...

I believe this is the harshest review I have given on a restaurant. Taking into consideration we went on a Tuesday at 6:00 And it was $1.99 tacos and margaritas, it was extremely busy. But with that being said we walked in at 6:00 we're seated immediately and we're given chips and salsa. It was 6:20 before we ever received water or a drink order. We all took advantage of The taco special and three of the five took advantage of the margaritas. We received our food at 6:45 after ordering two street tacos each. I included pictures of the "Frozen" margarita which was served complete liquid not even ice in it! We were told we had the choice of carne asada steak tacos or shredded chicken. I ordered one carne asada and one shredded chicken The carne asada was hamburger meat and the chicken was dried up pieces not shredded. The tacos were so bland there was no seasoning whatsoever on the meat This was the consensus of all five diners. I had to add a lot of salt and lime to try to get some sort of flavor. We had to keep flagging our waiter down to even get a refill on water, napkins, chips, anything we needed. I understand it was dinner time It was Taco Tuesday So I can give a little on the wait time but the fact that a frozen margarita was served completely liquid with no ice not once did they ask us if we needed anything else, and the food was so bland had it not been a $1.99 I would have just given them back. Upon looking around the floors were completely filthy napkins on the floor, crushed chips everywhere like no one had cleaned since they opened. Hopefully this has not been a consistent practice and could be an off night but will not be rushing back anytime soon...

Went to La Huerta Grill for the first time tonight for dinner in response to heavy advertising for “Taco Tuesday” with low priced Margaritas and street tacos. We were seated soon after entering lobby and seated in the bar. We chose a pub table because the booth we were given had a rocking table. It was corrected quickly but we liked the pub table since we were established. Rigo and Ramon both took care of us through dinner. I have a severe allergic reaction to Cilantro; and in many restaurants were it is usually in lots of food items and limits my choices, Rigo and Ramon made sure my order did not have any. They brought me queso while my wife had their salsa that she said was very good. They even had fresh guacamole made for me without Cilantro and it was some of the best I’ve had! We really liked the food. My Camarones a la Diabla, with 3 tortillas, was very spicy as expected, and my ala carte al Pastor street taco was excellent. Service was very good [the right hand did know what the left hand was doing] and other staff was attentive too. The young girl at the counter at the entrance made fresh tortillas, cleaned used menus and seated new arrivals too—impressive attention to details all around. Mauricio Sanchez, singing at the fireplace, started right after 6 PM and had a nice voice and was pleasant to hear while there. We...