Blue Corn Harvest Bar and Grill Leander — Restaurant in Leander

This is a review of an event that was held at the Leander location of Blue Corn Harvest Bar and Grill. It was a tasting dinner and highlighted spirits from Leanderthal Distillery. I wasn't aware we even had these kinds of events in Leander so I was super surprised and signed us up right away. I was curious about the distillery and I've been to other location of Blue Corn Harvest and enjoyed their food. This tasting menu was really special and every food item on the menu was paired with an appropriate beverage. Needless to say the dinner was for 21 and older only and actually the distillery does not host anyone under drinking age either. This review will focus on the Food side of this event. I'll write a separate review for the adult beverages under the Leanderthal Distillery page. We made it in the nick of time at 7 PM on the dot. A large part of the restaurant was cordoned off and actually even separated by a walkway from the entrance area to the right you would go in for regular dining to the left. they had everything all set up for the tasting menu , we were located in the last seats available which was in a booth with another couple (on the other side of us) they were awesome and we were so glad we met them so that was a big perk as well. They were well known as "Jo" had actually worked at Blue Corn Harvest in Cedar Park for years, and she and her husband were patrons of the distillery. So the ambience was really nice. I am going to talk about the service before I discuss the food. I have to say the service was absolutely impeccable. They had everything well designed- well thought out -and service was expedient as could be with the large number of people they were serving. I was truly amazed!!' The menu was created by Chef Santos Garcia for all the foods and Leanderthal Distillery for the bourbon and vodka beverages . Our First Course consisted of Grass Fed Meatballs with Tomato Vodka Sauce. It was paired with a Lemon Rosemary Refresher. The meatball was soooo flavorful and delicious! The Second Course was Smoked Salmon with Tomato Sofrito in a Vodka Cream Sauce, and was paired with a Classic martini. I've never had salmon cooked this way, and I really enjoyed it. You could taste a slightly smoky flavor, and the fish was cooked perfectly. The Third Course was a Bourbon, Braised Pork Shank, which was lovingly called a "Pork Wing ". It was fall apart, tender and melted in your mouth. it was served with an "Old Fashion Leander." Dessert -consisted of a Texas Pecan Bourbon Pie with Amy's Ice Cream and was served with an Apple Buttered Leander Bourbon Old Fashioned. Check out the pictures below. This was a meal I won't forget for a...

Ordered bbq burger. This is my staple so I eat them at a lot of places around town. They may have better dishes, this review will be updated later if I ever go back and they improve.

Review is mainly for food. Was gross enough I didn't eat over half of both burger and fries, and server never asked if it was okay or if anything was wrong. May go back someday and try something else, but will not order this again.

Burger was ordered meduim-rare and was over cooked. Both patty and fries seemed like they were just frozen reheats. Also had more mayo than bbq sauce. Have had some with a bbq mayo sauce, but this was chipotle mayo on bottom and bbq sauce on top. Was slimey with both. Honestly if you order this just remove the mayo, it with bbq is pretty gross. Seemed like it was cafeteria bbq sauce. Sauce wasn't great either, way to sweet imo.

This bbq burger/ fries combo is priced the same as Yard House bbq burger/ fries combo at 14.99 and IMO the quality is not even kind of close. Yard house is significantly better value and taste. Moonies also has a pretty tasty Bbq burger they call the Western that's similarly priced with fries. Would encourage Blue corn owners/ managers to compare to those two and make some changes. Neither have mayo.

Service was alright. Chips/ salsa came out fast but waited a bit for...

Update of the update: tried the Mac n cheese, I am judgemental when it comes to Mac n cheese as a main dish, compared to others as a main dish I would not recommend. It lacked the precious cheese flavor. I did like the sausage but it wasn't andouille sausage...he had the crispy pork enchiladas, said it was good, but not crispy..server was great. pics added..will come back to try other things.

Update: came again because it was so good the first time. Second time didn't disappoint. He had the breakfast quesadilla which I thought was the best dish. I had the Avacado Eggs Benedict. It too was impressive. See pics for reference. This was our first time back since it was the old catfish place. The atmosphere is impressive and clean. The service has been amazing (we ended up sitting in bar booths with bartender as server) Sunday lunch on 9/24/23. Husband got the special fried chicken and waffles. I got the fish tacos on corn tortilla. Both dishes we delicious. Manager stopped by and checked in on us, said the chicken was airline chicken and we got a lesson on that which was cool. Nothing here I would change or recommend at this time. Excellent find, will come back...