Agave Birrieria on Orpheus Avenue in Encinitas's Leucadia district serves traditional birria — beef slow-stewed in chile pepper and adobo spice broth — from a counter kitchen built into the Ways Chevron station at the corner of Orpheus and Leucadia Boulevard. The restaurant launched in spring 2021 under the same ownership as Kotija Jr. Taco Shop, a North County chain with four locations and a multi-decade operating history, bringing established Encinitas Mexican food supply lines to a birria-focused format alongside Hamburger Hut's charbroiled counter service in the same Leucadia commercial zone. The birria taco build dips corn tortillas in the house consomé before griddling, producing the signature reddish tint and crisp edge, then serves each order with a side cup of the stewing broth for tableside dipping. The menu extends beyond birria into carne asada, al pastor, camarones a la diabla burritos, and asada fries, with all aguas frescas blended in-house — a scratch-beverage practice shared by Biergarden Encinitas's house-pour program on North Coast Highway 101 in Leucadia. The facility holds a San Diego County Environmental Health score of 98 out of 100, with the birria braise running a low-temperature stew cycle of six-plus hours in covered steel vessels to break down collagen and render the beef fork-tender before shredding.