Cardona Authentic Mexican Restaurant

Bad food, bad service… Attended a birthday party there, and had to handout the silverware, chips and salsa myself because the waiter would disappear for long stretches of time. He could’ve had a huge tip, if he’d only been present.

Located at the Fort Worth Stockyards Station, the uninspiring food at this Mexican restaurant is further marred by understaffing and excessively slow food delivery. It was a beautiful day and eating at the patio out in front seemed like it would make for a perfect lunch experience. Our waitress was friendly, but she was clearly overworked and covering too many tables. When we first got there, which was pretty early at 11:20AM, she was right on it, but as it got more crowded, the service level went down dramatically. I could see her running at a hectic pace. It also seemed like she had to do nearly everything, with no other help, and even the busboys were scarce. Funny thing was the inside of the restaurant was nearly empty. There is no way they could have handled more guests. Their one saving grace is they give you a huge basket of chips, but it really sucks that you end up stuffing yourself on chips because they are so slow. When the food did finally arrive, it was pretty average.
In searching Google for their phone number, I find that the Consumer Health Division of the Fort Worth Public Health Department only gives it 9 demerits for an inspection on September 7 – 13, 2006. So that means there are at least 20 other restaurants in Forth Worth I stand a bigger chance of dying from…
To be fair, I did see that they have only been open since July, 2006, so maybe they are still working their kinks out.