Taco Tikal Mexican Bar & Restaurant

DO NOT LET THE 4.7 STARS FOOL YOU. Whoever took over this restaurant has seriously let it go. Terribly slow service. They do not offer chips and salsa like every other Mexican restaurant. I ordered cheese dip and it was awful. It might as well have been cold watered down milk. We waited over 45 minutes for 2 simple dishes. Taco salad and lunch fajitas. There was nobody else in the restaurant. We asked for salsa and the waitress brought out this nasty looking taco sauce. Do yourself a favor and go anywhere else in Cartersville for mexican food. This place is not it.

I had seen a poster advertising them. They actually were a different business (a Mexican restaurant), got bought (the fella helping out was very friendly (felt like I was visiting a buddy)), changed the name and added to the menu. It was quite warm inside (and was during the summer soo....). The decoration and lighting is your run of the meal Mexican restaurant. The addition was Indian food and Indo-Chinese. The Indo-Chinese basically added different variations of fried rice. The Indian food on the other hand is a good variety. Now a strength and weakness is that they have different cooks for the different types of food. One cook does the Mexican food and a different one does the Indian. Indian food is known for being spicy and I've went to other Indian restaurants and their level

I don't know what to say. My wife and I went in for what we expected to be good Mexican food. The place was a ghost town 🚩, the service was slow but not painfully slow, the burrito (only one burrito option) is apparently served with french fries (why???) 🚩, and both mine and my wife's meals packed any sort of flavor or seasoning. 🚩 It was edible, but...we couldn't detect a gram of salt or pepper, let alone cumin or adobo or cayenne. Didn't detect any onions or peppers or anything else to add flavor. The beans and tortillas tasted like they came straight out of their respective can or pack. 🚩 I hate being so critical that it comes off mean, but we were honestly so disappointed. The workers were nice and seemed genuinely disappointed that we didn't like the food, which makes it even harder

Everything was absolutely perfect! Taste, portions, price, attention all the Time. If you want to remember a taste from Mexico, this is need to be your first option to come. Pastor Tacos and Pozole, love it! 🫶🏻 Thank you El Tikal, see you soon 🌮

The owner patiently explained the Indian dishes to us since we had never had Indian food before. There was no room for improvement at Taco Tikal! We will be back and highly recommend!