El Tajin — Restaurant in Marshall

My family & I ate here before the Christmas Parade. (My 1st time there) Was definitely very very busy, to say the least. Being a new restaurant in town, I think not anticipating how extremely busy & chaotic it could be on this special night having 2 servers workin front of the house & 1cook workin back of the house/kitchen area. They all worked pretty well together and as quickly as they could. Customers just kept coming in & waiting patiently for a table to be cleared. Dirty tables was piling up, due to the servers continuously taking orders & running orders as they came up in the cooks window, etc, etc. So I couldn't help but to offer my help with clearing & cleaning the tables for them as they became empty while I waited for my food to come. So with all that being said & still considering the sadness & stress of the pandemic.... It's really an amazing humble feeling to witness the beauty and positivity of others (masked/unmasked) coming together still left in the world today. It does exist! We will be returning again for another try. Marshall really is a great hometown.

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*My "Hats Off" to all the dedicated open businesses & employees working during the Marshall Christmas Parade Crowd this last Monday!!!...

First off, originally ordered our food at 6:40, then waited patiently for 35 minutes at our table without our server checking in on us once. We had to call over our waitress to tell her that every other table around us got food before us even though they ordered 30 minutes after us. We finally received our food at 7:50 after speaking with the staff many times. After waiting an hour and 10 minutes for food you’d think they’d be able to give you a discount or take items off the bill however they said they are not able to do that. The only thing they could offer was free ice cream…. We asked for our order To-Go at the 40 minute mark and when we opened up the food once we got home we were missing several things that we payed for/ordered. (The food tasted good and we talked to the owners now so I’m bumping...

The food is tasty, and the service was friendly and fast. The portions are a bit small. The torta I ordered was on a small off the shelf bun, which was different from the last one I ordered, and the serving of fruits or came with was like a small order from a fat food chain. Not worth the price for me. The guacamole was also a very small serving. For $4.50 or so, it was just larger than a golf ball. Not comparable to other restaurants' serving sizes. It looked like a side of guacamole rather than an appetizer.

My wife's chimichanga meal was a little better in terms of portion size, but, again, still a tad small for the price.

Again, the food was tasty and the service was good. The value might not be there though if you're used to the Mexican restaurants in...