SAGRADO COCINA AND BAR — Restaurant in Waco

BEAUTIFUL atmosphere! DELICIOUS food! EXCELLENT prices! GREAT birthday celebrations!

My family met there to celebrate an adult birthday. We had a WONDERFUL time!

Each of us found our food DELICIOUS! So much flavor! Loved the reddish salsa. The green was too hot for some of us.

I ordered the beef fajita street tacos. The fajitas were cut small and INCREDIBLY FLAVORFUL. (Other family members commented positively on the smaller pieces of meat and that it made it more flavorful.) The beef in my tacos made me want to order fajitas next time! The 3 tacos filled my smaller appetite, so I gave the a- bit-too-spicy-for-me beans to my I-Iove-spicy-food grandson. Though my plate was smaller and lighter than others, with all of the chips/salsa I ate, I left full.

My grandson's quesadillas looked AMAZING!

They have a bar, but because our family doesn't drink, I can't review that, only to say their birthday celebration act is the BEST any of us have ever seen. "3 shots". It was disappointing that they didn't have a non-alcoholic version.

THE SERVICE. Though a really nice and seemingly attentive server, they did mess up most everyone's order. We didn't know where the failure lay. Wrong rice/sides, forgotten items, etc. They quickly responded. We are NOT complainers, and ARE patient people. One of us had to wait through half of his meal to have it corrected. There were only 7 of us, so we were NOT a huge group. But, staff quickly got the mistakes taken care of. The owner/manager came around to table, and I think thanked us for our patience. It was a week night, so the restaurant was NOT full. Our guess was that they were training new staff in the back.

Parking was great. Beautiful area of town! And, they have a nice patio!

Overall, an EXCELLENT experience. This restaurant is now HIGH on our list of places to eat, especially considering PRICES and ATMOSPHERE. And we HIGHLY recommend it.

If you're finicky, or have intolerant people in your party, either be prepared mentally, or skip the restaurant for now. If you CAN extend grace to a new restaurant, it's sure to be an enjoyable experience! THIS one is a STANDOUT and a keeper! Either way, they deserve patience and respect because they are providing an EXCELLENT product.

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I’ve come to this place about a half a dozen times or more since it opened this year. It’s great, food is wonderful and I haven’t had anything I didn’t like. Service has always been on point and we’ve gotten in and out quickly. Today we went and took my parents for their first time and we got seated pretty quick and waited on promptly but our waitress was not attentive at all after that. We had to ask 4 others passing by for refills, extra salsa, refill on chips which normally in past our food was out before a second basket of chips was needed. Once our food came out, which took forever, our waitress never came back to check on us. Ebelyn is who our waitress was today and it was the worst service I have ever experienced, I have been a waitress in the past and I was very disappointed in the service received today. She never came back to ask us how the food was, if everything came out ok, or if we needed refills. Then once we got our checks we both had an extra fee added to our entree which has never happened, all entrees are flat fees like $12.00 or $14.00 (no cents are added on) my husband’s was $13.00 as the menu said but mine was $12.48 instead of $12.00 like menu said and for my parents it was $14.56 and $13.00 which again, this has never happened previously when we have come. There’s also a note at bottom of receipt that has a service fee of 3.99% added if you use a card which the last time I went they said they did away with that. But then the manager we spoke to today said that that’s what the extra fee added to the entrees was but did not add up to a 3.99%. Overall I love this place just today was not a good experience and our waitress needs to do...

I used to really love this place, but my last two visits have been very disappointing. I have recommended it to a lot of friends and brought my staff here for lunches, so I really hope they can make some improvements. The food is pretty good, but the service has really really fallen off. I am not sure how the sections in the restaurant are divided up but our server seemed to be all over the restaurant. This could mean they are just very understaffed. Even still, yesterday our server had no sense of urgency at all….it took over 25 minutes for our margarita pitcher to make it the table after ordering it and could tell it had been just sitting at the bar for a while. Most of the ice had melted and after a few sips, the drinks were completely watered down and getting warm. We would have ordered more but decided not to after that. When the meal came out, it was just barely warm like it had also been sitting in the window for a while. After finishing, the server came over to clear our plates and we asked for the checks. It took over 15 minutes for her to bring the checks. We waited another 5 minutes to give her credit cards before deciding to just put down cash so we could leave. We ordered waters, one pitcher and 4 entrees and we’re there for nearly 2 hours. Adding some food and drink runners some shifts could help solve some of the problems. I do hope they take feedback from customers as an opportunity to make some changes and hope to get to update my review soon.

side note not about the restaurant. The parking lot across the street is now paid parking and they...