El Patron Family Mexican Restaurant

This has become our "Go To" restaurant for Tex-Mex style food.  Portions are large, the food is tasty, and they even sneak an occasional Mexico-style dish onto the menu or specials board.  Molcajete.  Try it, you'll like it.  Tortas ... what Latinos would replace the hamburger with if they owned McDonalds.  It's ALL Good!

My family and I have eaten here many times and this was the last time we will ever eat here.   First after we got our drinks and chips we waited over 20 minutes for our waiter to comes back just to take our food order. While waiting for our food we were asked if we wanted more chips so another server went and got us our chip, my husband witnessed the server get our chips by using his BARE hands.  After noticing this we watched many other bus boys clean tables and then go get chips without washing their hands or putting on gloves.  I think the most disturbing thing of our visit was we watched a waiter fill another tables drinks and take a sip out of the two drinks and then serve them to customers.  Nasty!!!!  Got our food shortly after.   While eating,  I watched the wait staff  refill chips in the warmer and fill baskets with a double dose of hand juice.  This was our favorite Cornelia restaurant.   Time to try something else.

The only reason El Patron gets a 3 in my book is the service. It was incredibly slow and our waiter took his time between visits. The food was actually very good and the drinks are spot on. Might have just been a bad visit, but that is the consistent knock I have heard from others as well.