The Sewing Mom

Lunch at Joe T. Garcia’s – Fort Worth, TX: signage, originally uploaded by TheLunchBelle.

We spent the weekend in Keller, Texas watching softball. For anyone who doesn’t know, Keller is just north of downtown Fort Worth. Following our last game on Saturday evening, we were invited to go to dinner at a famous Mexican restaurant near the Fort Worth Stockyards. It was an intriguing offer, we were starving and we headed out!

Joe T Garcia’s takes up an entire block, probably the largest restaurant I’ve ever been in. As soon as we pulled into the back parking lot we saw a huge line of people waiting to get in. They don’t take reservations and they don’t accept credit cards, but people flock here daily for a choice of either fajitas or enchiladas, 2 of my favorites, so we decided to go with the flow and give it a try.

We waited in line I’m sure for over an hour. Thankfully, they have an margarita bar set up outside that sells pitchers of margaritas to those standing in line. It definitely helped pass the time and we had good conversation with our softball friends.

We were finally seated in one of the many patios that have been added on to the original restaurant over the years. The weather was beautiful so it was nice to be sitting outside, although they do allow smoking and that finally drove us to leave after eating, even though we were enjoying our company.

The food was decent and served family style, but I think people have continued to come here for over 70 years because of the atmosphere, not necessarily the food. Okay, they do make great margaritas!

I’m not sure we will return to Joe T Garcia’s, but it was worth the experience, at least once! I would like to go back down to the Stockyard area again sometime. There were many shops and other restaurants that I wouldn’t mind checking out.