Cardenas: Discover Home-Style Mexican Cooking in Giddings, TX

Absolutely delicious home style cooking . Our favorite breakfast spot!

My girlfriend and I stopped by here on the way to Austin. And OMG. It was amazing. We have honestly talked about how it may be worth an hour trip to just eat here again.

What a great little Mexican restaurant! We wanted an off the wall cozy place to eat after Sherwood Forest, and we found it. Green salsa was awesome, service great, and our food was fantastic! We were hungry and forgot to take pics. BTW...price is right here too!

A very quaint and unassuming place, but packed with joy and happiness inside. The service was great, and the servers were really friendly. The food was really good too. The eggs were cooked perfectly, and they nailed the sunny side up. Some items could use more salt, but it was pretty close to a perfect Mexican breakfast.

Quaint restaurant, looks to be family owned. Ordered the menudo and it was excellent. 2 large tortillas accompanied it, which was just enough to be enjoyed from start to finish. The tortillas were unusually good. I wish I could be a fly on the wall to see how all this is made and learn their ways. This will be my Menudo spot when passing through Giddings from now on.

So, my job has ordered breakfast from this place a couple times. It's been pretty decent food every time they order breakfast burritos. So I got a hankering for that good tasting combination breakfast burrito, so I popped in. It took nearly 15 minutes to get 3 combination burritos in a brown paper bag paid for and in my hand. The food is as good as you would expect it to be. The restaurant experience can only be described as this: being in Jr High School and walking into the cafeteria during a lunch time you don't normally eat in. Every one looking up from their food and staring at you walking in the door. And if the locals eating at the tables didn't notice you open the door of the converted trailer coming in, they sure will when that door closes. Immensely uncomfortable for those of us who don't like attention. I don't like people staring at me. I prefer to be on the fringes of attention and move in silence, anonymously doing what I do in the background. You walk in that door those locals are looking. But the food more than compensates for the awkward atmosphere. Even the staff seemed a little unwelcoming. It was a purely cultural experience and I'm rambling because I'm trying to convey an experience without saying it the way I really want to relate my experience. Sometimes people allow their cultural norms to overlap in their public business environment. There, I said it.

My family and I went to a funeral in Elgin. It was 9:00 am. We were driving around looking for a good Mexican breakfast. Every restaurant we passed was closed I googled for a Mexican place that was open. It mentioned Cardenas. When we arrived we were hesitant. It looked like a house. My sister said " mom and pop" restaurant were the best. Needless to say that was the best food I've ever tasted. I love menudo but no place makes it like my mom. Well mom - you got competition . We will be back

Do not let the exterior fool you! This was some of the best Mexican food, that I have ever eaten. It was delicious and the service was excellent! My only complaint is it located too far from my house.