text: We were excited to try the happy hour menu at this new place in Tivoli Village That excitement quickly turned into dismay as we experienced the shitty service and crappy food When we do happy hour although we prefer sitting at a table oftentimes we sit at the bar counter if we are concerned about slow service by the waitstaff Typically the bartenders do a much better job refilling your water and attending to you than the regular waitstaff Unfortunately this was the exception to that rule Frankly this was probably some of the worst service we have ever had sitting at the bar We are very understanding if the barrestaurant is busy but this was not one of those cases The bartender asked if we were interested in the happy hour menu and what we wanted to drink We replied yes and we would start with ice water until we had a chance to peruse the menu He acknowledged us but then proceeded to take care of other bar customers for the next several minutes before eventually serving us ice water We got impatient waiting for him to give us a menu so we grabbed a menu that had been placed aside by one of the other customers sitting a few seats awaynnWe decided to order the Mahi Mahi fish tacos pork al pastor tacos ahi tuna tacos and steak flatbread and save room for the mango tres leches for dessert The tacos came in orders of Everything was halfprice for happy hour except for desserts We were served a complimentary basket of tortilla chips and kinds of salsa mild and spicy The chips were unusually thin and the salsas unremarkable Our order came out pretty quickly about minutes after we ordered The flatbread was huge It was not bad but not great and also the best dish by far The pork al pastor was a distant second and quite disappointing Instead of pieces of pork sliced off a rotating spit it consisted of ground pork marinated with Mexican spices but severely lacking in salt The Mahi Mahi tacos were bland and very skimpy on the fish and drowning in a raw red onion salsa which completely drowned out other flavors The ahi tuna tacos were our least favorite They were unusually sweet and soggy due to the extremely watery and bland guacamole underneath On our way to the restroom we spotted their dessert display tray sitting on a random counter We were hoping that perhaps dessert would bring some minor redemption but the mango tres leches did not look legit so we decided to passnnNow let us continue talking about the service After telling our bartender that we only wanted to drink water he asked if we were sure we did not want a margarita I find this secondguessing and upselling tactic incredibly annoying If I wanted to order an alcoholic drink then I would have ordered one To add insult to injury we had to attempt to get his attention and wave him down numerous times for everything from water refills getting the check and even for eating utensils believe it or not At least a couple of times our water glasses were completely empty and ignored even though he was standing directly in front of us after he finished entering orders into the register Once we finally got our check the bartender actually had the gall to say Sorry about the poor service tonight We just got slammed I hope you understand Oh really Maybe we are both blind because it certainly did not appear busy at all In fact the place was mostly empty Listen if you are going to own up to poor service then do not try to justify it with some BS excuse Hey Luis understand this you are lucky that we still tipped you on the happy hour pricing instead of a big fat goose egg We usually tip on the regular nondiscounted pricing but this guy did not even deserve what we gave himnnIn summary inauthentic Mexican food that is gross to subpar even by Americanized standards combined with abysmal service gets Cantina Laredo stars Since my wife rounded up to stars I am rounding down to Frankly we were shocked by how pathetic both the food and service were We expected that this place would rate at least stars but I guess you never know for sure until you try Never again