We'd tried Corner Cafe not long after they opened and it was a tragedy.
Cut nearly 2 years later, and we decided to give it another shot.
As it happened, history repeated itself.
We stopped in for a late breakfast while running errands. The Kid got the usual spaghetti and meatballs (hold the meatballs, because she's odd like that), The Wife got a Denver omelet, hash browns and biscuits/gravy, while I went with the ham & cheese omelet, browns and B/G myself.
In just a matter of minutes, we each were served 2 biscuits and about a half bowl of gravy.
That's it.... just biscuits and gravy.
I'm kind of odd in that I like to put gravy on my omelet or eggs, so I didn't touch mine, nor did the wife. I suspect she was waiting for the rest of her meal as well.
Several long minutes later, the entrees arrived. I remembered our last visit, and that The Kid's meatballs were still frozen in the center when they were served, so I rolled a little spaghetti around and got a bite from deep in the center.
Ice cold.
So that told me the entire mess was just thrown on a plate and warmed up in the microwave. Poorly warmed up at that.
When I pointed it out to our server, she was apologetic and whisked it back to the kitchen, to no doubt be reheated yet again in the microwave. When it returned, the edges of the place were almost blisteringly hot, and the center of the spaghetti only slightly lukewarm. Stirred up, it was warm enough to eat, and I honestly didn't think a third trip through the nukerator was going to help a helluva lot.
The Wife was okay with hers at the time, only to say it wasn't good at all once we had left the place. She's polite like that.
My omelet was terrible. The bacon tasted stale, burnt was no doubt left over from the day before. The ham pieces were scorched terribly and had an overwhelming burnt flavor. The pieces of sausage that I could coax out of the omelet were okay, but there were mighty few of them. The hash browns were fair, being dry and devoid of much flavor at all. The biscuits looked to have come right out of a prebaked package from Sam's bakery, small, dry and pitiful. The gravy was the best thing to be had, and it was lackluster at best.
I must admit, this review was pretty much written after that second bite of spaghetti, because that told me nearly all I needed to know about the standards in the kitchen at the Corner Cafe. Maybe they should change the name to "Chef Mike's" in honor of their head cook, the microwave oven.
I just wish they'd move to a corner farther away, like maybe Montana, so a GOOD diner could take that space. read more