"That wasn't bad" does not qualify as a strong endorsement, but that cannot fully help you to appreciate how "OK" this place was for dinner tonight.
Before I go further, let me say that Jaspers is a bar/grill in the middle of nowhere. They are literally the only game in that town to eat unless you county the Sunday breakfasts served at the local church. To come in with high expectations means to leave disappointed.
The first sign that we might have a problem came when I grabbed a high chair that was sticky on every surface. We cleaned it with baby wipes, but that didn't make it any less sticky.
The menu has an OK variety, so there was hope. I ordered the BLT with no tomatoes and the waffle fries with sour cream. Others in our party ordered a chicken bacon ranch sandwich, a chicken wrap, and both fries and chips. My grandson had the Mac n cheese with fries.
When the food arrived, I was immediately disappointed by the paltry amount of thinly-sliced bacon on the BLT. I can only compare it to my last BLT at Trailside in Weston, WI where they used thick cut bacon and plenty of it. There was so little bacon on this sandwich that it was tough to taste the bacon - it merely teased bacon flavor. The waffle fries were also devoid of flavor. A pretty meh meal, but with a funky stomach today, maybe that was best.
My wife enjoyed her chicken bacon ranch sandwich. She said it tasted great, and she also enjoyed the homemade chips that Jaspers makes right on sight. My daughter ordered a chicken wrap with tenders, no tomatoes and ranch. The whole meal she lamented the lack of chicken in her chicken wrap. And she picked at a few fries before declaring them tasteless.
I'll let my grandson's meal highlight the review. He had Mac n cheese with fries. For the Mac n cheese, he loved it. I will qualify this by saying it was kraft Mac n cheese and we did not feed him lunch. He may have eaten his own arm at that point. But even at 17 months he knows when food does not taste good. He ate one of his fries, but when I broke the next fries into pieces, he put one piece in his mouth and immediately spit it into his had. He then proceeded to place every piece of fry back into the basket. He DID polish off his Mac n cheese.
So, a giant MEH for Jaspers. They are called Jaspers Food and Spirits, but I recommend focusing on the Spirits. They didn't make the Kraft Mac n Cheese and it turned out fine. I'm sure the beer is ice cold and I encourage you to indulge in those. read more