Today my family and I took a road trip to the little town of Trinity Texas. I don't believe I have ever visited this town before but it's possible I have for it is hardly a town; many of the shops and businesses are closed and it seems quite historical in a way. Arriving around noon we where on the hunt for a restaurant so googling restaurants and reviewing them on yelp I found "Trinity Cafe" with a 4 star rating and pleasant reviews so I decided this was the place to try. Upon entering this establishment I noticed a hot plate buffet to my right where a waitress was serving a customer the food items he chose through the glass, todays choices being fried catfish with hush puppies, fried okra, potato salad, corn, collard greens and an interesting dish called tater tot casserole (I for one have never seen this dish of ground meat with tator tots and cheese on top) but the man retrieved his plate and delightedly returned to his table. Directly in front of me when entering the restaurant was a salad bar which had fresh crunchy vegetables with all the trimmings of black olives, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes and other things to enhance your salad to your liking. To my left sat several of the locals who seem to eat here often due to the fact that the waitresses knew them by name and would ask about their family members. We where directed from a waitress across the room to "sit anywhere we liked". Finding our seats we where brought a 2 sided paper menu, one side breakfast the other lunch. Scanning the menu we had choices of fish, hamburgers, something called the monster burger caught my attention but I was not feeling adventurous today so continue on; Chicken fried chicken, chicken fingers, chicken fried steak.... That was it my decision was chicken fried steak with one side item my choosing that being tater tots. If you ordered from the buffet you ate quickly but if you choose from the menu your meal was made fresh so it took a little longer. Scanning the room I noticed that this small town eatery was the place to go in this small town, the locals all seemed to know each other and talk amongst themselves about what new movie they wanted to go see; it felt like a step back in time to simpler times and small town living. Our waitress was a nice young lady who after bringing my mothers chicken strips felt they where not near big enough (despite them being the same size as sonics chicken strips) had the cook make her 2 extra. My chicken fried steak was bigger than my hand and I had to get a ''to go" box. My dad ate the catfish, okra and potato salad from the buffet which he said he enjoyed. We sat quite and enjoyed our meal. I think I would return to this establishment if I'm ever in the area again and I'm craving some down home cooking. read more