Smitty's Family Restaurant - Cochrane — Restaurant in Town of Cochrane

While visiting Cochraine after covid19 opening, I stumbled upon this restaurant and told my family we had to try it out.

I'm so glad we did. From the walk in to the point we left we knew we made the absolute right choice! All COVID rules were professionally covered from sanitation station, social distancing signs on floor and walls, masks and taking names and phone numbers from all guests for tracking.

Room was bright, spacious and positively clean, with table card ‘This table is disinfected and sanitized’ … We felt relieved, safe and secure.

Hostess greeted us with warm welcome and big sincere smile. We did not had reservation but it was not an issue as our greeter was polite, courteous, prompt and professional.

We ordered: Damn good pancakes / bacon / maple strop -Smitty’s Original Waffles with strawberry compote, whipped cream -Cobb salad -Bacon cheese burger

Our server, was nothing short of amazing. I want to take the time to share that she took her time with us in explaining the restaurants menu items and gave us some of here professional tastebud opinions on what to eat and drink. She was very nice and treated us like locals. Thank you for making us feel home away of home.

Not much that I need to say that hasn't already been said! This place is the WHOLE package! Food/ ambiance / drinks everything is amazing!  I don't often highly recommend places; but this place I highly recommend. We will be coming back here next time in...

Had a team meeting there yesterday.

Received our breakfast, and discovered a large deep fried hair, and what appears to be a makeshift bandaid with blood. Like if you knick yourself with a razor and out some Kleenex there for it to dry.

The servers were really great. The manager or maybe owner was super apologetic and did not charge us for the food, but did charge us for the drinks. That’s a bit tacky, considering how is it possible we have had two out of three meals with gross and unacceptable things in them!?

Also the server said my “blood and kleenex” was bacon. It was not bacon.

Thanks for reading.

I would like to add that as stated above, there was an apply, and they did comp the food (which we barely ate) and we did not want another meal, given 2/3 plates had nasties in them.

With respect to the Smitty’s comment below, stating they thought they corrected the problem, it doesn’t mean that we would eat there again, and it doesn’t mean that others shouldn’t be aware.

Totally human error happens. Totally! When it’s 2/3 meals that are nasty like that, others should know.

What I didn’t mention is we did leave a large tip, (100.00) that the Manager didn’t want, but we left. It’s not the servers fault. And this more than covered the breakfast we didn’t eat.

We don’t want...

I'll start by saying that breakfast is my favorite meal of the day and I am pretty easy to please. My wife and I both ordered skillets (different ones) and my son had some kind of combo with a Belgian waffle. My son loved the waffle and his breakfast, but my wife and I were very disappointed. The food looked good and the staff were fast and friendly, but the food was bland. Simply no flavour at all, despite adding a good dose of salt and pepper and even some syrup in desperation. Both of us got our skillets with Hollandaise sauce and were looking forward to the food suitably drowned in rich, yellow and super tasty sauce. What arrived was a light grey gravy that had been very lightly drizzled over our scrambled eggs (which were in a flat layer like an omelet). The sauce tasted nothing like a proper Hollandaise sauce and was super bland - no flavor at all. It tasted like plain flour and water and the grey colour didn't help either. We asked the server about it and was told that it was "Our version of a Hollandaise sauce". The Meat Lover's skillet was just a whole lot of undercooked potato and a few pieces of meat. I ended up leaving about half of it, which is almost unheard of for me. Oh well, you live and learn. I won't...