Prospect Cafe & Trophy Room — Restaurant in Central Point

This is a review exclusively of the cafe side of the building

This is definitely an example of a country cafe - meaning that a lot of the locals eat here & use this place as a hang out. The cafe side of this establishment doesn't have any taxidermy animals - I'd suspect that the taxidermy stuff would frighten any children that would visit otherwise! The cafe side had a small staff the day I visited - just a hostess and the cook. I had to eat outside because I had a dog with me. They had an empty half of a milk jug outside for dogs, and a local man offered to fill it up with some water for my dog, which was very nice. I was told that the single hostess couldn't really easily accommodate outside diners, so I placed the order inside (she did bring the food out to us). The sprinkler system came on for the outdoor plants while we were sitting there & we got misted with the water because the outdoor seating is very close to the plants. Thankfully we hadn't yet received our food or that would've been more unpleasant. The food itself was quite good! The salad actually was really surprising because it contained delicious pickled beets, freshly grated carrots, and mixed greens (no iceberg here!). My partner got the chili cheese burger, which was so large that it really could've been shared between 2 people. I got the mushroom swiss burger, and the buttered & grilled bun really helped the burger shine. The chocolate malt milkshake was also delicious.

I'm knocking off a star for the automatic plant waterer being timed to come on during business hours - meaning that anyone sitting outside will get misted; as much as I appreciate the misting on a hot summer day, I don't think I'd like getting water all over my food. I also am knocking off another star for something that confused and grossed me out a bit. On the side of the building there's a device attached to the building, not sure what it was for, that had a drive belt attached to it & a large metal(?) sheet hanging out of it covered in what I believe to be black decaying old grease. I believe that was what was attracting all the flies, as we had to bat away quite a few flies while sitting outside. Now granted, I could be totally wrong and that device might've had motor oil all over that sheet and the flies were just there because they smelled food outside on a hot summer day. I didn't take a picture of the device, but that device really needs to be cleaned. I'd also suggest making sure that there's nothing in/around the building contributing to the flies. The cafe part of the building itself looks like it needs repairs. I know that this is a small town and that there's only so much money for these things with limited clientele, but I wanted to bring these up as something that I definitely noticed as a customer & fixing these/doing what you can would improve the cafe, at least in 1 customer's eyes. I do wish this cafe all the best. I love supporting local businesses, and only bring up critiques to hopefully help improve things.

PS - I did appreciate the management's cheeky signs about COVID on their doors, and I did go into the bar side and thought that the whimsical arrangement of the taxidermy items were a hoot. So definitely management has a...

Stopped in Propect for a quick "stretch our legs" on a very long cross country road trip... Thought we would try this restaurant.

My buddy ordered a burger and soup (chicken dumpling) and coffee. I wasn't as hungry, and went with a salad.

I wasn't thrilled with the salad just because what the menu said it came with, it didn't (guess they were out of beets and cheese) and it was quite small.

However, the coffee was excellent (and bottomless), the soup was very good (nice and thick) and the burger was amazing! Superb look, taste, smell and even the texture (perfectly cooked with just a bit of crispness) was all great...I regretted ordering salad...but how was i supposed to know the burgers were so good??

Well now you know. And here's some...

We were camping at Crater Lake RV park around the corner. After a day of hiking we decided to have dinner out. We had burgers and they were delicious! Hand pressed patties - lettuce tomato and onion. Frys we’re good too and we enjoyed the Pale Ale that was on tap. The next night we decided we weren’t cooking again! I enjoyed the French Dip sandwich with a side salad. (They cook their own roasts). Hubby has the grilled chicken salad. Great portions - the beets in the salad were a great addition. We were too full for dessert, so came back the next day and had the homemade apple pie ala mode. Delicious! Place has a nice hometown feel, was clean and the food and service were great! ...