The Log Cabin Café — Restaurant in Red Lodge

Really, I'm not making this up. They actually gave us yesterdays meat loaf; dry, tasteless, and hard with no ketchupy sauce on it. Just a pile of grey sad flesh.

Funny thing is, they replaced it with an edible version when we complained so they had both today's AND yesterdays back there..

All in all, though, it turned out to be one of the most lacklustre meatloafs ever.

Yeah, I know....who the hell expects luster in a meatloaf? Hey, if you put $13 meatloaf on your menu it better have luster, is all I can say.

The rolls were so hard that we ,and the teenagers at the table next to us, were laughing hysterically. The kid kept stabbing it with a knife till his mother got annoyed and told him to knock it off.

My family got some good laughs, in fact we got good belly laughs at both the horrendous food and the spotty service so two stars seems fair.

To be honest, my daughter did seem to enjoy her burger but I know enough about buns to spot a cheap food service bun from across the table.

I ain't buyin' it....she hasn't been around long enough to discern quality from quantity.....maybe some day.

My chicken dish was totally lacking the asparagus as promised. I didn't have the inner fortitude to raise the issue with the waiter...I just suffered in silence choking down the rubbery, overcooked, salty yard bird.

Hey, the place looks amazing. The log cabin is pretty cool.

I have a feeling that it's a case of an absentee owner under-staffing with poorly prepared help.

Those guys were overwhelmed with the responsibility of preparing food they didn't grow up eating. I assume they were guest workers filling vacancies the home town kids wouldn't fill.

There probably aren't any home town kids....this is just a wide spot on the road outside the gate to Yellowstone after all.

Poor guys are getting a bad introduction to America. ...

This place had an amazing presentation making us think we we're about to get a great small town meal. We came in and it took a while to figure out if we we're supposed to wait to be seated or seat ourselves. When we sat, it took a little while for our server to come over. We gave our order and took quite a while to get some hash browns, eggs, and pancakes. Seemingly basic items to cook. Coffee was kept topped off to be fair. Our friends did not want peppers and onions in their hashbrowns, but apparently they are premade and can not be separated. My eggs came out half cold. The pancakes on my friends plate were undercooked and doughy. My girlfriend's french toast was incredibly dry and very difficult to eat, even with syrup. My pancakes were pretty good at least. When it came time to pay, the waiter brought out a single check so we asked him to split it. You'd have thought we asked him to complete a math exam by the look on his face and hesitation. After a few awkward seconds, our friends just took care of it altogether and we picked up their lunch later. The next day we kinda went out of our way to find another option, and would again next...

The inside has the atmosphere you expect of a restaurant out in the middle of the country....lots of animals on the wall, not very well lit with bad country music playing. Waiter started off by telling us that they did not have half of the things on the menu which isn't the best start. Asked to use their bathroom to wash up before dinner and their bathroom was under renovation so had to go across the street to the general store. I had ordered the meatloaf and my gf ordered the mountain burrito. Her burrito wasn't half bad but you could tell both dishes had been in the microwave to heat them up. My meatloaf was pretty dry and came on a big piece of tomato and lettuce. It would be nice if it came with some kind of sides other than salad, soup or chips. It was $12 after all. Got the check and not once did I get a refill on my drink which is odd considering at that point there was only one other couple there. It may still be early in the season but I was not impressed to...