Trapper's Cafe — Restaurant in Taylor

Really gross food.

The ambiance is like eating at a grandmas kitchen, but not the grandma you have fond memories with. This is the great aunt who didn’t take care of her home, has awful lighting and decor, and odd smells everywhere. Even the glass jugs and plastic cups used for water look dirty.

It’s 13 dollars for a chicken strip basket, but getting fries costs another few dollars. So it’s literally $13 dollars for 4 little chicken strips that are the same quality as Burger Kings. That gross blended up chicken with white food dye that definitely isn’t an actual cut of chicken breasts that’s stringy.

The chicken fried steak dinner was $20. It comes with canned green beans, fries, and the smallest bowl of soup you’ve ever seen. The fries and soup were actually good. The green beans were clearly straight from a can, and the chicken fried steak was sour and unseasoned. Not only was it not good enough to enjoy, but it was actively gross. I could only eat 2 bites of it. My wife could only eat 1 bite of the chicken strips.

All in all, we left still hungry, with bad tastes in our mouth (not a metaphor, literal bad sour tastes in our mouths), and $39 less in our wallets (not including the tip which I begrudgingly gave despite the horrendous food because it’s not the servers fault).

The server was kind enough, but we only saw her for a total of 60 seconds during our time there. The other girl who rang up our bill clearly didn’t want to be there either, and she hard stared while I wrote down the tip amount which I didn’t care for.

I’m not exaggerating when I say this was genuinely the worst restaurant that I’ve ever eaten at. You can have better food at McDonalds (yes, I mean that) that is half the cost.

I see that sometimes business owners will try to reach out to reviewers to correct their bad experience, but the only correction here would be a full refund which would never happen.

This place needs...

Went to Trappers Tuesday morning for breakfast. Had the breakfast pork chop special w hash browns soggy, oily, some kind of fake butter. The pork chop was strange... unlike any I've ever seen; more like a half inch slice of ham with the skin. My wife's sausage on her breakfast plate was hard and very unappetizing. I noticed the four people in my party all declined to eat their toast, so I tried a bite and realized why nobody cared for their toast; perhaps stale w the fake butter.

My mother ordered a bowl of oatmeal that they dropped off filled all the way to the brim, so she had to request a second bowl so she could remove enough oatmeal to be able to add milk, sugar, etc. I overheard my mother say the oatmeal had a gummy texture and was unappealing.

I tried a bite of my Dad's pancake and it was large and pretty good. The eggs seemed to have been properly cooked.

Lastly, we ordered two slices of pie that we shared amongst ourselves: The apricot and the lemon cream. We all enjoyed the pie and that's why my rating is two stars, instead of one, because of the pie.

As we were leaving the establishment I tried to have some constructive criticism for the cashier who was also our waitress. I spoke to her in a friendly tone, hoping for a response along the lines of "maybe we'll work on that", but her snappish response was an irritated "Plenty of people love our food!" and she blew off what I had to say about the fake butter and other oddities.

I would never visit this place again, but my wife says she would possibly go there if she was...

My family and I eat out quite a bit, as it's our family time after a busy work/school week. Neither one of us have ever had a very good experience at Trappers the few times we have been here but wanted to give it another chance. WELL.... nothing has changed. The restaurant was completely empty on a Saturday afternoon, not a good sign. The waitress was very non personable and never asked if we needed refills or how we were doing. The food prices are steep which is the case everywhere but we had to pay 3 dollars for every side we got...cottage cheese, side of gravy and every extra ingredient on the burgers is extra $. The food is alright, not exceptional. The hubbs got a burger and fries with a drink, my kids shared a kids meal and I got a hot beef sandwich...adding the cottage cheese and gravy with just water. Our ticket came to about 54$. The plates look nice, the enviornment is cozy with dim lighting and love that they leave the water at your table to help yourself. They are famous for their pies which are yummy...but really that's it. Great if you're looking for pie but there are many better family joints on the mountain. The skillet, streets on main, even Alibertos or El cupidos... that's just Snowflake/Taylor. Los Corralles and Long wongs in Pinetop/Lakeside are my favorites. Anyhow...I guess this place is a hit and miss, but we...