The Jake Break Cafe

A truck stop diner on a very busy highway. There isn’t a sign stating ‘The Jake Break Café’, but it is at the Hwy 45 Truck Stop. It has an extensive menu and some of the items sound like they would taste delicious. The chuck wagon steak, sounds great, but tastes pretty rough. It comes with too much gravy, and it is a patty that contains a bunch of fillers, resulting in a «soggy» patty, with strange flavors.
The hand cut fries are red skin potatoes, which are an oddity in this area. They aren’t douple dipped or cooked long enough, and as a result, come to you limp and the insides are crunchy. The pot roast has a good taste, reminiscent of Kelly, Hormel or Dinty Moore brand can stew. The meat appearance and gravy taste make you wonder, if it is from an industrial-​size pre-​made dish.
The food items we chose were edible, but not worth the drive to make another visit. The only food item that was questionable would be the baked beans. They were prepared with an overpowering maple ingredient, and tasted like a pancake syrup. There were bits of real bacon and ground meat, but you couldn’t discern that taste from the maple. I ate them, but it was off putting, and I added pot roast meat to dilute it some.
There is no ban on smoking here, and you will have to deal with that smell while dining. There is a table to play dominoes. They have karaōke certain nights. There is an on-​site deli that sells a half dozen different sandwich meats. They also offer a long list of desserts.
The one menu item I do plan to try, is the cornbread salad, to compare to that of Borroum’s. The food quality may not have been what we prefer, but if they post an interesting special, I may return to try it. I do look forward to trying the cornbread salad within a couple weeks. I’m not sure about the name, if it is a play on words, or an honest misspelling (Jake Brakes on semi trucks).
To Each Their Own.