Restaurant Review The Rustic Table (Emigrant Gap, California)

The Rustic Table
43440 Laing Rd
Emigrant Gap, CA 95715
http://www.rustic-table.com/
(530) 389-8900

July 24, 2019

About:

HEARTY MEALS
Large servings of your favorite home-style cooked comfort foods.

QUALITY SERVICE
Our staff go out of their way to provide great meals, professional service and a family-like atmosphere.

FRESH INGREDIENTS
We use only the freshest ingredients with our meals. Fresh veggies, fresh fish and fresh meats.

WORLD CLASS JAVA
The Rustic Bean offers up the best variety of great coffee drinks in the whole county.

Menu items selected:

Main:

Lumberjack Burger                                                                                                    $14.99
A fully loaded pastrami and bacon topped burger with your choice of cheese (Swiss)

Review:

While staying at Snowflower Campground my folks drove up from Rocklin to take Paula and I to lunch. We decided to try the Rustic Table a local place in Emigrant Gap, just one exit west on I80.

The menu harkens back to 1980 traditional dishes and prices!!! If you have not stopped here, it’s a must.

The main dining room, complete with what looks like a full-service bar.  Looks can be deceiving, as this restaurant is “dry,” – no alcohol, not even beer is on the menu – the bar is the Rustic Bean coffee bar.

The menu is rather extensive with lots of options and they serve breakfast all day. In reviewing the burger selection the Lumberjack loaded with pastrami and bacon caught my eye and I ordered it.  The waiter asked how I would like the burger prepared and what type of cheese I wanted on the burger, I asked for the burger to be cooked medium-well and Swiss cheese on the burger.  When the burger arrived, I was very pleased with my selection. The burger came on a huge 1/2 pound patty topped with a thick slice of melted Swiss cheese, topped with a mound of pastrami and bacon topped with another thick slice of melted cheese, topped with a thick slice of tomato and lettuce, all between a toasted bun. The burger was served with a good helping of skin on crispy French fries.

The burger was cooked perfectly and I throughly enjoyed the the beef, pastrami, bacon and Swiss combo. It was a very tasty burger and the fries were also very good.

One of the great things about the Rustic Table is that it supports and is staffed by individuals from Adult & Teen Challenge Program that provides Christian faith-based, residential care to young people and adults who struggle with life-controlling problems. The participants move through different departments such as housekeeping, to maintenance to kitchen to waiting tables to finally being a barista at the coffee shop. Each area requires them to perform at a certain level to before they can move on to the next department.  Remember to give the guys a break if your service isn’t what you expect from a restaurant, they get moved from one department to another very quickly so they can experience them all before making a permanent choice on where they want to work for the second half of there program. But most of all know that the money you spend here goes to helping change men’s lives for ever.

If you find yourself in the Emigrant Gap/Truckee California area of I80, stop in the Rustic Table for a bite to eat and support the young adults trying to better themselves.

Cheers,

Chris

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