Good food, good prices, good service

Every week or so, friends meet us at the Tee Time Cafe for dinner on Friday evenings. We relax and enjoy an excellent meal while surrounded by the lush ambiance provided by well-manicured greens and fairways.

It’s a park-like setting that’s available to golfers and non-golfers alike.

Barbara, the cafe proprietress, is also an accomplished chef. She makes everything from scratch.

I’m talking about the old time meaning of “scratch”, not the current “if it comes in a box and requires more than thawing out” application of the word.

She buys fresh ingredients, chops and measures and mixes, and the results are luscious.

She is also an accomplished baker, and creates heavenly yeast dinner rolls, cinnamon rolls like those grandma spent a day whipping up, coffee cakes, apple fritters, cream puffs with a variety of fillings.

She also makes hamburgers, and she makes her own hamburger buns, and the french fries are hand cut, yummy salads, German sausage with a variety of toppings, sandwiches, etc.

The atmosphere is family-like, and her servers, Nina and Stephanie, are always friendly and helpful. The service is good, the food is excellent, and the wait time for your meal is acceptable.

A breakfast buffet is a great way to begin Fridays, and available beginning at 9 a.m. at Tee Time. It may include biscuits and sausage gravy, scrambled eggs, cheesy breakfast potatoes, a variety of breakfast meats, pancakes, some scrumptious bakery item or two, fresh fruit, juice.

And I’m undoubtedly forgetting something. I have never departed after that breakfast buffet with an iota of hunger.

Last Friday evening the dinner special was Polynesian. Each plate included rice with a lemony pudding sauce that was lovely, oven roasted chicken, shrimp skewer, the Polynesian equivalent of wontons filled with fresh crab, ribs, all with the appropriate sauces. It was excellent.

Since she now has her full service liquor license, festive mixed drinks are also available.

Dessert was a large, fresh, soft, warm chocolate chip or peanut butter cookie topped with ice cream topped with whipped cream and drizzled with chocolate sauce.

I didn’t imbibe, but friends did and gave it a five star report.

This Friday, dinner will be Mexican food, and the following will be Philippine cuisine.

She is also tossing around the idea of a barbecue on Saturday evenings. The clubhouse offers outdoors seating, and on these hot evenings it’s a very nice alternative to a hot kitchen.

The clubhouse is comfortably cool.

Barb’s prices are always affordable and her dinners are a lovely alternative to spending Friday evening cooking. We have enjoyed a variety of dinners there and have never come away disappointed.

Check out the Ritzville Golf Course Facebook page for the current menu and other information. If you haven’t dined at the Tee Time Cafe a time or two, breakfast lunch or dinner, you have missed a treat.