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Ranch House Grille
5618 Easth Thomas Road | 480-946-1290
Hours: 6 a.m. - 3 p.m. (7 days a week)

        So last month when we celebrated Mother’s Day it was all about Mom. For Father’s Day this June 17, we have found the perfect place to treat dear ol’ Dad.
        Ranch House Grille seems to have found the magic touch to succeed in a restaurant location where many high falutin’ eateries have attempted, but failed.
        Rather than focus on an expensive dinner menu like the pack before them, Ranch House serves only breakfast and lunch. Arizona dads will appreciate the four kinds of hot sauce on each table.
        The vibe here is free from that corporate plastic feel, with dark wood tables and chairs providing plenty of seating. Dad will feel downright comfy among the walls decorated with horseshoes, a rope lasso, and framed prints of waterfalls and a herd of horses.
        Big picture windows look out past tall white planters filled with flowers or tomato plants with fat red specimens ready for picking.
        The restaurant’s entrance is on the east side of the one-story building, where a pleasantly palm-shaded patio also has a few scattered tables and chairs and even some picnic benches near the back set in some lush, green grass. There is plenty of parking both in front of the building off Thomas and in the rear just off 56th Street.
        The Arizona atmosphere is conducive to a hearty breakfast, which is served all day. The extensive menu boasts two pages of morning combinations with everything from corned beef hash, a variety of omelets, wraps and so many breakfast platters from basic steak, bacon, sausage and eggs to pancakes, there is something for everybody.
        Prices start as low as $3 for two pancakes or go as high as $11.75 if you want eggs with a full one-pound steak.
        My early-rising companion is already well known at the Ranch House. The attentive waitress brought out his usual corned beef hash with its crispy side of hash brown potatoes and toast on a large platter.
        None of the thin, light as air store brand bread will do, his toast was nice and thick and browned to perfection. These meals pack such manly portions, you’ll be full ‘til dinner.
        The breakfast platter I ordered came with three eggs that were cooked to perfection per my request of over medium and rather than most diner’s couple of sausage links, the quantity of pork links on my plate were enough to build a Lincoln log cabin.
        My choice of English muffin was toasted crisp, not barely warmed like so many morning cooks offer in their rush to get through the day’s orders. I also liked the fact that there was plenty of brand name packets of strawberry jam in a holder on the table..
        The eatery that morning was half full with a mix of couples and a group who were all meeting up and waving to each other as they sat down at three tables that had been pulled together.
        Nearby Arcadia residents have discovered that this is the place to have a good, old home-cooked meal in a casual atmosphere with reasonable prices. Next visit we plan on coming a bit later to sample some of the menu’s lunch offerings that run the gamut from chicken fried steak, sandwiches and burgers, all the way up to steak dinners.