Dine and Dish: The Runway Cafe in Tulare County

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Simple and "plane," we're present to springiness "props" to The Runway Cafe adjacent to the Woodlake Airport successful Tulare County.

The Café is fashionable among pilots but astir radical thrust for their regular dose of comfortableness food.

Gloria Vargas was happily having meal with her girl Sabrina.

"How agelong person you been coming to this place?" I asked.

"Over 30 years. I'm gladsome you made it. What took you truthful long?" Vargas said.

"And you cognize what Dale, I would picture it arsenic a hidden gem present successful the Central Valley, wherever it's at," lawsuit Sabrina Ruiz.

"The assemblage likes the nutrient but they besides similar the service. The customers are similar family," Runway Café co-owner Charlotte Tindall.

The food and chips are ever a bully prime arsenic the brew battered food has a bully crunch to it and comes with homemade tartar sauce.

"People thrust successful connected their bikes and alert successful from each implicit the vale connected Fridays to get the food and chips," co-owner Steve Tindall said.

I asked Charlotte what are radical connected the seashore saying astir your clam chowder.

"That it's amended than what you tin get connected the beach," she laughed

The enactment ne'er ends for Charlotte's lad Brandon, who is the maestro caput down the café's clam chowder.

"Yeah, it's busy. It's overwhelming sometimes but you can't complain," Brandon said.

But it's not conscionable the chowder. Brandon's chickenhearted fried steak is simply a winner, winner.

"That chickenhearted fried steak is hard to beat. Biscuits and gravy is disconnected the hook," Steve said.

"I didn't person my biscuits and gravy. I was going to spell airy due to the fact that of your camera here. I wanted radical to spot I devour steadfast but I don't," Vargas laughed.

The Runway Cafe pays tribute to flight.

"All of our pictures wrong are airplanes that person flown here," Charlotte

Here you tally into hometown heroes similar erstwhile large leaguer, Ron Robinson.

"The work is ever good, they're ever truthful affable and the nutrient is precise tasty," lawsuit Susan Welch said.

Take the fashionable chile verde with eggs, it's a large mode to commencement the time and it has a bully small bite. You tin brace it with their orangish foodstuff nicely.

"The orangish foodstuff is made locally. It's squeezed close present successful Woodlake," Steve said.

Because of the café's tiny size, customers sometimes indispensable hold extracurricular until a array is available.

"It's worthy the wait," Ruiz said.

"It's been present for arsenic agelong arsenic I tin remember. Back successful the 60s it was referred to arsenic The Outpost."

This is the benignant of spot wherever everyone knows your name.

"The customers are similar family. And everybody knows everybody," Steve said.

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