text: My first review anywhere about anythingnFor years I have been hearing about these legendary piesso on a recent trip to the Grand Canyon my wife and I made a point to finally stop Rock Springs Cafe for lunchnWe arrived well after the lunch rush so there were plenty of seats available and the restaurant appeared wellstaffednWe were seated quicklyI did my best to glance at the dishes in front of diners we passed along the way to see if anything looked particularly enticingI noticed that several plates had uneaten limp and soggy looking fries so I made a mental note to avoid themnn people offered to take our drink order within mere secondswhich I interpreted to be a sign of good things to comebut boy was I wrong nnWe asked our server for recommendations and she struggled to come up with suggestions The menu has a halfdozen or so items marked as House Specialties or something like thatamong them is Chicken Fried Steak which our server recommended as wellso I order that with mashed potatoesnnOur OrdernChili My wife liked itnClam Chowder I would bet it was from a can Artificially thick with scant and very chewy clamsnChicken Fried Steak Had an oddly uniform shape and thicknessI told the server that it was horrible and asked if it was was prepared on site or frozen She admitted that they bought it already prepared and frozen and just heated it up She further stated that the previous owner had made it fresh but that the new owners considered this good enough When I exclaimed that for I could have bought the same garbage at Costco and made my own she agreed I did not finish the steakand the gravy like the chowder was artificially weighty and almost certainly also from a cannMashed Potatoes Not so much mashed as smashed and served with an ice cream scoop This may have been satisfactory were it not for the grapesized black chunk of rotten potato in my second bitennNobody ever noticed when our drinks needed to be refilledI finally asked a different server for a refillnnAt one point I noticed that the pick upservice window was overflowing with plates ready to be served while waitstaff stood nearby chatting apparently oblivious to the food that was ready to be served Well at least intended to be servedbecause most of what we saw was never readynnOur check arrived while we were eating our pie There was no consideration for the fact that we had complained about the food quality and not finished our platesnnI do not remember what kind of pie we orderedreallyand while I have no complaints about it but it was certainly unspectacularnnthen we hit the road bound for Williams AZ where we had an even lessstellar meal at the Grand Canyon Railroad Cafebut that is another story