Tay's Place

Very good food. I have eaten breakfast here regularly for the past 6-7 years. Food is cooked to order and staff is always on point and very friendly.

Love this place!! Nice place for a cup of coffee or a group lunch, Personally a fan of the fried & gravy, lol.

Great place to eat. Friendly people and good variety of food.

Food is hot, fast, and tasty. Breakfast and lunch options are both great, and handsomely priced! Definitely a spot worth your time and money.

Went there for lunch and got a sandwich and fries. The service was amazing and the food was even better! They have the best fries!

This is a great little restaurant. The ultimate omelet, bacon, biscuits, and gravy and pancakes were all delicious. The service was great as well. Be back here soon.

So doing an update to this one since it's under new management and it deserves a second shot. Saw a post on Facebook the other day that this place was under new ownership/management and decided why not. Found myself most of the way there during lunch, so I stopped in for a try. The decor hasn't changed a lot since the last time I was in. Very much the small home town diner vibe. Nothing fancy, simple decorations in a small dining area, maybe seating 40 people in a pinch. Service was prompt and very friendly. I looked over the menu and special board and decided to go with my standard litmus test of chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, white gravy and green beans. If you can't do those, you probably can't do anything. Food arrived very quickly and was hot and looked great. The green beans were outstanding. Lots of ham chunks in there along with what must have been diced bacon bites. A very good offering there. The mashed potatoes were scratch made, no doubt. Creamy and well seasoned. Gravy was smooth and had a decent flavor too, not thin, watery or bland. The CFS was probably one of the better ones I've had of late. Easily an 8 out of 10 compared to other places. I asked my server if it was a frozen job or scratch made, and she took pride in telling me it was hand breaded to order. Crust to meat ratio was spot on, with no crust slippage, which is the bane of many CFSs. Good flavor, cooked properly.... almost fork tender. There was a couple of places the connective fibers in the meat were a little too much for the fork, but with a knife, it all cut like butter. With a glass of iced tea and a $5 tip, total ran to just over $22. Maybe a tad higher than I would like, but I certainly feel I got my money's worth, so I ain't complaining. My CC receipt shows the new name as Tay's Place, so I'd recommend being on the lookout for them if you're in the C'ville area, between breakfast and 2pm.

This is a very popular restaurant. At 10AM the parking up front was packed. Around behind the diner there was open parking spaces. It is small inside with lots of seating. This morning all the booths were filled. The tables were unoccupied. The rules are, pick your spot and get seated, BUT only at a table that has been bussed and has a fresh set up of tableware. Follow the rules and in a jiffy one of the friendly ladies will be there to get your order. Coffees and glasses of Collinsville’s finest tap water on ice for my wife and I. The coffee is fair. And Karen’s has those thick little coffee mugs. They are perfect. They don’t hold a lot, but they do a superb job of keeping the brew hot. A waitress with a pot of coffee is on constant patrol. Your cup won’t go empty. The usual for me (check the pictures). My wife had a wonderful blueberry short stack and a side of bacon XXcrispy. My meal was good. The décor is like every small-town diner in Oklahoma. Big menu, daily specials, fair prices. The service is excellent. Friendly welcoming small-town ambiance; everyone in the diner seems to know each other. Politics, the topic of the morning. This is Karen’s Country Diner. Fair warning. With that name, if you have a problem, you probably don’t want to speak with the manager.