Owners Michele and Tom Tapper opened the doors to Tap’s Café on March 16. The café specializes in morning and noon meals, with dinner service on Fridays only. Tap’s Café is open Monday through Friday 6:30am until 3:00pm. Friday evenings offer dinner service from 5:00- 8:00pm. Sunday’s 8:00am until 12:30pm brunch features choice of 2 meats from a menu of 3, potato, salad bar, roll and dessert. The also offer a 6-item kids’ menu, desserts including soft serve ice cream and take out. Wine and beer will be added just as soon as the State finalizes the license application.
Tap’s Café offers a daily special with a hot beef sandwich on Wednesdays. Fresh, homemade cinnamon rolls or pecan rolls are always available. A primary mission for their noon service is that each customer can be served and fed and gone within 30 minutes.
The Tappers have been in the food service business for decades. Tom grew up in the business. His parents operated a café in Merrill, Iowa from 1985 to 1992. In his real life Tom worked for UPS for 37 years. Michele worked as a high school head cook for 12 years.
Tom and Michele (Meyer), a rural Granville native, have operated food trucks and a food vending service since 2005. The Gobblestop Turkey Shop should be a familiar food truck destination. Currently they have 6 trucks for seasonal events such as fairs and auctions. Tom says he is on the short list for over 25 area auctioneers. Tom, one of the first food trucks to operate at “Saturday in the Park” in Sioux City is proud to say that he is the last of the original food trucks to that event.
Tap’s Café themed their restaurant around agriculture. They pay special attention to Century Farms, even having a feature wall for the designation. Bring in your century farm photo and have it framed with wood from the Meyer farm, Michele’s childhood home, near Granville.
Tap’s Café, just of Highway 10 in Granville can seat 52. For Mothers’ Day reservations call 712-727-3300.