Ken L.
Yelp
I've never had a bad meal here but have to time it right to avoid long waits & service sometimes sketchy. Restroom is in a haphazard place & only one available, so good luck if very busy.
The one thing that is always a 5 star rating is their wild blackberry pie, only place I've found that tastes just like my mom's & other family & friends that know how to make an old fashion country style homemade wild blackberry pie of the PNW.
Previous times dining here the hamburger I had was deluxe delicious, the breakfast perfection, and tonight I had their house special trout that was cooked to perfection. The house salad was tasty with a decent tasting thousand island on the side, the "mini bread loaf" looked more the size of a dinner roll but it was fresh baked & delicious with the berry infused whipped butter. The trout was moist & flaky, cooked perfect for texture & flavor although had some reddish spicy seasoning I was not too hot on although it brought out the flavor, should have came with a slice of lemon, but did ask for tarter sauce to tone it down, was tart but tasty so I'll have to try their fish & chips next time if I do come back to dine, roasted potatoes cooked perfect but could use some ketchup to bring out any flavor, over all the dinner plate could have used some "presentation", lol, but was a nice tasting meal with the salad. Coffee just ok, it was nice to have fresh chilled water not tainted with chlorine. And dessert topped it all off with a slice of wild blackberry pie a' la mode and took 2 full baked wild blackberry pies home, they are that good.
As far as service tonight, walked in & felt invisible, took a long long time with both waitresses looking right past me & avoiding eye contact, finally a young man that also seem to ignore me finally approached me at the wait to be seated sign & grabbed menus & seated me. Then the wait for one of the waitresses to finally take my order, but once I listed off the full order plus pies, I was finally able to go to the restroom and when I got back the coffee & water were there waiting for me. She did bring the 2 pies I was taking home, kind of early for that, but she said she wanted to make sure no one else took them. The place was busy, but really, took awhile to get anyone's attention to ask about the WiFi I thought would help with the wait, but after I did my order things improved, and didn't take long to get my salad, and not much wait after I finished that & my meal came, same with dessert. She did check on me a couple of times, I was able to get some tartar sauce for the trout later, still had water but not asked for more coffee but I had enough thru the meal.
Overall the food was very satisfying, but the service was obviously less responsive to me than I seen with all the other customers I noticed that had their orders taken quickly after they were seated, maybe just me looking like I was not going to spend a lot or tip much, my bill including the 2 pies was $109 plus I left a tip over 20%, but what ever.
This is an iconic must stop place for anyone going to Mount Rainier,especially for the wild blackberry pie, I'm not asking to be treated special, just not being felt like I was less special, and tourists from all the world stopping here should not experience that either.