DistasteForMediocreChefs _.
Yelp
The view is 5 out of 5.
The location is 5out of 5.
The food is 1.5 out of 5
Server was attentive. 3 out of 5.
Food: 1 out of 5.
Campfire Trout and Trout Tacos had the taste you get when a fish has been frozen since time immemorial. We all could immediately taste that. It was especially disappointing because of the restaurant's location next to the various lakes and rivers which are themselves home to hundreds of thousands of fresh Trout they could be using. But instead it is frozen and brought in from out of state. The lakefront view teases you with how the Trout could have tasted had they sourced it locally.
We also ordered the 'Garlic Parmesan Fries' but without parmesan. We were served a plate of fries with shiny and glossy liquid poured over them. I've ordered many garlic fries in different places but never seen "liquid garlic" with herbs and oil/vinegar mixed in it.
Upon tasting, we realized that it tasted suspiciously like salad dressing. In the photo you can see oily liquid covering the fries with herbs mixed in it.
Who does that?!!!
Maybe this is an Avant Guarde cooking style from another galaxy. Here on planet earth, we don't willy nilly use something like a salad dressing because one of it's many ingredients happens to be garlic.
Maybe if a customer asks for eggs with their sausage, just pour some cake batter over their sausage. Hell, why no? There are eggs in the batter too.
Let's go back to the Campfire Trout. This pour Idaho Trout after spending many months in a freezer, finally got out of jail. As a gesture of appreciation, our talented chef thought to use a bed of arugula to place this trout on.
But someone must have sat on the delivered arugula box before it was placed on our plate. They looked bruised, abused, lacerated and shriveled. But then again, this dish was "only" $36. So, you know, let's not expect too much.
The IPA beer was good. But it came from a local brewer, not from this restaurant.