Wallowa Lake Lodge Restaurant is one of the only high class restaurant that offers upper class fancy food around Wallowa Lake region. The restaurant itself is located in Wallowa Lake Lodge, which is located at the South side of Wallowa Lake. The restaurant itself offers patio seating area and indoor seating area, and can accommodate up to around 100 people. There is also a piano inside the restaurant where sometimes they will have pianist playing classical music during the dinner time.
We went to Wallowa Lake Lodge Restaurant for dinner after a super long day hike. It was also convenient for us since we stayed Wallowa Lake Lodge for vacation, so we just had to walk down there to get to the restaurant. When we got there, the patio seating were all taken since it was a beautiful summer day and there were hordes of deers roaming around the garden outside. The window seats facing the garden were all reserved as well. It did not matter to us however, because we were just very hungry with tired legs and just wanted to sit down and have food. The waitress led us to the window seat on the other side facing the parking lot, which is really good too!
The menu did not offer a lot of choice but it was good enough. We wanted to order the prime rib steak, but the menu indicated that it was only offered on Saturday. When the waitress came by, she told us the restaurant had a special today that offers prime rib with cheese on top. That sounds amazing! Thus we ordered a cranberry salad, a prime rib dinner special, and a shrimp cocktail as appetizer. A short moment later, the waitress brought us a basket of warm bread. It was quite interesting because all 4 bread in the basket are different. They were all wheat, white, and 2 others that we did not know what to call it.
The shrimp cocktail arrived first. There were 4 large fresh shrimps place at the top of the wine class and dipped with salsa sauce! The shrimp was fresh and tender! We were really surprised to have this kind of food at such a remote location! Moments later, our dinner were served! The prime rib smelled so good with the cheese on top! The prime rib steak was cooked perfect that simply just melts in the mouth. The taste of cheese helps to add some salty taste and texture to each bite of the prime rib! The prime rib was also served with steamed broccoli and baked potato, which is just ordinary. The cranberry salad was served with cranberry and cranberry sauce. The sauce was a little more sour than we liked. The salad also had a lot of almond added on top of it which added crunchy texture to the salad.
Overall, Wallowa Lake Lodge Restaurant was an amazing restaurant to dine at at such a remote location of Wallowa region! We suggest to give it a try when you visit Wallowa Lake!
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