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PostSun Dec 14, 2008 2:50 pm 
Please consolidate your suggestions here (anyone can edit this wiki post) I-90 The Pour House Bar and Grill, North Bend (Homebase of the 12th Man TailGater - Go Hawks!) Jay Berry's Gourmet Pizza and Pasta, North Bend North Bend Bar & Grill XXX Root Beer Drive-in, Issaquah Ken's Truck Town, North Bend (Seattle Times Article) Scotts Dairy Freeze, North Bend (Directions & Reviews) Rhodies Smokin BBQ, North Bend Giant Burger (McKeans), Cle Elum Twin Pines, Cle Elum (they close pretty early on weekends) Sunset Cafe, Cle Elum (Directions & Review) Cle Elum Bakery (Seattle Times Article) Cle Elum Dairy Queen Cle Elum Cottage Cafe Best of Thai, Cle Elum, really good Thai food! The Brick, Roslyn (Directions & Reviews) Roslyn Cafe, excellent onion rings, fries, sandwiches, salads Village Pizza, Roslyn Stella's in Cle Elum. Fantastic and adorable place for breakfast and lunch. Vegetarian friendly. U-Tote-Em Burgers, Ellensburg The Palace, (steak, hamburgers, salads, excellent fish & chips) - downtown E'burg (More Coyotebell used to wait tables here and has all the scoop) Bob's Cafe, Moses Lake (Directions & Reviews) Yellow Church Cafe, Ellensburg Old No. 3, Ronald (Directions & Reviews) North Bend Twedes cafe, aka Twin Peaks Double R Diner Boxcar Burgers, across from Les Scwab (Ellensburg) Stan's Bar B-Q, Issaquah Riverbend Cafe, located in that golf course on the road to Rattlesnake Lake (exit 32/Ranger station exit). a little pricey, cloth tablecloths, but worth the few extra bucks - and you can look like sh## and feel comfortable there. Mountain High Burger - Easton Tacos Martin, E'burg (closed Sundays) Los Cabos in North Bend. Issaquah Brewhouse. Issaquah, next to the Salmon Hatchery I-90, North Idaho: Tall Pine in Pinehurst has great huckleberry shakes and good burgers. Highway 2 Sultan Bakery Dan's Pizza, Sultan Zeke's Drive-In, Gold Bar The Whistling Post, Skykomish - homemade soups, broasted chicken, jo-jos The Cascadian Inn, Skykomish. Good menu; plate dinners, burgers. The Deli in Skykomish - great cold and hot sandwiches; biscuits & gravy for breakfast too. Sandwiches are very big! '59er Diner, Coles Corner The Squirrel Tree, Coles Corner Gustav's Restaurant, Leavenworth South,Leavenworth Country Boy's BBQ, Cashmere Milepost 111 Brewing Company, Cashmere - great food and beers at better values than L'worth Prospector's Steak & Ale, Gold Bar Old School Barbecue, Monroe (by the reptile zoo) Rusty's in Cashmere - Good old fashioned burger n fries, great halibut sandwich Red Robin, Monroe Eddie's Trackside - Sadly closed. North Cascades, Highway 20 5b's Bakery and Eatery, Main Street in Concrete Skagit River Brewery, Cascade Burgers in Concrete, (Old) Mount Vernon Birdview Brewery, Birdview ("this" side of Baker Lake Rd, on the s side of the highway). EXCELLENT BREW! (no fries, no shakes) El Gitano, Mount Vernon, Burlington, Bellingham The Eatery (Clark's), between Rockport & Marblemount Marblemount Diner - really good. Americana fare. Good service! Closed in winter. Mondo, Marblemount. Big, sloppy, good burgers, good fries, teriyaki. New in 2012. We had excellent service. Hope it's consistent. Open in winter, too! The Freestone Inn in Mazama. $$$, but trail-dust friendly. The Mazama Store - The hippie/Subaru capitol of Highway 20, with good sandwiches and pizza. Plus 72 kinds of canned organic tomatoes. Old Schoolhouse Brewery - Winthrop Twisp River Pub, Twisp (closed) Logan's Cafe in Twisp. Great breakfasts! Cinnamon Twisp, Twisp, oh yum yum! FORK. Food Truck in Twisp: at Twispworks (old Ranger Station. https://www.facebook.com/forktwisp/ Wonderful! Lorenzo's, Sedro Annie's Pizza Station, Concrete Mick & Miki's Red-Cedar Bar, Twisp > for when the chic burgers at the Twisp River Brewpub just aren't going to cut it! Mondos, Marblemount. A new restaurant in the old store building. Great old-fashioned hamburgers and steak fries. Train Wreck Bar and Grill http://trainwreckbar.com/ Great food and atmosphere, big full plates, cold beer. Buffalo Run. A bit pricey for an after-hike meal, but what the heck. Pie slices are huge. CLOSED. (Can only get away with poor service, poor quality and high prices for just long.) Now Upriver. Good burgers, pasta and good beer selection. Coconut Kennys off of Metcalfe St. in Sedro-Woolley. Huge hot sandwiches great pizza, beer!! Woolley Market- great deli sandwiches, breakfast, draft beer, and a climbing gear shop Lonchera Yucatán Food Truck. Mexican food wagon. Next door to Blue Star Coffee - south side of Twisp Taco Bahia. Great fish tacos! Near Mazama Store (limited hours - right now Lunch Wed-Sat and Dinner Fri-Sat) Birdsview Diner - https://www.birdsviewdiner.com/ Hwy 97 Fonda Oaxaquean website 127 E Johnson Ave, Chelan, WA 98816 NOT the usual Norteño fare. Mole lovers paradise. Mt Baker Highway Graham's Restaurant, Glacier. Gourmet burgers & good beer selection. Reopened under new ownership 8/4/23. Great food! Friendly service. Looking forward to eating there again. The North Fork Brewery, Pizzeria, Beer Shrine and Wedding Chapel , between Deming and Maple Falls Milano's in Glacier: No longer Milano's. Now Heliotrope. New owners. Acme Diner on Highway 9: Don't miss their satisfyingly dense ice cream Chair 9, just East of Glacier. Great pizza Hiway 7/706 Mt Rainier (Paradise) Kelley's Kafe, Spanaway (breakfast) Country Rose Cafe, Spanaway (breakfast) Copper Creek Inn, Nisqually Entrance Scaleburgers, Elbe from Nisqually entrance, you can eat and watch the steam train switchin tracks. The Pour House Grub & Pub, Eatonville Brunos Family Restaurant & Bar , Eatonville - good brews on tap, buffalo and elk burgers, organic greens. Mt Rainier (N Side) Wally's Drive-in, Buckley Pick N Shovel, Wilkeson Naches Tavern, Greenwater Wapati Woolies, Greenwater (Espresso) Krains Corner, Hwy 169 outside of Enumclaw Lee Restaurant, Enumclaw (Diner food, Map & Reviews) Black Diamond Bakery, Black Diamond off Hwy 169 Dog and Pony Alehouse, Renton Mountain Loop Highway A new mexican place (10/29/2019) where the Backwoods Cafe/GlacierPeak Cafe/Eagle's Nest was. Darrington. New. No reviews yet (as of 10/29/19) Home Town Bakery & Cafe, Darrington - open til 9 PM even Sundays. Cash only. Excellent pza. Fountain Drive-In, Arlington La Playa Bonita, Granite Falls Buzz Inn Steakhouse, Granite Falls Lochsloy Store, Hiway 92 - great burgers and shakes Arlington - the BEST thai food - Arlington Thai, on the main drag downtown. North side of street, on a corner. Next to the mexican place. Open til 8:30PM 7 days a week. Omega Pizza & Pasta, Granite Falls Olympic Peninsula Disco Bay Detour, on Hwy 101 in Discovery Bay - craft beers and snacks, plus can purchase food at the Disco Bay Village Store nextdoor and bring it over to eat - wonderful post-hike atmosphere Silver City Brewing, Silverdale Loggers Landing, Quilcene, reopened w/new owners, new format Granny's Cafe, Port Angeles Forks Cafe Taqueria Santa Ana, Forks (cash only) Three Rivers Resort (groceries, gas, restaurant), near Quilyute The In Place, Forks (great burgers) Waterfront Pizza, Port Townsend Fat Smitty's, Discovery Bay El Cazador, Sequim Gordy's Pizza and Pasta, Port Angeles Drakes subs, Port Angeles Olympic Bagel Company, http://www.olympicbagel.com/, Port Angeles Sawadee Thai Cuisine, Sequim Sully's, Forks Pacific Pizza hungry.gif , Forks Linda's Woodfired Kitchen, Neah Bay The Garage Barbeque, Port Gamble chow.gif 101 Brewery, Quilcene https://101brewery.com/ (great burgers, beer and pie) Highway 12 Mt Adams Cafe, Randle - good food, reasonable prices, friendly service Cliff Droppers, Packwood - Big burgers with a skiing motif Spiffy The Only Place to Eat, Morton - decent burger fry foot long place Rivers Coffeehouse and Bistro In Morton, on Main, downtown. Only modern coffee, Fish Tale Ale, meal, snack, place in the Cowlitz Valley. Only open till 2100 hrs Wed-Sat. Altimeter users will like USGS benchmark on face of building. Altitude is 959'. It is not stamped on disk. US Highway 101 Clarks Restaurant (south of Aberdeen/Cosmopolis and immediately south of the SR 107 intersection in Artic) Yakima/I82/Hwy 12 Los Hernandez Tamales - De-Lish! (tamales, tamale meal plates with rice and beans, vegetarian options) 3706 Main St, Union Gap, WA 98903 1 509 457 6003 11AM–6PM Miners Drive In - Burgers as big as your head, bring your appetite. Huge menu. Vegetarian options (Great shakes, but you'll wait a while for one) 2415 S 1st St, Yakima, WA 98903 1 509 457 8194 8AM–2AM Oregon Terminal Gravity brewpub, Enterprise, OR (on the way to many Eagle Cap wilderness/Wallowas trail heads) Saw Tooth Roadhouse Hwy 35 (Between Mt Hood and Hood River, near Parkdale) Very Good pizza, sandwiches and salads look great too but I never get past the pizza! 4780 Highway 35 // 541.354.2511 Open 11am-9pm Wednesday through Sunday! Open 3pm-8pm Tuesday CLOSED: Monday Wyoming Wind River Brewing Co. Pinedale, Wy (Wind River trips) Snake River Bewing in Jackson

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PostMon Nov 05, 2007 8:06 pm 
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HJT: Loggers Landing in Quilcene up.gif
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PostMon Nov 05, 2007 8:34 pm 
HJT, just out of curiosity how many of those Fat Smitty Burgers have you eaten in your lifetime? Did you get the fries also?

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PostTue Nov 06, 2007 2:31 am 
The Snake Pit, head north off I-90 on exit 43 in Idaho, you cant miss it. up.gif
The Snake Pit, North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
The Snake Pit, North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

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PostTue Nov 06, 2007 3:53 am 
... regarding Fat Smitty's ... we used to stop there for apres' hike chow all the time. We stopped there regularly, for the better part of 15 years. That ended after my son stopped there after a dayhike ... and sat in a seat with a view into the kitchen ... and just happened to see the cook hack up a lugie and deposit it into a burger that was subsequently served..... Gross and disguuuusting. My son and his two friends (one of which also saw the hacking) stood up and walked out, and no one I know has been back in the joint since hearing about this little incident. Prior to this event - which took place about 6 years ago - we had enjoyed and raved about Smitty burgers for years to all our friends and aquaintences. There is no reason that my son would even think up, let alone make up this story. Pays yo' money, takes yo' chances....

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PostTue Nov 06, 2007 8:23 am 
Man, I went to this one place on 542 after a 5-day trip, in Glacier -- or maybe it was the next town after that? -- and it was one of the best burgers I've ever had. But I forget the name. I went there based on the recommendation of a local I met on the trail. He told me specifically NOT to go to another place near there. Anyone? Oh, and has anyone mentioned Omega pizza in Granite Falls? Very yummy.

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PostTue Nov 06, 2007 8:52 am 
Foist wrote:
Man, I went to this one place on 542 after a 5-day trip, in Glacier -- or maybe it was the next town after that? -- and it was one of the best burgers I've ever had. But I forget the name. I went there based on the recommendation of a local I met on the trail. He told me specifically NOT to go to another place near there. Anyone?
Was it Grahams? The old general store / post office turned restaurant. We went there after Yellow Aster Butte and it was great. A very eclectic menu - burgers, fish tacos, thai curry - and it was very tasty. I liked the feel of the place too. It still uses the original wood burning stove and there's an iron frying pan rigged as a counter-weight to keep the front door closed. The place has a nice sense of humor too.

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PostTue Nov 06, 2007 9:42 am 
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there's an iron frying pan rigged as a counter-weight to keep the front door closed. The place has a nice sense of humor too.
That's why I like Logger's Landing in Quilcene. Once, a freind and I were in the parking lot knocking off the larger chunks of mud from our work pants before entering the restaurant (we had just logged out the Duckabush) . It was raining like a bastard, and cold as hell. too. The waitress had seen us through the window, and actually came outside and herded us in, saying that we can finish de-mudding in the dining room, since everyone in there is always muddy anyway. Once inside, the other patrons there were awesome. I called a man at another table a "gentleman," and he overheard it. He acted all indignant, and said, "hey! huh.gif did you just call me a gentleman?" huh.gif I replied, "Oh, I'm sorry." and turned to my freinds and continued the conversation, "...I mean, the saw blade was from here to that bastard over there at the next table." The fellow patron was then happy and tipped his beer. drink.gif

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PostTue Nov 06, 2007 11:05 am 
lol.gif Exactly why I like that place, Quark. The lady working there last time...she was all old school waitress. Honey, Sweetheart and whatever else. That and the food was good trashy food (ie..full o' fat and calories. No hippy health food that I eat the other 6 days a week!) Only thing it was missing is the free back rubs that the waiters at a couple Mexican joints on the Peninsula give for free if you are: young, female and look single lol.gif

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PostSun Dec 14, 2008 3:06 pm 
Thanks, Tom. I didn't find this thread when I did a search but I thought I had seen it before. Hiway 2- Dutch Cup in Sultan was recently rated best burger on Hiway 2 but they've gone out of business. Alpine Drive-In in Sultan changed owners last year & I stopped and had a very disappointing meal at the beginning of summer. Won't try them again. Also agree with Quark about Good Food in Marblemount - definitely off my list.

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PostTue Dec 16, 2008 9:03 pm 
I have considered stopping, but memories told me to avoid those palces at Sultan, Granite Falls, etc. I might try one per the Dec. 14 list, this thread. I do recommend the fine coffee boost en route to your favorite hike on US 2. Muffins are from Costco and fresh (frozen or fresh). Nothing can beat the power of Mount Index and fine coffee.
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PostTue Dec 16, 2008 9:42 pm 
I always see a lot of people in the Baring Grocery & they advertise breakfast. Has anyone tried it?

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PostWed Dec 17, 2008 11:27 am 
I'll asign myself a trial visit at Baring Grocery! Anyway, it would be fun...it is across from another favorite peak and the less admired but rather fantastic south face of Baring Mountain. Had a magnificent breakfast at Sunset Cafe at Cle Elum on a recent excursion to a project site; my employer's first visit to that establishment convinced him you get great value form your investment in home fries, eggs (all sorts of ways), etc. My mouth is now watering just to think of the warm and friendly place. Don't recall name of another fine spot, though up the road at Roslyn. It has the featured "moose" of yesteryear's favorite NW sitcom...or was it dramadey? I sure miss the series and the actors. There are a few ferns in this establishment, but the food is hardy and not pricey; friendly, too! I must try The Brick. Ow....! The loss to fire of the great pizza place at Roslyn still hampers my thoughts of driving all the way to Cooper Lake or Salmon la Sac; that was a sad day when hikers and outdoors folks lost their favorite pizza and communal retreat following long miles on trails, etc. BTW, anyone try the ultra-pricey Suncadia Lodge (Cle Elum-Roslyn) for a meal? It is far out of my league.

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PostWed Dec 17, 2008 12:16 pm 
Forgot to add that the "old" Sasquatch that greeted customers at Chalet on Hy 2 moved to new spot down slope (east of parking); when you "walk your dog" there, you'll find the more Gentle Giant carefully established, master of his new territory. The "old guy" developed dry rot and some other problems. Can't have Old Sasquatches falling and squashing customers!

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PostThu Dec 18, 2008 9:36 pm 
If you just burned a couple thousand calories do'n the Enchantment loop and are headed home East, Country Boy's BBQ in Cashmere is a good bet. Ribs and a brick of ribbon fries are at least a heart attack in a basket but hey, Aasgard Pass probably just removed some of the placque out of your arteries.

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