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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 , Forks Linda's Woodfired Kitchen, Neah Bay The Garage Barbeque, Port Gamble 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

[gary]

That's a scrumptious pic! I'll have to add that place as a waypoint. Reminds me of another good BBQ restaurant... The Ranch House BBQ on Hwy 101 (aka Hwy 12) between McCleary and Olympia. It's located on the south side of the road, just west of the Black Hills summit. Nestled in the trees - it's hard to see, but you can't miss the cars in the parking lot. A blurb from the net:

[Andrew]

[Ganj]

This is actually a pre-hike stop. From Portland to Mt Hood there is a place near Welches called The Territory. The Farmer's Omelette, bigger than a baby's arm and tastes better too. And most of all they cover it in gravy. Probably one of my favorite breakfasts of all time. The coffee is so-so though.

[Get Out and Go]

Speaking of the Hood to Portland route, anybody been in the ZigZag Inn for food lately? It's been years, but man did I love those burgers for apres-ski on the way home from Meadows.

[Naffer]

HWY 2 -Zeke's I90 - Scotts dairy freeze Mt Loop- Rotten Ralphs(but its closed)

[jackchinook]

What? Rotten Ralph's CLOSED? I've always wanted to try that place. I guess I'll have to add that to the greatest regrets of my life list...so sad.

[tennessee treader]

[dzane]

After days on the Wonderland Trail: "The Kettle" 1 block off SR164 in Enumclaw! Great breakfast or lunch and portions to fix a famished backpacker.

[Valleyboy]

Gordy's in Port Angeles. The Pizza's awesome. Best post-backpack grub ever is the Country Fried Chicken sub.

[one small step]

Gordys blows, I have no idea why people in P.A. eat there. Best pizza in Port Angeles is either at Bella Italia or at Wildfire. If you want the best burger and fries go to Brockelsbys (on 5th kittie-corner from Subway near the courthouse) but don't be tempted by the Gyros. The best diner food and breakfast is at The Cornerhouse. If you want something fast and healthy on your way to the trail, the best kept secret for lunch in town is the deli case at The Country Aire. Glorious bagel sandwiches are made from Olympic Bagel Co. bagels but you get more meat and veggies than you would on a bagel sandwich made at Olympic Bagel Co. and they're cheaper at The Country Aire. The best coffee/ice cream/shakes are at The itty Bitty Buzz across the street. The Plunkin Shack on the marina is a great, unpretentious place to grab a hot sandwich for lunch. If you want Asian food before or after an Olympic hike, you should only bother with Dynasty and the Thai restaurant on the west side (next to Wildfire on 8th). I can't remember the name but it puts Thai Peppers to shame and it has a great atmosphere and a huge UV fish tank. Sequim is the land of bad food and Forks is even worse. I think we all know to stick with the coffee shop on that one.

[octavius]

Hwy 2, besides those mentioned, Dan's in Sultan is pretty good and is a sit down that serves beer, wine, pizza, italian, and burgers. Is the favorite place for a friend of mine, I've tried it once and it was good. 40 of us mounties hit it after a field trip a few weeks ago, and their service was still good (they had advance warning) I-90. Agree with NBBAG. I'm still looking for tips after trips up the Mountain Loop Highway, not impressed with the mountain view... Leavenworth has a good brew pub on the very west end of the main street, 2 stories, generaly crowded with people not interested in leavenworth's version of toursity (bad) bavarian food. It also has very cute wait staff.

[Allison]

This is off topic--but if Octavius or others associated with the clubs could give us a heads up when these large group things are happening and where, that would be much appreciated. Many of us here go out of our way to avoid those places on those weekends. Thanks!!

[octavius]

I almost didn't mention the mounties thing because I thought that response might come up... ;-) If only it were as easy as "letting you know", but there are a lot of clubs (Mountaineers, WAC, BOALPS, Mazamas, UW clubs, etc) and each has many activity groups (climbers, scramblers, hikers, back country skiers, snowshoers...) Sorry. Would be cool if the forest service had a centralized database and required people to register if they are going out in larger groups. I know what you mean, I often feel guilty in a party of 8 or more as we loudly herd ourselves up a trail to some peak we are planning to summit, and disturb campers or other small party hikers. Even on hikes I find some of the people in the group to be really loud and crass. Don't know what to say. Such is life within 120 miles of a large urban center.

[Mesahchie Mark]

[Allison]