What is the best place to eat near your favorite climbing area?

Z Winters wrote:

Mag's 99, Squamish

Also Essence of India and the Shady Tree. And Backcountry Brewing has good pizza and great beer.

Farm Burger - Asheville, NC. Damn good burgers.

+1 for the Noonmark for ADKs. Baxter Mountain Inn between Keene and Elizabethtown, great chef and very reasonable.                                           Seneca Rocks- Front Porch Restaurant. Also Mackville Mart for breakfast and lunch sandwiches.

Joe Garibay wrote:

Lone Pine, CA  Driving up the 395, no better breakfast than Alabama Hills Cafe. Portions big enough to last three meals. I ate that chicken fried steak all day long. Homemade everything! 

Agreed! The burger is the size of my face. 

When I'm at the Gunks, I like to eat at my house. Extensive menu includes med/rare ribeyes, vegan chili, and huge breakfasts. 200+ different beers in the cellar. 

Carson Darling wrote:

Tilt'n Diner for Rumney

(to be fair, it's about 30 minutes away, but it's a can't-miss stop on the way home)

Common Cafe for Rumney, NH.

Although the Tiltn' Diner is really awesome, it's sort of a go-to stop for any outdoor trippers coming down from NH on 93 back to Boston.

The Common Cafe is less than a mile from the Rumney parking lot, at the main intersection of town. The breakfasts are great, and the pizza & live music at the upstairs bar afterwards is always quite satisfying too.

Smith Rock: Smith Rock Brewing in Redmond - double the meat in your burger for a $1.50 more and they have onion rings.  Terrebonne Depot does not.

El Potrero Chico:  Taco Richards Jr.  on the main road (highway?) in Hidalgo. Doesn't look like much but the tacos are huge, delicious and CHEAP!

Awesome Such great suggestions!
And interesting to see the references to gas stations (I guess Exxon is the place to be)...

I also just read the trick in Red Rocks is to get everything from the hotel buffet - but which???

lucander wrote:

When I'm at the Gunks, I like to eat at my house. Extensive menu includes med/rare ribeyes, vegan chili, and huge breakfasts. 200+ different beers in the cellar. 

I'll make sure to drop by next time I'm in NY ;)

Alberto's in SLC

Tremont Tavern - Chattanooga, near TWall

Baba's Burgers & Gyros in Estes Park.

Mountain Burrito in Morganton, NC 

Boulder: Half Fast Subs

Red Rock: Babystacks for breakfast (best pancakes on the planet), Red Rock Casino for prime rib (nothing special but close, reasonably priced, and consistent)

Gunks:

Main Course - Bring your own drink and share a table, great quality food for pretty cheap.

Mexicali Blue is good but expensive and slow.

Main Street Bistrot is the place for breakfast with a window seat so you can grab the WiFi from:

Cafeteria across the road, which has great coffee and a good place to be on a rainy day.

Mountain Brauhaus when you have the $$ and time to wait (or reservations).

Keene/Adirondacks:

ADK Cafe - better quality food than Noonmark diner, bit more expensive too, they only take credit cards.

Lisa G in Lake Placid - good pub food

Big Mountain Deli in Lake Placid - Tons of great sandwiches and wraps

Baxter Mountain Tavern on the 9N near Hurricane Crag - OK pub food

Laurentides in Quebec:

Baril Roulant hostel & Pub Val-David - Insanely good food with great beer selection, an easy detour when you feel like good food and a great smile.

Advice for red rocks?

Cody Goldberg wrote:

I can burn thru 3 orders of tots and one of their garden burgers faster than I can build an anchor... +1

You must be really slow cause it takes about 45 minutes to get your food at Milts ;)

Eric G. wrote:

Advice for red rocks?

In n Out Burger on West Sahara. Any All-You-Can-Eat buffets you can find in the casinos

Eric G. wrote:

Advice for red rocks?

Sweet tomatoes - healthy buffet salad bar 

mint Indian bistro - amazing Nepalese food

Billy Burgers in Jackson, WY.  Especially back when the house rules were enforced (if you buy a beer you have to buy the cooks a beer is one I remember) the place was a blast.  I think they closed a while back though.