The Hut Drive In — Restaurant in Nakusp

Review Date: July 14th, 2015

Yes, it’s called a Drive Inn. No, you can’t park your car inside nor rent a room for the evening.

Nakusp, BC. Our target destination after what seemed like endless hours of driving. Rolling up at 2am, we quickly headed inside and crashed hard. As soon as we were all awake, we needed some food to help refuel after that wild drive. Doing what I do best, I convinced everyone to head in to town to see what it offered.

We hopped back in to the van and hit the town. Seeing as my cousin’s wife was from here, she suggested a few places. The Hut was the one that sounded promising to all of us. The van was ushered in to a parking spot and we piled out with our empty bellies.

Pouring over the menu, all of our mouths watered at the tasty-sounding goodies offered. I was heavily in to chicken sandwiches around this time so that is what I grabbed. I’m not sure what everyone else ordered but I do know the price was pretty consistent with other places like this. Since it was 5 people ordering food, plus the other customers there, the wait was a bit longer than I expected, but these places tend to make their food whenever it’s ordered, so that’s not always a bad thing.

Once the food came out, we quickly headed to a table with an umbrella as we were roasting in the summer sun. Everyone immediately dived in to their food without hesitation. I had slight trepidation as I was in unfamiliar territory with different cultural viewpoints in how to make food and what toppings to put on it. As I sunk my teeth into that first bite, I knew there was nothing else to worry about. That chicken sandwich was full of big flavor. It may look unassuming in the photo below but I loved that thing and wanted another after finishing it.

The menu for The Hut was rather large for the size of the town. The food options were a combination of what you can get at an Ice Cream Shack and a place like diner. Burgers, fish and chips, wraps, ice cream, shakes, breakfast, poutine, etc. There is surely something here that would interest most people.

As for the building itself, it is in the shape of a triangle and looks to be a house as well? Or maybe previously a house? The peculiar design definitely catches your eye while driving down the road.

Luckily after visiting it this one time, we hit up the Hut a few more times for food during our stay in Nakusp. While we did try other places, as you will see in coming blogs posts, none compared to my instant love for the chicken sandwich at The Hut.

6+ years later, I still want...

After a long drive I stopped for a burger. What I got was a example of poor customer service.

3 older people working and taking their sweet time to take and process orders. I had to stand there and watch the main lady call out a order that was ready and stand there for over 2 minutes and call out the order multiple times until the person finally got around to picking it up. Meanwhile this lady is just standing there waiting for the person to pick up the food when there were 3 groups of people in line ready to order and they were already 2 orders behind.

This was not a busy rush time. This was Monday at 2pm.

I realized that it would be at least 20 painful minutes before I got a burger, so I walked away and a few other customers in line also bolted with me.

If you want to eat at a place where they are on their own time and don't have a clue on how to process orders this is the...

Was really disappointed with the food for a place that has been open somehow since apparently 1970. Negatives Chips were pretty bad, somewhere between cardboard, flowery and dry and didn't taste very good. We were given about 10 tiny satchels of salt and pepper which was really annoying to try and add. Burgers were pretty bland and didn't taste very good. It cost way too much for the quality of food we got, wish I hadn't of tipped while ordering.

plus Milkshakes were pretty good. My dog being well fed.

Won't be going back. Was close to closing time, maybe they just didn't care anymore /...