Mountain High Hamburgers — Restaurant in Cle Elum

The rusted out bronze Bell chimed as i walked through the old oak door. The hardwood floor squeeked just loud enough, my nostrils flared when I smelt the old familiar juices from the ground beef. My eyes widened and I looked left, I saw two menus taped to the counter and instantly I began to salivate, and I quickly had to reach for my 80 percent polyester shirt and wipe my saliva. My pupils dialated as I scanned the rows of mountain themed burgers, this was more than a restaurant, this was a PNW full body experience. The Mt. St. Helen's burger, the Rainier burger, the baker burger, which one to choose, my mouth watered, I take a step toward the cashier. "How may I help you?" Were the 5 nicest words I had heard throughout the central Cascades, I said I want a similar euruption in my mouth as I had in my pants when I walked in. She cracked a smile and with a subtle wink she said "I hear that often, you'll want a Mt. St. Helens burger" I hand her $5 and reward her service with a generous tip. She slipped me the buzzer -- patience was now the name of the game. As I waited, I noticed the humble, yet bountiful single toilet mountain-themed bathroom. I quickly realized the rumble I was feeling was not only from hunger. I step into the bathroom, the pressure my bowels had reached were comparable to to the magma inside mount saint helens on may 18th 1980. I looked straight, I looked left, I looked right, eruptions were all around me. I was truly inspired, and now... It was my turn. I won't go into too many firey details, but what I will say is the experience was almost as satisfying as the burger. I felt the buzz I'm my pants and quickly cleaned myself up, the wait was over. I burst out of the door and grabbed the beautiful brown bag, a similar color to what I had just sent to the restaurant 's septic tank seconds earlier. Carefully, I slid my hand into the bag to feel it's contents. To my delight, i felt instant perfection. I sprinted out the front door, eager to satisfy my craving. I sat down at the perfectly placed picnic table, and thus began my journey. Like a surgeon's careful hands, I un-swaddled the burger. Without further description, I bit into the burger. It blew a load of flavor in my mouth, similar to that of the eruption of mt. St. Helen's. The burger was true to it's name. I had fulfilled my destiny; the perfect burger. "A...

Something has dramatically changed. There were times the drive through line would be down the street and we could get a meal for a family of 4 including milkshakes in 15 minutes. This time, we pulled in and there was literally only one car in the lot on a busy travel weekend. We pulled up to the drive thru, went straight to the window and waited.... almost 5-minutes at the window. I knocked as I could see three employees inside talking, thinking they just didn't see me. The young guy behind the front counter snapped his head around, looked annoyed and gestured that he was busy.

I waited another 2-minutes trying to not get irritated. When the employee came to the window he simply stated "What do you want?" I ordered two basic milkshakes for me and my son and asked for a diet coke for my wife which was promptly met with "We don't have coke" which would have been fine but he said it in a tone of "we should know better". So, we paid our $15 for two milkshakes and pulled forward into a parking spot.

We then proceeded to wait 15 minutes for TWO MILKSHAKES. There literally was only one group of people eating food here while we waited for our shakes.

We get the shakes get back on the road, and go figure, the shakes were bad. I had a Huckleberry that appeared to just be soft serve vanilla ice cream with huckleberry on top, not mixed, and my son had a butterscotch that again didn't seem to blended at all.

I usually don't mind paying higher prices to support small business, but this was the worst service we've had here. This very clearly is killing their business and if something doesn't change, I'm not sure they survive. As much as I want to go back, I'm not...

We stopped by on our way east from Seattle. Hungry and ready for some hot juicy burgers. A very interesting place. Cold , unwelcoming and gave us an impression that they do not want to give us service. The place was completely empty. We went in smiling and asking if we can get some hot burgers there. The lady just looked at us. No hellos , no welcomes and not even responding to our question. I was looking at the menu on the wall and those were apparently just shakes so she pushed the menu towards me on the counter so we figured food was on that menu. I asked her what a regular burger was and she just pointed with a pencil to one. We ordered and after she writes it down she tells us we can not eat inside and it is only to go. It was raining and there was snow on the ground and no option to eat out . We told them thank you that would not work and left. An awful experience which my husband was still talking about later in the day. We felt unwelcome, disrespected and will never stop by that place again. They basically did not want...