Far View Terrace Café / Gift Shop / Mesa Mocha — Restaurant in Colorado

Great stopping point! We sat in here at least three times. Twice for ice cream, which was amazing and for breakfast which was rather mediocre, especially for the prices.

There was a gift shop here, a few restaurant options and a place to register for tours. Plenty of seating in a variety of styles including both indoor and outdoor venues.

There was a breakfast buffet with limited selection which was put on a plate by a server. Not a take on your own set-up. I think the cost was $16 or $18. Not out of line for å tourist location like this, but not all that appealing either. I have to admit, the burgers did look good, however, but we didn't try these.

Not seeing anything of interest, I decided on something simple, biscuits and gravy. I think this was $6 or so. They should have called it biscuit and gravy. Definitely a lot different from the picture on the menu. One biscuit and a little gravy on about a quarter of the plate. Not exactly a good way to start the day.

The Mesa Mocha shop was a complete 180. It was amazing. A nice selection of ice cream(I think eight flavors or so). We got two scoops (in a cup) and they put about five in there, even tamping it down to get møre in. A great deal for about three to four bucks! Would go back here in...

I suppose we are partially to blame for not planning lunch after visiting the park. But this was easily the worst meal we had during our 10-day vacation, most of which was in the Colorado area. Basically, it's what you'd expect when a place is run by the numbers guy who opted for the lowest bidder to provide food services.

Even the pizza - which is hard to mess up - tasted horrible. As though everything was made out of the cheapest canned food they could find. The chicken in the salad was hard as a rock. We barely ate our over-priced food and left.

Nothing was particularly clean, it had a foul odor, and even the restrooms were neglected. One poor old guy had no TP in the stall.

The only good thing was the view, but you could get that without stopping here. Which is a shame as there is a lot of potential given the location and views. They need to replace the management with folks who know how to run a proper restaurant. Get some good food service in here, hire a chef,...

Since Aramark took over running this location, both the food and service have gone downhill. After waiting almost an hour for a table, it took another 45 minutes to get our food. There was only one waiter handling our section of the restaurant. It was obvious the waiter had forgotten to place the order since it was only for two salads, two bowls of soup, a burger, and a chicken sandwich. Once it came out, the soup was missing and no condiments were provided for the sandwiches. The strawberry salad had 1 1/2 strawberries on it. The Cobb salad was missing most of the elements of that type of salad. Both salads were served on a massive bed of lettuce. My son and his family returned there for dinner the following evening... the only place open at that hour... and had a similar experience for the second night in a row. I wanted to share this location with my family since I have so many great memories of dining here, but it is obvious those days...