Monty's Log Cabin — Restaurant in Scotts Valley

Cozy, rustic, great outdoor garden area, generally very friendly, so don't worry if half the bar turns around to look when you walk in... They're just looking to greet an old friend. Or a new one. Or wondering why you wore those shoes. The 100-ish year old log cabin has a very charming, rustic mountain ambiance with lots of Momentos and artifacts hanging everywhere, reflecting stories, history, characters, and humor spanning generations. Several large screen TVs are always on for games or game shows, and during the day, when the more "mature genre" of regulars are seated at the bar, you may find yourself dividing your attention between answering TV game show questions, rolling dice, comparing fishing stories, and getting a rundown on the latest happenings and goings-ons up the San Lorenzo Valley, which stretches up the coast side of the Santa Cruz Mountain from Santa Cruz City to Big Basin State Park, with the small towns of Felton, Ben Lomond, Brookdale, and Boulder Creek nestled along the winding, redwooded route northward. If the quaint, olde tyme charm of the cabin itself wasn't already enough, then the charm and whimsy of the outdoor patio garden, with umbrella shaded tables, groomed plants and shrubs, and the trickle of a small water fountain is sure to lure you in and convince you to stay for an ice cold craft beer or a no frills hi-ball (cocktail). Whether in the warmth of a summer day on a cushioned patio chair, a slightly wobbly rotating stool at the unfanciful bar, around the well weathered pool table that consumes about 85% of the backroom floorspace, or on a cool night sitting under the stars around an oak fire burning in the old washing-machine-tub-fire-pit, there's almost always friendly conversation on the ready. Visitors and locals, young, old, and in between, bikers and business people, artists, musicians, blue collar, students, and retired folks engage in some of the friendliest, funniest, bizarrest, deepest, most outlandish, most revealing, most inspiring, believable, unbelievable, intelligent, and/or unintelligible discussions, conversations, debates, story telling, confessions, understandings, romances, and/or gibberish you could...

Log Cabin does not disappoint.

Full disclosure: I've been here a dozen times. So this is hardly a first review.

It's a true old style road house located a half mile out of Felton. ( on a side note there are 3 bars to see on highway 9. Monty Log Cabin. Henflings, and Joe's. In the towns of Felton, Ben Lomond, and Boulder creek respectively) I digress. Log cabin is the best bar in Felton. If you want a historic mountain bar look no further. I love this place but: Cash only. Bar stools are backless ( not good) Only about 9 bar stools. They really should have a domestic beer on tap. I've never seen an event here....not to sY they don't do them but I havens seen anything

All in all I love this place....

I realllllllyyyyy wanted to give 5 stars because I had the pleasure of meeting Monty and he was a gem. The building has a rustic charm about it and drinks were cheap. Most locals were very friendly as well.

However, the bartenders were rude likely because they are the most attractive people in the town and think over highly of themselves and a local "event coordinator" talked down on our party due to her lack of job performance at the Fern River Resort up the road but that's a review I will leave elsewhere.

All in all we had a blast celebrating our best friends wedding this past weekend at Monty's as our after...