Creekside Café & Grill — Restaurant in Four Corners States

Warning: slightly pretentious and dogmatic review to follow.

We stopped here for lunch and intended on buying food. Our first stop was the water station where we found 3oz cones. After asking an employee behind the counter for a cup, i was told that they can only provide plastic cups to paying customers as this is in line with their green initiative.

I understand the need to remain profitable, but i find restricting water for skiers to be not only an unethical move on the part of management, but pathetically excused as an eco-friendly decision. I wonder why the shape of a water cup would make it more environmentally friendly... I wonder why snowbird suspends their green initiative when you buy food and provides a plastic (disposable) cup. I’m beginning to think it has nothing at all to do with environmental policy.

I wonder if you are required to buy food to use the AED...

We did not buy food and instead...

While I expect to overpay for food when I am at a ski resort, I also expect to either get a decently tasty meal or a bit larger of a portion. Creekside Cafe didn’t really deliver on either. The chili I had was super old and dried out. The foot-long chili dog certainly didn’t have that juicy flavor one wants when they know they are indulging in junk food.

The service was also unimaginably slow. It seriously took 15 minutes to order a bowl chili and for them to scoop it. I asked for the toppings on the side, and the server declined.

Bottom line: you can get some calories here and 3.2% Utah beer. It’s better...

Food was pricey, Wasach beer was average (well, it was not bad if you grade on a curve factoring in the historical ban on beer) but the T-Shirt was awesome and unique. Love the humor. My shirt reads - "I tried Polygamy ... (cool graphic of a dude hugging two women) ... Porter. And I loved it." And the view from the patio of the mountains was great.

Fond memories to my local guide and ex-coworker who kept at least two wheels on the ground at all times as we bombed down the winding two-lane road in his low-slung convertable, top down in...