Rockies — Restaurant in Grand Lake

Only the restrooms were worth stopping for. The food was not good at all.

Traveling with my Dining Partner and daughters, we stopped here to use the restroom, but we were also hungry. It was the first place we came to. I wish I would have parked on the Eastern part of town.

I understand that we went in winter, and that may affect some of the food issues. But still.

I noticed there was an elk sausage sandwich, and an elk sandwich on the menu. I’m not much for sausage due to the fat content, so I ordered the elk sandwich. Much to my surprise, I was brought an elk sausage in a hotdog bun. I was too shocked to say anything, and too hungry to not eat it. It was decent, but what I really wanted was a nice lean sandwich.

Dining Partner ordered the tilapia. I’ve made plenty of frozen tilapia in my day, but this was soo fishy!! I couldn’t believe it. She ate her salad and my fries.

Daughter 1 ordered the pasta Alfredo. Staff asked if she wanted to add chicken. I noticed the $7 price tag, but she was saying “yes” before I could say “no”. This was the most disgusting of the dishes. The chicken was a fried patty, sliced. The texture was slimy. The flavor was unswallowable. I actually spat it out. The Alfredo sauce was also terrible. It tasted slightly sour, or, spoiled. I’m not saying it was. I’m just saying that’s how it tasted. She ate her fries.

Daughter 2 ordered the peanut butter and jelly and was not disappointed.

Upon “completion” of our meal, waitstaff asked if she could box up the Alfredo and chicken. I said “no, thank you. It was disgusting”, and she said I should have told her sooner. The issue is, we hadn’t seen her between dropping off the food and her bringing the check. Yes, she took the Alfredo off the bill. I’m glad she didn’t offer to swap it with something, because I don’t know what it would have been. PBJ, maybe.

Overall, the waitstaff wasn’t horrible, but the food was. I would not eat here again if you paid for my flight and meal.

If you’re in Grand Lake, keep walking past Rockies. There are plenty of other restaurants. You can thank...

We’ve been coming to this spot for years throughout its different lifetime of names and management. Have always loved the atmosphere and large patio but we had a really bad time here this week and are questioning returning next year. We sat at a table for close to 45 minutes before we even received a drink?!?! Finally when my kids were brought our sodas the waitress (very young and inexperienced) told me they tapped out of the ipa I ordered. She proceeded to hand me a breakfast menu and pick a different beer. Confused I said this not a beer menu and told her to just get me the other ipa they had on draft which I remembered seeing when I ordered the first time. She came back with a canned beer (not draft) of a pale ale. So not at all what I asked for. I didn’t care to try and make a big deal of it so I just proceeded to open the can. Well she must have dropped it and not told me because when I opened it it EXPLODED everywhere. And of course there were no napkins anywhere in sight except for a couple cocktail napkins we found at the bar. I had to use my sons baby wipes to clean up the mess which left my beer about half empty. The food was AWFUL. We ordered tator tots and a kids meal with Dino nuggets. There was absolutely no flavor to any of it and the tots were fried to a crisp so much so that they literally just crumbled in your hand when you picked them up. It was $8 for the tots and the portion size was extremely small. The kids meal was served with plain bland broccoli and Lima beans. What kid wants that??? We left so utterly disappointed and felt like Alex got completely ripped off. Everyone who worked here was a teenager who had no clue what was going on. I would not recommend this place to anyone and really hope they get it together so we can try and come...

To say that I am aghast after trying to eat here is an understatement... I feel like I was on punked and Ashton Kutcher was going to jump out at any second. I rarely leave negative reviews but my god, I applore you... stay away.

We went on a Saturday evening, and the place was EMPTY when every other restaurant was packed, but we wanted to be fair and give it a shot. We ordered drinks, and within 40 minutes, had received only a warm beer and a margarita that tasted like literal sewage. Two of us were still waiting on drinks, one of which was a glass of wine which should have taken 2 seconds to pour, and the server returned to tell us after 30 minutes that they didn’t have bitters to make the other drink. She then disappeared to hang out inside with the other 4 women standing around doing nothing with an un-bussed table.

We ended up walking out because we were afraid that the food was also going to taste like sewer water. The service was abysmal and somehow, the drinks were even worse, which is exceptionally hard to do. I’m still convinced this was some sort of...