Wild Bear Tavern & Den — Restaurant in Grand Lake

To start, it's a little hard to find as there is not good signage coming into the Gateway Inn. But, straight through the main doors, and there it is. The decor is very rustic mountain, which works in this locale. We were going to eat on the deck (beautiful views), but all the tables are short, "conversational drink" tables. (Add tall "eating" tables and increase your capacity). Plus, somewhere below us, someone was smoking, which really deterred from the moment. I'll skip to the food. We ordered the baked meatballs, my wife got the gnocchi with chicken, and I got the mushroom ravioli. The meatballs were pretty good. The ravioli was also fairly good, although I am pretty sure they (and the gnocchi) were from frozen, which would not be too unexpected in a mountain town. My wife said the gnocchi was ok. The biggest problem was that they forgot the chicken. So, while she waited for the chicken, her meal sat, getting cold. There was no apology, no attempt to try to warm it or anything. She only ate about a third of it. No inquiry from our waiter about it. I could have complained, but I am not sure I would have accomplished anything. Decent enough place, but go with lowered expectations. Oh, and I was surprised at how many wait staff were on their phones out on the floor, in plain view of the guests. Bad form...

We had the best time and the team at Wild Bear Tavern really made our day special.

Venue, Catering and Communication are all 10's for us! I know your survey said a ranking of 1-6, but we feel all of these categories exceeded our expectations in every single way. Your communication was on point during the entire process. We felt confident in our choices leading up to the day and knew that we were going to be taken care of.

Sherry was an absolute pleasure to work with. During the tour she was more than accommodating and even gave us ideas on what to do in town. We ended up bringing our entire wedding party to the tavern on Friday for live music (at Sherry's recommendation) and the entire crew had a great time. Sherry even had the performer give Maddie and I a shout out during the performance which made the night even more special.

During dinner Sunday, the bartenders on staff were amazing! Joking with our guests and even playing music for us to dance to. At one point cowboy hats came out and the party was great!

We felt so welcomed by everyone at Wild Bear Tavern. I genuinely think our trip would not have been the same without the staff at the tavern.

I don't have anything to tell you to improve on, because it was perfect from...

Ok so let me start by say the gyro i had was one of the best I've had. I would highly recommend that if you like gryos to try this one.

As for the service as many of the review have said "unless your a regular don't expect help quickly" i mean unless you wave your arms and get their attention you won't be helped. They don't check on you and even from a business stand point they don't try to upsell or offer you another drink when you've finished the one you previously had.

As for the food, My wife got the chicken fingers and fries. One of the chicken fingers had cartilage or something in it which made it rubbery and inedible. Also anything deep fried has a fish taste to it. Fries and chicken.

Since we are staying in the inn by the way this was what I hoped to be a convenient place to have a couple drinks and food. The inn is amazing and I will be writing a 5 star review to them. But I was hoping to have more than a single small drink at the bar. Instead the liquor store down the way gained my business due to a lack of customer service.

I guess I just was hoping that the bar attached to the amazing inn that we are staying in held themselves to the same...