The Main Dining Room at von Trapp Family Lodge & Resort — Restaurant in Stowe

We have been going to the Dining Room at Trapp Family Lodge for many years, for lunch and dinner. There is a lot to like about this restaurant, but also some concerns! Over the years, we’ve noticed prices continuing to go up, but quality of food not improving at an equal rate. It’s still a good restaurant, and you can have a really nice meal here, but you’re not given the “wow” factor like in the past. I still would recommend visiting here at least once though.

If you’re wanting to try their traditional Austrian food, you should obviously go with the wienerschnitzel first and foremost. If all else fails, you know that’ll be good. The standard wienerschnitzel is really good, but we took a visitor who was gluten-sensitive a few months ago and I just wish they had gluten-free breading like other places do. Getting a “grilled wienerschnitzel” really isn’t equivalent, especially for the same price. Their pretzel board, duck confit poutine, and Vermont cheese board are always great appetizer options, salads are pretty good, burgers are great for lunch, and a majority of their mains are exactly like I said before: quite satisfying, but not “out-of-this-world”. We’ve never had anything here we were very disappointed with, so that’s definitely a plus - basically everyone who comes here will leave full and satisfied! They rarely mess up your order though, and service is always good whenever we visit.

The selling point for the Trapp Family Lodge is the atmosphere and location. When you visit, you really feel like you went to Austria. We were just in Austria and I can see the similarities! There are these cute highlander cows (and sometimes babies!) just down the road from the restaurant, which I absolutely recommend walking to after your dinner, and a beautiful garden opposite the road from the cows. You’re up on a hill overlooking the beautiful Green Mountains of Vermont, and at sunset you pretty much have the ultimate view - great for pictures! We honestly prefer to sit outside a lot of the time.

This is still a very nice place that I will continue to take guests to when they visit us in Stowe. Can I say this is the best restaurant in Stowe? No, but I can say it’s good, the atmosphere is great, and you will leave happy - that’s the most...

I wanted to really like this place but unfortunately my main course, the duck confi was the worse thing I've put in my mouth. Yes we came in super late but, if your resteraunt can't deliver good quality food at the end of the night don't take the reservation. I feel horrible for leaving such a bad review but for the price point of 220 dollars, I felt completely ripped off. I will have to say the service was amazing. The meal started off with a bang. The green goddess soup and the beef tar tar were immaculate , but from there it just.... ,sorry for saying it's sucked. The service was great but the meal was just wretched. I had the duck confi with lentils in a maple sauce. The duck was just dry and the lentils, dear god, tasted as if they weren't properly washed. Everything on the dish tasted grainy and had this film of just nastyness. I wouldn't even feed this to my worst enemy. It was so dry and grainy that it left the top of my mouth dry and raw. This dish never should have left expo. It never should have left the kitchen. It's just not exceptable and it was just horrific , more of the lines of embarassing. We ordered a dessert to go but that was just being nice. My partner was excited to eat here, we even listed to music from Sound of Music. We were excited to eat here. My partner's dish the venison, was good according to his word. I wasn't able to try it because I have celiac disease and his dish had gluten in it. I honestly wish I had the same experience he did. Unfortunatelt I left horribly disappointed and feeling awful that our date night wasn't appetizing. The Von trap family should feel ashamed for having such a bad dish leave their kitchen. This was supposed to be a really romantic night, a beautiful jesture of appreciation. I felt absolutely horrible for hating the food and honestly I really dont want to even try the desert because damn this was horrible. I'm looking forward to getting home and eating a bag of chips after a 220 dollars meal. I should be full and not craving a meal microwaved from home. Sorry but this...

Every single thing that could possibly go wrong, did. I wasn’t planning on posting a negative review for the first couple of issues, because things happen and people have off days. No big deal. This was Friday night. We ordered one first course, two salads, then my fiancé ordered the Austrian dinner, which the menu said was veal, and I ordered the Wiener Schnitzel. We also went ahead and ordered the dessert. The waiter came back, said he couldn’t read his writing, and asked to confirm my order. Not a big deal at all. The first course came with my salad, but not my fiancé’s. When our entrees showed up (along with the missing salad), they gave my fiancé something he didn’t order. He repeated himself twice before they had to go get the menu and asked him what he ordered. He said it was on the Austrian dinner insert, not the main menu. The waiter left, then came back and said the menu was wrong, they don’t have that, and that the Austrian dinner was NY steak. So he ordered something different, and I sat there while my food got cold and they cooked something else. Finally got the meal, and I sat there because I had already eaten all I could manage. After we sat there with empty glasses for about 10-15 minutes without seeing a waiter, he finally came over, put dessert menus down, and said “in case we were considering dessert.” At that point we had been seated for well over an hour and had, again, ordered the dessert along with everything else to try to streamline the experience. We ordered the dessert (again) with no acknowledgment that he had already known about it and written it down. Then we sat for another 20 minutes waiting in the check. All of this, no apologies, and we still paid full price. Over $200. We’ve both worked at Cracker Barrel (and I was a trainer for 5 years) and it’s more efficient than whatever catastrophe is happening with the...