Ptarmigan Dining Hall — Restaurant in West Glacier

Dang you'd think that the grandest hotel/lodge in Glacier would also have some of the best food. Nope.

My husband and I split the "pork belly" appetizer which was nothing more than one slice of bacon broken up into pieces over some sauerkraut. Seriously...

My husband ordered the duck leg for himself, and what came out was the saddest looking duck I think I've ever seen...it was literally gray and limp. It was served over some lackluster mashed potatoes & steamed veggies with the tiniest smear of huckleberry sauce on the side. The duck might have been better had they at least tried to brush it with the huckleberry sauce, but alas it doesn't seem like the really cared to try to make the food any better than barely edible.

I ordered the pasta primavera for myself, but they were out of the regular sauce for it, so they substituted what they said was a romesco sauce. What came out for me was also a pretty sad looking pasta, not very flavorful, with a watery bland tomato sauce that did not even remotely resemble a romesco sauce.

The rolls they served with the meal were also bland....like how do you screw up dinner rolls?

Anyway, we obvs won't be back. It was WAY overpriced for what you get. You'd be better off going to Nell's down the street at the Swiftcurrent Motor Inn. Most of the food we've had there has been decent and they definitely don't gouge you...

Staff here were extremely nice, they let us order a few items off the other restaurants list on request, brought us those menus. The waitstaff checked in with us a ton, we never ran out of drink refills. The view of the lake was amazing. We hiked in from Logan pass so were disheveled, stinky. They kept our packs behind the check in desk which was very kind.

The food was atrocious and expensive. Our group ordered a house salad, lentil burger, pasta primavera, burgers and sliders. The salad was large which was nice but house dressing was not good. Lentil burger was literally a dry lentil paddy on a bun and a half dollar sized amount of odd sweet balsamic type sauce. No tomato, lettuce, onion, pickle, no toppings or veggies on a vegetarian burger. The pasta primavera sauce tasted like there was just a bunch of mayo dumped on it. I didn't eat the other burgers but no one like them, all either way too minimal/low quality ingredients or poorly cooked. We are hungry, easy going hikers and none of us finished our food. I can't say that's ever been the case before. The host remarked they'd recently lost staff and had new folks in the kitchen which I can believe...end of season, low paying remote location jobs can be tough. Maybe learning the job was the cause, or maybe a recipe or ingredient issue.

If I returned I would get fries and a coke. Only safe bets from...

First table we were seated at, we could not see due to sun shining directly at us. Second table was better until ten minutes later and exactly the same. Windows were so dirty and coated in bird excrement that it made the sun reflection worse. When you looked up, the cobwebs all over the pergola and support beans set the stage for the poor food and even worse service. Ugh. Do. Not. Eat. Here! The trout pate tastes like a poor man's tuna fish, the duck wings taste like overcooked chicken wing, dry and meatless.. The Pasta prima Vera I cannot speak to, since they filled my order incorrectly with arugula salad and the waiter did not have the courage to come address the issue after it was pointed out to the server. The manager could not have cared less. Some how he thought if he credited the meal and brought it out in a to go box with plastic silverware, after everyone else in our group had finished their meals, that would make it OK. Yeah, no. After hiking 12 miles and just wanting to have something to eat, that is what you get for service and food?, you are much better off, bringing a cooler and your own food!!! Or perhaps foraging in the gift shop. Do not spend your hard earned money at this restaurant. I guarantee you will be...