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    Sorensen's Country Cafe

    2.8 (35 reviews)
    Open 12:00 pm - 8:00 PM
    Updated 2 months ago

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    Nathan W.

    On a beautiful summer night my friends took me to Sorensen's for dinner. We just missed the live music but caught sunset and enjoyed a wonderful evening on the patio. The food was so good and we tried some of the recommended specials for appetizers and sipped on some of their speciality cocktails and my favorite tequila with soda water and an orange slice. I ordered the steak and my friend ordered the chicken. Both were prepared wonderfully and full of flavor. After dinner we had their berry cobbler which was very good. It was served hot with vanilla ice cream. It is worth the short drive from South Lake Tahoe to enjoy a wonderful meal here.

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    Frances L.

    This charming cafe located in Wylder Hotel resort offered delicious food. We enjoyed dinner here and were impressed with the quality and flavors of the dishes. We started with a few appetizers, ordered every entree on the menu and finished with two desserts! Winter Salad-oven roasted beets, toasted walnuts, herbed chèvre over arugula all dressed with a lemon honey vinaigrette. Burrata Platter-creamy burrata, arugula, and prosciutto wrapped squash served with grilled bread. Charcuterie Board-a beautiful selection of cured meets, cheese, fruit, pickles and mustard. Cranberry Glazed King Salmon-tender salmon glazed with cranberry, asparagus and quinoa. Wild Mushroom & Truffle Ricotta Gnudi-this was a favorite. The gnudi were like gnocchi, but bigger. They were light and fluffy and soaked up the flavorful garlic mushroom sauce. Cast Iron NY Steak-perfect medium rare steak with a bourbon peppercorn sauce. Beef Burgundy Stew-hearty classic beef stew served with grilled bread . Shrimp Linguini-delicious pasta dish with jumbo shrimp in a light white wine sauce. Brownie Sunday-can't go wrong with this dessert! Warm gooey brownie served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and topped with sprinkles, fudge and caramel. Berry Cobbler-warm bowl of berry compote topped with a sweet biscuit and vanilla ice cream. So good! So much delicious food! We enjoyed our evening and the service by Jamie was great!!

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    Michael M.

    Be aware that they currently no longer serve breakfast. So bring your own if you stay here, unless you want to leave Hope Valley for breakfast. I had the salmon for dinner, and was really disappointed. For a single meal that cost over $54 (no beverage, includes tip), I expected it to be great. Was very much not. Generously sized portion, but a little overdone and dry. Very little glaze, and the quinoa/vegetable mix was pretty bad. We ate here 6 or 7 years ago, and it was great. Don't know what's going on now, but can't recommend.

    Wild Mushroom Gnocchi and Rosé - Yummy! 2 of 2 dinner nights. More gnocchi than mushrooms!
    Aaa T.

    Ate here recently twice for dinner and once for lunch. All 3 visits had beautiful, outdoor Autumn Foliage ambiance. You can't beat this awesome location in Hope Valley. Right now, the Aspens are perfect! Visit soon before the Autumn colors are gone. I ate here several times prior to Wylder resort taking over. The staff used to be so very warm, genuine and friendly. I docked the rating by 2 stars this time because each of my recent 3 visits lacked any type of warmth or genuine desire for any type of customer service. The only " warm and friendly " staff was the cook who actually ran out of the kitchen to serve me my dinner because they were severely short staffed that evening. I ordered the yummy Ricotta Wild Mushroom and Truffle entrée for Dinner both times. Both were very tasty, however, 1 entree had tons of gnocchi and the other entree had many more mushrooms than gnocchi. I wish it could be a mixture of both equally for balance. For lunch, I had the cauliflower soup but didn't take a photo of it because it wasn't very tasty. Again, staff customer service and personality was totally lacking. This is such a lovely location and ambiance, just wish the staff were trained in customer service and genuine caring.

    Ann S.

    We were looking forward to a tasty meal. The ambience was wonderful but the awful music was loud. Definitely not fitted for the fine dining atmosphere we were expecting. We were disappointed in the Burrata for $25 as it had three pieces of BURNT bread, hardly any balsamic reduction on the dish. Most importantly it was noted on the menu to have heirloom tomatoes, but in stead they were awful hard untasteful tomatoes, not sure where they got them. It would have been better to have small cherry tomatoes on the dish. Also had the server informed us of the issue, we wouldn't have ordered the Burrata. We ordered more bread for the dish and to our AMAZEMENT they brought us two small pieces and CHARGED us $4.00!!! I can get a whole loaf of sour dough homemade bread for $1.99 at my store in the Mtns. The Green salad was okay, nothing special for $13. The $32 Ricotta Gnocchi was not even lukewarm (COLD) and the serving size was very small. The berry cobbler was the best thing we ordered for a whopping $14. We didn't mention the issues above herein as we were hoping the rest of the meal would work out, but it just got worse. We walked away tipping 20%, on a $154.44 awful dinner and was totally disappointed. We will never go there and will be sure to let others know as we're local to the area.

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    Bea S.

    It's expensive. And I don't know if it's totally worth it but you should check it out yourself. Strawberry fields cocktail? Sweet and probably refreshing in the summer time. Charcuterie board: great because I'm on a diet but can eat the crap out of cheese and salted meats. Is it worth over $30? No. My salmon with greens and stone ground grits was DELICIOUS! Greens weren't over cooked. Salmon was HEAVILY seasoned which was a nice surprise. Grits were a bit over cooked as they had a slightly gummy taste but still tasty. Kid portion of stew was ok. If it sits for too long in kinda congeals. Got some beef, potatoes and carrots in it. Took a couple bites and passed it along. Steak in chimi was on. I enjoyed the char of the asparagus. But steak needed salt. Kid portion max and cheese was a favorite but I didn't try. Brownie was a hit. Berry cobbler not so much. Lamb lollipop was nice but again needs a little salt. Service was nice, a touch slow, dishes won't come out at the same time because it's a small kitchen. Would come back but not for a while. I live far away and I don't like hiking or snow, haha. But Hope Valley is beautiful.

    Besim U.

    Sorensons (at Wylder HV) hit right. When I look at the prior reviews, this was before Wylder started managing because anything less than 4.5 stars does not feel fair. This was the second time we ate in the mountains here, and from an ambiance perspective you feel the coziness: the snow piles out the window, the wood fired stove heating the building. The meal though and service was transcendent. We opened with a winter salad (the watermelon radish sliced thin, walnuts, roasted slices of plentiful beets, balanced out with chèvre hit so right). I had the NY Strip with peppercorns and the sauce was so tasty but not heavy, and steak PERFECTLY cooked through (chef made a ribeye on a castiron last fall that was also unforgettable, power went out in the kitchen - it's the mountains this is why you come here - and used fire to grill for us). My partner had the linguine shrimp - the shrimp were like lobsters. Desert you can't go wrong, this time we had the mixed berry cobbler with homemade biscuit and a generous scoop of ice cream. We feel lucky to have experienced such a unique meal in a space that has been preserved over the years. The folks that work there care about their craft, and for me this is a destination dinner off the beaten path.

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    Georgette F.

    My husband fishes a lot around this area and has mentioned this spot a few times so we took our puppy for lunch. Service was fast and friendly. They give ice water to the dogs which our Maggie is obsessed with ice so she loved that. My husband and I got a drink. He had the marlette sunrise beer and I got a peach Bellini. We shared a black bean burger with potato salad! They split it for us and it was so delicious!! The best black bean burger we've had. And I loved the potato salad. Such a cute spot!

    K. B.

    Waitress was good, food good, restroom DISGUSTING. Locals; been coming here for years. It's my favorite time of year to come here because of the beautiful fall colors. Came this morning for breakfast and it was about 50° in the dining room. Food was good, not great, but the waitress was awesome. My only real complaint is the cleanliness (or lack thereof) of the restroom. I don't think it's been cleaned for at least a year. Disgusting. See pics (zoom in for full effect).

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    My family is skiing in Kirkwood and I needed a place to hang out for 2 hours. I found Wylder (formerly Sorensen's) 23 min away. This is an unassuming country cafe that serves up surprisingly upscale delicious food. Don't get me wrong, upscale food and drinks but not pretentious; the dining room is rustic looking with a wood burning stove. You can easily feel like sitting in a French auberge. My Bloody Mary was full flavored and balanced. Then the Ahi Tuna melt is the best I've ever had, and I have had a lot of tuna melt over the years. I chose to add a fried egg on top, just lip-smacking. I'm trying going to come back for dinner tonight

    The restaurant is located inside the main building, which also serves as the office of the resort. Is it really the middle of May?
    Eric R.

    Sorensen's Country Cafe, along with the small gift shop, is a small, rustic restaurant located at Sorensen's Resort, along California State Highway 88, in beautiful Hope Valley, high in the Sierra Nevada range of mountains. The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner 7 days a week, 365 days a year, and is a great place to stop for a meal, whether you're a traveler or a guest at the resort. As you walk into the office, you're greeted by the manager, where you can register for a cabin, and pay for your meal. The restaurant is to the right as you enter the office, along with a sign that reads "Please Wait to be Seated," but since I was the only diner at the time, the manager said I could sit anywhere I wanted to sit. That was easy for me to do, as I sat at the table next to the wood-burning stove. Sorensen's breakfast menu covers most of the bases and includes something for everybody. I did notice a couple of "oddities," including "Beef Burgundy Stew" offered on the breakfast menu - which I've never seen before - and the $3.00 price for an extra egg, or the same price for two extra eggs. Sorensen's Country Cafe serves breakfast, lunch along with dinner, and features a separate menu for every meal. Today, I ordered from the top of the breakfast menu the "Two Eggs Any Style." My breakfast included two fried eggs, over easy, which is my de facto standard, roasted red potatoes, and English muffin, along with a garnish of apple slices and orange. The meal was cooked perfectly, delicious, but at $9.00 plus tax, it wasn't inexpensive, but the price was fairy reasonable considering the remote, mountain location. The food is delicious, there is plenty of it, and the price is reasonable, considering the remote location, and the care that was put into preparing a quality meal. I loved my breakfast, but my server seemed to be a bit detached and not particularly welcoming or friendly. No worries, as the food is good, and the atmosphere is "mountain cozy." I give this fine restaurant a solid three stars.

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