3.5 stars
So you arrive at Bryce Canyon around lunchtime ready to marvel at the myriad of hoodoos (via all the many overlook points) but also suppressing a growling stomach. What to do?
Eating at the Bryce Canyon Lodge is good to very good. Their selection of food for lunch is limited by the Department of the Interior-contracted Xanterra corporation, which gives the place a more of a food service cafeteria feel than a rustic Utah lodge dining restaurant. This is not a really bad thing, just that the Xanterra corporation's presence could have been a bit more muted and less apparent in the restaurant.
This review is restricted to lunch there, not the lodging or the souvenir shop.
You can either pig out at the Bryce Canyon Taco Bar for $11, which is quite good by the way, or you could choose from a rather sparse menu of standards, Appys: Chicken Quesadilla or Buffalo wings - $9
Two lunch salads for $9.50 each, or one of eight burgers and sandwiches all roughly $8.
The Navaho Trail Grilled Cuban (Sliced roasted pork loin, honey ham, Swiss cheese, pickles and mustard on a pressed hoagie roll) was very good and would have easily been my choice second to the Taco bar.
The Taco bar had all the fixings you could want for a taco; seasoned sliced chicken breasts, ground beef, salsa, sour cream, guacamole, olives, shredded lettuce, onions, tomato chunks, your choice of either taco shells or warmed tortillas.The shells were busted but they were thin and crisp and served as an excellent base to the above fixings. It's even got your standard sides of Spanish rice, re-fried beans and black beans--all pretty good.
The Rim Garden Burger and Inspiration Cheeseburger were reported to be good by our friends.
I recommend paying the additional 65 cents to upgrade the fries to the excellent sweet-potato fries.
The coffee was quite good by food service standards but was nearly $3 with unlimited refills.
The service was very friendly and the setting was rustic and very very old lodge-like, full of dark browns and heavy-feeling timbers. read more