Family run and fantastically good home cooking comfort food. Pot roast is rich and with puffy yeast rolls to sop up the gravy you will be as close to heaven as you will get on this planet. Check my profile of ratings and you will notice that I do not lightly give out 5 stars.
The pies are home made and are great., along with the sweet rolls.
I truly question the two negative reviews as out of character. counter. I have never had the salad on the pot roast, but maybe they changed the menu...will check it out tonight and report back.
Later: just returned from dinner and our waitress, Donna, was the one who remembered the incident with Faye W. a little over two weeks ago.
Both my wife and I ordered the pot roast, as we have done previously, not remembering anything about the "salad" on top. Well, we received the pot roasts and they were GARNISHED with onion slices (mine had 11, my wife 9) and tomato wedges (I had two, wife three) that were lightly tosted in vinegarette dressing. We had no memory of this garnish because it was so inconsequential to the dish.
And the menu read au jus (not the "traditional" thick brown gravy that one might expect), two medium red pototoes and a hunk of beef that fell apart into julianne strips of super rich and moist meat and "onion and tomato vinegarette salad."
Salad might be a stretch unless you consider the British "salad" which is a garnish on most dinner and lunch plates.
The restaurant thought that the incident went very well with everyone being nice. Faye W. was offered something else, but when she found out that she would have to pay for what she ordered, opted to limit her experience to the pot roast. The restaurant will not charge for items ordered that are not per the menu, but not liking something ordered is not a reason to avoid paying for it.
Apparently Faye W. left threatening widest disemination of her rip off and misleading menu description on Facebook and other things the staff did not remember.
She was good on her word to rip the Timberline on Yelp*.
That said, look for consistency in reviews on Yelp*. There was one one star on Dave's BBQ in Oakdale, CA which was the only review less than five stars. The rater was angry that she called twice and Dave's never answered the phone, so she posted that, as a restaurant review with one star.
As to Trevor F's salad bar comments I am surprised because he is an experienced Yelper. On my investigation, the salad bar is better than average, with four dressings plus EVO and wine vinegar and we counted 19 containers of stuff and one large bowl of mixed greens. There were also nuts and crackers and some other things. Well, must be expectations and just what can you do with a salad bar except stock a bunch of greens and toppings? Well, maybe some exotic dressings?
Could be Trevor F. was having a bad day, but everyone has opinions, which is the value of a site like Yelp*. Let's watch how the salad bar rates in further reviews.
We make a point of stopping in Beaver, UT simply to dine at the Timberline and most times spend the night. The founder is now the owner and his son is now the executive chef. This is a family operation and a good one.
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