What is the best place to eat at yr favorite climbing area?

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Lotte_Charlie

Sport climber

Amsterdam

Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 20, 2017 - 12:54pm PT

I've been creating and illustrating a cook book for climbers, going to print it in June..
but I realized it wouldn't be complete without recommendations for where to eat out for the days you don't feel like cooking.

I know the best place to eat in Italy's Finale Ligure - a tiny osteria with the best three course dinners you've ever eaten.

The place to get pizza in the Verdon (with the crazy Spanish guy at the bend in the road)

The New Paltz Bakery for the Gunks,

Or the free hot chocolate in front of the womens' bathroom at the Ahwahnee in Yosemite.

But what do you think are the best (perhaps hidden?) places to eat?
I'd love to know!

To give you an idea, this is what the book will look like:

Mungeclimber

Trad climber

Nothing creative to say

Apr 20, 2017 - 01:19pm PT

Does that book have a list of the people that will be cooking for climbers?

I need to make friends with them. :)

Pinnacles East or West side on the way back to the Bay Area, I stop at Super Taqueria in Hollister or Morgan Hill, respectively.

ruppell

climber

Apr 20, 2017 - 01:31pm PT

Gunks Mexicali Blues
Red Rock Sushi Mon
T-Wall Shufords Smokehouse
Bishop Burger Barn

thebravecowboy

climber

The Good Places

Apr 20, 2017 - 01:41pm PT

Sweet Melissa in Laramie is where it's at after a Veed session

Avo's for FoCo
Mishawaka for Cache la Poudre
Hot Tomato for Fruita: "friends let friends eat hot pie"

Blondie's for Stankersville (but do not underestimate the joy of opening local eyes with your 2 lbs milkshake in 2 mins at Stan's)

Opa in Estes
Pho for Vegas
Oskar Blues in Lyons

Sandy Bowles' gritty vegan home cookin' for the bad roads and warm coolers

mtnyoung

Trad climber

Twain Harte, California

Apr 20, 2017 - 01:44pm PT

On Sonora Pass Highway, my house. My wife's an excellent cook (I do not like to cook).

I kinda like the ambience there too.

Lotte_Charlie

Trad climber

Amsterdam

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2017 - 01:44pm PT

:) Thanks for the suggestions!
MIguel's seems to pop up often!

@Mungeclimber - You can order your non-climbing (gasp) friends a book and perhaps inspire them ;)

Mungeclimber

Trad climber

Nothing creative to say

Apr 20, 2017 - 01:49pm PT

madness for sure reaching out to non climbers! ;)

Jon Beck

Trad climber

Oceanside

Apr 20, 2017 - 02:04pm PT

Tuolumne Meadows - Mono Cone (or the Mobil Station)

mike m

Trad climber

black hills

Apr 20, 2017 - 02:49pm PT

Grizzly Bar Alpine MT, Silver Dollar Cody, WY, the Sugar Shack Nemo, WY

Oplopanax

Mountain climber

The Deep Woods

Apr 20, 2017 - 02:53pm PT

I'm a fan of the clam dinner at the YWCA

Ksolem

Trad climber

Monrovia, California

Apr 20, 2017 - 02:54pm PT

For most of the places I like to climb at my campsite is the best place to eat. But in the lower Kern there's the Kern River Brewing Company. The best ale and a great menu.

Looks like a cool book. How can we get a copy?

JerryA

Mountain climber

Sacramento,CA

Apr 20, 2017 - 03:52pm PT

The patio at the Ahwahnee Hotel . Alan Bard,Craig Calonica & I were asked to leave the dining room their one morning when we had been eating the -all-you-could -eat Sunday -brunch for only a few hours!

hooblie

climber

from out where the anecdotes roam

Apr 20, 2017 - 04:43pm PT

roscoe, make that grizzly bar, roscoe mt. as in where the hell is roscoe?

Gary

Social climber

Desolation Basin, Calif.

Apr 20, 2017 - 04:58pm PT

Joshua Tree: Sam's for dinner, Country Kitchen for breakfast.
Idyllwild: Red Kettle
Spanish Fork: The Little Acorn
Lone Pine: Frosty Cone
Big Pine: Copper Top
Domelands: Grumpy Bear's
Christmas Tree Pass: Kidwell Airport at Cal-Nev-Ari
Heller Rocks and Easter Wall: Indian Wells Brewery (limited menu: popcorn and beer)

i-b-goB

Social climber

Wise Acres

Apr 20, 2017 - 07:03pm PT

http://www.erickschatsbakery.com/

thebravecowboy

climber

The Good Places

Apr 20, 2017 - 07:29pm PT

I gotta second Locker on Sam's.

I heartily un-recommend the hobo butt-meat gyro in Baker, though I suppose that there is always a second time for anything.

Flip Flop

climber

Earth Planet, Universe

Apr 20, 2017 - 07:34pm PT

Schat's
Roberto's
The Grill
The Pizza Deck
Strawberry Lodge
Slim's
Tacos Jalisco
The Squeeze
Whoa Nelly

otisdog

Big Wall climber

Sierra Madre & McGee Creek, Ca.

Apr 20, 2017 - 08:05pm PT

Burger barn in Bishop...

Clint Cummins

Trad climber

SF Bay area, CA

Apr 20, 2017 - 08:07pm PT

"We didn't come here to eat lunch; we came here to face death!"

T.M. Herbert (when his partner was complaining about the food brought on the climb...)

I like this quote, so in the trip reports I write, I have a fairly strict policy of describing the climbing and not the food.
Although I expect it could be extremely boring to describe what I eat!
:-)