Terrible! Â The people were extremely unfriendly, we were seated in the back add-on room where the ice cream machine was making a very loud obnoxious noise. Â We were not relocated to the nearly empty front area even after expressing our displeasure. Â Seating lady very unfriendly and server only pleasant to some customers. Â Food was marginal at best. Â Fortunately this was the worst experience for our vacation.
Review Source:the food hear was  a savior for us. Crater lake is pretty limited in food options, especially for vegetarians. We got here after a long hike on a summer day, and they had exactly what we needed. We ordered the veggie burger, lasagna, personal pan pizza, and pasta for kids - all of the items were really well made. Didnt have any problems with the service as stated by other reviewers. The price was also pretty reasonable, compared to other places within the park.
Although, we went here when it wasnt busy at all (early evening on a normal weekend's Sunday).
Had lunch here twice while staying at the Lodge, seven miles up the road into Crater Lake NP. This place has one entrance in the park and one outside, so there's no need to pay the park entry fee to eat here.
There are several vegetarian options, a rarity in a national park restaurant. I had the Tofu Garden Tower both times. It's a plate of tofu with braised greens. Very tasty, but it's a flat plate, not a tower. Maybe it's in honor of the collapsed volcano that forms Crater Lake.
My wife ordered a veggie burger the first time, and they brought a veggie wrap by mistake, after a long wait. The second time she ordered a chicken burger and they brought her a hamburger. Both times the waitress apologized, but then we waited a long time for a replacement, while new orders were taken care of first. The replacements came with the wrong sides.
The staff here is friendly but stupid and incompetent. If you go, speak slowly and distinctly, and ask the waitress to repeat your order back to you. Â This may increase your chances of getting something similar to what you order. In any case, plan on being here a long time. This is fast food quality, served slowly.
Stopped by here with my husband right before going into Crater Lake National Forest because my husband wanted to get a cup of coffee since he was tired. This place is both a restaurant and a gift shop. Through the gift shop side (left right when you enter the building) are clean restrooms (I personally think the restrooms here are better than the ones in the national forest, especially the bathroom sinks where you can get nice warm water to wash your hands... in the national forest, the water is either scorching hot or icy cold). My husband ordered a small cup of coffee for about $2.85, which seemed average (but could be cheaper). I ended up purchasing a few items at the gift shop for family back home.
Parking seems limited out in the front, but there are more parking in the back.
This place is pretty easy to get to from the road.
Overall, an okay place to shop for souvenirs and perhaps to pick up a little bit of food before heading out to the national forest.
After a day at Crater Lake where I suffered from altitude sickness all day I was very much looking forward to eating a good meal.
I just want to stress that this place is not cheap. Â My husband and I got the 'not your normal chicken sandwich' and it was a $10.00 meal that was not worth it.
The decor is nice but the prices are not.
According the Hobby, it was the best hamburger in a long time, easily Texas level. The Cod fish was out of this world, crispy, thick, inside juicy and fresh. The vegetable buffet was great yet the soups are bad, just bad- so skip them. The french fries can be served in a smaller portion. Overall, good experience.
Review Source:Breakfast buffet offers all the usual suspects: pancakes, french toast, sausage, bacon, oatmeal, etc., most of it lukewarm. Omelets are made to order, though slowly. Ate a full plate and second helpings before the omelet was ready. Table service was slow, too. Prices slightly elevated because of location and lack of competition.
Review Source:I stayed at the Cabins at Mazama Village and ate most breakfasts and dinners here because it was convenient and reasonable. And that's about the best I can say about it. Like many buffets, the attraction here is quantity, not quality. Nothing was terrible (though lots of stuff had clearly been sitting under heat lamps too long), but nothing was by any means memorable. Adequate, non-toxic and ample, but if you want truly good food, go elsewhere.
Review Source:I don't get the negative reviews but again I was just grateful getting some vegetarian food where there was no Subway or Quiznos or even a Safeway. After 2 PM they had a vegetarian option --- veggie wrap with hummus and veggies. It was actually good and filling. They also had a buffet with veggie options (pizza, salad and bread). It was actually okay. Would I go to this place if it were in the Bay Area? Not a chance. However, in a place like Crater Lake I don't mind this place at all.
Review Source:it's too late for me, but save yourself!
friends were determined to find a low-cost cooked meal. Â this was neither. Â they had the buffet, which included all the dry, stringy meat you can bear. Â it likely came from a bear - and old, diseased one. Â 16.95
i cheaped out on the soup and salad; i've seen better in elementary school cafeterias in war zones and hospitals for people with no taste buds. Â of the two troughs of soup, only the chicken dumpling seemed uncontaminated. Â in fact, it was barely warm and not even up to Campbell's quality. Â the salad was made of the cheapest ingredients you can imagine, plus some plain-label artichoke hearts. Â 9.95
drive into Klamath, or go up the mountain to the café for sandwiches and packaged salads.  or go up to Crater Lake Lodge: i had a wonderful meal there the next day for $35 - 3.5 times the cost, and 1/100 of the regret.
This is the restaurant you eat at if you are entering Crater Lake from the south entrance and you've already passed all the food places between Portland and here. Â Ok, that is my story, but it might be someone else's.
That first paragraph didn't make this sound good at all. Â The meal was fine. Â I had a turkey wrap with french fries. Â Thought we were going to get to do a hike once we got into Crater Lake, but the snow on the ground foiled that. Â I thought a turkey wrap might give me the energy for said possible hike, but that hike never happened.
We came here for breakfast the next morning as well. Â We did the buffet. Â They will make you an omelet if you don't like the scrambled eggs they have out. Â The omelet was very large. Â The rest of the buffet was so so. Â
Not many food options down here. Â Choose wisely.
Wow I'm so surprised to see this place has such low ratings. Â You're supposed to be camping people!!! Â I was just thankful to have a hot cooked meal in front of me. Â We went here after a hike to the shoreline or crater lake and were just in luck. Â They usually serve buffet food for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but they have an ala carte menu from 2:30-5. Â We ordered the burger from the ala carte menu and it was a totally decent burger. The meat was good and all the fixings were fresh. Â You can't really screw up fries either. It was a great hot food option while we were camping in the park. Â Rim Village cafe is cold food only. It was a plus that our waitress sounded like Jemy from the Real World too.
Review Source:I'd rather give the place 1 1/2 stars, since our server was a sweet girl, but the food simply stinks! Â
I'm on a low carb diet so I was willing to spend the money on the extended buffet (full food as opposed to just salad) - but for the few additional hot items, it really wasn't worth it. Â Some tofu dish wasn't horrible, but the 'prime rib' was so ribboned with fat and gristle, it was inedible. Â I'm not a fat and gristle wimp, either! Â lol
The salad bar wasn't replenished properly and the employees seemed disinterested and 'half there'. Â The chicken was just okay - nothing seemed very fresh or of good quality. Â These people have almost the only place within many miles to get sustenance... they really need to up the game. Â Stop cutting corners and you'll have happy repeat customers! Â
Oh, and the real fun thing was waiting at LEAST 20 minutes for a table that was empty the whole time we waited. Â They seated some large parties before us and I understand you don't want to anger anyone, but it seemed strange, especially since it's mostly self-service. Â The hostess meandered around a lot and didn't seem real concerned that the waiting area was crowded and uncomfortable. Â I daresay I felt pressured to 'shop' while waiting. Â I spent $5 on a few things... My suggestion to Annie Creek: Â Get it together!
Breakfast before entering the NP.
Greasy bacon, which tasted weird. Pancakes were dry and chewy, Fruit had funky lemon marinade on them. I am sure no real lemon was involved. Coffee was instant and tasted like cow piss and was not included in 12$ breakfast buffet. So really it is a 15$ buffet. Â Man this was the worst breakfast place ever! What a ripoff!
I ran to the bathroom 10 minutes later.
not a-ok but ok. Â Not a whole lot to choose from for food in CL. Â We had a lunch here that was really good, Â and a dinner that was anything but. Â The Lodge restaurant was over priced for the quality of food, and the sandwich shack at the rim was adequate but who wants sandwiches every day?
Review Source:Have you ever been to a National Park? Â If you have, you are probably familiar with that feeling most (not all) of the restaurants leave you with after you put that first bite in your mouth. Â That feeling of "you know these *%~#%r's know I'm !@%#^ starving from a day of hiking in the sun and they can pretty much serve me whatever they want because I have ran out of Clif Bars and there is nowhere else to eat!" Â Enough said.
Review Source:Oh....man. If I could have said 0 stars, I think I would have! We were just there last week, and the restaurant appeared nice enough. Our experience was this: We arrived at peak lunch hour, about 12:30. We were taken to a table, and were told it was a buffet. Okay. So we go up and pick some food. Not an extensive buffet by any means at all. There were 3 or 4 pizza pans out, with a total of maybe 1/2 a pizza among them, one of them Canadian Bacon & Jalapenos (??), the salad bar barely had any salad in the bowl, and its add-on items weren't super appealing, maybe just because I was really craving a good salad, it just didn't fit the bill for me. One person in our group of 4 adults and two young children attempted to put in a request for a pizza, and was told that it is Cook's Choice for what they make. Then, as we were about finished, a new pizza came out of the oven, but it was a to-go pizza--not even something to replenish the dwindling amount already there. As I was filling my plate with pastas, the most appealing items, Â the cook was apparenting making "employee lunches" and after scooping some food up from her side of the buffet, left the utensil on HER side, so I had to really reach for it. Those are some of the things that immediately put us off. The icing on the cake came when we got the bill: $15.95/adult! I was slightly pleased that they didn't attempt to charge for our 3 and 1 year old children, but at those prices, they may as well have! A terrible buffet, with a hefty price. We seriously felt like warning others there about the price before we left. We do expect to visit Crater Lake again in the future, but will most definitely be brown-bagging our lunch that day, and will most certainly encourage others to do the same.
BTW, before deciding on this restaurant, we were at the Rim Gift Shop & Cafe, where the choices as I understand them from another person in our group, were basically $4 PBJ or other simple sandwich, and that was about it.
Save your money, pack your lunch. And beware the hikers that apparently did not recognize their own natural odors.
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