Recommended by someone at a deli up the road, I had some pretty high hopes. I had the specialty hot open faced roast beef sandwich. It was like you might expect from a down home truck stop cafeteria, i.e. large and lathered with gravy and a side of mashed potatoes. For me the roast beef was a bit tough and not quite appealing. Maybe I was expecting more of a pot roast juicier consistency...
I think folks that ordered burgers were happier, but I couldn't resist ordering off the specialties side of the menu.
Blue Mountain Grill is a bit of a destination spot, but the food is worth the drive and, if you're lucky and The Sisters are out, the view is worth driving twice as far.
I first came here a few years ago after building a house just down the road apiece, and I try to make the 40 minute trip from Bellingham at least once a year, and more if i can help it.
The food is fresh and you can have a breakfast as good as anywhere in town or a burger or sandwich as good as the better spots for those as well. The Blue (Cheese) Mountain Burger is a favorite, and everything comes out hot and fast, without seeming rushed.
I know a few places around the county that treat you like a second-class citizen if you're a "townie", but this is not one of those places. Friendly people greet and help you, and seem to truly mean it when they ask you to come back.
I will give them three stars for the "fresh baked bread, which the waitress admitted was bought frozen dough they baked off. Regardless, they get points for this.
Where I have an issue is the BBLT (bacon bacon lettuce & tomato). I was excited because when in college there was a restaurant that had a BLT with at least a pound of bacon on it. The BBLT arrived with three strips of bacon on it. I can name a dozen places that have a substantial BLT with at least fives strips and they don't brag about it. Come on owners! If you are going to brag at least have something to show for it. For $10, you can at least add a couple strips and remove one "B"
Wow!, Where do I start?!
My wife and I were taking our Grand Daughter to the "Santa Train" down the road and had some time to wait before we could board. we drove up onto this little burger joint called 'Blue Mountain Grill" and we thought we would give it a try.
We were warmly welcomed by different staff members as we walked in and took a seat. They Invited my Grand Daughter to participate with "Mrs. Clause" to make Christmas cookies and create a Christmas Tree ornament. there were other children there participating in this activity. there was no catch, no cost. these folks genuinely wanted to do things for and with their customers. While my Grand Daughter was engaged in the activities, my wife and I ordered lunch. Â
Our meals arrived in quick order, it was very good, hot and tasty! The ambiance of this little place was not what I was expecting when I drove up, I have to confess my first impression was something like, "..Oh great, this might be a backwoods biker bar..". It is NOT that at all! , it is family friendly , clean, did I say friendly? the food is reasonably priced, good portions. Â I wholeheartedly recommend this fine little grill.
It was a VERY pleasant addition to our day.
GO THERE!, you won't be disappointed.
We spotted this place and the sign for "Best Burgers" on the way up to Mt Baker to go camping. The whole crew decided it would make a great lunch stop on the way back home. We were all a bit disappointed. Perhaps the other reviewers didn't eat as well as we did at camp.
I asked about the chicken pot pie and was assured is was real good. It came with a salad and I ordered lemonade to go with it. She ordered the fish and chips that came with cole slaw, along with iced tea. Everyone got their ice teas right away. All I got was an apology that they had to go down to the basement and get some more lemonade. I think what the waitress meant was lemonade syrup, because I could see her getting it from a soda fountain a few minutes later. It tasted OK, but who runs out of lemonade first thing in the afternoon on an 80 degree day?
The salad was out of a bag and starting to go brown around the edges. The baguette slice on the top was good. The pot pie looked marvelous--a beautiful dome of flaky crust. Under the (turned out to be flavorless) crust, however, was almost half air. The rest was unseasoned (but tender) chicken and small cubes of potato in an unseasoned and thin milk gravy. Other vegetables were virtually MIA (I think there was an odd pea or carrot). Marie Callendar frozen pot pies are more exciting.
Her fish and chips were also unremarkable. There were three large pieces of fish with heavy coating of bread that tasted more like beer than bread. The fish was hot and moist. The french fries were tender and tasted more fishy than the fish. The cole slaw was some chopped cabbage with a little mayonnaise that may have been shown a photo of a carrot. Not the sweet slaw that the menu promised.
Other folks in our party of five were similarly underwhelmed with their choices. One person had the burger and was not impressed. The fish and slaw sandwich was deemed just as messy as the menu described. The other salad was as disappointing as mine.
Service was attentive right up until the late lunch crowd arrived after we did (about 1:00 on Sunday afternoon). Then several small parties and a large party of twelve (six of them small children) raised the noise level in the room (all hard surfaces) to a crescendo and we never saw our waitress again. We had to track her down in the bar to pay our bill.
Next time we go camping at Mt Baker we'll look for a different lunch stop. Sorry.
Great Food. Great Bread. I had an omelette. All ten of us really liked everything we ordered. The food is even better when stolen off someone else's plate. The potatoes were perfect.
It's a bit out of the way, but worth driving to. I'd be going again soon if I didn't live 1200 miles away.
I love, love, love, and would possibly like to seriously date, maybe marry, the Blue Mountain Grill.
It's all because of their baked beans. See... I crave them. On a regular basis. They make them from scratch, and they are full of sweet, smokey, beany, bacony goodness. I don't know if they use the drippings from their mouthgasmic pulled pork, but I don't care. It's fugging delicious. The pulled pork, too.
Their breakfasts are smaller and cheaper than the Acme Cafe, but they are infinitely more delicious and definitely not all from sauce mixes and jars. Scratch biscuits. Seriously. The biscuits and gravy is two large biscuits which take up the entire tin plate... and the gravy? It has actual spices. And detectable sausage. It's made with a lardy product of some sort, and is velvety as a result. It's sex on a breakfast plate.
I could go on and on, but at that point, it might get even pornier. Just trust me. It's worth it. A wait, an extra buck, whatever.
And I didn't even get into the view. It's holy. I got it tattooed on my chest. ...no seriously, I did. Nothing quite like a religious experience over beers and fried chicken on a summer evening.
ZOMG! We ate here in a large group the night before a wedding in the mountains near Acme, Washington. This place gets the magic five stars for every reason I can think of:
1) Waitstaff was superb. We made them put with 30 of us, all of us full of energy and boisterous (yet not rude), and they handled us with ease and grace. They navigated our orders and kept our refills going.
2) The food. Dear lord.....I had a chicken friend steak and mashed potatoes. It was delightfully crunchy, very tasty, and not greasy. Also, it was not overly large -- another win. Also, I have no idea what brand of tea or lemondade they use in their Arnold Palmers, but they nailed it.
3) The desserts get their own category -- they have they handmade four berry pies in bowls, fresh baked then smothered with vanilla ice cream. Also, they have a brownie cake heated and smothered with ice cream. Fortunately our table got both, then we ate bites of both. I'd imagine this is what gods eat for dessert ;-)
4) The check - they did it by table, and when we went to pay they even split it further to help us out. Usually you get one giant bill, and then split, however this was easier on us. We gave them a huge tip for doing that.
Is it cheap? No, but also not expensive. This is very, very high on the bang for the buck....so get on down there! Git!
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