The Dredge Restaurant & Bar

We wanted to love it, really we did, but it just wasn't much to be excited about.
It was our only date night while there and our friends had made reservations because they said they loved it, but they got sick so we took the reservation (not that it was needed because there was no one there).
We got the bruschetta and didn't read the description because we thought we have had it enough to know we love it. Wrong. it was literally SMOTHERED to the point of soggy bread, with Kamala olives. It was so bitter and soggy and nothing like bruschetta.
I got the steak and loaded mash potatoes. The steak was steak, nothing fancy and the potatoes were pretty dry. Hubby got the burger...It was a burger.
Menu was incredibly limited and besides what I got and some crab legs I saw at another table I didn't see much to be desired.
Its a nice little setting but for the cost it was incredibly disappointing.

Headline:Skip the appetizers on this historic restaurant

It's the start of our annual week  in Breckenridge, and we haven't been to The Dredge before.  I doubt we will be bad due to the epic fail on the appetizers.

Let's start with the restaurant itself.  It's historic, in the middle of the creek, and has a bar side plus a dining room.  You go in different doors.  Hint here: take the left hand door going to the bar or make sure you get a four-top.  The two tops are badly positioned and camped.

As is the norm, the bread course comes first - in this case, it was almost frozen butter and French bread that was hot on one end, but frozen on the other.  This is not a good start.

My wife liked the idea of The Dredge Sampler figuring it can't be bad if you put your name on it.  It wasn't just bad. It was terrible.  In fact, I will name it in the worst five plates I have ever had.  The platter comes with two types of wontons - Asian beef and king crab, calamari, bruschetta and crab cakes.  The best thing on the plate was the condiments, especially the chili sauce.   The wontons were both flavorful with the Asian beef ones being the better of the two.  The wontons were crispy on the edges, but soft elsewhere.  I like my wontons crispy.  Going down the quality spectrum, the bruschetta bread was soggy, but it had reasonable flavor.  The crab cake didn't even attempt being crispy and didn't have much flavor either.  The calamari were an absolute disaster - the word gummy comes to mind, and you never want food described as gummy.  

If we had stopped here, this would be a one star review.  It was terrible.  

But we were hungry, so we ordered a portobello mushroom sandwich.  The bun was nicely toasted, the marinated portobello mushroom was nicely flavored, the pesto that decorated the bun added a nice spice.  The steak fries were perfectly crispy, yet still soft in the middle.  Hd we just had this dish, it would be four stars.

So this restaurant is a bit hit and miss.  I certainly wouldn't recommend it over other, better restaurants in Breckenridge, and  the appetizer was such a n epic fail that I cannot give this one even an average score.

Sorry Dredge - fix the problems.  I may try you again next year, but its unlikely.

Was there in early DEC before the big crowds and didn't try the bar. The pear/walnut salad was very good. Very good mussels, sauce was on the lighter side. Sampler was good, loved the crab cake and the wantons. The steak was good.  Our waitress was awesome, very attentive but not pushy. Excellent service, too bad I can't remember her name. She made a great dinner and evening just more memorable.

We were the only customers that night so we were incredibly pampered so I can't tell if the comments apply when they are jammed.

Considering the quality of food and quantity was ample, we both thought the price was reasonable.