Julia's Fine Foods

Wish the staff would use gloves...they handle money at the cash register and then immediately use their hands to pick up food items or salad ingredients while making salads.  If it weren't for that it would be my favorite place on the mountain.

The menu is creative, the building is charming, the ingredients are fresh and local... but the service is poor. I got the impression that not one single employee had ever worked in a restaurant before. Just a lot of inefficiency. For example, we stopped in for lunch around 1:00pm on a Saturday. The restaurant was busy, but not slammed by any means. There was a line to the door moving extremely slowly. There was only one employee ringing orders, and she would periodically leave the register to get drink refills or run food. Meanwhile, there were 6 or 7 other employees laconically wandering around, staring at glassware and dishes like foreign objects. Also, when you pay with a card, they prompt you to tip, even though you bus your own tables and have to come in for refills. Basically, the business model just seems askew. However, my fish tacos weren't bad, so there's that. :)

Great food.