The Lodge At Sunspot - Winter Park

The experience of riding a gondola to the top of a mountain to have a drink with a friend in a lounge is pretty awesome. What 's not awesome is the audacity of this place calling their dinner Chef 's Table. For anyone unfamiliar, a chef 's table is a private dining experience that allows club chefs to showoff their culinary skills to members in a more intimate environment. What you 're actually getting, for $45/person, is essentially cafeteria quality food in a buffet format with everything congealing and cooling under weak heat lamps. When we arrived, I was surprised when our server said just grab a plate and enjoy. Do you guys not know what chef 's table means? Even on your menu you 're intentionally misleading people into thinking this is a dinner menu with full service like a standard restaurant. But whatever. Fine. Expensive, but fine. My wife orders a beer. I order a glass of wine. The server informs us they 're out of some of the beers and basically all of the wine. I end up with a beer. Ok. I figure, we 're still having fun. We 're celebrating her birthday and let 's just make the best of it. So we try the food. Maybe the price point and false advertising literally put a bad taste in our mouths but we gave it a shot. The pasta was lukewarm to cold. The tomato sauce was generic and tasted store bought. The fettuccine Alfredo was so cold the sauce was congealing and curdling. Delicious. The brisket ? was cold somehow and dry from sitting under a heat lamp. The bread was hard as hell and like chewing through beef jerky. Everything was caked in salt. Not, like seasoned or anything. Just salt. There were clearly frozen egg rolls with a drizzle of sauce that was sitting on the table next to them labeled Private Selection which is a sauce you buy in Safeway. Point is, it 's a criminally overpriced, misleading, Golden Corral buffet on a mountain. Just go there for the ambience and drinks, and save your cash for a McDonalds down the street.

Don't waste your time and money. Had to buy Gondola tickets separately. Most of the food was cold. The wait staff wasn't attentive at all. I was extremely bummed out as this just turned into frustration and over all disappointed from the time we arrived til we left.

On a whim we made reservations for Christmas Day brunch. We were not disappointed! The selection of food items was awesome from basic brunch fare to chicken Parmesan and Beef Short ribs. The staff was welcoming and friendly. Ambiance was lovely and who can argue with the view! Highly recommend even for a nice lunch during a ski day!

Our experience was fabulous! The staff went out of their way to make sure we had a great time. We had a large group with allergies and their attention to detail to cater for this was suberb! The food was amazing, as were the drinks and the ambience! What a great place to spend a Christmas Day away from home!!!!!

We had a fantastic Christmas day brunch. We would definitely recommend it.