There's not a whole lot of logic in posting a review of a restaurant at Squaw Valley ski resort, near Lake Tahoe, and once you're here you'll realize why.
There are only 3 or 4 places to eat a real meal here (scratch the Starbucks, obviously, because they don't serve much you'd actually want to consume). So if you're here for a long weekend, like we are, eventually you'll end up eating here. And it's well worth it.
The restaurant is classy for a resort, with a great menu. I'm generally not a huge fan of things that swim - alright, I know that cows, and pigs can probably swim, but you know what I mean. Doubly so in a restaurant that's the best part of a day's drive from the (fresh) ocean. As proof of that, the only one of us who had anything swimmy was Pavey, with her usual scallops, and she didn't like them. They were small, and didn't taste full and meaty. "Her fault" I hear you say.
The rest of us luxuriated in our Kurubota Pork Sopes (savory port pieces in a sauce, on top of heaven knows what animal, mineral or vegetable base, all tasting gooooood), Broken Arrow Ranch Wild Boar Chop, Fulton Valley Free Range Chicken Breast, and some other ranch's Short Rib.
The fact that Squaw Valley is right next to Donner Pass, site of the notorious Donner Party of American pioneers, is worthy of note, if not an ironic comedy moment.
* The Donner Party was a group of 87 American pioneers from Missouri who set out in a wagon train in 1846 headed west for California, only to find themselves trapped by snow in the Sierra Nevada. The subsequent casualties were extremely high, and many of the survivors cannibalized members of the party who had already died.
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