Tonight my wife and I are driving down to Silver Lake to eat at the Cowboy Dinner Tree. This is actually something we’ve wanted to try out for years, but it was this article in the Bend Bulletin which finally prompted us to make reservations.
Probably the best description I could give is one I’ll lift from the Bulletin article:
The Cowboy Dinner Tree, about 85 miles from Bend, is about as rustic as a restaurant can get. Made of rough poles and barn planks, the building itself has the look of a hermit’s cabin. A sign on the wall proclaims “No electricity – No credit cards – No kidding,” and it’s not. A 12-volt solar-powered battery provides the juice for a couple of bare light bulbs in the dining room, but when the sun sets, the lights dim. All the food is cooked from scratch with propane.
When you make your reservations, you get the choice of either the steak or the chicken for dinner. And their serious about they’re food; when they say chicken, they mean a whole chicken. And the steaks are 26 to 30 ounces. That’s almost two pounds of steak!
Should be an experience, one I’ll write about sometime in the near future, if I’m not comatose from that much red meat.
We went a few weeks ago. It was fabulous!
Just you and your husband, or kids and all? 😉
We had the kids with us too, and they had a great time, although K was a little horrified when and entire chicken was plopped down in front of her.
That is one of my favorite restaurants ever. Ahhhhhhhhhhh. The scary thing is I almost finished the steak once.
I JUST HEARD ABOUT THIS PLACE AND WANNA TRY IT. ONLY HEARD GREAT THINGS ABOUT IT. lET YA KNOW HOW IT WAS WEN I’MA DUN ETEN THAR. DANG FEEL LIKE IM OUT ON A CATTLE RUN…..