Grand Tetons restaurantsRestaurants in Grand Teton National Park are non-smoking, most others in Wyoming and Montana allow
smoking. As of May 23, 2009 public spaces in Teton County, including restaurants and bars, will be nonsmoking, including within 20 feet of ventilation systems and public entrances.
Here are details about some of them the closest to where the De Anza College Outdoor Club stays on it's trips to the park, starting with Grand Teton Lodge Company restaurants.
As of 2008 soy milk is available with the hot cereal at all of the GTLC restaurants. They have a variety of sustainable and organic, free range, hormone free meats and sustainable fish/seafood through the guidance of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch. They offer organic, pesticide free produce, some locally grown. Their coffee is Rainforest Alliance Certified. They use recycled content paper goods and takeout containers.
As of 2009 they put menus online: http://www.gtlc.com/dining/index.aspx
  The Jackson Lake Lodge Mural Room has high floor to ceiling windows with an unobstructed view out over Jackson Lake. Sunsets are great, as are lightning storms.(2009) Dinner: entrees $18 - $38, beef tenderloin, Buffalo prime rib, salmon/halibut, elk loin, trout, chichen, summer harvest vegetable tart. Appetizers ($9 to 12), pan-fried green hatch chile crab cakes; ostrich, baked brie; sweet potato, asiago and sage cavetelli. Soups, ($7 to $9), garlic bisque, sweet corn vichyssoise, soup of the day. Three salads ($7 - $9), including tomatoes/mozzarella, spinach/ mushroom and organic baby greens. You can't substitute a baked potato for the menu potatoes/risotto/polenta.
In fall, because it's the end of the season, some years they run out of the butter portions shaped like a moose. (But in the fall there are fewer crowds and lots more parking.) Reservations are advised even in the off-season.
Mural Room breakfast buffet 2009, $14.50, with the moose shaped waffles. It's not at all as extravagant as the one at the Ahwahnee in Yosemite, but it's also not $50.
(2008) Breakfast 7 - 9:30, Lunch 11:30 - 1:30, Dinner 5:30 -9 p.m.
Next door to the Mural Room, the Pioneer Grill 2008 has counter service and takeout from 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. (2009) Fountain ice cream specials. Dinners can include sandwiches, burgers, salads and entrees with soup or salad: steak, trout, meatloaf, fried chicken. Salads including a classic caesar with or without chicken. Lunch includes burgers, sourdough grilled cheddar and swiss, taco salad . Sides for lunch or dinner include garlic butter and parmesan cheese fries, roasted sweet pepper slaw.
To find each of these, look for the black and white aerial photo at: Jackson Lake Lodge vicinity.
Jackson Lake Lodge also offers, in season, dinner ($57, 2009) and breakfast ($36, 2009) cruises on the lake.
A short walk from the cabins where we usually stay, Colter Bay Ranch House (through 2008 we knew it as the Colter Bay Chuck Wagon Steak and Pasta House) (2009) dinner entrees with house salad and bread, include steak, trout, salmon, meat loaf, 2 chicken dishes, pork chops. $15.95 to $19.95 Buffet breakfast (2009) $12.50 and a la carte. Typical lunch and salad bar/desserts.
(2008) Breakfast 6:30 - 10:30, Lunch 11:30 - 1:30, Dinner 5:30 -9 p.m.
At Colter Bay there is a picnic area with tables, firepits and restrooms at lakeside just down the road from the Colter Bay cabins and campground, hang a right at the Visitor Center parking lot.
To find the Chuckwagon and picnic area, look for the black and white aerial photo at: Colter Bay, Grand Teton National Park
At Signal Mountain, Peaks restaurant (2008, 5:30 -10 p.m.) incorporates natural and organic foods into their menu. All their fish are listed in the green category on the Audubon fish scale or as a best choice by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program. (2007) Dinner appetizers range from $7 to $9 including mushroom caps and roasted garlic soup. Entrees are all served with soup or salad and include salmon, trout, filet mignon, organic polenta cakes, free range chicken marinated using a margarita recipe and served over organic black beans and rice, ribeye with horseradish mashed potatos, elk stew with roasted Mirepoix in a cabernet demi reduction. $17 to 35, split entrees incur a $5 charge.
Down a side road near the Moose visitor center, are Dornan's Pizza & Pasta, (Sept. 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.). Menus are at:
http://dornans.com/dining/ Club favorites have included various pizzas, the chicken gorgonzola, seafood alfredo, and chicken caesar salad. We can't all sit as a group on the rooftop because of the over 21 years old rule.
See the black and white aerial photo at: Moose, Wyoming
About a mile north of Colter Bay, (take a left down a side road off the highway to the marina at the lake), is Leek's pizza, sandwiches and calzones, all fresh, all of which our club trip members have liked. (2008, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.)
There are dozens of restaurants in the town of Jackson. They vary from burgers, Chinese, Mexican, sushi, pasta, Italian, steakhouse, fusion, tapas to four-stars with "an award-winning wine list". Most lean towards family or casual atmosphere.
restaurant guide with menus:
http://www.focusproductions.com/HTML/diningguide.htm
The Jackson Hole News and Guide has a restaurant guide:
http://jhnews.com/article.php?ctg=17&twn=1
Vegetarians/vegans can peruse the above listings, noting:
Blue Lion, 160 N Milward, 733-3012 some vegie specials
Bon Appe Thai, 245 West Pearl 734-0245 "all dishes can be prepared vegetarion or vegan" stir fried vegies, tofu and vegies, tofu spicy fried rice, soups can be made with other than chicken broth
Chinatown 850 West Broadway 733-8856 ten vegie/bean curd items
Koshu Wine Bar - corner of Broadway and Milward- 733-5283, smoke-free, some vegetarian dishes (baby bok choy & shitake mushrooms, grapefruit and jicama salad with ginger vinagrette).
Lotus Cafe (formerly Planet Palate) at 145 N. Glenwood, 307 734-0882, Organic bakery, sandwiches, smoothies, eggs Benedict, Thai, Indian, Asian, Mexican. Items with no wheat. Vegetarian/vegan and some carnivore menu items.
Thai Me Up at 75 Pearl, "food can be made mild or spicy," non-smoking, "ask about our vegan/vegatarian options" spicy curry tofu, pad thai, masaman curry, spring rolls, mixed vegetable stir fry with Thai chili infused sweet soy sauce.
Jackson Hole Grocer - 974 W. Broadway between Powderhorn and Scott - mostly 7 a.m. to 11 p.m, 307-733-0450 has a large selection of organic and conventional groceries, deli, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, fair trade coffees, homopathics, herbs, vitamins. Home Grown from local growers, dairies, bakeries. Juice, smoothie and expresso bar, custom sandwiches, bakery, salad/soup bar, some take home meals, including organic rotisserie chicken.
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2009 Best of Jackson Hole readers poll c/o Planet Jackson Hole:
Best Breakfast: Bubba's, Nora's Fish Creek Inn, Virginian Restaurant
Best Burger: Billy's Burgers, Couboy Steakhouse, Snake River Grill
Best Chinese: Chinatown, Ocean City, Hong Kong Buffet
Best Coffee Shop: Pearl street Bagels, Jackson Hole Roasters, Hard Drive Cafe
Best Italian: Osteria, Nani's Genuine Pasta, Calico
Best Mexican: Pica's Mexican taqueria, Abuelito, Merry Piglets
Best Pizza: Mountain High Pizza Pie, Village cafe, Osteria
Best Restaurant: Rendevous Bistro, Snake River Grill, Osteria
Best Salsa: Merry Piglets, Pica's Mexican Taqueria, El Abuelito
Best Sushi: Nilkai, Masa Sushi, Mizu
Best Takeout food: Teton Thai, Chinatown, Down on Glen
Best Thai: Teton Thai, Thai Me Up, Bon Appe Thai
Best Vegetarian: Planet Palate, Teton Thai, Thai me Up/Jackson Hole Grocer
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See also Grand Tetons hotels, cabins, lodging
Grand Tetons trip pages index has brief descriptions of most of the pages about this trip.
During our fall trips we often attend parts of the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival, including the Taste of the Tetons sampling from valley chefs, restaurants and caterers, (and a juried art fair as well), in the town square. http://www.jacksonholechamber.com/fall_arts_festival/
Jackson Hole, Wyoming has a description of the main streets, how to find the town square, grocers, hardware, library, main visitor center, St John's Medical Center / hospital and more.
Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Park photos
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