Cedar House Restaurant

Absolutely unappetizing diner food. The service was super slow, as there was only one waitress for the entire crowded restaurant during dinner time. The pesto pasta was nasty, as the sauce was very runny. The French fries here are probably the best thing in the menu. No wifi here at all, and no cell phone reception. We only ate here because we stayed at the hotel next door, and everything else was closed.

Just awful. What a horrible start to our vacation in Yosemite. Frozen food and rude staff

This review is for the breakfast buffet on July 27, and 28th 2024, dined by myself. Though it was a buffet, the staff was extremely attentive, offering more coffee, water, juice or asking how the food was. I had french toast, bacon, potato's, and biscuits and gravy. Food was very good. 1 problem, I ASSUMED, this was linked to our hotel, and was a "continental breakfast". So I left a tip, very pleased and left to my room. Hours later, I had asked for some more towels from the hotel. I see one of the restaurant staff pulled up with my towels (later found out, he works for both the restaurant and the hotel), he sees me step outside the room. I notice he gets on his phone first, talks to someone after seeing me. He finishes his call, brings me the towels, and in Spanish, weird because he does speak perfectly good English, proceeds to tell me that I didn't pay for my breakfast. Not quite sure how he knew this gabacho knew Spanish jajaja, but none the less, I was EMBARASSED to no end!!!!! I quickly asked if I could pay right now, or pay the office, or the restaurant, which he responded I could only pay the next morning at the buffet. Ughhh, how Fing embarrassing, my wife even let me have it, as it looks bad. So now, I think back, he was probably calling the supervisor of the restaurant, "hey, I found the guy who didn't pay!" was my thought process. Have I said this was embarrassing yet? I came in the next morning to make things right, I paid my bill from yesterday $24.99, and gave them a $30 tip on top of that, just to let them know I really didn't mean to skip out without paying, in which he was very grateful. I proceeded to say, I'm going to have breakfast again now, do I pay now or after. lol Had to make sure this time! I finish my wonderful breakfast and proceed to go pay. The employee said no, it's on the house. Confused as FUCK, because I really wanted to pay! lol He said he talked to his supervisor and was told I could eat on the house. I tried to pay, wanted to pay, wanted to tip, had no cash on me, but he wouldn't let me. I'm still flabbergasted! Moral of the story is, they completely understood it was just an accident, and these are very good people with high morals and ethics. Though they didn't have to comp my breakfast and was not expected, they really made me feel better knowing they understood MY mistake was a complete Fing embarrassment to me! Sincere thank you to the entire staff and the supervisor, we will be back!Remember students, this is not linked to the restaurant and is NOT a continental breakfast!

Only place to eat at this lodge. Service was good. Salads and soup bar good. Had rib eye steak and a little tough. Good mashed potatoes. Vegetables appeared to have been frozen.

We were here in a middle of March- off season. We never had any issues finding a place to sit, nor did we have any issues with having to wait a long time to get our food. The lady at the bar takes orders, check you out and makes your drink. For one person, getting it all done, I have no complaints about her. She was super nice and efficient. There was another lady one time that delivered your food out. They have very limited food options, so I had chicken tenders twice, and had chicken salad once. Neither weren't bad, but definitely not the best I've had. Portions of salad were large, and fries that came with chicken tenders were a lot for us to finish. I've got kids meal chicken tenders and from kids to regular chicken tenders, only difference was that you've got more fries with regular. I had no issues here except that their hours were limited to only dinner.

My husband and I came here for breakfast while we were staying at Cedar Lodge next door. The breakfast is buffet style around $18/person. It is defiantly not worth the $18. The breakfast reminded me of something you would get for free at a Best Western or a Holiday Inn. The breakfast consists of pancakes, eggs, oatmeal, sausage, cereal, milk, and fruit. The pancakes were not that good- pretty hard overall. Everything else was pretty medioocre. Some of the pans were empty so I don't even know all the breakfast options that they have available. Only plus is our server was very nice as she was really quick to refill our coffees and waters several times throughout our meal. Only eat here if you have no other options. We were lucky to have had only one breakfast here as we had our own breakfast in our hotel room all the other mornings.

Grill has limited choices and not great food. I had the salad and greens were wilted and way too many onions plus olives. The chicken tenders were also very hard and too oily.

The staff was nice but I couldn't even give it 2 stars.The food is just plain awful. I understand that it's not easy to get supplies out there and supplies may be limited but really, it's bad.You're better off buying a frozen meal or something you could heat up in a microwave.It's not worth the expense.To be fair, we ate one night and didn't have a sampling of the menu.

little girl that works the front (yaretzi) needs an attitude adjustment before deciding to work customer service. find a different job if you're as miserable as you look instead of taking it out on polite and PAYING customers.

We just got a simple burger here, but it was like the best burger I've had since making burgers at home on the grill years ago. They work a lot of flavor into the meat, seasoning it well, and it tasted like it was grilled over a charcoal or wood fire. It was amazing. Two thumbs up from us!