Jackson’s Hole & Grill

Very friendly staff. Very good food choices, fair prices. Service and overall experience was good and some of the best food we’ve had in BC.
Will come back again.

Fish and chips with a caesar salad… MEH indeed. The salad was soaked and lacking that tangy caesar flavour. Fish was okay, batter was dense and fish tasted freezer burned… bleh. Fries were hard and old. Not going back.

Pricey but the food is AMAZING! Always get the cottage club when I go!

I went here with my parents who have had good meals at this restaurant before. This meal was not good though; there was an unopened mussel in the dish of mussels, the fish tacos were terrible, and then they brought my mother a salad without dressing on it, and when she asked for dressing they brought it — but then they charged us extra for it! Last time I checked when you order a salad the dressing should be included.
If you have to eat here order the yam fries — they were pretty good. But all in all this place was over priced for food that’s mediocre at best.

Wonderful place. Food is outstanding and the servers are fantastic

First off, I found the name of this place to be very amusing. I stumbled upon this place while trying to find another restaurant in town. I grabbed a seat at the bar and had to talk to the bartender before I got any service.
I ordered the steak sandwich with a side salad as suggested by the bartender. This turned out to be amazing. The steak was juicy and cooked to perfection. It was topped with mushrooms and sauteed onions. Portion was generous and the salad came with the dressing on the side. I would come back here just for this!
I also ordered a ceasar to drink but this was nothing special.

My wife and I joined some friends at Jackson’s Hole for drinks having just completed the Nelson Triathlon. We sat outside on the deck with a slightly standoffish server taking our drinks order. Despite the moderately unfriendly nature of the service most of the drinks arrived ok, apart from one which was brought over incorrectly. However, the promised glasses of water failed to arrive, the excuse given being that ‘It’s super busy inside’. It wasn’t; unless their usual clientele usually only number in the tens. The remainder of our visit was uneventful apart from two of our group almost being decapitated by a rogue sun shade, picked up mercilessly by a strong gust of wind from the table next to us. The servers made short work of removing the remaining shades on the patio, either to avoid lawsuits or having to mop up body parts or both.
Despite the so so service we somehow ended up here for dinner too. We arrived shortly after 7:15pm and the restaurant population was somewhat average, various empty tables and the bar /​restaurant next door was not too busy either. We ordered drinks, which arrives promptly, other than one glass of wine which failed to materialise for 20 minutes despite much prompting to various servers and another drink which arrived incorrectly made.
Service was glacially slow, giving me the title for this review. Earlier that day I completed a 1.5km swim, a 40 km bike ride and a 10 km run through the hills of Nelson in less time than it took for us to have a meal here. In fact, I had completed the swim and bike in the time it took for our food to arrive.
The food itself was standard pub fare really. Horrifically overpriced by global standards, as much of the food from over aspiring restaurants in BC seems to be. I try to choose meal options to suit the venue, in the hope that they will be more acquainted with its preparation. Jackson’s Hole seemed to be a ribs and chicken kind of place, so that’s what I ordered. The menu should really have called it ‘Kate Moss Ribs and Chicken’, both seemed to have been scythed from the ‘party yourself slim’ supermodel. The ribs clung desperately together using a thin fabric of gristle whilst the breast lay almost apologetically on top, using a congealed blanket of sauce to cover it’s under endowed size. The accompanying vegetables tried to gain popularity by standing close to the ribs and chicken, it’s ‘unattractive friends’. The bed of rice, on the other hand, was ok. This bleak ensemble of protein and carbs set me back an overwhelming $ 21. Shocking.
Multiple apologies throughout the evening of ‘Really sorry, we’re just so busy’ would have been better suited to a venue with more than a handful of other people in it.
My wife’s Enchilada was fairly terrible. Plastic tasting and soulless. Our friends seemed to fare a little better than us with comments ranging from ‘Nice’ to ‘Too sickly’ for their Ginger Beef bowl.
When the bill arrived we had been overcharged by a couple of dollars due to an incorrect drink being rung through.

Great food, fabulous atmosphere, fast and friendly service.

I have eaten here twice on two separate trips to Nelson, both times have been enjoyable positive experiences.
The food is fresh and a little inventive while staying comfortably familiar. I was most impressed by the House salad that accompanied my meals. Often a House salad is a basic uninspired mix of greens. This place puts a little extra into the salad and on both occasions has offered an excellent dressing.
The service is professional and pleasant and the patio is a nice place to sit and soak a little sun

I live in Nelson and Jackson’s Grill is a local favourite.
The sandwiches and wraps are great. I usually have the daily special. Never disappointed.

The ebesse wrap had great flavor. Definitely worth trying if you like spicier food.