Highlander

Terrible food. Burger consisted of artificial bun, artificial cheese & I don’t want to think what «meat» was made off.
Waitress asked how was everything, I said it was bad, she didn’t comment and just brought a check.

I appreciate the free WiFi, but the food is insanely overpriced for the quality of the food. The waitstaff is nice enough and the ambiance is ‘local,’ but the food is just not good. Skip the Highlander and try one of the many other restaurants in the area.

I was there and ate the best prime rib and baked potatoes I have ever tasted the pie is the best warmed with ice cream on top

Ok so I only went here 2 times with my husband and kids both times. 1^st time was pretty good. Decent food, of course we got a simple meal which was a BLT, and the lady working there was really friendly and talkative. But just this last time we went was TERRIBLE! The lady, same girl, was super rude to us. She would come over and say «i can take your order but you’ll have to hurry because i got those people to take,» which those people had just walked in 3 min ago and we have been sitting to take our order for 15 min. When it came to the food it was pretty bad as well. Husband ordered a bloody mary and he said it was terrible. He also ordered a burger that was supposed to have some chili on it and cheese, that was the description on the menu, but when i came it was 2 stale buns on the plate with a burger patty on top and in the middle smothered in chilli that my husband was nearly gagging at the smell. My daughter had a simple cheese burger and it was litterly the frozen packaged ones you buy in the store. My burger was on the sloppy side and the onions where very slimmy and had the super strong smell… needless to say we wasted $ 40 and will nit be going back!

The place to go for beer, pool, and a decent bite to eat.

Holy fuck.
Please please PLEASE don’t fucking eat here. This was the worst place me & my bf have ever been too. If I could rate it no stars, I would.
First; the waitresses breath smelled like weed. (We should of turned around when we walked in)
I ordered a chicken veggie soul with a side salad. My bf ordered a highlander burger with a side salad as well. The salad, soup, everything. NOTHING tasted fresh. Bfs tea tasted like the kettle hadnt been cleaned. Everything tasted reheated, bf asked for ketchup and the waitress was sitting at the bar! I am now sitting with an upset stomach hoping I don’t get food poison. I only took 2 bites of my soup, didn’t touch my salad, we just got up, paid our bill and left. Oh, and good luck getting noticed. :)

I had today’s special, the Prime Rib dip, and it was fantastic! They give me a big slab of prime rib, and plenty of horseradish; with the au jus; it was perfect! My wife had the Highlander burger, and said it was about the best she’d had in a long time — bacon cooked just right, and the burger grilled just the way she likes it.
We continued to stay after our meal to watch the Hawks beat up on the Steelers, but our server continued to check on us and refresh our drinks. The service was so prompt and thorough, we decided on a round of their fantastic homebaked pies, which made for the best finish to a great meal. The prices are very reasonable — we will definitely stop here on our next trip through.

Not bad food or prices for a small town resturant. Service is lacking but food is good.

My wife and I look for the best in things and we eat out a lot — and we both said we couldn’t remember eating at a worse place. Let’s start with service. The place was almost empty yet the server almost never checked in with us. I finally just got up and got my own coffee and water refills. The food was just as bad and overpriced. To top it off, I saw the server «clean» a table using one of the used napkins leftover from the people who just left. Yowzers.

I stepped into this hole because the place down the street had quit serving breakfast. I went in and basically had to ask to be seated, the lady at the counter rattled off a number of things that weren’t available on the menu. I sat down & ordered coffee, it was ice cold. Manager or boss lady comes back and helps reheat the coffee, refills my cup and hands it to the waitress, waitress puts her entire palm on the top of my coffee cup and comes over, sets it down & says «Hot Coffee!» Fucking disgusting. Also, when she ordered my food to the cook the cook shouted from the kitchen, «I SAY NO!» And the server yelled in reply, «I SAY YES!»
This place is trash, there’s flies everywhere, the people who work here don’t know basic sanitary procedures, they never even brought me a damn water. Also, the «freshly baked biscuits» were much sooner to be croutons than fresh biscuits. The food is crap.
Skip this shit hole at all costs!
Also, I just posted this review using their free wifi.

Hidden charges! They charge there own restaurant tax on top of state sales tax! Food wasn’t great, service was under staffed. Will never go back, wouldn’t recommend.

I can really only review the soft serve ice cream they sell here because we didn’t actually order any food. The bar/​restaurant is what you would expect in a mountain town. A dive bar on one side where all the locals come and a dumpy restaurant on the other side that is never cleaned or updated BUT they have killer soft serve! 28 different flavors to be exact! I don’t need anything fancy and I’d probably have fun drinking in their bar but the ice cream was enough for this trip.

El Hubbo and I took a chance on their Prime Rib dinner and we’re pleasantly surprised at how delicious it was for a little pub! There was only 1 waitress on and she did a great job taking care of all the customers. Customer service was great. They boast 24 flavours of ice cream, don’t be fooled as it is vanilla soft serve ice cream with 24 different liquid flavoured syrups and not very good. Otherwise, I highly recommend Highlander in Ashford after a day at Mt. Rainier.

Not bad, not great, good service. Worth a stop if you are hungry. This isn’t downtown Seattle so don’t expect gourmet grub. Cool ambiance, great history and an interesting restaurant.

Not the best place I’ve been to but defiantly not the worse, staff didn’t really pay to much attention to us the place is rough around the edges but it is a bar/​roadhouse so can’t expect to fancy. food was ok, my daughter got soggy French fries and they were quick to replace with fruit. i guess the cook forgot to order fries so he tried his best to do homemade (which was an epic fail).the steak I order was seasoned well and cooked to order, not to many places out here to be to picky. all in all the 35 dollar bill was reasonable and the food was ok at best

Don’t go there service is awful, food was worse. couldn’t cut through the prime rib, now we have to go out to eat. Staff was too busy taking a break to notice us and we were the only table in the restaurant. The bartender was nice but by then we were done! They also charge a, 4% surcharge on debit or visa cards. NOT worth it.

It’s early in the season and the few restaurants I went to were closed for breakfast.
The Highlander is open year-​round and you can find breakfast eats starting at 8am.
It’s what you’d expect from a small mountain town diner. The service is friendly and the décor is well… rustic. Not like hipster-​looks like a cabin rustic, but actually rustic.
There are locals at the bar talking about old cars wearing Hawaiian shirts or plaid. I think i see a display of guns and xxx dvds behind the bar.
You can still get draft beer for $ 1.75 a pint on slower nights. Sweet!
The menu had standard fare and other items like country fried steak and eggs.
I ordered the small hash with fresh-​made biscuit ($ 8.99).
It was huge and hit the spot!
Ham, green peppers, onions, potatoes. Very yummy! :)

Several reviews describe The Highlander in unflattering terms. Well it’s a bar, its a roadhouse, a pool hall, a karaōke joint, a community watering hole. It looks a bit shabby ’round then edges and no one in the kitchen is going to end up on the FOOD NETWORK with their own cooking show. Here’s the rundown.
Three friends & I stopped in for dinner one night over Labor Day weekend ’13. The food was reasonably good. Our waitress explained that they prep their salad ingredients in-​house (rather than getting salad-​in-​a-​bag from some vendor) which is why our dinner salads were all very fresh looking and generously sized.
Three of us had steak, one had a turkey club sandwich. The steaks were average to good and appeared to have been cooked on the flat top or in a skillet. The sandwich was huge and was reported to be tasty. In retrospect the sandwiches and burgers are probably the safe bet here for best entrees. The service was good.
This is one of those places where the furniture doesn’t all match and a lot of the décor is what the liquor distributor provided, plus posters for various mountain climbing groups. In Ashford, Washington it all seems to fit.

Interesting place, obviously with a long history, All the wood inside (there is a lot of it) looks burnished, worn, aged; but not in the worn-​out or broke-​down way. The place has character. OK, there are some tacky aspects, like signs for the karaōke DJ who does weddings and divorces, and the cheap decorations provided by the local beer distributor but still there is some charm.
The selection of tap handles is decent, which matters a lot to me. I want a good beer with my lunch. I went with the Harmon IPA and wasn’t disappointed.
My wife got the hamburger and fries. The fries were great, the burger unremarkable. They have about half a dozen different hamburgers listed on the menu, but unless you think that doing things like adding a slice of tomato makes it an entirely new kind of hamburger, they really have only two different hamburgers.
I got the hot roast beef sandwich. It was truly amazing. IMHO, the hot roast beef sandwich is one of those epic bits of roadside Americana that must be savored when you find a good example. I figured this was the just sort of place to get it right, and wow did I call it! The sandwich was amazing. Tons of tender roast beef, covered with plenty of some pretty fabulous gravy and laying on a bed of toasted bread with gravy-​covered mashed potatoes on the side. Yum. Double YUM. Possibly the best hot roast beef sandwich I’ve ever had.
Service was good, but not fantastic. Cleanliness was hit and miss. Plates, flatware, glasses and table tops looked clean, and believe me, I double checked after seeing the mess under my table. Looks like the place hadn’t seen a mop yet this month. (Check the photo I posted.)

This place reminds me of Bob’s Country Bunker from The Blues Brothers in so many ways. You got the old run down feel, a few select beers on tap, a loud karaōke machine… everything but chicken wire around a stage. When I walked in here, wearing all dress clothing and a coat, I expected to get my ass handed to me by some city-​slicker hating hillbilly. Instead, I was greeted warmly, offered a beverage and food, and I fit right in. Nobody looked at me funny, or threatened me, they just accepted me for who I was. A good sign in a bar/​restaurant. Everyone just fits right in, works for their money and just wants to have a good time.
I used to go for their taco Tuesdays with some buddies from Rainier, and the tacos tasted exactly like homemade ones my family would make. For three bucks, you get three large tacos and plenty of sour cream and salsa, and a couple of orders makes for a good meal. The bartender was always friendly and attentive, and was always there when I needed him. Pretty damn good.
Music selection is stuck in the eighties, but that’s my style of music, so it was fun. One of my bar rules is if there isn’t any AC/​DC on the jukebox, I won’t go there. Luckily, the Highlander has decent selection, and I appreciated that.
Negatives would probably be that the bathrooms are absolutely filthy, and the kitchen also looked quite nasty. I really wouldn’t venture any further with the food, and the bathrooms are just atrocious. You also can’t smoke in here, and while I understand it’s a state law, it still sucks. But other than like, I like this place.
And maybe the next time I am there, I will raise my hands and shout «There can be only one!».