Charlie’s Mountain View

Bartender is not very friendly. Drinks are cheap though… pretty terrible hot toddy though. Also they have a shower
Curtain as a door in the women bathroom… real classy!
They do have beer to go… so that is a plus :)

Super fun place to grab beers after skiing or snowboarding. A lot of locals come here which is a good sign. It was super busy but the service was still on point and the food was actually really good and fast!

Perrin is the sweetest girl and the best bartender, she made our experience as new customers to the bar. Great food, drinks and customer service!

Good food. Very busy and popular spot but service was fast nevertheless. It is worth a couple extra bucks to get the salad — delicious greens. Everyone enjoyed the cheesy fries too. Gator tots were a winner. If you are obsessed with clean it was a little sticky. Good place for kids — we have a five and three year old. We’d visit again if the traffic around here wasn’t so terrible.

Cool atmosphere, decent beers on tap and a great history!

Atmosphere was bar like of course but food was phenomenal! Service was great and the chef is clearly trained very very well!

Cool atmosphere and great views. The food was awesome — burger buns toasted to perfection!

We were recently in these parts for a few days and asked the gas station attendant where we could find some good local food that wouldn’t break the bank. He suggested this place. We ended up coming here two days in a row for lunch. Somewhat slow service but both days seemed to be a one man show and obviously that was the reason why. The food was not compromised however. Fresh and delicious salads with nice greens and veges. Nice and friendly customer service. Food was piping hot, delicious and loaded on our plates. We could have shared entrees. A great spot that accommodates all crowds. I love that we are aware of a great local spot here cause when we go back to the mountains, we will definitely stop here again!

They had a garden burger that was good. Service wasn’t bad… it was non-existent…wow talk about feeling like you got in people’s way by entering their restaurant. Food was good, but we would never go back. Beyond rude… weird.

The watering hole for Govy and a local classic. Nothing fancy just a bar that also serves food.

This place shall forever be the greatest Bar /​Saloon /​Family Restaurant known to grace this planet Earth.
Friendly waitstaff eager to provide you with excellent service.
Amazing bartenders that pour fantastic drinks to one of the toughest crowds in the state of Oregon.
Surly locals that won’t take a lick of sass from any city folk.
And hands down the most amazing décor you will ever experience in any establishment.
Bear cage for patio seating in the front and a horseshoes pit in the back during the summer time.
If you haven’t stopped in for a Char — burger and gator taters you’re surely missing out.

Great mountain top dive bar, with the views you would expect being mountain top. Entering in, it feels like any run of the meal dive bar, even bordering on slightly campy feeling. But looks can be deceiving, and here they are. The food is way better than most dive bars, but doesn’t have a larger price tag like you might expect. The service has never been less than exceptional, and they are very accommodating to food and beverage substitutions. I literally drive from Portland just to eat here, no other reason for coming all the way here then to eat here and go back to Portland. The BLT, Bacon Cheese Burger, and Fish & Chips are all really really good. You definitely need to check this place out if you’re in the area.

This is a great place for a night of going out and drinking with your friends and family. The bartenders weren’t especially friendly, but it was very busy both nights. Prices were good for drinks. Everyone at Charlie’s was in great spirits, despite the lack of snow on the mountain. Both nights we were hung out here, there was a pretty even mix of young twenty somethings and older locals. One night there was a live band and all of the older women were dancing with the young guys. It was quite a scene. My only regret is that we didn’t get any food.

I’m reviewing the family side. Both times we’ve gone here the food is excellent, the service is friendly accommodating and understated. Not in your face but always magically there when you need something. Kind and helpful. I ordered steak and my husband ordered the blue cheese burger. Both were excellent! Generous quantities and steak (perfect medium) served with high quality salad and fresh seasonal veggie’s (asparagus, this time, cooked perfectly al dente), and a starch of your choice. Burger is high quality, no off flavors with bacon, blue cheese, fresh tomatoes, and red peppers which really added something special. I am surprised for a «dive» bar how fresh their ingredients are. I am usually not easily pleased at restaurants, but this place is awesome. Thanks!

Sweetie. Sit down. Take a seat. Talk to me. Tell me your problems. Your wasted years. Your lost dreams.
Let me help you.
Oh. You’re not interested? You’re more interested in offering deplorable customer service and belittling your clientele. OK cool. Say, can I eat the giant chip on your shoulder for dinner? I made guacamole, and really don’t want to see it go to waste.
At a landmark establishment such as Charlie’s, we expected to be treated suitably. Charlie’s is the jump-​off. This is by no means an anti-Charlie’s review. This is an anti-Charlie’s bartender review. She’s a living monster and has no place in the customer service industry. For now, we’ll call her «Shayla.»
All nine of us are nice people. We pay taxes, work hard, and distribute our collective wealth among the townspeople of our chosen vacation destinations. But simple miscommunications lead to an ignorant, unprofessional, and unwarranted display by Shayla, which forced us to Ratskeller; a neighboring bar. Maybe she had a hard day. Maybe she had a hard year. But there is no justification for Shayla’s behavior last night, and subsequent treatment she offered to her new and excited patrons.
I hail from Portland, the land of terrible service. And I can say with unequivocal certainty that this is the single worst customer service experience of my 28 years in this state.
Shayla hates fun. You have been warned.

Don’t know about the food yet but the wait time is ridiculous. You can literally die from hunger at this place if you didn’t have enough energy reserves. Just where I wanted to spend an hour and a half of my day. I agree with the other comment that McDonalds would beat this place hands down.

Charlie’s weekend breakfast is the bees knees. From 8am to 11am get the most delicious and least expensive food in Govy. I’m a monster but so is the breakfast burrito, that thing fuels me all day!

Bad vibes to start: We walked in to dirty tables, no one to tell us where to sit or give us menus. We finally saw a staff member and asked for a couple waters. We continued to wait 25min for him to come back and take our order, he never did. There were only 3 other tables, the table next to us who had arrived after us got up and left before ordering. He took the order for the table behind us told us he would ‘be right back’ about 3 times as he would walk by. The last straw was when he sat down with one of his friends at the table next to us and proceeded to discuss a remodeling project. We got up and left and went to the restaurant across the street.

I liked it, decent sandwiches with a side of soup, salad or fries.
Pool table and a divey feel.
Nota particularly friendly place, seemed like everyone was high, maybe the altitude?

If it hadn’t been for my faith in Unilocal,I never would’ve walked in this place, but I am so glad that I did! After visiting Timberline Lodge, we were looking for a place to eat on our way back to Portland. Government Camp is a small town at the bottom of the ski lift to Timberline Lodge. It was pretty abandoned looking, but that is to be expected for a ski town on a Sunday in August.
Charlie’s looks like a typical biker bar from the front, complete with regulars smoking and propping the place up on the front patio. Inside is a wood paneled, lodge looking restaurant with mostly large tables to accommodate the ski crowds. The two of us took over a big table overlooking the gorgeous view out of the one back window. We seemed to be there right in between shifts because the person who started our order was on his way out and service was really slow. The first server was super friendly and assured us that we would be helped. We shared a coconut appetizer, an off menu pear salad (requested from the Unilocal reviews) and the mushroom burger. Everything was absolutely delicious and very reasonably priced. Coming from the bay area where a meal like that would’ve cost double, I really appreciated the laid back atmosphere with inexpensive, delicious food.