Last Chair Saloon

This place is kind of a disaster. I was there once this past winter during the busy ski season. I was unable to partake in snow sports at the time so I hung out here while my friends were on the slopes. At one point in the afternoon, the waitress just stopped coming to the table and I went an hour with no service or acknowledgment. I think she just went home. And no one ever came to give me a check. I was here again this summer and holy hell. Some of the worst service I’ve ever seen. There was only one person working who seemed to have a brain. Katie, I think was her name. And she was constantly apologizing and trying to make things right for her customers. Five stars for her. It had been twenty minutes since we ordered our drinks and the girl behind the bar is cleaning up and organizing things at the bar instead of tending to our long overdue drink order. I ordered a salad and asked if they had thousand island dressing… The girl left the table to go check and comes back to tell me they do not… I ask what dressings they do have and she again leaves the table to go ask and comes back with the information. I order a salad with ranch. Flash forward ten minutes to the girl coming back to tell me they are out of salad but do in fact have thousand island dressing. Great, bring me a bowl of that for the salad I can’t have… Yet people were being brought burgers fixed with lettuce, tomato, onions… Basically they had run out of the salads they pre-​made and put in containers and I guess couldn’t take the time to prepare one more. I would say DO NOT come here if you have any special dietary restrictions or are vegetarian. Options are very limited and they run out of things often. They are lucky they are amongst very limited competition and in a very convenient location. They are also lucky to have Katie, but I pray for her sake that she gets out of there or they get their act together.

This is the only bar on the Giant Steps side of the mountain. It’s a cozy, spacious bar with indoor seating and an outside patio. I love the snowboarding and skiing signs hung up on their walls. The service is good. The bartender told us we had to order food if we order a drink. We were going to order food anyway so it didn’t really bother us. They have a good selection of draft beers and bottled beers for the finicky craft beer lovers and your common American beers available. The food is just average but after snowboarding, you are most likely starving and will probably finish it anyway. I like that they have pitchers of water and cups available on a table to keep you hydrated.

The food is decent bar food, but served on cardboard plates with plastic cutlery. They ran out of nearly half of their beers on draft (???). The excuse was that New Years was rough … Uhm, it’s been 8 days since New Years. I am pretty sure they made deliveries since then.
Great view though and the service this time was decent. Last time I was here, I waited 15 minutes before I got up and left. I think this place is lacking is good management. No beers/​service breakdowns are common.

Service is sometimes questionable but you can’t beat the location! We have yet to try their food.

A much welcome addition to the Giant Steps lodge — upstairs above the cafeteria. They have several Utah beers on draft from Uinta and others available by the pint, schooner or pitchers. The menu includes much of what is available in the cafeteria downstairs but they deliver to your table. The food items include soups, chili, salads, burgers, sandwiches, pizza, and other appetizers — I can’t remember them all. We shared some tomato bisque soup (standard as you would expect), the risotto croquettes which were amazing and worth it. The burgers were a little fancied up (I guess for $ 13 you would expect that) with a fresh baked bun and some unusual toppings, and they came with fries which were good.
The Utah beer selection was good, I enjoyed the session IPA (had to keep it mild since I still had a half day snowboarding to complete). I also enjoyed that they served you free water which helps keep you hydrated at the high altitude.
The only sad thing is that they close somewhat early (a few hours after lifts close and later on weekends when night skiing is going on), so it won’t really be your dinner or after ski bar, which is sad since there isn’t much around Brian Head.