Eagle & The Owl

The bar tender was great. We had a large Party and everyone was well taken care of despite him being the only one behind the bar. Thanks rob!

Nice views and fancy food, shuffleboard, lots of tvs, fantastic microbrew selection!!!

We had a great meal here. The oysters were crispy and the miso dipping sauce was a lovely match for it. The crab soup was very tasty with a hint of sherry and flavorful spices. Amazing beer selection! The veal sandwich was very tender. The ranch was homemade and you could tell. The salad was a beautiful winter delight.
Besides the food and drink, the atmosphere was warm, cozy and fun. A shuffle board is ready for play and the décor reminds one of home with lots a wood accents. There are fireplaces ablaze at every turn and the view from this new building and magnificent.
I highly recommend a stop here after a day on the slopes but even if you are not a skier or snowboarder, it’s still worth a trip for the great food, drink and cheer.

God awful service. Never even got to taste the food. Waited half an hour at a table without any acknowledgement from a server. Got the hostess’ attention to ask for her help. Waited another twenty minutes before we just got up and left. Really disappointing. Other tables around us having similar troubles, and the place was only about half full. Doesn’t bode well…

After waiting 15 minutes for our waitress to come to our table the service didn’t improve. Poor service was followed by over priced, mediocre food. Was excited to eat the waffle cut sweet potato fries until I took the first bite. They were coated with cinnamon sugar. You will be better off to eat at McKees Tavern; good food and great service.

The Good and the Bad…
Excellent: Crab soup, Chili and kids menu Lodge Burger. Although, sweet potato fries were mushy and wet. Kids usually like regular fries. Crab Soup was loaded with crab and perfectly seasoned. Chili was thick, chunky and had a bit of heat.
Needs improvement:
Monte Cristo, Grilled Cheese, and Chicken Tenders. Monte Cristo was all wrong. Dry, to much turkey, not enough jam and needed more batter for french toast dip. Couldn’t finish although I to order more jam in hopes to improve the overall taste. Another big disappointment was the Grilled Cheese. All wrong for children. No need for innovation when feeding hungry kids who have skied all day. Bread was to thick and had grains. Cheese should of been cheddar and doubled to balance the thick bread. Very bland. Wish I would have returned this one. Chicken Tenders were eaten with complaints. Batter was grainy and dark.
The quality and flavor should be raised to match the pricing.

Okay so – I am not a local, and don’t have much an idea as to what is around this particular area, but I do know that most of the cuisine I have had while visiting liberty mountain resort has been the equivalent to most of what Leo was eating in the Revenant.
So how excited I was when they opened a new lodge at this tiny little ski resort! The place is well lit, open, and still gives you that ski lodge kind of feel. Also, lets be honest, there is nothing I like more than a few drinks after a day of hitting east coast slopes, or a few drinks while I am hitting them so I can trick myself into thinking they are better than they actually are… and this is a great alternative to McKee’s Tavern.
The bartenders were great, and attentive, and the bartender helping us actually knew how to make a drink, and made my group perfectly layered B52’s. They also have an extensive selection of beer, all of which the bartender was very knowledgeable about.
As far as The food we really only munched on apps. The charcuterie was huge, and I was happy to see it on the menu. We also split an Eagle and The Owl pizza I was afraid may be soggy with the large amount of toppings, but it wasn’t. It was perfectly crisp, and very tasty.
I did think that the menu was a little fussy (coming from the girl who ordered charcuterie haha), and that the menu was trying to upsell things with lengthy descriptions and the promise of high quality artisan ingredients. I mean we’re at a ski lodge in Pennsylvania and you’re mostly serving burgers and sandwiches… it doesn’t need to be pretentious, but I will take this place any day.

Not too impressed.
Had an open faced burger that was mediocre and over priced. My wife had a Turkey Monte Christo that sounded great on the menu but what was served was very bland/​boring.
Service wasn’t that good not even for just opening. Servers there need to learn to help each other out and if they see empty drinks at a table that are not theirs and are doing nothing, help!
Wife had an issue with the pickle garnishment on her plate! Had somehow come in contact with some cleaning detergent and therefore tasted horrible! Anyway, the information was passed on to both the manager and one of the chefs in our sight and we got no apology for it from either. The manager looked at us smiling and the chef turned away shaking his head as he walked back to the kitchen! Not too professional. With this said, the waitress did apologize.
We are locals and eat out quite a bit. Taverna, at the entrance to Ski Liberty, has this place beat on service, food quality, and price.

The brand new Eagle and the Owl opened up at the brand new Ski Liberty Resort Hotel (conference center, weddings, golf, and mini mountain fun). It replaces another hotel conference center that was separately owned until about 5 years ago. That old facility was knocked down and replaced with this new, fancy building and now includes the Eagle and The Owl. (whew!) It is directly behind the «ski lodge» with clock tower that is located slope side.
This place is in sharp contrast to that 80’s era building, with it’s standard ski cafeteria, and all the things that go with a ski resort. It is like night and day, which may or may not be a good thing. (I knew this might not be for me when my friend said he got a tour early in the AM with the «executive chef” – I would rather have a great cook than an «executive chef»
The breakfast buffet was good. $ 12. — there were eggs, sausage, bacon, home-​fried potatoes, a mushy french toast mash, biscuits and gravy, as well as fruit, cereal, granola, OJ, etc. The bacon and sausage taste home cured. It was pretty great, and if you compare it to the food across the way at the main lodge, it is down right amazing – not that the food over there is bad but its like comparing Denny’s to a fine restaurant.
I had the «Eagle and the Owl» salad for lunch and as the kids say «(your) it was doin’ too much». It had the fancy restaurant weeds in there, and the «hand made» dressing was almost absent and I had to order a side of dressing – and I only put about ½ the dressing on my salad as your average diner. The whole thing suffered from being too fussy. Certainly, it was OK, but not a winter, by the side of the mountain salad. They charred the chicken which kind of dried it out.
My friends salad was entirely weeds. (Poached Pear salad). I would have just sent that back – the «red asian mustard greens» are weeds. I tasted them. That is crap you cut off the top of other veggies before you cook it. They don’t feel good in your mouth, don’t taste good, and when they get added to a regular salad, 95% of everyone pick them out. There was no actual lettuce in the thing. They are there to look good, as if that were the point of food.
I am sure the foodies are rolling their eyes as they smell the bouquet of their wine.
I saw burgers going by that looked fancy but somewhat normal.
The menu itself seems like it is more about selection of ingredients than actually making something that is great: turkey is «house» roasted, cheddar is aged, and sandwiches have arugula not lettuce. That will be $ 16 for your burger please. (get the red asian mustard weeds off that first burger on the menu, and you might have something!)
The Eagle And The Owl has taken Ski Liberty into the direction of Bethesda (my hometown) and that ain’t a good thing. I am not sure the B’More crowd is gonna fancy paying $ 16 for a burger in nowhere PA, next to the mini-​mountian. Living in the DMV, I have begun to distain the fru-​fru, fancy food that has replaced places where you eat. I don’t want a story about the carrot, I just want good carrots. And spare me the lecture on gluten – I don’t have Celiac disease (and neither do you).
They JUST got open this weekend, and so I will not offer any review on service. This weekend they have dozens of employees running around and giving their best effort, learning with their customers. Ski Liberty staff try harder than any ski resort I have ever been to – and I have been to dozens and dozens all over the country. I have no doubt that they will get it right.
I would eat breakfast at Eagle And The Owl. I would have lunch/​dinner at the end of Ski Liberty’s driveway: Taverna 5450 which has a more regular person menu.