Red Mountain Coffee

After my car broke down trying to get home from college, this place served us the best hot chocolate! Not only that, their hospitality was superb. I’m very thankful that we were able to use the wifi to contact family and let them know we were okay! Would recommend coming here.

Let me tell you about the paradise that is Red Mountain Coffee. On a drive from Seattle to Tri-​Cities, the car I was driving in with a friend broke down nearby. While we waited for a tow truck to come get us (it took 4.5 hours) we waited inside Red Mountain Coffee.
Every employee was very friendly and eager to help us with any questions or coffee needs we had. They were completely understanding and let us wait in the café while we waited for our tow truck. They sell great pizza that kept us full and have a wide variety of drinks.
Due to that fact that we were here for so long, I was able to come to the realization that my experience was not an isolated one. All of the baristas and staff are friendly and helpful to anyone who walks through the door. They are fast at making coffee, but put effort into making all of their drinks quality drinks.
¹⁰⁄₁₀ would recommend

Stopped here the other day on our way to Spokane. The pizza was decent, if not quite as hot as I’d expected. Can’t speak to the quality of their coffee since we didn’t have any, but the service was quite good. It was a woman in her 50s behind the counter. perhaps some of the bad experiences reported here were by younger kids?
No, things aren’t cheap here, but they’re about what you might expect when you’re one of the only things between North Bend and Ellensburg. Decent selection of cold drinks and gifts, as well. Almost bought a die-​cast car for my kid.
I’ll definitely stop here the next time we cross the pass.

Granted, we came in around 6 on a Sunday night, but after 5 hours of snowboarding the LAST thing I want is a cold latté. Especially not for $ 4.

I love this coffee shop! Great food and good service.

The public rest stop next door is how this coffee shop free loads off visitors on the pass. Who is not in favor of local business? However unfailing ignorant rude tude will not justify the overpriced mediocre coffee and stale pizza.

Run of the mill coffee with decent service. This is one of the few stops before hitting The Gorge if that’s where you’re heading. OR if you’re heading to Wenatchee, same thing. Grab your fix and go. The food is a bit higher in price but if you saw what was around (other than a restroom), you’ll see there are not too many food choices. I’d still drop by knowing this is more than the halfway point to where I need to go.

$ 4.60 for a piece of pizza??? $ 1.25for a cup of Ice Water? It is a good thing they don’t need repeat customers

I’m always glad this place is here. It’s a café, pizza place gift shop, and it’s attached to a historical travelers’s rest stop. In fact, I never cross the pass without stopping here. The coffee is OK, the pizza is thick crust, not my style, but the refrigerated foods are surprisingly good. No need to be too picky here, after all, it is an oasis.

If you are planning on staying to eat or drink, there are only 3 tables, 2 small ones and 1 large round, so if it happens to be busy, you might be out of luck. The pizza smells delicious when you first walk in, which was completing unexpected, since the name of the place isn’t exactly «Coffee and Pizza». They have a lot of snack options, and all of the usual coffee options. It’s not Starbucks, but it’s a good independent alternative. And yes, the employees aren’t exactly the most upbeat and friendly, but in typical service experiences at ski hill establishments, service is usually underwhelming.

Super friendly staff! Came in on a cold night looking to warm up with coffee/​grab some snack for the ride back to the city. Got two slices of pizza (omg, wow!) And a couple of hot drinks (marshmallow mocha was absolutely delish!!!). Hubs opted to get a FRAP (yes, a cold ass frapp) and that was better than sbux good! Server let us know that they had kids sized hot chocolate too since we had our 3 year old with us. Her drink was amazeballs! I love how they have tables to sit and relax. We sat and ate our pizzas and seriously, the ambiance was awesome! Felt like we in Colorado’s ski country. Really great people, drinks and food. I would definitely be back!!!

This is definitely the nicest place I’ve found west of Cle Elum & east of North Bend. (I am wondering if one of the lodges has good food & coffee???) Their coffee is very tasty and the view is close to spectacular.
Improvements???
Friendlier outgoing staff could be cool.
The local discount could apply to more than «the people I see every day and recognize.»
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#biLL

Always my go-​to spot when skiing Snoqualmie. Pizza is some of the best I’ve ever had, and they’re always accommodating when ordering a full pie or lots of slices. Coffee is always better when it’s ski season than in the off season, but still a good cup of joe. Also chapstick + granola bars = satisfied ski bum.

Great for that travel break. I appreciate the large, yummy, pizza slices with options for healthy salads in the cold case.

GREAT PIZZA! Bad service? Mandatory 15% gratuity by the owner in person when you send your dad to pick up the pizza…(its not on the receipt but they will demand it at pick up) Surprise!!! Even if you think the service is 10%…and the order taker who speaks too quietly over the phone did not prepare you, nor did they have pesto for our Margarita, still 15%.

We stopped here today on our way over the pass and ordered two pieces of pizza. My husband didn’t know to order a drink with the pizza to get a «two pieces of pizza plus drink» special, so he bought it without. When he went back to ask if we could order the drink and pay the supplement (10 cents), the girl behind the register told him no, we’d have to pay the full amount. Ridiculous. Not that a soda is terribly expensive or anything, but the inflexibility and robot-​like personality was typical of our experiences there. The food is not spectacular but there is not much else around that is quick but also not fast food. Still, not impressed.

I love the pizza here. The huckleberry jam they sell is really awsome. I can’t find it anywhere else in the grocery store.

Twice in two weeks we’ve stopped here and visit #2 sealed the deal. Nothing is more unnecessarily upsetting than employees who don’t take initiative, responsibility or pride in their job. The people who work here won’t help you if your request doesn’t fall within their category: the coffee person won’t help you get pizza five feet away, even if the pizza person isn’t there. The pizza person won’t serve you pizza if they are too busy cutting slices and they won’t tell you when fresh pies are available when you’ve already pre-​paid for them. The cash register person won’t communicate with the other staff members to find out who took an order and how they can help get the customers who have been standing there for 20 minutes what they need. We finally got someone to get us some slices, not the kind we wanted, but we just wanted to get out of there with something in our stomachs. To top it off, the crust was very doughy and wet.
Big mistake — after 5 hours of skiing we will always be ready and willing to eat, drink and support local establishments — and we will do this every weekend. But not here. Never again.

Red mountain coffee has a great niche here at the summit of snoqualmie pass, washington state’s busiest mountain crossing. They serve pizza, and even beer by the bottle. A great alternative to eating at the ski area concessions, the owner is often seen helping customers and tidying up. The coffee is good, the staff is friendly. Even at $ 4 a slice the pizza is worth it. «Locals discount» to residents of snoqualmie pass.
Once a convenience store and state funded bathroom stop (timewise grocery, traveler’s rest) this is one of the oldest buildings on the pass. The A-​frame type chalet was beautifully restored (remodeled?) By the owner’s husband a few years ago, with high-​end trim carpentry throughout, including fir wrap around the exposed overhead beams. The location along the I-​90 corridor means people (backsore truck drivers, students from WSU, whole soccer teams from Yakima) stop here for a break. Mix these types up with snowboarders (me), avalanche control workers, and the occasional frostbitten local news correspondent («its really coming down hard up here guys») and you’ve got a very interesting mix, especially for a town with no stoplights and no mayor.