St Bernard’s Restaurant

Wonderful Solitude! Wow… The updated buffet (very DV style) is served fireside in an intimate atmosphere. Truly feels like you are dining at a small holiday party! Dax and Chef Tye along with the rest of the staff are more than happy to help with everything and make you feel at home! For the kids, they will prepare pasta, grilled cheese, etc. the menu is wonderfully eclectic but wonderful! We had bison steak, scallops, clam chowder with fried clams, and a fried chicken that passed my ‘I’m Southern’ test! Wonderful service, food and ambiance. Fantastic for date night – with a beautiful setting for a night cap right next door at the Library Bar. Fantastic experience all around!

Great food great service and great selection of food. If you have time to write a bad review, get a life. Everything about this place was great and my hubby and I have dined in some swanky places. We even came here twice on our trip.
The lamb was excellent, the steak with the chimichuri was amazing. We had the beet salad which was pretty good too. Their wine selection was great and interesting. Hmmmmm what else??? Their desert was crazy good. It was a banana bread/​banana foster concoction which was delish! We had to come back just for that!
But the most amazing thing was the mussels! I was basically drinking the broth after and I’m a health and workout nut. But that broth was worth a few cheat days!
Chef Pena and his sous chef, I’ll be dreaming of your wonderful creation for years! Thank you for an amazing experience! Ohh shout out to the servers too… they were amazing and kind.
Support local business!!!

Mt girlfriend and I came here for a Valentine’s celebration dinner and from start to finish this restaurant delivered. The menu was a five course prix fixe menu and we added the four course wine pairing to get the full experience of what Chef Julie Paine– who personally stopped by our table twice– had made for the evening. Each and every course was composed of perfectly balanced flavors and presentations that were so delicately composed one would think they were dining at a Michelin Star restaurant. My girlfriend and I, both being Chefs ourselves, appreciate fine dining and have a tendency to pick apart the quality and/​or attention to detail put into what is served; This dinner did not afford us the opportunity to do so.
The oyster amuse bouche was neither over cooked, nor seasoned to the point that you weren’t aware of what the focal point of the offering. In fact, this was true of all of the courses. The Sweet Potato Gnocchi matched the sweetness of the potato with the slight acidity of the tomato vodka sauce. My Shaved Asparagus Salad offered a perfect palate cleanser to prepare me for the main course. The Grilled Piemontese Bavette Steak was cooked to a true medium-​rare and almost melted in my mouth. Then came dessert and coffee. Chef Julie’s Panna Cotta was the perfect end to a perfect meal at a perfect location!
Not only will I return, I will recommend St. Bernard’s to anyone looking for a small, romantic location with top notch food and service

There were high highs and low lows on our dining experience to St. Bernard’s, but the lows beat the highs out.
The dining room is small and cozy, and although we had a reservation and there were tables available when we arrived, it took 10 – 15 minutes to be seated.
The four of us (two couples) started with a few orders of the caviar pillows and champagne. Perfection! They were just right.
Then when we were ordering our dinners, we asked for suggestions from the maitre d’ –type guy, who said that the short ribs (on the special Wednesday wine menu) were the best thing he’d ever tasted. Two of ordered those, while another ordered the Ribeye and another the salmon, and we ordered the special salad of the day. We also ordered a bottle of a Pinot Noir from Burgundy. While we were waiting for it to arrive, the maitre d came back and said they were out of it, but recommended another wine (he said he’d offer it at the same price. When we tasted it, we should have sent it back, but hoped it would open up. It turned out to be from Chile, and extremely mediocre. It never opened up nicely, and had an astringent taste. (OK, our fault for accepting it.)
The salads were pretty good, with blood orange and pomegranate seeds, but too many croutons, in fact the salad didn’t need croutons at all, they didn’t seem to work. Also, they didn’t offer bread on the table, which seemed odd for high-​end European-​style mountain resort dining.
When the dinners came, the short ribs looked pretty unimpressive, however, the Ribeye & the salmon were standouts. They looked and tasted wonderful, and the ribeye was perfectly cooked.
But the «shortribs» were a few pieces of what looked much more like gristly pot roast on a pinkish orange sauce over decent polenta. The beef was really awful, didn’t look or taste like shortribs at all (and they weren’t presented with the bone). The sauce was sweet with no depth of flavor at all. Neither of us ate very much of them. No one came back to check on us, perhaps knowing our dinners were an embarrassment. Although we were all engaged in great conversation, I do think we would have sent them back if a server had asked how things were. It was the worst thing I had eaten in memory. Again, I suppose we could have gotten up and found someone and asked for something else, so we bear some responsibility here. And I wonder if they ran out of the good shortribs and made a poor decision to substitute something at the last minute? Anyhow, it was so horrible, I could not get the taste out of my mouth and mind until the next day. (By the way, I had shortribs just the week before at Park City’s High West Distillery, and they were SO good, I was ready for more.)
Service was just okay. The ambience was nice, nothing overly special. The fire was nice, but tepid, it could have used more logs.
My suggestion is definitely order off the main menu, don’t try any special dinners.

Delicious fine dining experience at Solitude. I read about this restaurant when we were planning our snowboarding trip to Salt Lake City and considering staying at Solitude. We ended up staying at a hotel in Draper instead, but I remembered reading about St. B’s on the Solitude website and thinking I’d like to have dinner there sometime during our vacation.
We came out to Salt Lake City on Valentine’s Day weekend. In our haste to get our travel plans finalized I missed making a dinner reservation for us for ²⁄₁₄ (doh!). I wandered over to the St. B’s after a day of snowboarding and inquired with the front desk attendant at the Inn if any reservations were available for Valentine’s Day (i.e. tomorrow). She went to go check and came back to tell me that 5:30PM was open. Bingo! We have a winner. **Tip: If your reservation is for 5:30PM you can pretty much have your pick of which table you want to sit at — including the cozy table right in front of the fireplace (that’s what we got).**
For Valentine’s Day they had a special menu for the evening or you could order from their regular menu. My boyfriend and I opted to order from the regular menu (with the exception of dessert). We did the whole nine yards: two glasses of wine, shared a salad, two entrees, dessert, and coffee. Plus the chef sent out an amuse bouche (deconstructed BLT). Everything that was served to us got points for presentation, each dish looks exactly the way food looks at fancy restaurants (i.e. delicious).
Recommended:
–Salad Lyonnaise (includes pork belly, yum!)
–Wagyu Beef Zabuton (zabuton is the cut of meat)
–Sauteed Jumbo Shrimp
–Broccolini
Our dessert was called «Decadence» and from the Valentine’s Day menu.
Our server was great and the good man was tipped accordingly. I like the ambiance inside the restaurant; its fancy but not uptight. Other people were a little more dressed up than we were, but since we were eating so early I hope nobody minded our casual attire (jeans and t-​shirt…).
I like this place a lot and very happy they could squeeze us in at the last minute for Valentine’s Day. Think about eating here if you’re going to be spending the day skiing at Brighton or Solitude. Its easier than driving all the way back into town for a fancy dinner — you can have that right there on the mountain at St. Bernard’s.

Solitude. Just the thought of it makes you want to go back.
On a recent ski weekend to Salt Lake City, we were looking for a decent place to grab dinner, so OF COURSE off I go to Unilocal.
Hmm… not much going on there. Came up with 15 or so restaurants that didn’t inspire much confidence. So, I went to my second option… the glossy brochure for the resorts. Uh-​oh. Likely to be financially traumatic.
Found the St Bernard in the section for Solitude, which I’d never been to. Apparently it was settled in a nice village-​area, and was only a 20 minute drive up the mountain. Sweet! So, reservations made, off we went.
We got there to find a little ski village that looked as if it was swept from the pages of a Swiss ski brochure, and inside the restaurant it was no different. This place personified classy Alpine coziness — I was waiting for somebody to start yodeling.
The service was fantastic — wonderful to see staff that truly take pride in their job. The meal started with a beef carpaccio appetizer that was amazing. I generally don’t eat raw things. These raw things, however, were phenomenal. Just scrumptious. The warm, flaky bread didn’t hurt, either.
Now, the main course. (and this is the only negative thing you’ll hear me say) My wife ordered fish, which was done very well… sablefish, if I recall. She liked it, and she’s pretty picky with fish.
My brother and I both ordered beef tenderloin, him medium and me medium rare. Not sure what happened, but when the food came out, both were WELL past medium well. I don’t normally send food back (and I TRIED to eat it), but they’d done this to the tenderness of Firestone tires.
The waiter was embarrassed, and immediately offered to re-​fire our steaks. The only appropriate response, I thought. Didn’t help that my wife ate while we sat looking at white tablecloth, so very quickly the waiter brought an AMAZING basil sorbet. I’ve never tasted it done so well. That helped. And soon thereafter our new steaks arrived, done to perfection, with comp’d dessert to help make up for the distraction.
Overall, it was an excellent response to a big miss. Whether the chef was taking a nap or arguing with a spouse, doesn’t really matter. However, the restaurant’s response to a mistake will always differentiate some from others. And I have a feeling that St Bernard’s doesn’t make that mistake often.
Even with the miss on the main course, this was a fantastic evening, and the atmosphere was truly second to none. I’d go back in a heartbeat, and definitely recommend trying this restaurant!

Good location. Great view. Outstanding service. Delightful country French menu. This is mountain-​casual fine dining at its best.
Since the current Chef took the helm, this small French restaurant has presented dishes both well articulated and artfully prepared. Plan on taking your time with at least 2 courses, nothing comes out of the kitchen all that fast — which is a good ting.
The service is refined, yet friendly. The wine list is more than satisfactory, both in selection and price. With only 9 or 10 tables this place is quite intimate. Not a place for big groups or children. We were able to walk in, but in the future I would definitely make a reservation.