Most of the food was excellent, especially the tomato pesto burrata appetizer, but the meat for most of our table was blood red RAW. Not rare, but raw. We had to send two dishes back twice. Half our party was uncomfortably cold. We were seated along the sides of the yurt (the cold air kept blowing in) and the staff was so busy they couldn’t keep the stove going. We even offered to feed the stove ourselves. The staff was very nice but the undercooked meat and uncomfortable temperature really put a damper on what we had hoped would be a very memorable evening for our international guests. I booked our reservations months in advance and was really looking forward to a unique experience. The hike up and down was magical, one of the very best parts of the evening. They had a very full house that night - perhaps they were understaffed or perhaps they simply booked too many people that night.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 5
Julia Shuff
We came for dinner and it was phenomenal. First, you check in and snowshoe up (~1 Mile,) working for your dinner. The woods at night are gorgeous, it was snowing, and all in all just a very peaceful walk. Once you arrive, there was a fire in the fire pit to welcome you. You then go inside this yurt, which is warmed by a woodstove and very cozy. Almost all of the lighting is by candle, with one little lamp in the center. It was super cozy.
Then, the food. The food was so delicious. You order your main a week ahead, while the appetizers/desserts are what the chef has at the time. Everything was so tasty.
After finishing our amazing meal, the much more difficult part of bending over on full bellies to strap our snowshoes back on occurred. Luckily, it was downhill from the cookhouse! We had a very pleasant walk out, returned our gear, and called it a night.
Go in part for the food, but also for the experience. The entire package made this an amazing evening.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Justin Enos
Such an amazing experience! The food was incredible, staff was so friendly, all around just a wonderful time!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Dana Johnson
This place is AMAZING!!! We discovered the Nordic center last winter and fell in love with their great cross country experience followed by a delicious lunch with a great glass of red wine. But then we tried brunch in the summer and had amazing breakfast food after a beautiful hike in the mountains followed with the best view in Lake County! To top it off, we had a really fun 70’s disco dance show. This place is a hidden gem for sure. In a very touristy state, Tennessee Pass gives you a unique and personal experience that I have not seen anywhere else in the Rocky Mountains! And then, just a couple weeks ago, we visited when they had the Bubbles and Bites event. We had so much fun in the beautiful outdoors - live music, great local food options and interesting drink options. What a fun place to go both winter and summer! We are hoping to squeeze in a dinner/hike at the Cookhouse before the season close this fall. Thanks for all you do and please keep these great experiences coming! Yum!!!
Cameron Behringer
Unbeatable experience, dishes, and views.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
joshua sanchez
It was great! Everything I’ve been coming for years all around amazing place!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Sharlean Boyden
It was great! Great food great people great place overall!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Nancy Hemming
This is a true Colorado treasure. The amazing staff deserve outstanding recommendations … our Chix group was given the highest quality of service and dining! Special thanks to Mariah, Silas, Chef Maureen and all of the servers. Thank you for making our experience extra special.
Victoria Kiesling
The whole experience was terrific! The timing for serving each course was perfect. The food was mouth-watering good. I loved that a guitarist was playing in the yurt.
To get to the yurt and back, make sure you go cross-country skiing instead of snowshoeing. It's so much more fun.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Elk Chops, Apple Pie
Mandy Zatynski
Literally every single person I interacted with--including check-in/arrival at the nordic center, at the cookhouse during dinner, in the morning for luggage return, at the cafe at the nordic center--was an absolute delight. The kindest, warmest employees I've encountered in a long, long while; and I can only assume this demeanor is modeled at the top. It permeates the culture there, making it truly an above-and-beyond experience. Thank you, Tennessee Pass Cookhouse and Nordic Center crew, for your incredibly warm hospitality. This experience was such a treat in so many ways!
It’s extremely warm/hot in the cookhouse. I recognize that in a yurt it can be difficult to control the temp, but I felt like I was at a sweat lodge. If you’re sensitive to heat or on meds that don’t go well with heat, reconsider this place, or have enough layers where your bottom layer is a T-shirt and shorts/skirt. We loved everything else about this experience. The service was great! The food was good! The walk was lovely. But we unfortunately had to leave early because it was too hot.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Elk Chops
Taylor Ward
Very cool experience snowshoeing in and out of dinner. Food and drink - impressive as well. Wine, cocktails, food. Exceeded my expectations. Pricey but worth it.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
yuval amir
Great food and a great experience!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Will Lenhart
Got the Remi boo boo burger, it was incredible. So were the Brussel sprouts. Maja was an awesome server. 10/10 would go again and recommend to everyone passing through.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Allison Barnes
Pure magic! My partner and I recently got married at the Tennessee Pass Cookhouse on 9/7/24 and it was truly the most incredible weekend. I could write 10+ pages recapping the whole weekend and explaining every detail that added to the bliss but I will do my best to keep this post short and sweet. First, the team-Mariah and Erica were the leads on helping us organize the wedding. They both spent the whole weekend assisting us and our guests and made all of our hopes and dreams come true regarding the vision for our unique wedding. By the end of it- all of my friends were raving about how well the crew at the property treated everyone- professional, warm, fun, great energy and extremely resourceful. Not only were Erica and Mariah fantastic- but every single member of the team was amazing! You can tell this team is close and that they love what they do. It felt like a true community up there. Huge shoutout to the chef and his dedicated hard work- my partner and I are huge foodies and that is one of the main reasons we chose this venue. We were blown away by every bite we took- from apps, entrees to dessert. Thank you so much! I left our wedding weekend with a full heart and so much gratitude for everyone that contributed to our special weekend. All of my friends are still gushing over "the BEST wedding they've ever been to!!". The views and location are stunning but I truly believe it is the people that make this place so special. THANK YOU ALL AGAIN. We look forward to visiting soon. - Allison and Reed Whetstone
Most of the food was excellent, especially the tomato pesto burrata appetizer, but the meat for most of our table was blood red RAW. Not rare, but raw. We had to send two dishes back twice. Half our party was uncomfortably cold. We were seated along the sides of the yurt (the cold air kept blowing in) and the staff was so busy they couldn’t keep the stove going. We even offered to feed the stove ourselves. The staff was very nice but the undercooked meat and uncomfortable temperature really put a damper on what we had hoped would be a very memorable evening for our international guests. I booked our reservations months in advance and was really looking forward to a unique experience. The hike up and down was magical, one of the very best parts of the evening. They had a very full house that night - perhaps they were understaffed or perhaps they simply booked too many people that night.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 5
We came for dinner and it was phenomenal. First, you check in and snowshoe up (~1 Mile,) working for your dinner. The woods at night are gorgeous, it was snowing, and all in all just a very peaceful walk. Once you arrive, there was a fire in the fire pit to welcome you. You then go inside this yurt, which is warmed by a woodstove and very cozy. Almost all of the lighting is by candle, with one little lamp in the center. It was super cozy.
Then, the food. The food was so delicious. You order your main a week ahead, while the appetizers/desserts are what the chef has at the time. Everything was so tasty.
After finishing our amazing meal, the much more difficult part of bending over on full bellies to strap our snowshoes back on occurred. Luckily, it was downhill from the cookhouse! We had a very pleasant walk out, returned our gear, and called it a night.
Go in part for the food, but also for the experience. The entire package made this an amazing evening.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Such an amazing experience! The food was incredible, staff was so friendly, all around just a wonderful time!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This place is AMAZING!!! We discovered the Nordic center last winter and fell in love with their great cross country experience followed by a delicious lunch with a great glass of red wine. But then we tried brunch in the summer and had amazing breakfast food after a beautiful hike in the mountains followed with the best view in Lake County! To top it off, we had a really fun 70’s disco dance show. This place is a hidden gem for sure. In a very touristy state, Tennessee Pass gives you a unique and personal experience that I have not seen anywhere else in the Rocky Mountains! And then, just a couple weeks ago, we visited when they had the Bubbles and Bites event. We had so much fun in the beautiful outdoors - live music, great local food options and interesting drink options. What a fun place to go both winter and summer! We are hoping to squeeze in a dinner/hike at the Cookhouse before the season close this fall. Thanks for all you do and please keep these great experiences coming! Yum!!!
Unbeatable experience, dishes, and views.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
It was great! Everything I’ve been coming for years all around amazing place!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
It was great! Great food great people great place overall!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This is a true Colorado treasure. The amazing staff deserve outstanding recommendations … our Chix group was given the highest quality of service and dining! Special thanks to Mariah, Silas, Chef Maureen and all of the servers. Thank you for making our experience extra special.
The whole experience was terrific! The timing for serving each course was perfect. The food was mouth-watering good. I loved that a guitarist was playing in the yurt.
To get to the yurt and back, make sure you go cross-country skiing instead of snowshoeing. It's so much more fun.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Elk Chops, Apple Pie
Literally every single person I interacted with--including check-in/arrival at the nordic center, at the cookhouse during dinner, in the morning for luggage return, at the cafe at the nordic center--was an absolute delight. The kindest, warmest employees I've encountered in a long, long while; and I can only assume this demeanor is modeled at the top. It permeates the culture there, making it truly an above-and-beyond experience. Thank you, Tennessee Pass Cookhouse and Nordic Center crew, for your incredibly warm hospitality. This experience was such a treat in so many ways!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
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It’s extremely warm/hot in the cookhouse. I recognize that in a yurt it can be difficult to control the temp, but I felt like I was at a sweat lodge. If you’re sensitive to heat or on meds that don’t go well with heat, reconsider this place, or have enough layers where your bottom layer is a T-shirt and shorts/skirt. We loved everything else about this experience. The service was great! The food was good! The walk was lovely. But we unfortunately had to leave early because it was too hot.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Elk Chops
Very cool experience snowshoeing in and out of dinner. Food and drink - impressive as well. Wine, cocktails, food. Exceeded my expectations. Pricey but worth it.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great food and a great experience!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Got the Remi boo boo burger, it was incredible. So were the Brussel sprouts. Maja was an awesome server. 10/10 would go again and recommend to everyone passing through.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Pure magic! My partner and I recently got married at the Tennessee Pass Cookhouse on 9/7/24 and it was truly the most incredible weekend. I could write 10+ pages recapping the whole weekend and explaining every detail that added to the bliss but I will do my best to keep this post short and sweet. First, the team-Mariah and Erica were the leads on helping us organize the wedding. They both spent the whole weekend assisting us and our guests and made all of our hopes and dreams come true regarding the vision for our unique wedding. By the end of it- all of my friends were raving about how well the crew at the property treated everyone- professional, warm, fun, great energy and extremely resourceful. Not only were Erica and Mariah fantastic- but every single member of the team was amazing! You can tell this team is close and that they love what they do. It felt like a true community up there. Huge shoutout to the chef and his dedicated hard work- my partner and I are huge foodies and that is one of the main reasons we chose this venue. We were blown away by every bite we took- from apps, entrees to dessert. Thank you so much! I left our wedding weekend with a full heart and so much gratitude for everyone that contributed to our special weekend. All of my friends are still gushing over "the BEST wedding they've ever been to!!". The views and location are stunning but I truly believe it is the people that make this place so special. THANK YOU ALL AGAIN. We look forward to visiting soon. - Allison and Reed Whetstone
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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