Skip Bar at the Suttle Lodge

Second time I've been and the food and atmosphere on the lake are amazing. Definitely worth the stop.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The burger and pasta were AWESOME!!!!! the fries, superb. The Gin and Conifer cocktails were exquisite. Had a fantastic evening! Staff is super friendly and hospitable. Y'all doing it right out here, thank you!!!!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

We stayed in the lodge for a couple of nights and had dinner one night and breakfast. The smoke double pork chop was huge and tasted awesome! Really loved the mustard sauce with it. My wife had the smoked half chicken and it was also very tasty. In the morning we had the McSkip breakfast sandwiches. My favorite was the smoked mushroom. The inside of the lodge and rooms are painted very dark blue. Really makes for a dark confined feeling. Such a beautiful place to paint like a dungeon

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 5

What wonderful surprise! Absolutely delicious food, friendly and helpful service, and an amazing setting. I had the short rib ragu over pappardelle and my vegetarian wife had roasted cauliflower. Don't have photos of the food but here was our view:

Vegetarian options: Not many main dishes but you can make a meal from the starters.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I understand what they're trying to achieve here. They want to be an upscale chic mountain modern cafe overlooking the lake. The problem is they are not achieving any of that unfortunately.... The prices they are charging for the food would suggest an elegant upscale experience with delicious cuisine. Unfortunately the food is sub par. My $50 steak was burned on the outside and raw and cold on the inside. Service is lacking.... The interior design needs a refresh and waiters could use some training on how to talk to people who are spending that kind of money on a meal......It's such an easy fix to tweak a few things to make it better. We go out to listen to the live music during the summer but stopped ordering from the restaurant. We just bring our own food now..

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 2

Every single time we eat here the food is excellent. Very talented chef! Great food, drinks, and service by the beautiful lake. Always perfect.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

We took our dogs to this dog friendly establishment. It was a very pawsitive time for all.

So we stopped here to try something new. Since we had been in sisters/hoodoo/black butte ranch. Food was alright but went during dinner hours and hubby ordered a burger assuming the “main” came with a side. Nope $20 for literally a burger on a plate. I ordered the smoked mushroom tapas and it was a cold mushroom salad with a large cracker on the side. Left hungry.

Protect your health and do not stay here. I have suffers for over a year and a half south a parasitic infection after staying at this hotel. I brought my young daughter here for a mental health break after quarantining through covid. It was our first foray out. We had already been ticked in for an hour when my daughter woke up, looked down and said “mommy, what are these black things in the sheets” in the morning we found them on the bunk beds that has don’t been slept in. We also found a mouse nest under the bunk beds, and it was clear that the floor hadn’t been swept. The rug was filthy and so was the futon. There was a thick layer of dust on the headboard. The communal bathroom showers are so dirty, I thought we could catch what we needed up with if we used them. There were old men who smelled like alcohol in dirty clothes sort of moving dirty rags around “cleaning” the communal bathrooms. I have now been sick for over a year. A complete nightmare that is now causing organ damage as well as disfigurement from scarring NHs. I haven’t been able to work, and have to clean everyday to try to eradicate this horror. It’s also cost over $100, 000 in cleaning supplies, and medical expenses not covered by insurance. When I called the owner to ask if their hotel insurance would cover it, they were nasty and belligerent. If you have stayed at this hotel and are now suffering from a parasitic infection, please leave a review and contact me so we can help each other to get support and reimbursement. I also think the Jefferson County Health Department needs to take this seriously and they won’t if there is only one reported case. If you have stayed at Suttle Lodge and developed a skin infection or parasitic illness 4days to six weeks after your stay, please report it to the Jefferson County Health Department and the Oregon Department of health and leave a review here and on yelp The irresponsibility of the Suttle Lake Lodge poses a public health risk *we stayed in late June of 2021, but this system wouldn’t let me go back that far. Pleas try to contact me if you also stayed during that time and became infected.

The Suttle Lodge is one of our favorite places in Central Oregon ♥️ The Lodge has excellent cocktails and a creative menu that changes due to availability of local produce etc. We have stayed at SL in a variety of cabins and always had a wonderful time. The staff is great and you can not find a more dog friendly location and lodge than SL. Summertime is my favorite because of swimming in the lake but they are open year round. Check out the happenings page, they always have cool events going on 💚

The Suttle Lodge is one of our favorite places in Central Oregon ♥️ The Lodge has excellent cocktails and a creative menu that changes due to availability of local produce etc. We have stayed at SL in a variety of cabins and always had a wonderful time. The staff is great and you can not find a more dog friendly location and lodge than SL. Summertime is my favorite because of swimming in the lake but they are open year round. Check out the happenings page, they always have cool events going on ?

One shower in an advertised 'bathhouse' and it was gross. Filthy. I was given a code, makes you think it's exclusive to paid guests. Nope, open to all and so incredibly filthy. Shower shoes and great balance required. Never again.

Wine on the Deck was a bust for us. Long story short they ran out of the most expensive wine before they got to us. So, we have very small pours of the porch pounder stuff and then boom... "we're sorry, the $70 a bottle reserve wine we don't have any more". We were all just looking at each other. I thought some might start crying openly. We were nice to the server but grumbled under our breath a bit. Some friends sat across from us on the deck and two of the guys immediately went to the snack bar to buy fries and some sliders for their whole group even though this was to be paired with food. Friggin geniuses, when I left there hungry an hour later. We called them a week later just to give them a heads up that we paid almost $500 and didn't even get a small buzz or any of the good wine! WTH? They said, "oh thanks and I am glad you enjoyed the view"... OK lol. We live here because we enjoy the view. We pay $500 for wine and some snacks because we love wine. This should just be a warning that maybe they are making too much money to care but at the very least they should have offered us some more crap wine or a partial refund. Won't go back and I hope to keep some folks that are not AMAZED and blown away by the "view". Which you don't need to pay for by the way... Bring your own wine and go to the lake. If you are from a big city...pay the money and get what they give you. Otherwise spend your $$$ somewhere else.

Service is bad , staff seems very lazy. She didn’t want to bring the drinks to the back and I had to wait. Plates are not cleaned up on the patio and left for at least 30 min, while the place is pretty much empty They serve beer in a metal cup , very distasteful

This is a hard lodge to review. On the one hand, the location and access to the lovely Suttle lake are five star. On the other hand, the actual rooms and cabins vary. I would go back, but only because I have fond memories of swimming in the lake. I would not happily spend as much again. Our bill was shockingly high. By the way, at this time, there was no maid service in the lodge. There is a restaurant in the lodge that had a limited menu of extremely expensive dishes (I hadn’t seen prices like those at anything but fine restaurants in San Francisco). There were some simple tables indoors and only one table outside. The Boathouse also had breakfast food, sandwiches, hamburgers, etc. for sale, again at a very high price. A “side salad” for instance, was served in a paper dish and consisted of, no kidding, five whole lettuce leaves and a plastic cup of dressing... that’s all. The grilled tuna sandwich was not grilled, the chicken nuggets were so covered in hard, over fried coating that the kids couldn’t and wouldn’t eat them. Something is clearly wrong when a family oriented resort can’t include reasonably priced and kid friendly fare at a reasonable price. Our five day stay cost almost as much as five days at Disneyland. Accommodations are nice but terribly expensive. My husband and I had a lodge room, facing the lake which was huge. There was a steep ladder/stairway to a loft with two twin beds. The main room, which was very sparsely furnished had a comfortable king bed. Other than the bed, there were two end tables, a desk chair, a desk, and a couple of saggy bean-bag arm chair things that looked like they had been rescued from a college dorm room. The room could have been a dormitory, it was so big. There was a heater/fireplace (that didn’t work for us) and a jacuzzi tub, which dripped constantly. My daughter and her husband and two kids shared a deluxe cabin. They had a loft with a large bed upstairs, and there was another bedroom downstairs. There was a futon-like sofa that could sleep two more, I imagine. The cabin had a kitchen with a hot plate, microwave, small frig and sink. Lots of cookware, plates, bowls, and flatware were provided. There was also a canoe, which was a wonderful addition. The garbage cans outside were never emptied during our stay, although I’m sure if we had asked, they would have been emptied by special request. It is clear the Lodge is understaffed. Our son, his wife and baby shared a rustic cabin. ….it was…rustic, with no running water and no toilets nearby. The “bedroom” had a double bed that filled the room wall to wall (you had to crawl into the bed from the foot.). Opposite the foot were two built in bunk beds. There was a front room that served very little purpose, a tiny porch with a barbecue.