What can you do to top the view when you’re sitting on the most easily recognized mountain for miles around (like Mount Hood)?
Timberline Lodge is a very special historic hotel and its rustic Cascade Room has comparatively small windows but a beautiful southwestern vista none-the-less. Staff, having negotiated time on the mountain earlier in the day to snowboard, is now settled in for a day of attentive service. The experience comes with fine silverware and signature china.

Even though it is June, it seems appropriate while sitting on this glacier to order a bowl of chili, after all, there’s still snow outside. Filled with natural beef, Tillamook cheese, sweet onions and tomatoes and served in a handmade crust, it is delicious. The chicken potpie with plenty of pearl onions and a crust as flaky as a croissant seems like another warming meal. Bread with olive oil and rosemary complement the lunch.

Dessert is a crème brulee and a strawberry and rhubarb cobbler. (Yes, strawberries...

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What can you do to top the view when you’re sitting on the most easily recognized mountain for miles around (like Mount Hood)?
Timberline Lodge is a very special historic hotel and its rustic Cascade Room has comparatively small windows but a beautiful southwestern vista none-the-less. Staff, having negotiated time on the mountain earlier in the day to snowboard, is now settled in for a day of attentive service. The experience comes with fine silverware and signature china.

Even though it is June, it seems appropriate while sitting on this glacier to order a bowl of chili, after all, there’s still snow outside. Filled with natural beef, Tillamook cheese, sweet onions and tomatoes and served in a handmade crust, it is delicious. The chicken potpie with plenty of pearl onions and a crust as flaky as a croissant seems like another warming meal. Bread with olive oil and rosemary complement the lunch.

Dessert is a crème brulee and a strawberry and rhubarb cobbler. (Yes, strawberries are in season as evidenced by the number for sale at the farmer’s market in Portland on Saturday morning). They claim the tiramisu mouse is their specialty. Guess we’ll have to come back later…

Even though it’s quite a drive to reach Timberline Lodge, the chef utilizes many products grown in and around Oregon, as well as seafood caught in nearby waters. Healthy, natural and fresh are the mantra when selecting Cascade Room ingredients.

Here’s just a sampling of what’s on the menu: a salad with dried cranberries (bogs are found down the coast near Bandon), hazelnuts (also plentiful in the state), local marionberries – no connect to the former Mayor of Washington, D.C., organic zucchini pancakes (got you thinking now don’t we?), Oregon bay shrimp, cherries, Timberline shoestring fries, grilled salmon, Hood River apples, huckleberry vinaigrette, Rogue Creamery Smokey Blue, Willamette River vegetables. And of course, Oregon and Washington wines.

You won’t be disappointed. Timberline Lodge and the Cascade Room are a must see and do!

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