A first! A true BYOB! Bring your own bread! They charge $4 for bread with awful brown butter. The open kitchen is nice until the loud white haired head chef starts yelling and actually ruins the ambiance. Limited menu with absurdly priced items. Awful butternut squash soup for $15? A small salad for $16? How about a $52 for a strip steak? This is not NYC, LA, or Paris. This is Vermont! Pretentious and mediocre. Several menu items were missing despite an early seating. I am a foodie. Avoid this place. read more

We were served some weird fizzy red pepper hummus. We sent it back and the chef said they used the wrong ingredients. The other food was pretty good but we were turned off because we felt we were going to get sick. read more

Nice setting. Family friendly (many kids, lively). Waitstaff were pleasant and attentive. Food took a bit too long to come out. Not fine dining, but good enough. read more

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My husband and I spent two days at the lodge and had dinner one evening at the lodge fine dining restaurant, Solstice. Right from the start when the hostess greeted us, we knew this was going to be a wonderful evening. We were escorted to a table for two by the window and within minutes of our arrival Jason, our server, arrived welcoming us. The menu was amazing with a great mix of options. After consulting with Jason, I chose the scallop dinner and my husband chose the ribeye. Our dinners arrived plated as a work of art. We have been to many, many high end restaurants, but this one is on the top of our list. Our meals were cooked to perfection! We had the opportunity to meet the Executive Chef, Sean, and the GM, Scott. They wanted to ensure all our expectations were met. How often does that happen?? This restaurant exceeded our expectations and we plan on booking another get away soon to the Lodge and dinner at Solstice!!! Try it ... you will not be disappointed. Atmosphere, Service, Food unsurpassed!! read more

Very very disappointing.Every meal was over cooked.For a high end resort and prices they charge very dissatisfied

Preposterously overpriced and utterly mediocre. Slow service as well. Very convenient if you're staying at Stowe Mountain Lodge, of course. But that's about the best I can say for it. read more

Had a amazing meal last night that was out of this world ! The service was 100% hands on. The atmosphere is open and spacious. And the food.......ridiculous ! This place used to be really good. Now its GREAT ! Already planning my next time going. Peter read more

Great food! My husband and I are staying at the Stowe Mountain Resort and we both agree the food at stolstice is wonderful! We had three different meals in the last week and everything was great. Not one thing to complain about. read more

We had a very disappointing meal at solstice. We were looking forward to this dinner after seeing the menu when we booked our stay at the lodge, but unfortunately none of our experience lived up to our expectations. All of the food was overpriced and lacked in flavor and execution. The ribeye was tough, the cauliflower was charred on the outside and flavorless in the middle, the duck was dry- on top of our initial server being very inattentive and forgetting to bring one of our drinks the entire dinner. The sommelier attempted to make up for the poor food and service, but it was a great disappointment. We had significantly better meals elsewhere in Stowe. read more

This has been a long time pending yelp review. I would say since our visit to this place in late 2015. The only reason am writing this review is not because of the stay at the resort which was not worthwhile. But mainly because of the awesome food that we had prepared by Chef Jeremy Martin. I am not sure if he is still around though. It was one unforgettable experience. I would like to specially only talk about Chef Martin. The very first time in our life we felt so pampered and felt like am one one of the food network's Chopped judges'. Based on our request, Chef specially made Vegetarian food. We ate the dinner for three consecutive nights, every time the chef didn't fail to amaze us, taking us through a four course meal experience. Every meal, we had every day was carefully and artfully prepared and customized to our taste buds and vastly different from one another ranging from yummy soup, salads, appetizers, pasta etc. My mouth is still watering thinking about those dishes. I cant say much good things about our stay in the resort, as it was tad too overpriced and overhyped for nothing. Anyway coming back to writing about Chef Jeremy Martin, his dedication towards treating us and preparing great food goes beyond words. I highly recommend the chef. read more

Friendly Staff. The clam chowder was good. Lobster and cheese sandwhich was not good. It Should be taken off the menu. Worst Foie Gras i have ever had. Don't eat at solstice unless you have a low standard for food. read more

WHAT.THE.HECK. Happened to this place??? We come to stowe every year and look forward to our dinner here... We saw our server 3 times the entire meal and had to flag down a manager to pay. Ordered the snapper which was terribly bland. No cheese plates offered, which is weird for VT. Red wine served in white wine glasses. I can name 20 restaurants in stowe that I'd visit before ever returning here again. So disappointed, and would give negative stars if I could. read more

This place is not buttoned up. It's like dining in a food hall, and the food is not very good, we had the beef which was ok, but outrageously priced. The lobster side was the worst I've ever had. It's a fancy place with no substance. read more

Well when you at Stow Lodge you really don't have a choice but to go here. The food is really not bad. It's mostly the service and the wait. The tuna tartar was average. I had a couple of their signature drinks they absolutely sucked. Our waiter was slow as can be didn't go over specials and I think they over did my med steak. Again my score is because they made us wait with a reservation at 9:30 . we were staying at the hotel and the resturaunt was empty. We again went for bfast and its just a buffet prefixed price even if you want a coffee and bagel and the line to get in is crazy yet lots of empty tables. I think for such a high priced meal it should have better service and a much more flavorful menu. They are suppose to be farm to table but I don't see that at all. It's a missmatch all over the menu and the chef dosent deliver . The staff needs a customer service makeover and to read SETTING THE TABLE by Danny Meyer. read more

Everything you've heard it's 10000000% true! The worst customer service. We ordered food before two other tables, guess what? We didn't get our food + our waiter forgot about appetizers. After 50 minutes we just left. I would give them 0 star if I could. Please go somewhere else! P.S. I never write reviews. read more

okay so fort the price of this dinner i was totally disappointed. the place was gorgeous inside and we got there a little early. we sat at the bar and had a glass of champagne. paid for it at the bar by credit card. 20.00. then we both ordered the chef's tasting menu with wine pairing. 65.00 each for dinner and another 35.00 each for wine tasting (1 champagne and 3 glasses of wine) first they bring us a roll with butter. cold and hard. strike one. then we have a mushroom cappacino. really cute. looked like a cup of cappacino. outstanding. not very hot but flavor was awesome! and then fresh motz and plum tomatoes on greens with hot bacon dressing. fantastic! redeemed. then next course was gnocci in cream sauce. needed salt, luke warm and brussel sprouts in it-huge, cut in half and raw. gross then pork loin (came with bone-i call that a pork chop)both overcooked. came with mashed sweet potatos and spinach. then dessert-chocolate mouse with tart raspberry sauce. awful. couldnt eat. disgusting. and let me addt he wine glasses were mini. not even full size resaurant glasses. at 9.00 each they should have been a normal size. oh and i went to the bathroom. it was in a hotel so i left restaurant and went downstairs. there was a wedding going on nearby. there were a man and woman in a stall doing it in ladies room! wt????? and then we had to wait 20 min to get our car from valet. and you had to valet. no other option. oh-another thing-they added the 20.00 for the champagne to our bill. i had alreayd paid for it. a restaurant that cost that much they need to check and see before tacking it onto a bill. also never acknowledged our special occasion. read more

everything was excellent. was not disappointed. they had homemade seasallt icecream! The truffle whip mushroom bisque is interesting and good. filet delicious, the halibut light and flavorful. read more

Ok second time I have been here. Once again the absolute worst service. You pay a premium. Steak $52. If you want service. Minimum wait to get water is 20 min. Not necessarily the staff's fault. Poor management and understaffed. Last time here for sure. Too many other good options out there. read more

Overpriced. Slow service. Sloppy food. Never go back there again. Cafeteria across offers more options and a lot cheaper.

Food was excellent, but had to wait over an hour to be seated although we had made reservations over a month ago. Unacceptable!

Food was excellent and improved menu from prior years at Solstice. Service (Moriah) was great too, even better considering it's one of the busiest weekends of the year. Very attentive to my allergy issues. Look forward to going back. read more

Service was terrible. We waited over 15 minutes for our waitress to order drinks and then it took another almost 15 minutes for them to arrive. Our entrees weren't served for almost 1.5 hours. However the food was delicious. For the price you are paying, I expect much better service and scenery. The manager, Dustin, eventually offered us a managers 10% discount and took care of our drinks, cheese plate and a friends burger that wasn't cooked correctly. Overall I was so disappointed! Stowe is an awesome mountain and the lodge is beautiful, I would have expected their fancy restaurant to be much better. read more

There's a reason this place has more 1 star reviews than any other restaurant in town. Not a fine dining experience when you know more about the menu than the server. Staff was too prententious for minimum wage hourly employees--from valet to hostess. Even the restaurant manager needs to bring it down a notch. FYI...just because you charge the most, doesn't mean you're the best! I have been here 4 times and have disappointed during each dining experience. They are now on their 7 th chef in 7 years. Food and Beverage managers come and go even more frequently--no surprise to see their lack of consistency. read more

Been back a few times since my original review a few years ago, and things have steadily improved. The food is more consistent, the service a bit more attentive, and overall quality is much higher. Its still quite expensive for what you get, but that's to be expected with the incredible location at the top of the mountain in the new high-end resort. Still, an easy choice now that the food is better, especially if you are here for skiing and need warm meal at the end of the day. read more

impeccable and personal service. that married with wonderful food make this a gem of a place. having an 19 month old enables me to truly test establishments when it comes to how they treat you. very pleased with the level of attentiveness given during our dinner even with a fussy boy. will be sure to make this a regular stop on the Stowe circuit. read more

My family and I were at the Christmas buffet on Dec. 25. It was pretty bad. Things were cold and stale. What should have been cooked was not--cold crunchy new potatoes, and what should not have been overcooked was. Dried out salmon. Soggy asparagus spears. Not much taste to anything. Desserts were no better. I took an M&M cookie, and when I tried to break it to share, it was as hard as a piece of shale and tasted like sawdust. Very disappointing, especially at $49. read more

The food was very good as expected. Great scallops and a wonderful chocolate pudding for desert. The service was pretty choppy and slow. It took 18 minutes to get a drink when we first arrived. The wine list is annoyingly long but the beer selection was perfect. Not a great atmosphere. Very nice place but loud and busy. Overall it was fine. Expensive but that was expected. $174 for two people. A great meal needs great service and that was truly lacking. On to Michaels on the hill. read more

This is one OVER-priced place in Stowe. We should have gone with breakfast buffet but we choose to order ala carte. the omelette was not tasty and the pancake did not look like a typical pancake. I guess that is what we get when we overpay - a fancy looking pancake with no taste whatsoever. Not going AGAIN. Also wanted to have dinner the night before and the host at the entrance turned us away saying they simply do not have ANY vegetarian (no meat, no seafood) choices on menu. Two nights we stayed - we ended up at Harrison's and Sushi Yoshi in town and that was the best decision we took. Awesome food and lot of options for people who do not eat meat or seafood. read more

Don't waist your time nor money. Plenty of places in town to get a lovely meal. Third yer in a row eating here. Each year the food and service becomes less and less of what one would expect for the prices. By 7:30 they had run out of the special. My lamb was under cooked but took so long to get that I wasn't about to send it back. When it first opened they had the most delish sides, now meh just skip it. One of my dinner companions got the short ribs that were dry. How can a braised dish be dry? Lack of qualified technique is why. No longer any wow factor. read more

My husband and I had dinner at Solstice this weekend and it was amazing! We will definitely be back again! Our food was delicious, the ambiance was lovely, and the servers were all very attentive. We have been here a number of times and have always had great experiences. read more

HORRIBLE RESTAURANT!! We arrived for a 7:30 dinner reservation. My husband walked up to the host Kaleb and said that we had a dinner reservation. Kaleb then said "these people here were ahead of you" referring to 2 women who were standing off to the side, and he said nothing else to us. It was the most rude and disgusting treatment we have ever had. He never asked my husband's name or anything. He just dismissed us like we were dogs begging to be let into the restaurant. I don't care if there were 15 people who were waiting there before us. That really has nothing to do with us. The proper greeting after we informed him of our reservation was to say good evening, ask for my husband's name then say something polite like, "If you don't mind waiting a few moments we will have a table ready for you soon." Interestingly enough, a couple came up after us and he actually greeted them. I won't bother to state explicitly the difference between myself and the other people standing there but suffice to say, it wasn't hard to detect. Fortunately, another host Buckley came up while Kaleb was away, and he displayed appropriate poise and manners to greet us, asked for our name to find our reservation and spoke to us with respect and warmth. As for the food, it was horrible. The BBQ shrimp in a sauce was poured over a slice of bread which was soggy and just a gross texture to eat. The ricotta gnudi was dry and tasteless, nothing about the dish was worth eating. We didn't even finish our entrée, we asked for the check and just got out of there. Do yourself a favor and don't eat here. It was our worst dining experience and we have eaten at many upscale restaurants that truly understand what good service is supposed to look like. This place isn't upscale, it looks nice and spacious, but you eventually realize the people there don't know what they are doing, and some don't even know how to be a decent human being. read more

Great atmosphere. Beautiful resort. The food is a huge disappointment. The Gnocchi were soggy and undercooked. Ordered scallops for entree...they came out raw and cold. After a second attempt, still undercooked and lukewarm and extremely salty. Just gave up, paid the bill and ordered room service. read more

Food was not bad but not great. The price did not match the quality. When you pay 30 bucks plus a plate you want great.

Even though the scenery was pretty and the restaurant itself was nice its WAY overpriced for just decent breakfast. $40 for 2 people when we ordered an omelette and French toast. The French toast was not the best we've had but it came with 4 slices. I'd suggest going somewhere else if you want to spend half the money. Plus, it didn't even have waffles? What huge hotel restaurant doesn't have waffles on the menu? Must be a Vermont thing. read more

We had breakfast here one morning after our stay - it's fairly pricey for the options they have. I like it but find the local places in town to be a better choice! read more

My family and I were at Stowe Mountain Lodge(Resort) for this past weekend. On saturday we were deciding what to eat. When considering Solstice, we where almost dissuaded do to the overwhelmingly negative reviews. Mostly for convenience we rolled the dice for Solstice. We had an 8:30 reservation and arrived 7 minutes early and were promptly seated. The space was nice keeping in style with the alpine rustic Lodge decor. The waited was friendly. We started off with the artisan bread and pulpo oliva (grilled octopus), the bread was acceptable could of been a little warmer. The pulpo oliva was grilled nicely and quite flavorful however extremely chewy. My wive oder maple glaze salmon the dish was presented well the fish was cooked well but ultimately left a slightly fishy taste over all she was satisfied. I order the roasted duck. It was cooked to my liking and pair well with butternut puree and currant jam. For dessert, we had maple walnut cremebrulee it was good. Over all we had a great time and enjoy the food. The pricing I feel was slightly high (EG. soup du jour $17). read more

It's very average. I only went for breakfast and after paying 60$ for two omelettes that were nothing special. ... I think I'll go somewhere else. read more

i'm on the fence with this rating. we stayed at the lodge with a few complications and this may be the straw that broke the camel's back for us. we were just there last week- while the lodge and location were beautiful, solstice missed the mark on the service level. first and foremost, we got seated and there were two other tables in the whole restaurant and didn't get a menu. my husband got up and had to ask for menus. the food was good- all things considered. we ordered an omelette to share (because we were having lunch in a couple hours), 2 mimosas and the banana bread. while the banana bread with the fruit was a good amount, there was nothing groundbreaking there. being a non-professional cook, i think i could've made the same banana bread. the omelette is where things went awry. we ordered the french omelette that came with house potatoes and toast. our server brought out the tiny omelette on a large plate. no potatoes. no toast. we thought the latter would come later- which would be weird but whatever. our server was awkward and didn't seem to care about us anyway. the potatoes and toast never came. yes, the omelette was good. but i guess that's beyond the point when it's $16 and the server forgets 2/3rds of the plate somewhere else. anyway, the omelette was good for overpriced breakfast food at a resort/lodge if they don't forget 66.7% of it in the kitchen. i hate eating at hotels/resort restaurants because you are at the mercy of the hotel and they can rip you a new one and it still doesn't matter. hopefully mr. server guy will read "serving for dummies" and know what comes on what plates. read more

This restaurant is horrible. We ordered simple meals. After half an hour, we received a glass of wine and a diet coke. After 45 minutes, we received a bread basket with bland bread. After an hour, we went to speak to the manager who said he would immediately look into the situation. After another 20 minutes, we got up and left. We told the waitress we were leaving. She said that she was sorry and that the situation was "intolerable". We agreed. We then went to the from desk and asked to speak to a manager in the hotel since we were staying there. After 10 minutes of waiting for the manager, we gave our room number to the attendant at the desk. The manager never called us. read more

After coming here for four years, I am still baffled. The food is not consistent. Some nights, the menu is huge, other nights, it is minimal. Some nights the food is good, other nights, uneatable. The experience can vary from day to day. My husband ordered the caesar salad last Wednesday. I ordered it this past Wednesday. It was not the same; not the same presentation, not the same dressing, not the same salad. It is salad. How can you make salad so different one week apart! The staff are friendly and they really do try, but you cannot make up for the inconsistent experiences. We had dinner there on last Wednesday and then again on this Wednesday. Totally different experience. In the years we have been coming, they have gone through several chef changes and management changes. They have also depleted their wine list significantly through the years. If you enjoy a good bottle, forget it. I really do hope that they can get it together, as I would really like to eat in a hotel that I am staying. I have no desire to travel down that mountain to get a good meal. Lastly, why take away that ice cream sandwich? The kids all love that... read more