Alpen Restaurant Bar - Beech Mountain

This was a special experience. Top of a mountain, wonderful food, great service and spectacular views. stuffed portabellos and veal schnitzel were best ever.

We walked into the place and the manager or host told us that it's going to be quite a delay since there's going to be 20 people coming soon that had a reservation. I said are they here now? No, he said, they're coming soon. I said well we'd better sit down quick and make our order so we can get ahead of them. He wasn't too pleased but he sat us anyway. The waitress was wonderful. She put our order in right away, brought out our meal that was delicious, and we were finished by the time all the guests arrived. I did not appreciate that first guy because I felt that he didn't value my patronage as much as he valued the 20 people coming in. Now, the reason I gave it three stars was because of him, and the fact that my bill was $174 for five people two were children. I supposed the dollar signs were in his eyes thinking that there were four times as many people as us and how much money he would be making. We probably won't be back there.

Not great. Decor is a little dated for one. Secondly, took about 5 minutes to be greeted at the door. To add, service was not great, idk if it was because the band was going on or what, but took an hour to get food. Next they didn 't have my first choice the Top Sirloin. So instead I had the Cuban Special $25) Cuban Pulled Pork, White Rice, black beans, and plantains. Pork was white, no color, like it had been boiled in water for hours not slow cooked but literally boiled in water), also there was almost more onions than pork. It was incredibly salty, as was the white rice. Black beans were swimming in gray water like they had just dumped them out of the can and then microwaved them for a couple minutes. Plantains were ok..... Anyways, for the place to take an hour to get the food and then for it to be inedible was pretty disappointing. I 'm from Florida so maybe my standards for Cuban food is high idk I 'm just trying to find reasons to help their case). But IMO if a restaurant claims to have an authentic Cuban special, then i guess I was hoping they would deliver, especially after they didn 't have my first choice. I was far from impressed. Also one of the steaks ordered from my party was not cooked to the correct temp, the Med Well was Med Rare. So for the price the service and quality of food was not worth it. 1/5 not recommended.....

Service was fantastic, but the food left something to be desired. I had an egg on my schnitzel that was undercooked and my wife's trout was overcooked. The food was reasonably good otherwise, but this place misses the mark on fine dining.

It is very funny how similar the Florida Keys is to here. We joke about ‘Keys Time’ because everything takes a little longer (the drive, service, work, etc) including getting things done because it’s a nice day and people just call off work. This town is the same exact way but times 3!Just kick back relax and ensure you don’t need anything immediately. Great restaurant with very friendly staff. Wednesdays are trivia which is a lot of fun!Food was decent, not the worst but tint the best. We had fun at trivia and had a great time. Deff worth the stop in.