The Historic Pioneer - Springdale

Pleasanty surprised by this place. Ended up staying at the adjoining hotel and guests get 50% off their entire menu... The result? Getting to indulge in a lot of things you wouldn't otherwise for dirt cheap. During our stay at Zion, we ended up eating 3 meals here and the bill was shockingly low. For breakfast, I had their Pioneer skillet (hash, bacon, sausage, with eggs) and the second time around, had their country fried steak. Both were cooked very nicely- I didn't leave a morsel behind. For lunch, I tried their special which was a rib eye steak sandwich- this was great as well and their fries were good enough to get as a side the next day for breakfast. Service is swift, quality is good... the only reason I couldn't give them 5 stars was that my beer had some netting like substance floating at the bottom of it (bleh, it was a horrible sight). In any case, I overlooked it and hope that I didn't eat anything else unappetizing during my 3 visits here! If you are staying at this hotel, you should capitalize on their 50% off deal.

The Skinny: edible, yes... good, not really (2) service: not too bad for a joint like this (3) value: if it wasn 't for the coupon for 20% off the bill when we stayed at Pioneer Lodge plus it was late there are limited dining options when we arrived, I don 't think we will be back (2) It was late. We were tired after hiking over 12 hours and exhausted. We just wanted to eat and crash. So we hit up the hotel restaurant for a quick bite before hitting the sack. As soon as we arrived, I followed my guidelines for ordering at a joint like this. Simple, easily prepped food (like sandwiches and forget the fancy steaks/ribs/prime rib) with minimal perishable items are ideal (ie, salads are a no go). Avoid seafood like the plague. You 'll at least get a decent meal this way. So what does the hubs do? He orders zucchini sticks and fish and chips. This is despite the look of are you sure you want to do this? from me. As usual when it comes to these things, I was right. The zucchini was greasy and the cornmeal coating was overly heavy and unappetizing. Suffice to say, the fish was also in the same type of batter and the same description applied. Fries were really nothing special and we left most of them on the plate. Me, I ordered a reuben which was decent they used some supermarket pastrami (could have used more) with some okay sauerkraut and melted cheese. Nothing special but nothing horrifying either. I think mine tasted better than the fish and chips. Really, given that we only wanted to get our bellies filled so we wouldn 't wake up in the middle of the night, it wasn 't a bad option at the time. Without the discount though, this place is really pricey for what it is. McDonald 's does a better job for like 1/2 the price. I would say this though, if you don 't have a discount, don 't come. 2 stars.

I 'm sorry but this place 's food was really bad. We ask for buffalo wings as an appetizer, she says okay. Then brings us bbq wings and says sorry we actually don 't have buffalo sauce even though it 's on their menu. I ordered the Cobb salad and it was inedible. I 'm not sure why anyone would think that over a cup of blue cheese would be necessary, but it overpowered the entire salad and was just so bad. My boyfriend had good ribs, but the fries were super flabby and not fresh. I would like to point out that service was fine; I felt bad for the waitress. She was obviously embarrassed at the management.

I just had what has been the worst breakfast of my life. I'm 64 and can't recall a worse restaurant breakfast. I have been to this restaurant numerous times over the years but not in the past 5 years. Things have sure changed. I ordered the pork chop and egg breakfast. The eggs were ordered over medium but came out with broken yolks and over hard. The hash browns were wonderfully saturated with grease all the way through. The pork chops were unrecognizable as pork chops and were tough, stringy, dry and totally tasteless. I brought them home but when I put them in my dog's dish she sniffed at them and refused to eat. I have always given restaurants the benefit of the doubt but this one was just too much. Never again. There are too many good restaurants in Springdale to ever go to the Pioneer Lodge Restaurant again. 10-30-16 The last few times I have passed this restaurant it has been closed. Hopefully, they will be able to reopen with a better kitchen and wait staff.

I could seriously lambaste this place. Really. I could. I mean, it's my job as a Yelper to warn people or to entice people into an establishment correct? So why do I feel bad? Probably because the service was nice. Probably because I had high hopes for this place that boasted a 4 star TripAdvisor sticker (by the way I think the sticker is for the adjoining hotel, NOT the restaurant). But, I'm going to put it out there anyway... First off we walked in and the place was empty. Warning bells already. I looked at the menu presented next to the hostess stand I wanted to immediately run away. But my husband lingered. I wasn't sure what to do as I checked out the Yelp reviews I began to get cold sweats OH NO! But here came the server to seat us. SIGH. I'm in it to win it now. Beginners, my husband and I both ordered the Top Sirloin, which came with a salad bar for an additional $2.99. BUT there was no salad bar, so the waitress said she would bring out our salads instead. OK. So, we sit there and then a guy server comes up and explains to us that Fridays and Saturdays they have a Prime Rib Special, which is the same prices as the top sirloin and much better. We opt for the Prime Rib, both of us order it Medium (as a prime rib should be anyway). Out come our salads. I'm not even going to talk about it. Just awful. Period. Out come our entrees. Do I really have to describe this plate? First off my baked potato came out wrapped in tinfoil, which I hate, because that means this tinfoil that was handled by someone in the kitchen is now on my plate touching the rest of my food. Secondly stuffed INSIDE my baked potato are two packets of butter. I cannot even begin to explain how GROSS that is. Butter packets are handled by servers with bare hands ALL THE TIME and you put it IN my potato? UGH. I took them out and scraped the first layer of potato out where the packets had been touching. Next, there was a variety of vegetables all chopped up haphazardly on the plate with a very, very odd mix of spices. Spices that did not go with the veggie medley. I get it, you're trying to zing up the vegetables, but honestly, just a nice side of broccoli would have been better. And the most disappointing, horrendous prime rib I have EVER been served in my entire life. The server said this prime rib was amazing. I don't think he has ever had a normal prime rib. It was the thinnest cut of prime rib I've ever seen, which is probably why the damn thing was WELL DONE. I kid you not. This prime rib was brown through and through. And what restaurant in their right mind puts out a brown/well done PRIME RIB? CRAZY TOWN HERE PEOPLE. At this point I just wanted to vamoose, so I ate what I could of my well done prime rib. I asked for some sour cream for my overly cooked, tainted baked potato. I had half a mind to ask for au jus because they didn't provide any AGAIN, CRAZY TOWN, who serves prime rib without au jus? We paid our bill and hurried out, never to return again. The only good part of this entire thing is, we had paid using money my parents had sent us for our anniversary present. So at least this horrible meal wasn't on me. The food is bad. The prices are WAY too high for what you're getting. Go somewhere else in Springdale, ANYWHERE else for food.