Name:Crystal Mountain Resort
Address:33914 Crystal Mountain Blvd, Enumclaw, WA 98022, USA
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Bullwheel

4/12/2014
Not one of the better.
The menu at The Bullwheel, a lodge at Crystal Mountain ski resort. Was up there with Garth and Dana on a perfect, sunny spring-skiing day. We had fun!
The view from our seat. Again, beautiful day.
Prime Rib Dip
The prime rib dip on the menu. $16. Came as described.
A picture of the meat. Doesn't look real appealing.
A jus picture. The light reflection makes it look like there's a goldfish floating in it in this picture (there wasn't). The jus overall is pretty oily. Good and herby (which is nice) but a little too oily, I think. 3.5 of 5 for this.
Another picture of the dip. The bread is quite white and hardly toasted. The skewers were orange-yellow in color. The bread was dense: a 3 of 5. Could have been more toasted.
The horseradish was quite good. Not authentic or anything but good tasting.
Not the most beautiful side profile. The meat was medium rare but looked more read. The bread is stark white.
The "money shot". Pretty good jus. Bread was okay. Meat wasn't good. Pretty bad prime rib in fact.
Bread
Dense. Very white. Not toasted enough.
Meat
Not good for prime rib. Provided too much gristle and did not provide consistency between well-done and medium rare, cut thickness, etc.
Jus
Flavor was a 4 or so but the greasiness / oiliness was a turn-off.
2.5
Good tasting jus, dense bread, meat lacking, overly greasy jus.
Overall this dip had good jus. The bread was only fair and not all that attractive. The meat needed A LOT of work. Garth ordered a dip as well and his meat was really bad and really gristly and overdone. Sure, we weren't at a steakhouse or anything like that but between an overly oily jus and bad meat, this sandwich was only a 2.5 of 5. For a prime rib dip it would score even lower. Not as bad as the one we had at The Game.
Side Salad
The salad that came with it. Good overall. About a 4 of 5. Good blue cheese dressing. Radish and julienned carrots for extra flair and steez.
Crystal is a great place to be and to ski/snowboard. It's nice to go into the lodge and hang. I wish this FD experience was better. But generally, I can't bag on a lodge at a mountain.