Zephyr Lodge

The Zephyr Lodge has the 5 star view but the food is just ok & very overpriced, typical of most lodges in the area. In addition to the nice view, it’s a good place to warm up & defrost from the chilly slopes.
I had a cheeseburger for about $ 15 & my bf had a tuna melt for about $ 15. Gatorade & Red Bull drinks brought our total bill to about $ 42 for lunch. The food was just ok. The staff were nice though.

Like any other halfway house, the prices are outrageous! However, the food is good, the staff are efficient, and it’s nice and warm inside. A wonderful place to relax when you’re exhausted from the slopes!

Super overpriced and terrible quality for what it was. We got a mix of things for us and the kids — fries, chicken strips, macaroni and cheese — it was all so poor and so very expensive. The view is what makes this place worth it. But word of caution — don’t leave your poles out there in front of the restaurant — someone took off with my son’s snowshoe poles out there, which capped the whole experience off.

Overpriced ski resort food! This past weekend, I spent $ 12 on a bowl of chili and another $ 15 for a burger. I guess they can justify this since there are literally 2 places to eat on the mountain without going all the way down to the Big Springs Lodge at mid mountain. My friends and I stop here for lunch mostly because it’s a lot less crowded than the main Big Springs lodge and has more indoor seating than the Summit grill. There’s a ton of indoor seating and a little outdoor patio that overlooks the Drifter run.
As for the food itself, it’s actually pretty good once you get over the price. Burgers are meaty and juicy and they have a salad bar and a ton of condiments (grilled onions and mushrooms!) so you can dress up your $ 15 to be more like a $ 25 burger.
Pro-​tip: Hot chocolate is $ 5 and if you keep the paper Starbucks cup it comes in, you can get a free refill! The cup also works down at the Big Springs Lodge.
Season pass holders get 10% off food after 2pm, so that $ 6 gatorade is now $ 5.40
To get here, you can either ride up the Zephyr lift, or from the summit, take the West Ridge run and keep to the left where a traversal will drop you right in front of the lodge.

Man this place is expensive! But it’s understandable, it is a ski resort.
For a sandwich and fries you can easily spend over $ 20…
My girlfriend ordered for us. She got a philly cheese steak sandwich and some fries, came out to $ 20. I really wanted a beer but I couldn’t get myself to pay $ 10 for 1 beer.
They have these awesome shaped glasses for jäger bombs or any type of bomb. It’s got two separate sections so you can keep the alcohol separate in one cup until you drink it. While your drink it the two drinks mix, pretty cool! Should have grabbed a few for our house haha.
Overall not a bad place to get some food if you’re really hungry. I for sure was. I’d definitely go here again. Has a nice view outside also and a station to fix up your board if you want to adjust bindings or something.

a great place to relax at my favorite resort. friendly service. convenient location on the mountain. tons of comfortable seating, clean, modern facilities. expensive of course, but good menu selection. lots of big windows for natural light, but still warm.

Me and my buddy had a couple drinks at the Z bar while taking a break from a great snowboarding day. Our bartender justin from Alaska made the experience a great one. He seemed interested to conversate with us and we had a good time chatting with him about the cocktails, the mountain, and whatever. The drinks are way overpriced but what else would you expect from a bar at the top of North Star. Overall we had a lot of fun chilling at the z bar while we relaxed and took a break from snowboarding.

Worst managed restaurant period. Last four times I came here I waited between 15 to 25 minutes on average when there were only 4 people ahead of me. They need to manage the lines better. I have now been waiting for my soup and half brisket for the last 25 minutes!!!
This restaurant has the nicest architectural details, friendliest staff but is badly managed. Someone is waiting behind the pizza station while there is no demand. And one person is waiting behind the burger station where there are fifteen people waiting. When you ask help from the guy behind the pizza station for your burger, he says he can’t help.
ALso the food doesn’t taste good for the price. Asian station needs significant taste improvement.

I’ve been skiing at northstar all my life and finally got to try the new lodge! Looks wonderful from the outside and view is great.
It was packed on a Saturday but always room to sit and we had a big group. big pet peeve of mine if we can’t all sit together.
We sat outside and had a wonderful view of the mountain.
Food: very pricey, $ 50 for the two of us. That included two sandwhiches, chili fries, drink and snickers. Very pricey.
All ski lodges are pricey these days so I didn’t expect anything less. I was on vacation and didn’t care.
One thing that bothered me was they ran out of the pork belly sandwich. literally the the person standing in front of us had the last one. So upsetting! If they make so much money they should have enough, especially on weekends.
The asian pulled pork was not that good but chili fries were delicious.
Check it out and prepare to spend some $$ but it’s worth to go at least once.

This place doesn’t get five stars solely because it was $ 70 for four of us to get a small lunch. My grilled cheese sandwich with brisket and onion jam was one of the best sandwiches I’ve ever had, and was worth the $ 14. The fries? Not so great, especially for $ 7. The view is spectacular and it was a lot of fun to hang out mid-​mountain and grab some lunch before we went tubing. They had a sandwich/​grill section, an asian section, and a pizza section. They also had lots of quick snacks, like grab-​n-​go drinks and chips/​cookies/​granola bars. Plenty of places to sit, too.

It’s ski resort food, so yea a bit pricey, but it’s good food. I love the salad bar, and I piled my bowl to get my money’s worth =P Also had the tomato soup with corn bread and that was really really good!

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Zephyr Lodge, a 700 seats on-​mountain-​restaurant, self-​service, 200 outdoor seats and 500 indoor seats. They offer a Napa salad bar, gourmet pizza and specialty soups, sandwiches, and Asian cuisine food bar.
Zephyr lodge got high ceiling, beautiful open space, plenty windows which get so much sun light and view. Comfortable wooden chairs and tables, large timbers, fireplace, casual with a high end flare to it.
— Soup selection: clam chowder, vegetables soup, tomato bisque, veggies chili, beef chili, Miso vegetable soup. The tomato bisque was delicious, perfect for the cold weather.
— The salad bar was decent with variety of choices: arugula, spinach, artichoke, radish, nuts, cucumber, cherry tomato, olive, and much more. I love it.
— Grilled cheese pulled pork sandwich was equally good.
— The Wagyu burger with grilled onion, my broski loved it.
— The Wagyu hot dog, yup, my friend love it, served with sauerkraut.
Zephyr Lodge offers a breath taking view of the mountains and of the Pacific Crest. It’s such a perfect place to rest between your runs. The service is excellent here, even tissue, feminine care, freshly bouquets in the lady room!
The restaurant can be accessed by skiing or riding off of the Tahoe Zephyr Express, Backside Express, Promised Land Express or Comstock Express lifts.

This lodge is beautiful and has some of the best views out of any of the lodges. Northstar really did pick a fantastic spot to place this lodge. The food is all cafeteria style so you walk in to the food area and tell the people behind the counter what you want. There were practically no lines and I got my food really fast. I and my friend ordered the onion rings and the chili to share. I think the onion rings were $ 6.95 and the chili was $ 7.95 but I lost the receipt somewhere in all my snow gear (oops!). The onion rings came with garlic mayo and the chili had an option to add cilantro, onion, and cheese.
The onion rings were delicious and the garlic mayo was the perfect compliment. The rings were beer battered (which is the only way it should be done in my opinion) and there was plenty of mayo; in fact I almost questioned why they gave me so much! The chili was good and the corm muffin was the perfect topping for the chili.
Overall I thought the food was good, the details like the garlic mayo and the toppings on the chili (along with the delicious corn muffin) really made it enjoyable. Also, the quick service and the relative lack of crowds made it nice too; I was able to walk right into the bar and grab a table AND a drink with no wait whatsoever! If you get a chance to get here before the season ends I would highly recommend it! Try to get up there before Northstar’s best kept secret gets crowded like the rest of the lodges!
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2012 new lodge and it’s A-​OK. The service is quick and everyone is happy and smiling, there’s lots of space in the lodge and rows and rows of tables to accommodate the huge crowds. my 3 star is due to the food. It is kinda MEH. I don’t know how the chefs can look so professional and yet produce not so great food. all show, no go?
the grilled chicken sandwich was DRY and tasteless, the onion rings were undercooked and not crunchy. the chili was good but the corn bread crumbled to bits because it was SUPER overbaked.
i do like how they have complimentary sides of grilled onions, bell peppers and sauerkraut so that’s a bonus!
i also like how large the bathrooms are.
again, the service is excellent but the food is MEH. let’s pick up the quality of food preparation and id be like the 2 reviewers below and give it a 5 star.

What a killer ski lodge. Huge windows overlooking the Sierra crest had the brisket grilled cheese and a beer. Perfect break spot.

Finally, a lodge that actually fits people! Before the Zephyr Lodge opened, eating was quite the task. Northstar is just gets way to busy and they can’t comfortably accommodate everyone. If you’ve ever been to the Tamarack Lodge at Heavenly, this is almost a mirror of that, but… this one comes with an ahhhh-​mazing view! There is lots of outdoor seating, and if the weather permits, sit outside! It’s beautiful. They offer a variety of stuff to eat — pizzas, hamburgers, finger foods, salads… they even have an Asian corner! Definitely nice to switch things up after eating lots of fried food. They offer noodles, rice plates and soups. Very happy there is a spacious and breathtaking spot to relax and eat at Northstar now.