American food in Whistler
Being an avid snowboarder, I go to Whistler about 3 times a year, and I always want to go to Araxi. But, being that it is one of the more expensive restaurants in Whistler, we tend to stay away. On the last snowboard trip though, I was able to convince some of my friends to join me. And it was an awesome meal.
Splitz Grill is another one of the places I have yet to try (I haven’t even tried the one in Vancouver). After a day of boarding, we got some hamburgers at Splitz to get our energy back. I ordered the lamb burger because our friend Andy said it’s his favourite. The rest of us ordered the Splitz Burger. Each of ours were different though because you can customize it in many different ways.
We had a few ideas on places to eat for our friend’s birthday but all of them were busy and would require either 30 mins to an hour wait. Hy’s Steakhouse wasn’t actually one of the options, because it is really pricey. But since it was on a friend’s bucket list, we went anyway. Hy’s was actually on the complete opposite side of the village from where we parked, and luckily when we got to the restaurant we were seated fairly quickly.
On our second day of boarding, we chose Milestones for lunch. It’s also in the Blackcomb Upper Village right across from Merlin’s. This space is huge, so it shouldn’t be too hard to get a table there even when busy. Our group, now 7, was easily accommodated.
After a morning of boarding, we decided to have lunch at Merlin’s Bar and Grill in the Upper Village at Blackcomb. We had 6 people in our party, so our waitress put 2 tables together and 6 chairs around it. It was really cramped, so we were about to add another table and a chair or two, but our waitress angrily yelled us saying I thought you only had 6. The place was pretty dead and we wanted extra space for our helmets, and gloves as there was no where else to put it except for the floor.
I visited The Keg Steakhouse with my friends after a day of snowboarding at Whistler. The Keg is located right in the Whistler Village. It is a pretty big restaurant, it had 4 floors with the bar at the ground level.
