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(
snacks $6; 6:30am-10pm
) For quick eats visit the Bake Shop in the lobby of the Old
Faithful Lodge. It offers fried chicken, chili, pretzels and cinnamon rolls, and there's an
ice-cream stand.
Bear Paw Deli $
Offline map
(
snacks $7; 10:30am-7:30pm
) Just off the lobby of the Old Faithful Inn, the Bear Paw
sells unappetizing prewrapped sandwiches, plus salads and ice cream. Look for the origin-
al etched cartoon murals on the wall, which date from 1936, when this room housed the
hotel bar.
DELI
Yellowstone General Stores $
(
www.visityellowstonepark.com
;
mains $8; 7:30am-8:30pm
) The two general stores
serve up snacks. The original knotted-pine Hamilton's Store near Old Faithful has a '50s-
style diner counter, complete with original fountain stools, that serves up burgers, malts
and sandwiches. The modern store near the Snow Lodge offers individual pizzas, paninis,
salads, breakfast biscuits and prepackaged sandwiches in a cafeteria-style setting.
Old Faithful Snow Lodge, where the cozy fireside seats get snapped up quickly in winter.
Old Faithful
espresso cart
(
FAST FOOD
6:30am-10pm)
serves the best coffee in the park.
Lake Country
AMERICAN
Lake Yellowstone Hotel Dining Room $$$
(
307-344-7311; breakfast buffet $14, mains $13-33; 6:30-10am, 11:30am-2:30pm
& 5pm-10pm late May-late Sep
) Save your one unwrinkled outfit to dine in style at the
dining room of the Lake Yellowstone Hotel. Lunch options include Idaho trout, a fig and
proscuitto salad and sandwiches. Dinner ups the ante with starters of steamed clams and
mains of bison tenderloin and rack of lamb from Paradise Valley's Wolf Ridge estate. Al-
ternatively, horrify the vegan wildlife-lovers in your family by ordering the bison, ante-
lope and elk sliders. Dinner reservations are recommended. The hotel's
deli
(sandwiches
