THE RESTAURANT AT CONVICT LAKE, Mammoth Lakes – Restaurant Reviews, Photos & Reservations – Tripadvisor

We were here a couple of years ago with dear friends who had lost a child and it was during Covid. Our server was an amazing lady and we viewed that visit as one of the highlights of the trip. So, of course we HAD…to relive our amazing memory. Think record needle scratching on a record. We realize that the server is the FACE of the restaurant. She was SO welcoming. We arrived a few days ago for our highly anticipated meal looking forward to excellence. Two of us are big people and were seated at a booth meant for child sized humans. We had to ask for a table and we were seated in another room at a table.

The server “taking care” of us was plain in a bad mood or arrogant. We maybe didn’t order as much as he wanted but with the tip it still came to over $200 and yes we still gave a 20% tip. At first we were embarrassed by his attitude towards us and thought maybe it was because our friends were black and I could tell they felt very uncomfortable. This was a young man maybe 30- 40 years old and maybe he just hates his job because was also condescending to the couple at the table next to us.

We ordered a lot of the same things we ordered before but it didn’t taste as good because he put a bad taste in our mouths. He even said to me…me who has traveled all over the world and lived in Europe many years….but NOW I an 70 and felt the need to tell me which fork I should use for my salad and he took away the other one. It was very very weird.

Mid meal his other personality came out and he was nice and jovial with us and the other tables. He did give us the wrong bill that was much higher and had to switch the bills. The last time we were there with the wonderful server we were mourning the loss of one of their children and they have since lost another child and we were there to relive our wonderful memory from the year before. We left embarrassed that we put them thru this meal. We went to another really nice restaurant the next night where the server was SO WARM. We had just gotten the news the day before my sister in law had a massive heart attack and was on life support. We had gone to “The Restaurant” to celebrate my sister in law’s life who was not likely to make it.

Whoever this server was ruined out meal and made this day even darker. At the other restaurant the server was so WELCOMING we ordered appetizers and the most expensive food and wines and desserts for all to celebrate being alive and to LIVE for my sister in law who couldn’t. We go to Mammoth every year for 30 years now. We will NEVER return to this restaurant again. NOTHING tasted good after the way we were treated.