"Thick-cut and lean, the ham is a must eat here."
Cliff Strutz
"Dessert comes with your dinner, but since they all sounded so good, we paid extra to get all three. The peppermint ice cream and chocolate brownie pudding were very good, but we both preferred the butterscotch sundae with the homemade sauce."
Cliff Strutz
"I was so convinced the riced potatoes were simply rice, I asked our waitress why we didn't receive our mashed potatoes."
Cliff Strutz
"The hot, straight-from-the-oven biscuits were the perfect conduit for eating the cinnamony apple butter."
Cliff Strutz
"The okra casserole contains green beans, tomatoes, celery, okra, and rice. Plenty of black pepper gave it some heat. "
Cliff Strutz
"The cherry cider is served ultra-cold and grabbed our taste buds' attention immediately!"
Cliff Strutz
"With a thin, brittle crust and juicy meat, the fried chicken was clearly the best thing on the table."
Cliff Strutz
"The finely chopped cole slaw was both sweet and tart."
Cliff Strutz
"To start your meal, you get the choice of either consomme or cherry cider. The consomme tasted heavily of curry."
Cliff Strutz
"When I expressed interest in the process of making riced potatoes, our waitress Tricia brought out a tool, known as a ricer, for us to see."
Cliff Strutz
"Juniper Valley Ranch has multiple dining rooms; each is small and intimate."
Cliff Strutz
"It's not much to look at; inside, the tables are mismatched and the chairs wobble; but we guarantee a good country meal you won't soon forget. "
Michael Stern
"This drawing has been used on the front of the Juniper Valley Ranch menu for many years."
Michael Stern
"Behind the juniper and skunk brunch is the little red mud house in which you dine!"
Michael Stern
A low-slung adobe house on the old road to Canyon City, open only in the summer, only for dinner Wednesday through Saturday, as well as Sunday afternoon, and only if you have a reservation in advance (generally three to four days in advance), Juniper Valley Ranch serves some of the nicest food in the west. In a region where most culinary highlights are four-alarm hot or cowpoke-crude, here is a place to sit down with a serene meat-and-potatoes meal and a glass of iced tea. It is a familystyle retreat with antiques around the fireplace and a menu that lists the same two entrees every day.
