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EAT LIKE A LOCAL
The Yosemite table — what to order and where the locals point.
El Capitan and Half Dome above the Yosemite Valley floor
The Ahwahnee Dining Room
Thirty-four-foot ceilings, sugar-pine trestles and a dress code at dinner. Reserve when you book the room.
📍 Map · $$$$
Mountain Room Restaurant
Floor-to-ceiling windows onto Yosemite Falls at the Valley Lodge. The best in-park dinner without the formality.
📍 Map · $$$
Rush Creek Tavern
Outside the 120 gate, doing proper food and cold beer to people who have just come off a trail.
📍 Map · $$
Degnan's Kitchen
Sandwiches and pizza in Yosemite Village, and where you build tomorrow's trail lunch.
Erna's Elderberry House
An hour south in Oakhurst, a château owned by a legend of Californian cooking. Worth the drive out.