Page 106 - Flathead Living // Winter 2015

Food&Drink
TOP Blueberry pancakes are a staple at Echo Lake Café.
BOTTOM Sitting in a booth nestled inside the Echo Lake Café, Bob and Christi Young discuss how they came to own and renovate the popular eatery.
Echo Lake Café, located on Highway 83 about 10 minutes from Bigfork, has been named the best breakfast spot in the Flathead Valley most years of its existence, only missing a couple here and there. And its online reviews are almost universally glowing.
As of early November, Echo Lake Café had 164 reviews on TripAdvisor, including 116 ve-star ratings and only three one-star marks. The customer ser- vice law of averages, particularly online, assures a handful of negative reviews no matter what a restaurant does, some- times constructive but often inane.
Other sources of reviews, such as Facebook and Yelp, similarly re ect an eatery that is not only well-liked, but widely beloved. You don’t get that kind of love and loyalty by glossing over the details; you get it by being reliably good, seven days a week, each and every meal.
“Consistency is very important to us,” Christi says.
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Long before he got into restaurants,