Thunderbird restaurant

We were returning from our stay at Mount Zion national park and in Utah state during our canyon road trip this January .

It was new year day .

It was really cold outside but our SUV was warm with eight of us huddling in it .

It was late afternoon and hunger was knawing our stomachs .

Googling showed a thunderbird restaurant famous for its home made pies .

It had prominent signboards marking it as a western outfit ,there was a restaurant and also a big souvenuir shop ,luckily it was open since it was new year day and we found many such closed .

We walked in to the cosy restaurant adorned by framed sepia photographs of yesteryears.



In 1931 the Zion national park entry tunnel wss being built .

An young couple Jack and Fern morrision built a small service station and as Fern made excellent home made pies used to refresh the workers coming to refuel .

When Jack died suddenly the young widow started a small restaurant known for its pies a rare happening by women those days .

During WW II the business grew as the place became a lumber area and later famed as a national park.

Today her grandchildren run the Thunderbird resort with a restaurant which served good fresh food very hospitable waiters and an overflowing souvenir center .

Unlike the place we had dinner in Zion national park itself which for an obnoxiously prized buffet served tepid potatoes limpid beef and pork and watery tira misu calling its potatoes heirloom with a service bordering on arrogance !!

All kinds everywhere 

Hats off to Thunderbird