13 Best Restaurants in Jackson Hole and Northwest Wyoming, Wyoming

This contemporary American steak house is located right on Jackson's historic town square and serves locally ranched beef, bison, and elk. Come for a fine-dining quality meal, but without the stuffy atmosphere. You may be sitting next to a member of the Jackson elite or a Wyoming rancher. Bring the family, and order the chef's choice "M&M," a rotating selection of custom steaks served family-style.

Nora's is one of those inimitable Western places that has earned their keep as a local treasure among its many loyal customers. It's also earned the approval of Guy Fieri, who featured this little log inn on his show Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives in 2014. It's a great spot to fill up on a breakfast of sourdough pancakes or huevos rancheros. Expect hearty entrees such as trout amandine, prime rib, chicken-fried tofu, and Cornish game hen. For more casual fare, hit up Nora's pizza shack that serves New York-style pies. 

The town's oldest saloon, known as the "Merc," serves refreshments in a room that has seen its share of gold miners, perhaps an outlaw or two, and certainly some ruffians. When you step through the doors of this 1893 building with tin ceilings, a massive back bar, and an assortment of mismatched oak tables and chairs, you may feel as though you've walked directly into an episode of Gunsmoke. At times, a honky-tonk piano player is on hand. The menu includes steak, chicken, and seafood, plus sandwiches and big burgers. Note: hours vary wildly, so call ahead. In winter, it's only open Fri.–Sun.

Since its opening in 1978, consistently excellent, distinctive fare has been the rule at this white-and-blue clapboard house two blocks from Town Square. The sophisticated offerings range from New Zealand rack of lamb to elk tenderloin with port wine sauce to fresh fish dishes, including rainbow trout. There's patio dining in summer and an excellent wine list. 

Lunch is served year-round and dinner is served in summer, but it's the breakfasts and home-baked pastries that are irresistible here. It's elbow to elbow inside, so you may have to wait to be seated on busy mornings, but any inconvenience is well worth it. In summer there's outdoor seating.

Among the homemade, blue-ribbon dishes served at this small restaurant in downtown Dubois are sandwiches, steaks, buffalo burgers, chicken, pork, baby back ribs, and fish. For dessert the peach caramel crunch and chocolate bourbon pecan pie are guaranteed winners. You can also grab a hearty breakfast and sip hot coffee alongside the cowboy clientele.

This crowded, noisy place serves your typical salads, sizeable sandwiches, ½-pound burgers on toasted brioche, and hand-tossed pizzas. When the weather cooperates, you can sit on the garden deck while the kids play in the yard.

Folks pour in off the ski slopes for a lot of food and talk at this two-level restaurant with a bar and an outdoor deck facing the mountain. If you can endure the noise, you'll enjoy dishes like elk empanadas, bison carpaccio, and fig bleu cheese flatbread. Reservations for dinner are recommended, and the saloon/bar is a popular nightspot often featuring live music. 

This trendy café is located in the historic 1918 Coolidge building and also has a small selection of beers, wines, and cocktails. With almost everything locally sourced, The Middle Fork sustainably serves up breakfast classics and lunch sandwiches (half-orders are an option for many dishes). 

Drop in for breakfast, lunch, or an early dinner at this mom-and-pop place that also has a saloon and a general store. Kitchen often closes early so as not to compete with the neighboring Mercantile. Hours vary, so call ahead to be sure, especially in the winter. 

What Spur lacks in mountain views it more than makes up for with its memorable entrées like flavorful Skuna Bay blackened salmon. That said, it’s not uncommon for diners to fill up on starters and cocktails (both are excellent) and not even make it to their main meal. Recently renovated and located on the first floor of Teton Mountain Lodge, Spur also serves breakfast. With its buffalo bratwurst, the carnivore omelet is a good choice, but you also can’t go wrong with the huckleberry buttermilk pancakes. A retractable glass wall opens onto a patio for the summer months. 

Although the crowd here skews older (think baby boomers, not millennials), this is a restaurant where you go for the food, not the vibe. It’s located inside the Wyoming Inn, so there’s no outdoor space, but it’s a cozy place to dine in the winter, and there’s a full-service bar. The food menu is short at only one page, but it’s still hard to decide between entrees like brown butter diver scallops, pumpkin pasta, and Rocky Mountain elk tenderloin. The restaurant closes early, at 9 pm, but it is open again at 7 am and offers some of the most reasonably priced breakfast entrées in Jackson. 

This microbrewery and grill serves award-winning grog and high-quality pub grub including chicken wings, burgers, salads, and wraps.