Where to Eat Near Mt. Baker: Every Restaurant, Bakery, and Grocery on the Highway

Glacier has the restaurants, Maple Falls has the groceries and the last gas, and Deming has the brewery and the one proper sit-down dinner. That’s the whole map. Within about 25 minutes of either town you’ll find a from-scratch bakery, a Tex-Mex smokehouse, two pizza ovens, two coffee stops, and one genuinely useful grocery store. Above Glacier there is nothing — and from September 14 that includes the ski area. Everything below was re-checked on September 8, 2026.

We host two cabins on this stretch — the Black Cedar, our A-frame near Glacier, and the Little Red Cabin in Maple Falls — and this is the rundown we send guests before check-in. Businesses up here change fast, and half of what the internet says about them is stale. Where we couldn’t verify something, we say so.

Where should you eat in Glacier?

Glacier has three places to eat: Wake ’N Bakery for espresso, scones, and breakfast burritos; Gunners Tex Mex BBQ for smoked brisket, tacos, and blackberry margaritas; and Chair 9 Woodstone Pizza for wood-fired pies with a bar that stays open late. Graham’s Restaurant, the town’s historic landmark, closed in March 2025 and has not reopened.

Wake ‘N Bakery

Wake ’N Bakery has been Glacier’s morning ritual since 2003, and it’s the first stop we recommend to every guest. Everything is made in house, every day: scones (regulars have earned the nickname Sconers), muffins, cookies, breakfast burritos, ham-and-cheese puffs, and oatmeal, alongside locally roasted small-batch espresso. The breakfast burrito is the move — order one on a ski morning and you’re set until lunch.

Wake ’N Bakery on Bourne Street, a block off the highway in Glacier. Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Edited.

Hours are the catch, and right now they are the catch in a very specific way. In peak summer and winter the bakery runs seven days, 7 a.m.–2 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 7 a.m.–5 p.m. Friday through Sunday. We are in the fall shoulder now, and their hours page publishes a shorter shoulder schedule: Monday, Thursday and Friday 8 a.m.–12 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.–2 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday are not listed at all.

Read that page carefully, though, because it contradicts itself: a second block on the same page, still headed “Fall 2025,” says open daily 8 a.m.–2 p.m., and the site footer still reads 2025. One of those two is last year’s notice left up. So treat the shorter schedule as the safe assumption, don’t build a Tuesday or Wednesday morning around a bakery stop, and do what the bakery itself tells you to do — it says plainly that hours “are subject to change based on highway closures, power outages, extreme weather, and other unforeseen circumstances” and points at its Instagram for seasonal updates. It’s on Bourne Street in Glacier; (360) 599-1658. Full rundown on our Wake ’N Bakery page.

Gunners Tex Mex BBQ

Gunners opened in July 2023 and quickly became the dinner answer in Glacier. It’s Tex-Mex barbecue: smoked brisket, pulled pork, ribs, brisket and chicken tacos, carnitas, elote, mac and cheese, and burgers, with blackberry margaritas to wash it down. Don’t skip dessert. One recent reviewer ranked the peach pie, cheesecake, and tiramisu among the best they’d ever had.

Their hours page is finally working, and it settles a question this guide had been hedging on for a year: closed Monday and Tuesday, open Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 8 p.m., re-confirmed on their own site September 8, 2026. Third-party listings still disagree with that and with each other, so trust the restaurant over the directory, and call (360) 599-0783 if a listing tells you otherwise. Online ordering and catering run through the website. More on our Gunners page.

Chair 9 Woodstone Pizza

Chair 9 is the après stop — a pizza-and-sports-bar hangout about half a mile up-highway from the town core, on the way down from the mountain. Pizzas from the woodstone oven are the draw, backed by soups, sandwiches, and burgers. As of September 8, 2026 their hours page still lists a full seven-day week: the kitchen runs from noon, to 8 p.m. most nights and 9 p.m. Friday–Saturday, and the bar keeps going after — 11 p.m. midweek, as late as 2 a.m. on weekends at the bartender’s discretion. That seven-day schedule makes this the Monday and Tuesday dinner answer in Glacier, since Gunners is dark both days. (360) 599-2511. More on our Chair 9 page.

Is there anywhere to eat at the Mt. Baker Ski Area?

Only in season, and the summer season ends this week. The Heather Meadows Cafe at the day lodge runs Friday through Monday, 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and the mountain has posted the date in plain text: “CLOSING DAY for the 2026 Summer Season: Sunday September 13.” After that there is no food anywhere above Glacier.

This is the part people get wrong every autumn. The Artist Point road usually stays open until the first substantial snow in late September or October, so for most of the fall-color window you can still drive to the top of the highway — and there will be nothing up there to eat, no espresso, and no counter to buy a snack from. The Summer Mountain Shop on the lodge’s first floor closes with the cafe. The last real food on the way up is 23 miles below, in Glacier. Pack lunch.

One more wrinkle worth knowing if you were planning a farewell lunch up top: the cafe’s final day, Sunday, September 13, 2026, is also the morning of the Mt. Baker Hill Climb, which closes SR 542 above Canyon Creek Road until noon. The cafe opens at 11. You physically cannot get there before it closes for the year unless you go up in the afternoon. Our Artist Point guide has the full closure timing.

What about Maple Falls and Kendall?

Joe’s Fine Coffee is Maple Falls’ sit-down cafe, serving breakfast sandwiches, burritos, and deli lunches from about 7 a.m. — though the shop declines to publish a fixed weekly schedule. A few minutes down-highway at the Kendall junction, Feast 542 runs a counter-service deli inside Paradise Market, and Hot Stuff Pizza bakes inexpensive takeout pies inside the Kendall Market gas station.

Joe’s Fine Coffee

Joe’s is a proper small cafe at the Maple Falls corner of the highway, not a drive-through stand: limited indoor seating, a well-liked patio, and a counter doing espresso, drip coffee, tea, and hot chocolate alongside breakfast burritos, deli sandwiches, and house baked goods. The order is a breakfast sandwich on their homemade English muffin — the most consistently praised item across roughly 360 reviews averaging 4.6 stars.

Hours are the honest weak spot, and the shop says so itself. Its own hours page carries no schedule at all — just the line “Our hours can change from week to week. For the most accurate, up-to-date hours, check our Google Business page.” Third-party listings show seven days, roughly 7 a.m.–3 p.m. on weekdays and 7 a.m.–5 p.m. on weekends, but since the business is telling you not to trust a printed number, we won’t print one as gospel either. (This supersedes what this guide said in August, which was that Joe’s is closed Sundays — that came from a listing, not from Joe’s.) Call (360) 389-3276 if the trip depends on it. More on our Joe’s Fine Coffee page.

Feast 542

Feast 542 is the newest name on this list — a counter-service deli that opened around 2025 inside Paradise Market, the long-running gas-and-convenience stop at 6476 Mt. Baker Highway, at the Kendall Road junction. The menu covers breakfast, burgers, burritos and bowls, paninis, grilled cheese, and Italian subs, and the food is tasty, hot, and reasonably priced. Regulars buy extra breakfast burritos to freeze, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Two flags from us, both re-checked today. No primary source publishes its hours: listings mostly show about 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, but they don’t agree, and the deli’s online-ordering page was not accepting orders when we looked this morning. And the business is genuinely for sale — the commercial listing went up on May 15, 2026, is still marked Available at $60,000, and describes the deli as operating. It’s open and running now, but menus, hours, and even the name can change with an ownership handoff, so confirm before you build dinner around it.

Hot Stuff Pizza

Hot Stuff Pizza is a takeout counter inside the Starvin’ Sam’s convenience store — the Kendall Market Mobil station — about a mile up Kendall Road from the highway. This is cheap, cheerful franchise pizza, mostly under $10 a person, and locals rate it well for exactly what it is. The host store keeps the longest hours in the area, 5 a.m.–10 p.m. and until 11 p.m. Friday–Saturday, but the pizza counter’s own hours aren’t published anywhere reliable, and the oven can close before the store does. Call (360) 599-1229 before making it the dinner plan.

Is there a brewery on the Mt. Baker Highway?

Yes. North Fork Brewery, at 6186 Mt. Baker Highway in Deming, has brewed its own beer since 1997 and pairs it with hand-tossed pizza. As of September 8, 2026 it’s open daily noon–9 p.m., with happy hour Monday–Thursday noon–5 p.m. and all day Friday — the classic stop on the drive to or from the mountain.

North Fork Brewery

North Fork calls itself a brewery, pizzeria, beer shrine, and wedding chapel, and every word is literal. The wall of vintage beer bottles in the dining room is the shrine, and the chapel part means they genuinely perform marriage ceremonies — though, contrary to how it often gets described, the building is a rustic roadhouse that contains a chapel, not a converted church. The beer is small-batch in the truest sense: British-style ales, barrel-aged Belgian sours, and lagers brewed on a 3.5-barrel system. Cascadia Weekly voted it Best Stop on Highway 542 in 2019.

Don’t follow a map result to their Barrel House on Grant Street in Bellingham. That’s a production facility, closed to the public. The roadhouse on the highway is the one you want; (360) 599-2337, current hours here. More on our North Fork Brewery page.

The sign on Mt. Baker Highway. It is not exaggerating about the chapel. Photo: brewbooks, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr. Edited.

Rifugio’s Country Italian Cuisine

Deming’s other stop isn’t a brewery, and until now this guide left it out. Rifugio’s sits at 5415 Mt. Baker Highway, about a mile down-valley from North Fork, and it is the only place on this road doing a proper sit-down dinner — a weekly rotating menu built on seasonal and foraged ingredients, reservations encouraged, closer to an occasion than a burger stop.

The catch is the schedule, and it’s a tight one: their own site lists Monday through Thursday closed, Friday and Saturday 4–9 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.–4 p.m. as of September 8, 2026. That is three service windows a week, so this is a plan-ahead dinner, not a drive-by. (360) 592-2888. Because the menu genuinely rotates weekly, don’t drive out for a specific dish you read about somewhere — call and ask what’s on.

Where do you buy groceries (and gas) near Mt. Baker?

Crossroads Grocery in Maple Falls is the real grocery on this stretch: produce, meat and fish, dairy, beer and wine, bulk foods, plus ice and firewood. Graham’s Store in Glacier is a small convenience stop with an unverified schedule. The last gas before the mountain is at the Maple Falls crossroads — there is none in Glacier.

Crossroads Grocery

Crossroads sits at the corner of Mt. Baker Highway and Silver Lake Road, and it’s the store we point every guest to. For its size it’s surprisingly complete: grocery staples, produce, meat and fish, dairy, a beer cave plus wine, bulk natural and organic foods, gluten-free options, health and beauty, household goods, and hardware. It stocks ice and dry firewood, which matters when a fire pit is waiting. Open daily from 7 a.m.; (360) 599-9657. More on our Crossroads Grocery page.

Two corrections to what this guide said in August. The store’s website is no longer throwing a certificate error — crossroadsgrocery.com loads fine over HTTPS today — but there is still nothing on it: the whole page reads “COMING SOON.” Facebook remains the only working web presence. And we can confirm the 7 a.m. open across every source we checked, but not the closing time: aggregators split between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., and some list a shorter Thursday. If you’re making a late run for firewood, call first.

The Maple Falls crossroads — grocery on one corner, last fuel on the other. Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Edited.

Our provisioning advice is boring and correct: do the big shop before you leave the city, then lean on Crossroads for everything you forgot. It’s a very good small store, not a supermarket.

Graham’s Store

This one needs an honest asterisk. Graham’s is the historic general store at the center of Glacier — the building dates to roughly 1904 — and it has long sold espresso, made-to-order bagels, berry smoothies, basic groceries, ice, firewood, beer, and wine. But the famous Graham’s Restaurant next door closed on March 24, 2025 and remains closed, a status Cascadia Daily News confirmed in mid-2025, with no reopening announced. A new data point as of today: the restaurant’s old domain, grahamsglacier.com, no longer serves a website at all — it now redirects to a registrar parking page. Domains get parked when nobody is renewing a site, which is not proof of anything on its own, but it is one more signal pointing the same direction as the Yelp listing that has carried a CLOSED banner for over a year.

The store side appears to have kept operating — listings and local guides still describe it, and aggregators show 8 a.m.–8 p.m. daily — but we still could not confirm current hours from a primary source, and its Facebook page is login-walled. Treat it as a pleasant surprise if the door’s open, not a plan. Call (360) 599-2665 if it matters, and don’t plan any meal around the restaurant.

Kendall Market

Two different things share this name, and people mix them up constantly. The first is Kendall Market the Mobil station at 7519 Kendall Road — the Starvin’ Sam’s convenience store with fuel including diesel, packaged groceries, snacks, hot food, and Hot Stuff Pizza inside, open 5 a.m.–10 p.m. daily and until 11 p.m. Friday–Saturday. The second is Kendall Market the farmers market, Twin Sisters Farmers Market’s Saturday co-op at the North Fork Library essentially across the road, with local produce, eggs, pasture-raised meats, and flowers, Saturdays 9 a.m.–3 p.m. If a local says “the market,” ask which one.

If you’re reading this in the fall, the market has a clock on it. Twin Sisters publishes its 2026 run as “June 5 – October 25,” so the last Saturday inside that window at Kendall is October 24, 2026. After that the nearest farmers market is down in Bellingham until next June.

And the gas verdict. We keep re-verifying this because a map pin keeps circulating that shows a 76 station near Glacier. It does not exist — the address behind the pin is a private house in a gated community, and 76’s own locator lists no station in Glacier, Washington. The last fuel heading up the mountain is the Maple Fuels station at the Maple Falls crossroads, directly across the street from Crossroads Grocery, with gasoline, diesel, and propane; the Kendall Mobil is a good backup a few minutes down-highway, and it opens at 5 a.m., earlier than anything else on the road. From Maple Falls it’s about 25 miles to the lifts and 25 back with no pumps in between, so top off on the way through. The full corridor rundown — fuel math, ATMs, cell service, wifi — is in our no-gas-in-Glacier services guide, and our mile-by-mile highway guide shows where each of these stops sits on the road.

How far is everything from Glacier and Maple Falls?

Almost everything on this list is within about 25 minutes of both towns, and it all sits below Glacier. Glacier’s three restaurants are in town or two minutes from it; Maple Falls’ food and fuel are 15 minutes down-highway. From Maple Falls, the Kendall stops are about five minutes away and the two Deming stops twelve to fifteen. The only food above Glacier is the ski-area cafe, 45 minutes up, and only until September 13. Winter driving adds time to all of it.

Stop	Where it is	From Glacier	From Maple Falls
Wake ’N Bakery — coffee & baked goods	Glacier	In town	~15 min
Gunners Tex Mex BBQ — barbecue	Glacier	In town	~15 min
Chair 9 Woodstone Pizza — pizza & sports bar	Glacier	~2 min	~15 min
Graham’s Store — convenience (call ahead)	Glacier	In town	~15 min
Heather Meadows Cafe — ski area, closes Sept 13	Mt. Baker Ski Area	~45 min	~1 hr
Joe’s Fine Coffee — cafe	Maple Falls	~15 min	In town
Crossroads Grocery — grocery	Maple Falls	~15 min	In town
Maple Fuels — last gas, diesel & propane	Maple Falls	~15 min	In town
Feast 542 — counter-service deli	Kendall	~18 min	~5 min
Hot Stuff Pizza — takeout pizza	Kendall	~20 min	~6 min
Kendall Market (Mobil) — gas & convenience	Kendall	~20 min	~6 min
North Fork Brewery — brewery & pizzeria	Deming	~25 min	~12 min
Rifugio’s — sit-down Italian, Fri/Sat/Sun only	Deming	~28 min	~15 min

Times are dry-road estimates from the town centers. On a storm day, chain-ups and slow traffic stretch everything — check current road conditions before you commit to a dinner drive.

The short version, by day of the week

Two closures do most of the damage to dinner plans up here: Gunners is dark Monday and Tuesday, and Rifugio’s is dark Monday through Thursday. Below is only what the businesses themselves publish — the four places on this highway with a schedule on their own website.

If you’re here on a…	Glacier dinner	Deming dinner
Monday or Tuesday	Chair 9, kitchen to 8 p.m.	North Fork Brewery, to 9 p.m.
Wednesday or Thursday	Chair 9, Gunners to 8 p.m.	North Fork Brewery, to 9 p.m.
Friday or Saturday	Chair 9 to 9 p.m., Gunners to 8 p.m.	North Fork Brewery; Rifugio’s 4–9 p.m.
Sunday	Chair 9, Gunners to 8 p.m.	North Fork Brewery; Rifugio’s 11 a.m.–4 p.m.

Two stops are deliberately missing from that table. Wake ’N Bakery is a morning place, not a dinner one, and in the fall shoulder its own published schedule skips Tuesday and Wednesday. Feast 542 and Hot Stuff Pizza are very probably open on all of those days — every listing says so — but neither publishes hours anywhere we can verify, so we won’t put them in a table people plan around.

How does this play out from a cabin?

From the Black Cedar, our black A-frame near Glacier, you’re 10 minutes from Wake ’N Bakery in the morning and from Gunners or Chair 9 at dinner. From the Little Red Cabin in Maple Falls, Crossroads and Joe’s are minutes away, the last gas is at your crossroads, and Glacier’s restaurants are 15 minutes up the road.

Either way, the move is the same: fill the tank and the cooler at the Maple Falls crossroads on the way in, call Gunners before you count on brisket after a day of hiking, and save North Fork Brewery for the drive home at the end of the trip — it’s directly on the way out of the valley. If you want the one nice dinner, book Rifugio’s on the way in, because Friday, Saturday and Sunday are the only chances you get. (Coffee at the Black Cedar is already handled; the espresso bar is stocked and free.)

And from September 14 on, add one line to the packing list: lunch. Anyone driving up to Artist Point or into the fall color after that date is going 23 miles past the last open kitchen. Both cabins have a full kitchen for exactly this — make the sandwiches the night before. Still deciding which town to sleep in? Our where-to-stay breakdown walks through that tradeoff. And beyond food, Mt. Baker Places is our running list of every local spot worth knowing on this highway — parks, gear shops, waterfalls, and the rest.

Top photo: downtown Glacier, by ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Edited.