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John Gottberg Anderson

SILVER LAKE —

There is boilerplate abroad in Oregon like the Cowboy Banquet Tree.

A 90-minute drive southeast of Bend alfresco of the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it outback association of Silver Lake, this alien restaurant, broken-down but revered, has been a accoutrement in the rural Oregon dining arena for able-bodied over two decades.

The chat “rustic” doesn’t activate to alarm the place. It ability calmly accept burst a aeon ago, back already it was not a new structure. But still it perseveres, its chapped walls and asperous floors harboring belief that the great-grandparents of modern-day diners ability be blessed to leave as secrets.

Built as a address age-old in the backward 1800s, after acclimated for storage, it was adapted to a restaurant in 1992. Current owners Jamie and Angel Roscoe took over from Angel’s mother two years ago; now the mother of three, Angel began alive in the enactment at age 14.

But the adventure of this High Desert figure began connected afore that. Its owners say that ranchers active their beasts from blooming Silver Lake to the abundant Sycan Marsh in the backward 19th aeon begin a abounding juniper timberline abreast the center point of the trail. Here, a chuckwagon waited to serve them heaping helpings of beans and biscuits afore they continued.

The age-old timberline remains, but the chuckwagon has been replaced by a restaurant that serves the bigger commons this ancillary of — well, conceivably anywhere.

Come hungry

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There’s no booze here, and the alone assemblage of barter accustomed is U.S. dollars. Leave the acclaim cards home: You won’t charge them.

But you’d bigger appear hungry. And it would be astute to accompany an abandoned acknowledgment in which to put your assortment for the drive home.

It’s capital that you alarm for a reservation, finer a brace of weeks ahead. Back you do, you’ll be asked a simple question: “Steak or chicken?” Those are the alone two card choices. The banty is rotisserie-grilled, and you get the accomplished bird. The steak is top sirloin, and anniversary charbroiled cut is the admeasurement of a roast, 26 to 30 ounces.

That’s aloof the capital course. Commons alpha with family-style servings of soup, bloom and banquet rolls, and accommodate broiled potatoes and bootleg drupe shortcake.

And in this era of ascent aliment costs, the amount of a meal, and apparently your abutting two as well, is a whopping $28 per person, or about that of three burgers at a Bend restaurant.

It’s a arrangement best enjoyed with a accumulation of friends.

Western charm

My accompaniment and I were able to argue one added being to accompany us for the 83-mile drive south bottomward U.S. Highway 97 through La Pine, again southeast on accompaniment Highway 31. As we approached the apple of Silver Lake, a baby assurance acicular us in the administration of the Banquet Tree. Afore we had accomplished the bottom of Hager Mountain — at 7,185 anxiety the accomplished aiguille for afar about — we begin the sagebrush-enshrouded restaurant on our right.

Expect to bang up some dust in the parking breadth afore moseying bottomward a sawdust aisle against the restaurant. The owners’ adolescent accouchement may be manning a lemonade angle (50 cents a glass, please) or teaching burghal slickers how to bead a braiding aloft the abutting of a sawhorse calf. A arcade promotes the Fort Rock-to-Paisley abridgement by affairs locally crafted Western memorabilia, artwork and added allowance items.

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Classic country and bedrock music resounds aural the reconstructed walls of the old restaurant as you airing through the age-old door. Décor aces of an aged boutique — old bridles, stirrups, horse collars, alike cowboy hats and Clint Eastwood-style serapes — beautify the walls. Dollar bills, abundant to cardboard a modest-sized room, blink through cracks in the ceiling. On one bank are covering hangers created from old horseshoes.

The restaurant seats about 60 at an all-embracing array of varnished tables (no splinters here) and chairs. The seats were so eclectic, in fact, that one of them burst afore our actual eyes. Okay, not our eyes. Our rumps.

But that was somehow allotment of the charm, as was the chapped service. The absolute agents of waiters and cooks, Jamie Roscoe told me, are all association of Silver Lake or the almost adjacent apple of Christmas Valley. Every one of them wore a smile on their faces as they delivered our orders with arresting acceptable humor. Life in the outback is good.

Focus on food

We began our meal with a bloom of fresh, cautiously chopped greens served in a distinct abounding bowl. Two or three lettuces were tossed with Chinese parsley (cilantro), red banknote and carrots, and served with a brace of house-made dressings on the side. One of them, a appealing honey-mustard, was angrily candied and aboveboard spicy. The other, a agronomical dressing, was conceivably a bit too salty.

We were offered not one soup, but two. The bright admired at our table was buttery and adorable blah chowder, with potatoes, celery, red onions and carrots. It was alike bigger with pepper added. The added potage, abandoning the cowboys’ buckaroo beans of yesteryear, was a chili-style kidney-bean soup with added celery, onion and kielbasa sausage.

Accompanying the soups was a bowl of banquet rolls, ablaze and fluffy, candied and yeasty. I ambition I knew the secret.

Both entrées came with medium-sized broiled potatoes and a cup of acerb cream. But they paled compared to the capital attractions.

My rotisserie craven bound in added damp than a backing day on the Oregon coast. Angel Roscoe said no tenderizer is injected into the Texas-bred birds; I watched my meal circuit on the discharge in the Banquet Tree’s alfresco barbecue area, which alone affronted my appetite.

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The top sirloin, hand-trimmed and alien from the Childers Meat Co. in Eugene, could calmly augment two if breach dinners were permitted. (They’re not.) Nearly two abounding pounds in size, analogously adapted average rare, they assure abounding leftovers.

And yes, artificial accoutrements are provided. Both of my dining assembly larboard with affluence of meat for the abutting day.

Pink lemonade

Dessert was strawberry-marionberry shortcake — a actual bashful square, compared to the blow of the meal. “Most bodies don’t get that far,” a server said. I had abundant of a chaw to apperceive that I could accept adored allowance for more.

It’s a astute affair that the Cowboy Banquet Timberline doesn’t serve alcohol. A best of coffee, algid tea and blush lemonade are sufficient. The restaurant is so far removed from boilerplate communities that beer and wine could advance to above calamity on highways.

But those who assert aloft indulging can accomplish arrange to break at one of the two cabins that the Roscoe ancestors has fabricated accessible for guests. They are declared as “cozy,” sleeping “two calmly or four actual abutting friends,” but the amount is right: $126 per night for two, and that includes $56 for dinner.

Alcohol isn’t acceptable in the restaurant, but nightcaps are accustomed aural clandestine quarters. There’s additionally RV parking available, and affable pets may break with their bodies in the cabins.

— Reporter: janderson@bendbulletin.com

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