Rainier Bar and Grill Enumclaw menu: 10 dishes with prices

Rainier Bar & Grill, also written Rainier Bar and Grill, is a family-owned bar and restaurant, by its own description, at 1623 Cole Street in downtown Enumclaw, open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day as of October 2026, with separate lunch and dinner menus of burgers, sandwiches, seafood and steaks. Its menu calls two things famous: the clam chowder and the hand-dipped onion rings. Prices run from $3.75 for an oyster shooter, one local oyster with cocktail sauce and horseradish, to $43.95 for a one-pound rib steak, with burgers and sandwiches between $17.25 and $23.99. Prices are as listed on the restaurant's online menu on October 6, 2026, and change.

What stands behind the bartender is older than the city, if the restaurant has its dates right. Its history page says the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company of Chicago built the back bar, the shelving behind the counter, in 1897, 16 years before Enumclaw incorporated, and that it is said to have come around Cape Horn to Alaska before reaching Enumclaw in the 1930s. The maker, at least, is on record: a Seattle bar-history blog posted a photograph of the Brunswick label on it in 2014. The brick building around it, listed as the Kochevar Building on the city's 2013 centennial walking tour, reopened as The Rainier in 1917, by the restaurant's account, a year after Washington went dry. In a 2013 Courier-Herald column, Wally Duchateau wrote that the old Rainier Tavern "was a speakeasy in the 1920s, a card room in the 1930s and '40s and a favorite watering hole for loggers in the 1950s."

Jeff and Debbie Schweter took over in 2005, by both the restaurant's account and Duchateau's, and turned an old tavern into a family bar and grill; the history page says the regulars had to give up throwing peanuts on the floor. The Courier-Herald named Jeff Schweter as the owner in December 2020. The Cole Street dining guide gives the place one paragraph, and the Mint's menu across the street gets its own list.

1. The clam chowder

The menu lists it as Chowder and describes it as "Our famous clam chowder," with toasted garlic bread on the side: $9 for a cup, $10.95 for a bowl. It sits on the lunch menu next to a soup of the day at $7.50 and $9. The dinner menu does not list it as a dish, but it shows up there as a side: a cup can replace the fries with any burger.

2. Steamer clams

Steamers are clams cooked in their shells in steam. The appetizer, $20.99 on either menu, is more than a pound of local clams with melted butter and garlic bread. At dinner, Fresh Steamer Clams doubles the order to more than two pounds, spiced, with melted butter and the entree sides, for $36.99. The curry on this menu goes on the mussels, not the clams.

3. Coconut curry mussels

Coconut Curry Mussels are $19.50 on either menu: Penn Cove mussels cooked in a pan with Thai curry sauce, then steamed in coconut milk. Penn Cove is on Whidbey Island, where the Jefferds family set its first mussel rafts in the water in 1975, and Penn Cove Shellfish still harvests from the Coupeville waterfront and calls itself the oldest mussel farm in North America.

4. Fish and chips

An order is three pieces of white fish, dipped by hand in the house beer batter and fried, with fries, coleslaw and a tartar sauce the menu calls homemade: $22.99 at lunch or dinner. Salmon and Chips, three pieces of salmon in the beer batter, is $24.50, and Coconut Prawns and Chips, eight prawns with sweet chili sauce alongside the tartar, is $20.50.

5. The onion rings

The menu's other claim is "our famous hand-dipped onion rings." A basket of the thick-cut, beer-battered rings with ranch dressing is $10.50. Every wrap, rolled in an oversized tomato basil tortilla, comes with two on the side, and two more are stacked on the Western Bacon Burger.

6. The western bacon burger

Each beef burger is a half pound made by hand, the menu says, and every burger comes with garlic pepper mayo, lettuce, tomato and onion and a side: fries, salad, a cup of soup or chowder, or, at dinner, tater tots. Sweet potato fries are $2.99 more. The plain Burger is $18.50, and cheese adds 99 cents. The Western Bacon Burger gets smoked bacon, cheddar, barbecue sauce and those two onion rings for $21.95 at lunch and $23.99 at dinner, the only burger priced higher on the dinner menu. There is no Kobe burger on the current menu; chicken, black bean and garden burgers fill out the nine.

7. The Rainier

The house namesake is a lunch sandwich, $21, and is not on the dinner menu. The menu's description begins "As big as the mountain," and the sandwich stacks turkey and bacon with three cheeses, cheddar, Swiss and pepper Jack, plus lettuce and tomato on toasted sourdough. It comes with fries, soup or salad.

8. The Duke

Roast beef and bacon with pepper Jack and creamy horseradish, on a French roll that comes toasted, with au jus, the meat's own juices, for dipping: $21.50 on either menu. The Baron, also $21.50, trades the horseradish and pepper Jack for bleu cheese and cheddar. For roast beef alone, the French Dip is $19.50, and its menu line says the beef is roasted in house and sliced thin.

9. The Rainier rib steak

The Rainier Rib Steak, at $43.95 the highest price on the menu, is a boneless rib steak weighing a full pound, which the menu calls "the king of the road." It is one of six dinner entrees, each served with salad, soup or chowder, seasonal vegetables and a choice of side. The menu says its steaks are cut in house and graded Choice or better; Choice is the U.S. Department of Agriculture grade one step below Prime, with less marbling, the fat threaded through the lean. The 8-ounce Rainier Top Sirloin is $36.99 at dinner, and an 8-ounce top sirloin with one side is $24 at lunch. There is no prime rib on the current menu.

10. The triple chocolate brownie

Every dessert on the menu arrives on a sizzling platter, and the Triple Chocolate Brownie's carries caramel and chocolate sauce, with vanilla ice cream on top: $9, or $12.95 for the large. The Bread Pudding sizzles in caramel sauce, and the Seasonal Cobbler comes on the hot platter with vanilla ice cream, each $9.95, or $13.95 large. All three are on the dinner menu; the lunch menu lists no desserts.

What are Rainier Bar & Grill's hours?

It is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Sunday, according to the restaurant's website in October 2026. Visit Rainier's page still says 11 p.m. Check the restaurant's own page or call (360) 825-6363.

Can you make a reservation at Rainier Bar & Grill?

It does not take reservations; its contact page calls the restaurant "a first come, first served establishment." With a large group, call ahead and ask about the wait.

What beer is on tap at Rainier Bar & Grill?

The beverage menu lists five draft beers, among them Blue Moon, Widmer Hefeweizen and Mac and Jacks, and tells drinkers to ask about the rotating taps. Rainier is not among the five, a small irony at an address where, by the history page, citing Ernest Kochevar's oral history, his father, then working for the Rainier Brewery, started a beer wholesale business sometime in 1913. The same menu lists eight martinis without prices, among them a Huckleberry Lemondrop made with 44 North Huckleberry vodka.

Where do you park in downtown Enumclaw?

On the street, for up to three hours: the city code sets that limit on Cole and Railroad streets from Washington Avenue to Stevenson Avenue and on Initial, Griffin, Myrtle and Marshall avenues between Railroad and Wells streets, and since March 2024 overstaying it can cost $100, the Courier-Herald reported. Read the posted signs.

Before you go

Check the menu on the restaurant's website the day you go, and call (360) 825-6363 for what the site does not cover: in October 2026 it lists no happy hour, no kids menu and no hour when the lunch menu gives way to dinner. The barbecue the Courier-Herald described in October 2023, a pulled pork sandwich, tacos and baby back ribs it said were served only on Mondays and Thursdays, is not on the online menu either; ask about it when you call. The rib steak, the two-pound steamers and the sizzling desserts are on the dinner menu only. The restaurant pitches itself to people heading to or from Mount Rainier and Crystal Mountain, and the downtown walking tour stops at the corner of Cole and Griffin, a few doors away.