Sandstone Arches Restaurant

This is the restaurant inside of the Hemlock Lodge, also known as Natural Bridge State Park Lodge.
We were passing by and decided to stop in for lunch. We were pleasantly surprised to find a soup and salad bar. For $ 6.99, I consider that practically a steal. Everything on the bar was fresh and there was a lot to choose from. The soups were chili and pinto beans.
They have a menu, which is actually the same menu available at other state park resorts… I took a picture of it with the last review that I posted, of the resort restaurant at Buckhorn State Park Lodge.
They have a wild game buffet here once a year and a seafood buffet on the first Friday of every month, from 4−9pm. People come from miles around to eat frog legs, crab legs, cat fish, oysters and more.
The view is amazing! We sat by the window that overlooked the creek. We watched the birds at the feeders. We spotted a cardinal and a woodpecker.

Good homemade style food. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Offers a buffet or menu of other option. Service was great. Drinks are $ 2 but free refills, felt that was a bit pricey.

The Sandstone Arches restaurant serves tasty homestyle meals at reasonable prices in a bucolic setting. Occasionally they feature bluegrass bands. The menu features dishes typical of Kentucky, such as fried catfish in cornmeal batter, hush puppies, heavenly hash (a strange, but tasty salad with marshmallows not unlike the American Waldorf salad. It was here I sampled a popular, albeit strange Kentucky dish called Hot Brown. Hot Brown is an open-​face sandwich/​casserole made with layers of white bread topped with ham, Mornay cheese sauce made with American cheese, and strips of bacon. The whole lot tastes impeccably like the melted stuff that left on the wrapper of a bacon cheese burger. Delicious! And in Kentucky they’ve made a dish of it! Brilliant! I quite enjoyed the all you can eat salad bar and soup. At $ 5.95, it is a real bargain.