How can you have a romantic dinner experience in your jeans and boots? It's easy when you're seated in front of a glass wall, 8,000 feet up, with a view that seems to stretch to the ends of the world.

That was our experience of dinner at the Treeline Restaurant. It was enhanced by the fact that the staff had learned (from the person who made our reservation) that it was our anniversary. They smilingly led us to the best table -- in a restaurant that really doesn't have any bad tables -- and asked us what music we'd like to hear with our dinner.

We began our meal with salads of mixed field greens, cruncy/bitter and carrying a taste of the early-spring weather. The restaurant features local foods and wines, so our main-course choice was roast prime rib of Alberta beef, and we shared a bottle of British Columbia merlot. The vegetable was a first for us, tiny fiddlehead ferns with a delicate asparagus-like flavor. Lemon cheesecake and coffee completed a meal of simple foods, wonderfully prepared.

The Treeline Restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner and welcomes people who have ridden up to it on the Jasper Tramway. Be certain to allow enough time for a pre-dinner walk to the summit.