Amber Murphy

Review of Montana's Cookhouse

I was not very impressed with the service or the m...

I was not very impressed with the service or the meal here. To be fair, my boyfriend and I dropped in around 9, after the dinner hour and closer to closing time, but still, it was not very busy and we should have enjoyed our visit more. Ok, the server who was also working the bar forgot to bring us menus after taking our drink order and specifically asked if we were going to order food. Forgivable. My boyfriend went and got menus from the hostess. Then we got our drinks and she took our food order. I got beef brisket with gravy that was supposed to come over a bed of mashed potatoes, with corn bread; my boyfriend got fried pickles. When my plate arrived I was immediately put off- it came in a small skillet on a plate (I guess to keep it contained instead of just slop on a plate), and it looked like dog food chunks in canned gravy. It was not on a bed of mashed potatoes, but a cafeteria-style ice cream scoop of potatoes on top of the beef gravy chunks. The cornbread was dry- probably had been sitting since before the dinner rush. That's fine if your bread goes stale later in the shift, but don't serve that! They should have told me they were out of bread but offered a salad or something else to replace it. The brisket was not very good and the gravy had the look, taste, and consistency of gravy from a can. There was not enough mashed potatoes to go with all the gravy slop. My boyfriend's fried pickles were very tasty except for a few that were a bit over-done, and they came with only a small amount of dipping sauce. Really? You're going to cheap out on dipping sauce Montana's? Our server also neglected to bring us cutlery for our food. My boyfriend says this place is better when he goes there on his lunch break, so maybe it's a question of the night staff. I'll give them one more chance but they better impress me next time or I won't be going back.