Coming to Missoula

[ordigger]

1889 Steakhouse for the best meal in town. But also pricey, check the online menu so you do you get surprised.

Bonus of that place is that you are within a block to the recommended bars of Missoula. Stockman (Stocks), Reds, Missoula Club (MO Club)

Sorry, but hard disagree on 1889. Had an entire group of about 15 on a business trip agree it was one of the worst most expensive steaks any of us had eaten. It’s like they forgot that salt existed. Thank goodness it was on the company dime. The next night of that trip we had the exact opposite experience at lolo creek, which was outstanding.

Salt is overrated. You don’t need any salt to have a great steak.

 

[ordigger]

Fried Chicken:

1) Double Front Chicken https://www.doublefrontcafe.com/

2) Claim Jumper's Casino https://www.theclaimjumpercasino.com/eat

Pizza:

1) Biga Pizza https://www.bigapizza.com/

2) The Bridge Pizza https://www.bridgepizza.com/

Edit: Oh, if you like Gyros, you need to go to The Pastry Shop: #1 Gyros. I've lived all over the USA and these are the best ones I've ever had. https://numberonegyros.business.site/?utm_source=gmb&utm_medium=referral

I’ve lived in Missoula almost 60 years and have never understood the fascination with Double Front, at one time it was good cheap fried chicken but KFC is better lol.

If the gyro shop is the one on 5th Street, I totally agree. I’ve never found anything even close anywhere in the country.

 

[CatGrad-UMGradStu]

Fried Chicken:

1) Double Front Chicken https://www.doublefrontcafe.com/

2) Claim Jumper's Casino https://www.theclaimjumpercasino.com/eat

Pizza:

1) Biga Pizza https://www.bigapizza.com/

2) The Bridge Pizza https://www.bridgepizza.com/

Edit: Oh, if you like Gyros, you need to go to The Pastry Shop: #1 Gyros. I've lived all over the USA and these are the best ones I've ever had. https://numberonegyros.business.site/?utm_source=gmb&utm_medium=referral

I’ve lived in Missoula almost 60 years and have never understood the fascination with Double Front, at one time it was good cheap fried chicken but KFC is better lol.

If the gyro shop is the one on 5th Street, I totally agree. I’ve never found anything even close anywhere in the country.

This entire thread is nothing but an advertisement for the local watering holes and why the administration is against night games.

Just go to the damn deli of any grocery store, swing by the beer section and go to the mods tailgate. Hell, I think Town Pump has great sandwiches, salads and a decent beer cooler. Not enough Cold Smoke but there's never enough of that.

Why not a discussion as to what the best craft beers are? Something of substance instead of arguing about who screws up the various cuts of meat?

Besides, they're from South Dakota and I'd venture they've forgotten more about beef than all the posters save the one from Dupuyer combined. Geeezzzuuussss...

 

[mthoopsfan]

Blackened Prime Rib at the Depot. With horseradish. It's awesome.

The Depot has some very good bottles of wine, contrary to what someone said. These two are two of the best wineries in Paso Robles. My Paso friends turned me onto these wineries years ago. During the last Griz game at CP, Ed and I and our wives visited these two wineries. We were treated very well. The owner of the Press Box, and wine store, was visiting one when we were there. At Linne Calodo, the owner took us in the barreling and storage room, and we talked from the barrels. He even did some blending from multiple barrels for us. Very exciting.

https://linnecalodo.com/

https://www.aventurewine.com/

Epoch is another great winery in Paso. The winemaker, Jordan, is a Dartmouth woman and our friend. My 3 Paso buddies are Dartmouth guys, and two have wineries.

https://epochwines.com/

We stayed at one buddy's house. Nice place. See the second and third photos.

http://www.twomoonscellars.com/

Cal Poly in SLO in 2024.

 

[grizzcabin]

Montana Club great steaks

 

[CatGrad-UMGradStu]

Every fall I swing through a couple of different Hoot Colonies and get a few bottles of their wine. Beats the hell out of my preferred Muscatell or Mad Dog 20 20.

 

[uofmman1122]

I’ve lived in Missoula almost 60 years and have never understood the fascination with Double Front, at one time it was good cheap fried chicken but KFC is better lol.

This might be one of the worst food takes I've seen in a while. :lol: :clap:

 

[CDAGRIZ]

I’ve lived in Missoula almost 60 years and have never understood the fascination with Double Front, at one time it was good cheap fried chicken but KFC is better lol.

If the gyro shop is the one on 5th Street, I totally agree. I’ve never found anything even close anywhere in the country.

This entire thread is nothing but an advertisement for the local watering holes and why the administration is against night games.

Yes. As we all know, the bars and restaurants in Missoula all close down for the day when the kickoff is at 1pm, so all of this info is irrelevant.

 

[grizpsych]

It pains me to type this, but the Mo Club burgers were god awful last Friday. I ordered six of them for my group after talking the place up for several days beforehand. Asked for medium, and they ranged in doneness from rare to sawdust hockey puck. That's fine. I get it. It's always been a bit of a crapshoot. But the thing that sucked the most is everyone noticed a distinct chemical smell/taste. Maybe they had just cleaned the flat top or something. It's the Mo Club, so I'll be back. But if this was some random spot in Bumsville, Arkansas, I'd have to give it pretty low marks.

I was there in early August, mouth watering in expectation. They managed to [#]f### up my burger as well. :evil: :evil: First time. I'll be back, but I'm damned tempted to go try Flippers, as I never have been in that place and people on here rave about it and their burgers.

Flipper's is my favorite. Burgers are amazing and the fries are better.

 

[GrizGuy]

Long-time lurker, first-time poster here. Nothing to add to the football conversation (like most of you! lol) but as a prolific eater in Missoula and elsewhere couldn’t resist the where-to-get-a-steak discussion. Here’s the deal:

The Depot - The atmosphere is maybe fun depending on how you define fun? But otherwise you’d think it’s 1992 not 2022. If under seasoned steak, grocery store cabernet and cocktails served as “single” or “double” are your jam, then this is the place.

1889 - Food is materially better than The Depot, wine list veers towards interesting and cocktails are sometimes competent…but really it’s a “just fine” steakhouse in a hotel lobby like you’d find in probably a hundred other cities in the US.

Lolo Creek Steakhouse - a local institution, and it’s a fun experience without a doubt for reasons other posters have described. But if we’re being honest, the food is mediocre on their best day and the wine list makes us thankful we have the Depot

Plonk - deepest wine list in Missoula and solid cocktail program. More interesting / varied menu than the steakhouses listed above but we’re in MT so they do serve steak to comply with local ordinance. Food is often very good, rarely excellent. No reservations and will be busy on a weekend night.

Scotty’s Table - it’s fine and you’d probably be happy if you went there, but wine selection is a tier below Plonk’s, food is on par with them at best (though if I wanted a steak specifically, might choose Scotty’s Table?), and pretty certain no cocktails (beer/wine only)

Second Set Bistro - considering food alone, easily the best in Missoula - steak frites & ribeye miles ahead of anything 1889 puts out of the kitchen. But atmosphere is a little more low key & crowd can oddly vary - some Fridays you can’t in without a rez, others you’ll wonder why it’s almost empty. Solid wine list - not as deep/interesting as Plonk or 1889 but there are some gems. Unfortunately no cocktails - beer/wine only.

Jaker’s - someone mentioned this. Please, no.

I second Plonk for their hangar steak and Scotty's Table for all around good food. Esp if not everyone in the family wants a steak, and Secont Set for their meat.
Someone else mentioned Big Dipper Ice Cream.. Let me tell you how good that place is.. One of their former employees moved to Seattle and started her own ice cream spot using what she learned and it's probably the best and most popular ice cream chain in Seattle. She still occasionally talks w her old boss, and they share recipes and whatnot.. I LOVE ice cream and I cannot go to Missoula w/o stopping at Big Dipper once per day that I am there.

Have a great visit!

 

[citygriz]

Hey, what are you guys making Missoula out to be--Paris? What's-a-matter with a good ole Oxburger!

 

[CatGrad-UMGradStu]

Hey, what are you guys making Missoula out to be--Paris? What's-a-matter with a good ole Oxburger!

Pretty silly posts if you read the entire thread. Food critics on fucking hamburgers? And wine for Christ's sake! No mention whatsoever about all the great Montana Craft beers! This is Montana and one of the Dakota teams and half a dozen posters are babbling about the best steakhouse in the area. No mention as to what tailgate area will have the best BBQ ribs, steaks, burgers, beer troughs, kegs...

Christ oh mighty...

 

[alabamagrizzly]

Or you can get everything you need here:

https://www.townpump.com/

”Town Pump food stores, Pump it up
Right down the road”

 

[CDAGRIZ]

Hey, what are you guys making Missoula out to be--Paris? What's-a-matter with a good ole Oxburger!

Pretty silly posts if you read the entire thread. Food critics on fucking hamburgers? And wine for Christ's sake! No mention whatsoever about all the great Montana Craft beers! This is Montana and one of the Dakota teams and half a dozen posters are babbling about the best steakhouse in the area. No mention as to what tailgate area will have the best BBQ ribs, steaks, burgers, beer troughs, kegs...

Christ oh mighty...

Totally. Whenever someone asks me if a certain hamburger burger place is good, I tell them it’s a hamburger. It’s completely the same whether it’s Umami or AM/PM. I do the same for sushi.

 

[mslaprodigalson]

Hey, what are you guys making Missoula out to be--Paris? What's-a-matter with a good ole Oxburger!

Pretty silly posts if you read the entire thread. Food critics on f###[#] hamburgers? And wine for Christ's sake! No mention whatsoever about all the great Montana Craft beers! This is Montana and one of the Dakota teams and half a dozen posters are babbling about the best steakhouse in the area. No mention as to what tailgate area will have the best BBQ ribs, steaks, burgers, beer troughs, kegs...

Christ oh mighty...

Many apologies for the silly posts, though I think some of us were addressing the OP who asked where to have a good dinner on Friday night, drinks inclusive (I consider wine a drink but maybe that’s just me). Plenty to be said about beer & tailgate food…but no one asked…

 

[grizpsych]

Hey, what are you guys making Missoula out to be--Paris? What's-a-matter with a good ole Oxburger!

Pretty silly posts if you read the entire thread. Food critics on f###[#] hamburgers? And wine for Christ's sake! No mention whatsoever about all the great Montana Craft beers! This is Montana and one of the Dakota teams and half a dozen posters are babbling about the best steakhouse in the area. No mention as to what tailgate area will have the best BBQ ribs, steaks, burgers, beer troughs, kegs...

Christ oh mighty...

There is good local beer at every place that has been listed.

 

[grizpsych]

The only other place I would list for food is the Dinosaur Cafe in the back of Charlie B's Bar. It's good.

 

[hm.grwn.grizfan]

Pretty silly posts if you read the entire thread. Food critics on f###[#] hamburgers? And wine for Christ's sake! No mention whatsoever about all the great Montana Craft beers! This is Montana and one of the Dakota teams and half a dozen posters are babbling about the best steakhouse in the area. No mention as to what tailgate area will have the best BBQ ribs, steaks, burgers, beer troughs, kegs...

Christ oh mighty...

Totally. Whenever someone asks me if a certain hamburger burger place is good, I tell them it’s a hamburger. It’s completely the same whether it’s Umami or AM/PM. I do the same for sushi.

Y’all haven’t had the burger dive in Billings and it shows. Burgers definitely aren’t all created equal

 

[reinell30]

I really enjoy Ciao Mambo Italian Restaurant downtown Missoula. Great food and wine! Close to stadium as well! Prices are reasonable!

 

[CDAGRIZ]

Totally. Whenever someone asks me if a certain hamburger burger place is good, I tell them it’s a hamburger. It’s completely the same whether it’s Umami or AM/PM. I do the same for sushi.

Y’all haven’t had the burger dove in Billings and it shows

I haven’t, but I’ve had the Burger Dive in Billings. It was a hamburger. Accordingly, there’s no way it could be improved upon or worsened. I learned that today from a Cat fan who likes ribs from an instant pot.