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    The Ptarmigan Dining Room

    3.1 (31 reviews)
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    Closed 6:30 am - 10:00 AM, 11:30 AM - 2:30 pm, 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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    Short ribs
    Kirt V.

    We went here last night had the salmon. Others had the short ribs Everything was good.

    Glacier burger
    Richard F.

    Quick Summary Great views of the lake, cool ambiance in the dining room, and pretty good service. Food was decent, but low expectations because it is national park dining. Would try to avoid rush hour times (there is a wait due to limited staff, and you're more likely to get a window dining table if you arrive away from crowded times) Food- 3 stars Glacier burger- it's basically a picnic burger. Fries were decent. Bison chili burger- same as above. It's not fantastic, but nice to have a warm meal after a long day of hiking Service- 5 stars Waiters and host were very friendly. Just be prepared to wait during rush hour, due to limited staffing Ambiance- 5 stars Love the rustic and Swiss architecture at the Many Glacier Hotel. The dining room felt very grand with its high ceilings, high lamps and decor. Great views of the lake by the window side Bottom Line Great service, ambiance and views. Food is average, which is expected for national park dining

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    Cheyenne P.

    We had to wait about 45 minutes to be seated for dinner. Many people from the boat ride and hikers came here too. We ordered the trout and wild rice, cavatappi with wild mushrooms and the ribs. They also served us complimentary bread. Food and service was good. We had a beautiful view from our table. It was the nicest place we dined at while at Glacier National Park and I recommend coming here.

    Bottle of Sauvage Grut, Window View
    Michael D.

    This place was so amazing we ate here twice in two days. The wait staff are amazing, especially Jessie who made our elopement dinner extra special by snagging us a table by the window with a beautiful view and recommending the perfect bottle of bubbly to get in lieu of champagne. The fried portabella mushrooms were delicious; lightly battered and flash fried so they weren't too heavy or oily. The lemon parsley aioli they came with provided a nice balance of acid and creaminess. The crab cakes were some of the best we've ever had. They had the best possible ratio of crab to breading and veggies (red and green peppers and red onions). These were also perfectly fried with no excessive oil with so much flavor and not at all fishy. For our main both meals, we got the lentil burger. It was fabulous! The lentils and whatever else went into had such an awesome taste and texture. It was topped with yummy caramelized onions and a balsamic glaze. We truly loved dining here!

    Joanna R.

    Best dining option in the Glacier NP unless you packed in your own camp fire steak. The view, ambiance, and service are all 5*. The menu options are pretty good. I ordered the prime ribs & my husband had the Waygu steak and salad first. All are very tasty. They have a reasonable wine list too. I have couple tasting before landing on one to pair with my steak. They did a good job considering this place is only opened ~4 months a year!

    Wonderful service. Ordered Argula chicken salad, we loved it. Great ambiance. We were there on our 5th Marriage anniversary, server was so nice and bought candles which they don't do here.

    lake view with prime rib
    Robert C.

    1. Imagine a restaurant with cathedral ceilings, massive stone fireplace, white table cloth tables, hardwood floors, with a string of large windows showing idyllic scenes on the edge of a blue mountain lake, green forests in the background, with soaring alpine mountains and distant glaciers. Switzerland? Canada? This is the Ptarmigan restaurant in the classic and historic Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park. 2. Ptarmigan is right up there with the top dining halls in hotels in our National Parks, such as the Ahwahnee in Yosemite, Lake Yellowstone, and El Tovar in the Grand Canyon. 3. I was here for 8 days, and split my meals between Ptarmigan and Swiss Lounge during that time. 4. Not too many choices when you are 20 miles and 40 minutes from the next nearest complex of restaurants in St Mary's on the east end of Going to the Sun road. Swiftcurrent motor lodge a mile down the road with a pizza joint. 5. Ptarmigan is open 630am-10am for breakfast, 1130am-2pm for lunch, and 530pm-930pm for dinner, during the short season of Many Glacier hotel from late June through September. 6. Ahwahnee, Lake Yellowstone and El Tovar require advance reservations. Not here. No advance reservations -first come first served. People waiting for a table sign in, and sit in the lounge, with padded chairs facing the lake. 7. Get here at opening for breakfast, lunch or dinner, and you are seated right next to the window, with a front row view of deep blue Swiftcurrent Lake. Across the Lake is the first of many mountains rising right next to the shoreline of green forests. Glaciers and snow on the shady areas of the mountains nearby. Sun gradually setting over and then behind the mountains. A million dollar view, which even the grandeur of the Grand Canyon at the El Tovar would be hard to match! 8. They have both a $15 continental -oatmeal, pastries, bread, toast, muffins, fruit- and $19 full breakfast buffet -scrambled eggs, eggs benedict, bacon, sausage, ham, smoked salmon with juice. I thought the orange juice was watered down -not mixed properly from concentrate. 9. I didn't care too much for the oatmeal of the continental buffet, so I usually had the $11 two eggs any style, with string potatoes, 4 sausage, and 2 wheat toast, with water. 10. Only ate lunch here twice, when it rained in August, and ate their $12 1/3 lb Glacier hamburger with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, accompanied by fries. My wife had the bison burger. 11. Lots of additional choices for dinner. Hot bread served. My favorite dish was the $23 7 oz prime rib, a bit on the tough side, but a very large portion -I think the 7 oz was the weight after cooking -definitely Montana sized even for a big eater like myself! They also had 10 and 14 oz portions for you really big eaters! 12. I also liked the farmer's mixed salad, with mixed greens lettuce, tomatoes, raw onions, green beans, and rye croutons, and the $15 wheat pasta dish, with squash, onions, and added grilled chicken breast. 13. Another good dish was the sausage sampler, especially the hot sausage! 14. The wife had the $28 duck one night -good but very small portion, quail the next night -lots of bones, the $29 salmon, and $32 trout. Salmon was OK, but the trout was outstanding. She also had the $15 Portobello mushroom stroganoff -portion too small for me. 15. Waiting times varied by when we arrived -at 530pm no waiting, but at 645pm the wait was 45 minutes. We had only 2 people and so could go over to the next door Swiss lounge and eat. More than 2 people? You were pretty much stuck waiting to eat at the Ptarmigan. 16. The staff were usually college age kids from foreign countries, who unlike housekeeping, were fluent in English, and could understand complex orders, like gluten free food, from demanding clientele! The only thing they couldn't understand was how to spell my wife's name, Janeen, on the waiting list! 17. I dressed every day in shorts, T-shirt and light blue womens Chako sports sandals, an outfit that would have got me tossed on my butt at the Ahwahnee dinner place on any of three counts -no shorts, no T-shirts and no flip flops!

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    Chicken sandwich, chicken was very dry. French fries came cold to the table. Not worth the money!

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    Babb Bar Cattle Baron Supper Club - Best Steaks Ever

    Babb Bar Cattle Baron Supper Club

    3.6(122 reviews)
    10.9 mi
    $$$

    We've dinned here multiple times every time we go to Glacier National Park…read more Pros: - Great customer service - Their homemade bread and homemade ranch tastes amazing. Probably the best we've ever had - All the foods we've order tasted great (chicken, bison steak, ribeye, t-bone, crab meat) - All locally sourced foods - Nice Ambiance and love all the wood structures. Cons: - Not sure if I'd consider this a con, but everyone we've dinned here, something is always different (different salad toppings, different sautéed veggies). But I completely understand being it's in the middle of "no where." - Very pricey, but once again, they're not opened year round and it's all locally sourced. You would probably pay the same price in the city for high quality meat, but at least here you're helping a small community! - My only con- I prefer my steaks with no pink and well done (I know, I know). Cut into your steak as soon as you get if you're like me so you can see if they need to cook it more. You're steak will most likely be undercooked, but it's because they're THICK pieces of meat (which is a pro) We will be back the next time we're in Glacier ^_^ 2022- 2024

    Our server Melissa was top notch, super friendly and helpful. Great service here…read more The steaks were cooked a little rarer than what I'm used to. But the flavor and tenderness was great. The bread was kind of bland, but fine with butter. It seemed denser than what I am used to. The baked potato on the side was amazing. The Calamari was prepared differently than what I'm used to, I wasn't as into it, but it tasted good. The fillet of tenderloin was by far the best of the 3 steaks. Much more tender and much better flavor. I highly recommend it. We got the Molten lava chocolate cake, and it was not as good. Seemed too doughy. Didn't really like it, also didn't like the cheesecake. Restrooms were stocked, but their soap was weak. The restrooms weren't very clean, and you had a lever to turn off and on the water to the urinal in the men's bathroom. Odd.

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    Babb Bar Cattle Baron Supper Club - Breakfast at the attached BUNKHOUSE CAFE!

    Breakfast at the attached BUNKHOUSE CAFE!

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    Front of Cattle Baron

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    Two Sisters Cafe - Steak Texican Bowl

    Two Sisters Cafe

    3.8(289 reviews)
    11.2 mi
    $$

    Arrived around 5:10 for dinner. Had a 45 minute wait so we sat outside on the deck, talking with…read morenew friends. We were seated in a comfortable booth near the window. The waiter came over quickly and took our drink order. I ordered the half chicken with potatoes and green beans. Let me tell you it was the juiciest most delicious chicken I've ever had. The potatoes were cooked to perfection. My husband ordered the trout and waffle dinner, he also felt it was the best trout he has ever had. The Resturant is only open four months out of the year. They close in late September for the winter months. Loved it waiter he was super cool and friendly. If you're in town visiting glacier national Park, Two Sisters Café is a must.

    My only regret to all foodies is this establishment is only open 4mos of the year:…read moreJune, July, August, September. First, starting with the Huckleberry Marquerita it was so excellent I had two and almost forgot to take a picture (see attached) My waffles/trout was fantastic, as recommend by my server Dennis, and my companion thoroughly enjoyed her juicy 1/2 roast chicken. For dessert we choose to take out and enjoy later: 1. Most famous Huckleberry pie 2. Peanut butter mud moose pie When in Babb, Montana (5 miles outside of St Mary/east glacier NP entrance) dont miss eating at this famous (Chef Beard Awarded) and unique boutique restaurant.

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    View inside the restaurant

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    Bison sirloin

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    Leaning Tree Cafe And Campground - Bacon w/ Hashbrowns, Eggs & Toast

    Leaning Tree Cafe And Campground

    4.3(19 reviews)
    11.9 mi

    This restaurant was recommended to us by our guide on a boat tour at St. Mary Lake in Glacier…read moreNational Park. She made mention that it was locally owned, AND it was the only one of the 3 restaurants she named which was open before 4pm, which is when we were there, so we trekked on over. We arrived behind a large party of about 8 people and were the only other table in the restaurant. They - or should I say he - took our order quickly and were willing to accommodate a special request (to have a breakfast dish after their stated cutoff time due to a wheat allergy; almost everything on the lunch menu is breaded/fried, so I couldn't eat it). It was clearly Native-owned, which I was happy to support. However, the poor guy who took our order was the only one in the place. He was doing everything: stocking, cleaning, taking orders, cooking. We were there for nearly an hour when the other party's food came out. By this point, we had figured out that he was flying solo, so we were sort of hoping our food would come out at the same time. It didn't. We asked if ours had been started yet, and it hadn't. Seeing that we were staying 3 hours from the park, we had to leave to meet up with our family without having any lunch. This could easily have been avoided with a little communication from the get-go: "Hey, a large party just came in ahead of you. Just so you know, it's probably going to be an hour or more before you see any food." We would have left then and had time to get lunch before starting our drive back to Augusta. As it was, we paid for our 1 drink, made do with whatever snacks we had, and hit the road. Can't comment on the food and the guy was super nice, so I hate to leave a not-great review, but I can't imagine what would have happened if 2 or more of the parties from our boat ride had arrived at the same time we had. I think a little work on the staffing side would do wonders.

    Great spot on the east glacier side. The guy serving us was super nice and made sure we were taken…read morecare of. I got a Philly cheesesteak and fries which ended up being really good. I definitely would recommend to anyone looking for a family friendly place with great food.

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    Rising Sun Pizza

    Rising Sun Pizza

    3.9(114 reviews)
    11.0 mi
    $$

    I stopped by Rising sun pizza after a long day of hiking around the area. The restaurant was about…read morehalf full when my partner and I showed up at 7pm on a Sunday. The waitress by the counter was very friendly and told us that we could sit anywhere and she brought us our menus as soon as we found our seats. Since we were pretty hungry, we got the white wolf pizza, a full order of wings, and a huckleberry cream soda. We opted for two different sauces on the wings: Stinging Garlic and Honey Hot. It took a while for us to get our food and I had finished about half of my soda while I was eagerly waiting. However once the food came out, I could tell everything had been made fresh. The white wolf pizza was really good and I loved the white sauce in it. I liked the honey hot wings over the stinging garlic. There was a nice balance between the spicy and sweet flavors. Overall, it was a really solid meal and would recommend stopping by if you're in the area.

    After spending the day in glacier national Park, we decided to go and have pizza. Walked into the…read morerising sun and no body acknowledged me. I had to walked over to the counter and request a table for two. Found a table and waitress came over with menus and brought over water. We decided to order 7 wings which were good but not great, garden salad which was fresh however they were out of croutons and a small Waterton pizza. Tasty with thin crust. The waitress was not the friendliest. Everything we asked for was a problem.

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    Rising Sun Pizza
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