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    East Shore Smoke House - East Shore Smoke House -- Dining Room

    East Shore Smoke House

    3.9(142 reviews)
    10.4 km
    $$

    Updating from a 2015 review. We noted how much we loved the atmosphere in the 10 years...well now…read moreit's been 20 years that we make a point to dine here, specifically on our anniversary. It's where we dined on our honeymoon and we'll be coming back for years to come. We stopped in a couple of times on this trip. The good - The smokehouse food is just what it should be! I mean, we really love this food. The first Cherry Old Fashioned. Made with care and good ingredients. The Meh - The service on Taco Tuesday. It felt understaffed and the server commented, "at least I'm not alone tonight". Very telling The Bad - The second Cherry Old Fashioned on a different night. Not good. It was Taco Tuesday and the Smokehouse felt understaffed. The drinks were just slammed together.

    I ordered nachos, thought that was a safe bet! Supposed to be smoked chicken and cheese sauce…read more These were honestly the worst nachos I've ever had. The fresh chips were nice and the pico was good but the combo of veiny, bony chunks of dry chicken with the sweet BBQ sauce and sour "cheese" made it inedible. I really wanted to like this place it's a great location and fun drive, the patio was beautiful, great beer selection and the service was excellent. Maybe the nachos are just a bad item and they have other good stuff. I wouldn't give it another try unless to grab a beer.

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    The Desoto Grill

    The Desoto Grill

    4.6(901 reviews)
    57.2 km
    $$

    We just went by the reviews here while trying to find a restaurant on the way and kalispell was mid…read moreway to our destination. Boy the reviews don't lie! This was our best pick! It boasts of barbecue style sandwiches and menu and this place was packed on a Friday at 3pm! Hosts looked like are the owners of the place made every effort to go above and beyond to seat the guests and look after them. They have the bar seating facing the kitchen where we occupied the last 2 seats remaining in the restaurant getting the live action right in front of us. We ordered the PBJ (pork belly jelly bites) and brisket cheese steak sandwich with jalapeno mac n cheese on the side. Both the dishes were amazing and we will surely stop by here again when in the area. The whole sassy sandwiches section look like a must try. Only thing we will try to avoid here is the desserts that were not bad at all but because we saw them being made in front of us now we know it is just assembled we may not order more of that. We got the huckleberry peach cobbler and banana pudding. Both the dishes aren't really made from scratch and had we not seen how they're assembled we may not judge it too harshly.

    Server Kaylee G was horrible. I can see she's overworked and overwhelmed, and even though she took…read moreforever to get to us every time and it was impossible to flag her down making our meal last 2.5 hours when we're on limited time on our trip, I tried to be really nice to her, when I made simple, normal requests, she gave me an unsmiling look and made me feel very uncomfortable. I think she needs more training in service. The owners were very nice and exemplified what I think service should be. The bacon mac was not good and rather flavorless. Mac & cheese is one of the benchmarks of a good BBQ place. Collard greens I think had BBQ sauce? making them very tangy and not good at all, almost inedibly sour for me. They tasted better the next day mixed with other things. Elk sausage came smothered in more BBQ sauce and mustard. I wish these were on the side so that I could control how much sauce was on there. Cornbread seemed good but if I really looked at it, the cornbread was rather bland and the server instructed us to put honey on it. Well anything is good when you pour honey & butter over it. Loved the decor. I think because they're so busy, it became quantity over quality, unfortunately.

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    Don's Country Smokehouse

    Don's Country Smokehouse

    2.3(3 reviews)
    60.0 km

    If I could give Don less than one star I would. Dropped off over 200 lbs of meat this past fall…read moreand Don told me it would take a few weeks to get it processed. That seemed reasonable, so a few weeks later I checked back and he said it wasn't finished. A couple more weeks go by and I checked in again and he said it wasn't finished because he had a bunch of hunters from California who he put at the front of the line so they wouldn't have to ship their meat to their home. A couple more weeks and I checked in again, only to get the same answer... out of state hunters went to the front of the line so they didn't have to ship their meat home. Checking in several times later over the next couple months and his responses were things like he had to focus on "party platters" for Christmas, New Year's, someone's birthday party, etc., etc. Always some lame excuse as to why he hadn't gotten to our meat. So after nearly five months of this nonsense we went back and asked if our meat was done. Again, no. (Shocker...) Okay we said, then give it back to us right now and we'll take it somewhere else. He then had the audacity to tell is to come back for it later, to which we said, "No, that's not convenient and we'd like it all back right now." He uttered a profanity and then went into his freezer to get our meat, which had been stored in ripped trash bags! I don't even know yet how much will be lost to freezer burn. Based on all the similar stories and other bad reviews on Google I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but this guy is a shocking disappointment. Recommend you stay FAR away from this place and take your game anywhere else to be processed.

    If I could give less than one star I would. Don't be fooled by all of the awards and trophies when…read moreyou walk into Don's. He will greet you and give you some amazing samples. But good luck ever actually getting your meat back. After 4 months of waiting on the meat I dropped off and countless phone calls checking on the status. I eventually had to go get the meat and bring it to a different butcher. Then I found out 1/3 of the meat was completely freezer burnt from being improperly stored. And even worse the meat that Don gave me back was not mine, and a different kind of game all together. No surprise, that meat was even more freezer burnt from improper storage. So after all of that, I have very little of the meat I started with and it wasn't even mine or even the correct species. Go anywhere other than Don's Country Smokehouse. Do a little research and you will find some awful reviews that are almost hard to believe. But now, I bet they are true. Hopefully someone reads this review and is spared the awful experience that I and many others have had.

    East Slope Smokehouse - smokehouse - Updated September 2026

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