Montana’s Cookhouse & Saloon

Came to Montana’s starving with my boyfriend, after we had seen a movie on Friday evening.
We were greeted by a very kind waitress. She was very charismatic, and helpful. Loved the service!
Since my boyfriend had decided to look at the menu very thoroughly, we ordered drinks in the meanwhile.
He had selected a nice beer in a Montana’s boot — style cup for around $ 8. 00. It was very cute! I had gotten the southern lemonade for $ 6.50.
My boyfriend’s drink came back very quickly, but mine had taken quite a while to arrive, and it came back as the wrong drink, (I’m assuming it was the smoked peach lemonade, as it tasted peachy). It tasted decent, so it wasn’t a big deal personally.
Besides that, we had settled on selecting our entrée meals. I ordered the Rib N’ Sausage combo, for $ 26.00 dollars, and my boyfriend selected the Chipotle Firecracker burger for $ 15.00.
The meals came back fairly quickly, and we were suprised by the portion size of my ribs dish. It was pretty small for a $ 26.00 dollar meal. The ribs had a great sauce, but they weren’t fall-​off-​the-​bone tender, and I had to do some tugging at the meat with my teeth to get it off.
I had made a comment to my boyfriend saying that our home-​made ribs were better, as we are on the hunt to find a place that makes ribs better than our home-​made ribs. A man dressed in a simple dress shirt with a stern look on his face, abruptly interrupted the convo between my boyfriend and I, and demanded to know why I made that comment and if I make ribs myself. I replied that my dry rub was very special, and he had said that Montana’s uses a combination of dry rub and sauce, (obviously). I said it was very good, (in an uncomfortable manner). He had left, and my boyfriend and I had realized that he was the manager/​owner of the restaurant. We felt very uncomfortable due to his eavesdropping of our conversation, his rude tone, and his intimidating manner.
Despite that occurance, I thought the meal was decent. There was one sausage placed on the plate beside the ribs, and it was great in flavour. The dish also came with small sides of mashed potatoes, coleslaw, and a small square of cornbread, (though they were very delicious). I finished my meal fairly quickly and was still hungry. I remember the portion size of the same meal being bigger the last time I had come to Montana’s (a year ago). Though, it might have been due to the location.
My boyfriend’s burger came back with a nice M branded on the bun, which I personally thought was a unique touch! I had a bite of his burger, and it was very delicious! The fried Chipotle peppers on the burger were delicious, and loved the fried onions on there as well! Definately regretted not ordering the burger instead.
I love the Montana’s in Kanata Centrum, from the previous times that I had visited the restaurant. I was hoping to have the same experience at this location as well, but is was kind of disappointing to be frank.

just updating to let everyome know that this Montanas still rocks as one of the best places in the city.

Pros: Great food, good price. Service was awesome (Angie). Food arrives pretty quick. Desserts are good also. Love the fact that they had a «taste everything» plate, and 2.99 $ desserts.
Cons: Not enough room between our table and the others, as servers kept hitting my chair when they walk by (and I wasn’ t that much «out»). Wiggly chairs that makes you think it will break at any moments are not a good thing.
In general, good place to eat for great meat. Will certainly return.

We’ve been here a couple of times and they are usually pretty good with the kids (hats, colouring sheets and their food comes in little card canoes with jokes on. Quite a good menu for the kids too with different options of mins and sides etc
Veggie feta burger is great (us veggies usually get forgotten at meaty places!) all good and fair prices

Went here Tuesday for my birthday, my mom ordered a burger, my sister ordered a medium rare stake and me being vegan I was limited by cross contamination in the oil and their veggie burgers not being vegan so I ordered a plain baked potato and nachos chips with green peppers and tomatoes on them with salsa on the side
My moms burger tasted so processed and frozen she took 1 bite and that’s it, my sisters medium rare stake was completely cooked through, not rare at all. The server forgot my baked potato and brought me my nachos with hot peppers all over them which I did not ask for, my nacho chips were soooo stale, I don’t mind stale chips but these tasted like they had been left out for weeks and then baked, I was so starving I tried to eat it but between the stale nacho chips and the steaming hot peppers I also took 2 bites and that was all, the server came back and my mom got hers to go to be kind instead of complaining and I just told her to toss mine discouraged. Thankfully it didn’t ruin my birthday spirits we all went home and ordered food instead
Definitely disappointed with my visit
I think montanas is good for their appetizers and alcohol if you’re not vegan and you aren’t sober but apart from that I highly recommend you just cross the street and go to ks on the keys instead, they are 2 stars better

The 30 – 40 minute wait time was a bit much, and the waiting area is not properly set up to allow people to wait there. Nevertheless, we thought it would be worth the wait.
The BYOB (build your own burger) is a welcome addition; they’re finally offering some quality burger ingredients for $ 13.99 rather than the same boring burgers they always offer. There are plenty of fresh and delicious ingredients for a good price. The fries that came with the burger were fresh — the oil was obviously new.
The customer service from our waitress was excellent. The food was delicious and fresh.
For dessert we decided to try the deconstructed banana split for $ 8. They offered three small cups of banana split ingredients: one with vanilla ice cream, pineapple bits, and strawberry sauce; one with chocoate mousse and chocolate drizzle; and one with a gram cracker crust, banana cream pie filling, and a whipped cream topping. It was good but definitely not worth the price.
In all, a good experience once being seated, but they really need to work on either getting more tables or a better waiting area if customers are going to wait over half an hour for a table.

I ate out twice this week at Montana’s on what was both a busy weekend and a quiet Monday evening. Both times I was really impressed by the friendly and fast service, as a seat at the bar gets you fed and watered as quickly as you could want. The food itself was generous and fresh, although the chicken wings were smothered in a little too much sauce for my taste. The pork ribs were superb, I will go back for the eat all you like ribs on Wednesdays.

The food was quite delicious. My steak was cooked just how I like it.
However, the server, Oliver, was average at best. Not personable at all, forgot the silverware until I asked for it, and barely made a presence.

I have to say that the more I go to Montana’s, the more I don’t want to goto any other place in its category.
My experiences with this location have been favourable over the handful of times that we’ve been here. The staff seem to sense when you need something, or when’s a good time to clear the table, something I have found to be lacking at other places.
I personally like the Firecracker Burger, and the last time their Pot Roast Soup tasted exactly as how it sounds like it would

Checked out Montana’s on a Friday night at 7pm. Our group waited 40 minutes for a table; like most of the others customers that showed up for dinner at this time. Their waiting area is very small, and it was filled up with customers.
It was frustrating because I did not know where to stand, and there were customers constantly coming and going. I ended up posting myself between the doors of the entrance. It was freezing. If you know the layout of this location you would feel bad for some of the customers trying to eat their dinner. Some customers that were waiting were literally standing next to tables, hoovering over patrons. Again, because the place was packed and the waiting area was filled.
Once being seated we ordered drinks and spinach dip. We were so hungry that the spinach dip tasted like the best thing we ever ate. I’m sure it was microwaved because the bowl was pipping hot. It was good though.
The entrees took a bit longer to come out. A house salad with chicken, veggie fajitas, goat cheese pasta and ribs were ordered.
There not a whole lot of options for vegetarians here, since it is a roadhouse restaurant. But the veggie burger looked delicious, and I regret not getting it.
The goat cheese pasta was amazing, and I am not a goat cheese lover. It had ambite, and it was scrumptious.
The fajitas were… meh. You get about 5 tortillas per tray, and they are pretty small. I ate about five, and was still not full. It would have been nice if it came with rice or beans at least, and a big bottle of hot sauce! ;) If you are used to eating at Mexican cuisines, then stay far away from the fajitas!!!
For dessert the mini donuts were shared and that was the highlight of my night. Warm, deep fried donuts with caramel dipping sauce. So good!
Our server was a sweetheart and was attentive.
I know I keep saying this but I think that I am going to give the Cara chains a break for now, especially this location. Not my favorite!
Tip: If you want to miss the dinner crowd, show up at least after 7:30pm. They wait times are cut to 0 – 15 minutes.

Besides the fact that the food was so slow coming out and the bun on the Philly Cheese sandwich was completely burnt… The service was just so poor. The place was not busy, but we were ignored the whole night. The table not wiped down, drink orders not taken, then slow to come, and one order never showed up, apps slow to come then completely finished then waited so long for main to arrive. First drinks finished, glasses empty, could not get someone’s attention that I wanted another. Then burnt buns… yeeesh.

The food was ok, but not for the price. I have had much better food. The staff is polite and very gregarious.

I was actually quite disappointed with this location. A friend and I came here after work to sit and talk over a few appetizers during the summer.
The only good thing about this place was the service — our waitress was really sweet, remembered our orders, and brought us our food very quickly.
It’s just too bad that the food was less than mediocre. We had their chicken quesadillas and spinach dip. The quesadillas has no flavor whatsoever, and there was hardly any filling, either. The spinach dip was greasy and just tasted like mayo. We were really surprised, since we had been to other Montana’s locations before, and the food was never an issue.
It also didn’t help that there were tons of flies and huge bugs flying around the whole restaurant. A few of them kept coming around our food and one of them even flew straight into my friend’s head! It was funny at the time, but not exactly great for our appetites. The doors were left open, so the flies kept coming in, and it was fairly cold outside, so we were pretty chilly the whole time we were there. We tried to finish our appetizers, but couldn’t. We left hungry and freezing, and we were happy to have seen each other, but not so happy with our choice of restaurant.