What Is The Most Fascinating Restaurant In Montana?

Montana has some wonderful and well-known places to eat stretching all across the Big Sky, and while non-locals might not know about them, locals sure do and love them.

There is one restaurant that Montana natives know and love, and one of the reasons might be because they are hardly ever open, so when they are, it's definitely a treat.

What Makes This Restaurant So Fascinating?

The online blog Love Food wanted to highlight restaurants from all 50 states in America that were very unique and had a story to tell.

These restaurants were considered fascinating for a variety of reasons, such as the famous people who have eaten there, or perhaps a dish that was created there went on to become iconic.

The reason they give for when it comes to Montana is that it's barely ever open, yet people will flock there when they are.

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Where Is Montana's Most Fascinating Restaurant?

Love Food said the restaurant that was the most fascinating in Montana is the Polebridge Mercantile in Polebridge, Montana, just northwest of Glacier National Park.

Here is what Love Food had to say about this fascinating place:

This joint is pretty much all there is to the tiny, remote town of Polebridge, which lies in the northwest of the stunning Glacier National Park. It only operates on summer evenings, and even the bakery and shop are only open for limited hours from February to October, but when they are you won't want to miss out on the delectable baked goods, not least the famous huckleberry bear claws.

Those bear claws are no joke. We recently asked, "What restaurant in Montana would you drive an hour or more to eat at?" and we had several people say they would drive that far just for one.

To see what other restaurants people would drive that far for in Montana, check out the gallery below.

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