Taco Del Sol

Today's lunch: A Taco Del Sol beef burrito with mild sauce, hot sauce, white sauce, refried beans, cabbage and rice. I'm not a big fish fan, but they have delicious fish tacos and burritos too.

The Crazy Dog

NY Style beef frank with pork n' beans with bacon and cheddar cheese, cheez wiz, crushed Ruffles, chopped onion and fresh steamed artichoke! Smokey and delicious, the artichoke really finished this one off.

Bully!

It's not eats, but it is Montana and it's my favorite president, the Man amongst Men, Teddy Roosevelt on the steps of the capitol building in 1903. From helenahistory.org, a great site filled with tons of beautiful old photographs of a budding town transforming into the city it is.

Worth a stop to check out for a while.

NY Style Coffee Cup

My badasssss New York Greek Deli style porcelain coffee cup from uncommongoods.com

Staggering Ox, What Happened?

The Staggering Ox used to have unique, delicious and homemade sandwich's. They've been featured in Maxim as the second best sandwich in America. The Ox even has their sandwich bread Trademarked. It's basically a hollowed out cylinder of bread. The insides they sell in bags with Ranch dressing or with a bit of meat and cheese, which are my personal favorite of theirs, one things that hasn't seemed to get worse. Maybe 5 or so years ago, but how the mighty have fallen. (At least in flavor and quality.) A couple years ago the Ox expanded to more then double in size and added a small bar (beer & wine), hosts music events and even has a Erotic Art Show every year. But in all of this growing and expansion they lost the love and quality of their food. The meat seems highly processed and the staff is mainly a bunch of high school kids that have no sense of people or customer service. A helpful and caring staff, better ingredients and not just riding on the good name you've built for yourself would be the beginning of  a return for a unique sandwich shop. The Ox is like the really smart kid in class who could always get an A but instead just goes for a C. Godspeed, Ox, godspeed.

Jedi Spice Master

I keep Yoda with my spices. 

He keeps a Jedi like calm in my kitchen.

Snowy Burger

Leftover night. Had some hamburger, no buns, and a carton of garlic mashed potatoes from On Broadway the night before. Fried up the burger in butter and  wortishire sauce, heated up the mashed and slapped it on top of the burger. Genius! And delicious.

A dining room from Montecatini, Italy. Montecatini is were my family came from a couple generations ago. It's a spa town, small and quaint with some of the most delicious food you could eat. (And I don't really like most Italian food, go figure. Well, at least "Americanized" Italian I don't like. It was really great to visit with my parents. Pasta in a butter and spicy oil sauce was to die for.

Goose Egg

A Real Food Store Goose egg. Only 69 cents!

I've never actually tried one.

R-B Drive In, Helena

R-B Drive In

Fish n' Chips - Hamburgers

Old Timey Drive-In where they bring it to your car, but not on rollerskates, unfortunately. Decent food, fried and fatty, fairly cheap. Great Steak Fingers and special Steak Sauce. Their Chicken Cheese Melt is what McDonald's wish it tasted like. Fresh melted cheese on a fried chicken patty with mayo, ketchup, lettuce and tomato. Good shakes too.

R-B Drive In, Circa 1967. The big Root Beer glass it still there.