Montana Grille in Bowling Green Kentucky is Beyond Spectacular
As I’ve said before, one of the best things about living in Owensboro is the fact that the location puts us within reach of some of my favorite places in the state, in the country, on the planet, in the.. oh, you get the picture. Besides, I was running out of scope.
Bowling Green’s mall is as impressive as any mall you could hope to shop in. Being home to Western Kentucky University pretty much means that Bowling Green has to give young people (lots of young people) plenty of cool places to shop. And they do!
I also love Bowling Green’s Barnes and Noble Bookstore. It’s exactly how a bookstore should be designed – there’s a coffee shop in the front, the bookstore is huge, with as many books and magazines as you’d ever want, the staff’s friendly and upbeat, and did I mention the coffee shop?
Bowling Green also lays claim to countless restaurants – beautiful, unique, amazing restaurants. Restaurants that I never get to see the inside of. The reason? You can blame Montana Grille. Every single time we go to Bowling Green, it’s the place we go to eat. Once in a blue moon, we’ll actually act like we’re discussing our options. Last night for example, my husband said, “So and So told me about a restaurant here that has really good Catfish…” and I actually pointed to a really, really cute restaurant with dogs on it’s sign.
Of course we did all of this while headed to the place we knew we’d end up at: 1740 Scottsville Rd, home of one of the most gorgeous and delicious restaurants I’ve ever been in. And in. And in. And in…
Right after you’re given your drinks – we always have our regulars, sweet tea for me, unsweet tea for my husband – you’re given a little iron skillet of buttered “Firebread” – it blew me out of my seat the first time I tasted it and it has never failed to hit me the same way. It’s yellow cornbread with chopped jalapeno peppers cooked inside, and it’s out of this world.
Last night I had the West Texas Barbecue Chicken – I finally pulled myself away from the Thai Chicken, which you have to taste to believe. My husband went the Thai route and never looked back – or up. We both also LOVE the West Tennessee BBQ Plate: Firebread topped with beans, smothered in smokey pulled pork, with Montana Grille’s secret (and sensational) BBQ Sauce.
The minute you walk into this gorgeous restaurant (and, I’m sorry, but you HAVE to see the restrooms), you’re struck by it’s beauty as the aroma sweeps you off of your feet. They have a huge firepit with an open rotisserie. You can see and SMELL the heavenly food as it cooks.
The Tai Chicken breasts are grilled over hickory coals and topped with a memorable sweet & spicy sauce. The chicken is so tender and juicy and the sauce is remarkable.
The chicken I got last night – WEST TEXAS BBQ CHICKEN was also tender and juicy. The two breasts were basted in Montana Grille’s very special BBQ sauce and topped with Monterey Jack cheese and hickory smoked bacon. The combination was lethal. Man was it good!
Eash of the Fire Roasted Specialties is served with a side item. Your choices are: Garlic Mashed Potatoes (one of my favorites – as in I have it 2 out of every 4 times), Mashed Sweet Potatoes (it’s my other favorite), Steamed Broccoli and Cauliflower, Spike’s Mean Beans (my husband stepped away from his Sweet Potatoes last night and ordered these beans – they’re wonderful.), creamy coleslaw, and baked potato.
They also have steak, ribs, shrimp, sandwiches, salads, trout, salmon, and pasta. Vegetarians have more spectacular options than they’ll find in many restaurants. There is the Grilled Vegetable Pasta (Penne noodles, marinara sauce, wood-fired vegetables from our grill and fresh seasonings), Ceasar Salad, and several items on the appetizer list.
I’m afraid we didn’t have room for it last night, but they also have incredible desserts. I had cheesecake once that nearly made me cry with joy. (Continued below the picture…)
Everything about Montana Grille is special – including a particular young man (John) who we’ve been lucky enough to have as our server about 5 or 6 times. I’ve always thought of a restaurant’s servers as the restaurant’s heart. After all, you seldom meet anyone besides them – they represent the restaurant as well as the people who hired them. You’ve probably read enough reviews on this site to know that we eat out a great deal and have traveled a lot. However, whenever I talk about a server being the heart of the restaurant in which they work, John is always the first one in my mind. He is incredibly friendly, funny, warm, smart, neat, and a total cutie. When I first saw him, I thought, “Cool, Halle Berry and Denzel Washington had a son and I never knew they dated.”
Truth be told, all of the servers are special.
You absolutely have to visit Montana Grille as soon as you possibly can. Montana Grille has a section of their restaurant they call “The Lunch Pail,” which opens at 11:00 am. You can have lunch on the deck – or carry out. But why would you want to leave?
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